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“Punchy Dan” "windrush"Bellfield Brothers are from Thorncliffe near Leek, still in business.Cornishley from thorncliffe ,bellfield from other side nr bradnop ?
Aye, you are quite right Dan! Corbishley actually, and I only drove past their yard last week on my way to Leek as well.
Pete.
Thanks for your input Pete and Punchy Dan. 
ramone:
“Chris Webb”]Prosper de Mulder Dean………………and yes,they did emit a certain type of aroma.As regards the ERF E8,Coomsey might know it,it has a BC Leicester reg plate.
I am currently working out of the old ICI Wilton works Chris i would imagine you’ve been there a few times. for Evans , i know my dad did for Woodys
Thanks for your comments ramone. 
Anyone spoke to or know if “FLOURPOWER” is ok as i have not seen him online for a while ■■?
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Piston broke:
Weren’t Rygor from Westbury, Wilts? Not sure (can’t remember!) how big they were or if they had more than one depot…Hi piston broke,
Your right there imo.I think there was also a Merc dealership? Rygor commercials,all part of the same group?
Regards Andrew.Rygor commercials got a merc dealership in Swindon ,I had a problem with the truck called in there they had a look at it found the fault and done it only there an hour better service than euro commercials Cardiff
Morning all.
The main mec dealer in Swindon, Hargraves road was Oldacre Services.
They had Rygor transport in West wilts trading estate as there service agent but when oldacre sold off to a posh car dealership in Swindon in quickly desolved and Barry Rygor took it on.
Good move for Merc as (in my opinion) hauliers have a proper understanding of the requirements of the industry and make good dealers. Harvey
PS: yes i know, if there is one part on the shelf and both you and a customer want it, etc etc
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“smallcoal”
Rygor commercials got a merc dealership in Swindon.Morning all.
The main mec dealer in Swindon, Hargraves road was Oldacre Services.
They had Rygor transport in West wilts trading estate as there service agent but when oldacre sold off to a posh car dealership in Swindon in quickly desolved and Barry Rygor took it on.
Good move for Merc as (in my opinion) hauliers have a proper understanding of the requirements of the industry and make good dealers. HarveyPS: yes i know, if there is one part on the shelf and both you and a customer want it, etc etc
Thanks for the details Harvey.
Carrying on with the Leyland Constructor 8 wheeler. I thought there were more Leyland fans on here ? No comments
about the Constructors ■■ 
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Anyone recognise the Mercedes,fairly distinctive colour scheme on it ■■
Is the Volvo tankfreight Chris Webb ■■
Cracking shot of Frizell’s Foden tipper. Looks a tad heavy on the near side.
Reliance Foden tanker from Manchester.
Wareham Transport Volvo F7. Looks like the pic was taken on the hill going up to Badbury Rings between Blandford and Wimborne.
Unigate Foden.
Blue Circle Cement Leyland Bison.
Anyone recognise the Volvo ■■?
James Mir Kemmall Mercedes. (Unusual name) Western Transport Scania.
Radir Transport Volvo.
Bejam Scania.
Anyone recognise the Scania ■■?
Langlow Mercedes.
Selby Transport DAF from Poole.
Hi Dean,great shots mate especially the pic with Western Tpts Scania C790 HGN doing a delivery,my old pal Ivor Weekes was the driver of that old girl and here he is shutting up before going to the pub on a night out…keep 'um coming mate!,Cheers Bubbs,
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One of Spillers Milling’s Constructors, we had about 15 between the various flour mills in the group in the 1980s. They were a good eight-wheeler and no major problems with them, the front mounted exhaust wasn’t every drivers’ preference, extra noise and fumes. This one was a Cambridge based Constructor, double shifted for its first 3 years of service. It was photographed at Spillers West Drayton packing plant.
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Hello DEAN ,thank you for those clippings ,i see that Jervis of Doseley Telford Constructor is featured ,a big operator long gone that hauled coal into Ironbridge power station , Trevor
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Carrying on with the Leyland Constructor 8 wheeler. I thought there were more Leyland fans on here ? No comments
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Was this the company that became Hercock Continental ?
Morning Dean.
The Volvo F7 could well be a Tankfreight wagon as it looks like a “WU” West Riding reg plate.I think Wyatts from Leeds ran F7s as well so could be one of theirs.
windrush:
Bellfield Brothers are from Thorncliffe near Leek, still in business.I notice there isn’t a pic of the six wheeler Constructor that Mick (Malmic on here) ran, it would have required a VERY fast shutter speed to photograph that flying machine!
Pete.
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There you are Pete, it was stood still sometimes.
I know Alf Horobin had a FL7 at the same time & Shaun used to overtake the driver going up Collycroft just for fun, he used to split down half a gear to get over the top fully loaded, I have got a picture somewhere that John Harry Watson took at the garage of the same lorry with the back brake drums off AGAIN, just for routine maintenance you understand, it certainly went well & shifted some work.
I used to do occasional weekends with it after I finished working for Denis, it was certainly a step up from a Reiver.
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I suppose after one of Don Fox’s old lorries the Constructor was quite a step up too.
Hi Dean ,been catching up ! some great stuff you have posted thanks ,regards Keith
I used to drive a 6 wheeler Constructor fitted with a Multilift Hooklift set up.
Cracking machine, pulled like a train, superb gearbox with ideal gearing (a Leyland strength? i recall Buffalos being real flyers and good to drive with perfect gearing), had the best brakes i’ve ever known on any lorry, a certain motorcyclist the worse for drink owes his life to that wagon whilst it was being driven by my late colleague Alec, had he been in one of the Sed Acks the lorry would have almost certainly have gone over the lad when he dropped his bike under the front of the wagon…biker had overtaken me earlier and obvious the bike wasn’t under control, wasn’t really surprised when i rounded the next corner and there was the bike under the front of the Leyland coming the other way, a spectacularly short set of skid marks where Alec had anchored up…lad was lucky, he’d skinned one arm and was obviously ■■■■■■ but a couple of mates passing by in a car picked him and nipped him back to the pub so he could get some booze down him , old bill were not amused as despite going hell for leather to the pub they were too late 
…not as i condone this but they were different times, amazingly we somehow managed to not get flattened by the compactor despite not having a hivis between us 
, and we didn’t take ourselves quite so seriously either.
On tip work it was fantastic, never got stuck, literally anywhere the track layer went that thing would go, the Seddons were hopeless but then they were road lorries really that just happened to have double drive, the Leyland was meant for such work.
The downside was the most awful choppy ride, on the wrong surface you could be hanging onto the steering wheel with your arse off the seat as the thing pounded over ordinary road undulations, countless times i hit me head on the steel plate panel just above your bonce, front spring rates all wrong and the dampers might as well have been removed and binned for all the good they did…but once you got off-road all was forgiven.
Yes Robert, it certainly went well! Maybe Shaun had size sixteen feet? I remember when we were running to the M40 construction I loaded first and met Shaun and the Destructor ( ) coming in empty at Woodeaves. An hour later he flew past me on Weeford Bank! 
I don’t think Mick would have passed me if he had been driving it though, Shaun must have kept his hard hat on because the ride was pretty poor on them and his head must have hit the roof a few times travelling at that speed!!
I drove that Foden once when Don Fox owned it, he was loaded with tarmac for Groby Road hospital at Glenfield and had a heart murmour in Ashbourne so they sent me to deliver the load for him as mine was on mot. It was painfully slow, worse than our eight leggers carrying six tonne more, I reckon Don had run the engine in steady when it was new and that was fatal to a Gardner, give them plenty of hammer from day one and they went pretty well then… until they blew up!
Pete.
