We have had a few Buckley Tankers on here.
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E.W.Gardner DAF.
International Plywood DAF from Gloucester i think ?
Forest Concrete Hino.
Langdons Renault.
Berkshire Haulage MAN.
Thanks for the Buckley article Dean,we used to fill up at their depot on Howley Lane Warrington in 70s.
They used to run several London trunks on general haulage as well,but I think they finished up as a tanker only fleet.
windrush:
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^Decent vans those Marina based ones, we ran two of them at the dealership plus a Marina pickup and like the cars they were pretty much trouble free as they used well proven components.
Pete.
Apart from the front suspension and the gear lever which when worn you could spin around 360 degrees! As you say Pete they were a good bread and butter motor, my Dad had one as his company van it was bought 2nd hand off a motor parts factor so it had already had the stuffing knocked out of her, it was only the 1098 engine OOX 723R. I think the gear box was out of the Triumph Herald?
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Yes Pete, like the Marina car they used a Triumph gearbox. I can’t recall any suspension issues but we only kept them for around three years.
Pete.
windrush:
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^Yes Pete, like the Marina car they used a Triumph gearbox. I can’t recall any suspension issues but we only kept them for around three years.
Pete.
I ran a marina for ages , paid £60 for it and resplined the front suspension . Heck of a job holding the torsion bar in tension while resplining the bar . It had a gold star replaced engine , never used oil and did what we needed , never had a serious breakdown and small stuff was easy to fix . Ran it for 3 years and sold it for £75 to a chap who wanted the engine for his later model marina .
Retired Old ■■■■:
I’m back Paul! Have you missed me?
Gillard’s were often to be seen back-loading sugar beet pulp from the Shrewsbury factory.
Sorry who are you…do we know you ■■? 
How are you mucker,where have you been ? Did you get lost or something…bloody sat navs…
Well since your back,heres a nice clipping you will appreciate.
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Had problems with the machinery, pal. Turned out the gas bottle was empty, all OK now. And do please try & remember, it’s only “wide plastic grilled” 88s for me!
Retired Old ■■■■:
Retired Old ■■■■:
I’m back Paul! Have you missed me?
Gillard’s were often to be seen back-loading sugar beet pulp from the Shrewsbury factory.Sorry who are you…do we know you ■■?
How are you mucker,where have you been ? Did you get lost or something…bloody sat navs…
Well since your back,heres a nice clipping you will appreciate.
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Had problems with the machinery, pal. Turned out the gas bottle was empty, all OK now. And do please try & remember, it’s only “wide plastic grilled” 88s for me!
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OK then does this do it for ye.
Oily
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You know it makes sense, Oily!
Buzzer:
Now here is a question for you, while listening to the ITV news it reported it was 35 years ago that the Newbury bypass was started/completed and all the trouble they had with tree huggers actually living in the tree’s trying to stop construction. It was a vast improvement as one can remember coming down the A34 and thinking you had cracked it but you had to go through the town back then which could lose you 3/4 of an hour making it tight for time when going for a ferry or just trying to get home and I am sure many on here can remember the delays at Newbury, just wondered if you have any info/pictures of the construction of the bypass, cheers Buzzer.
Hi Buzzer 
I think the bit they did first of all was the Burghclere bypass/dual carriageway? That would have been mid/late eighties so your 35 years is about right. I do remember Swampy and his gang of The Great Unwashed causing mayhem every day while the site was being cleared. We did an awful lot of the stone and tarmac deliveries from the Bristol area and, as you say, getting through Newbury was always a bit sketchy. Usually, after tipping the last one of the day, I would come back through Kintbury and along the A4 - a much more pleasant and relaxing drive 
The actual Newbury bypass would have been finished about 10 years or so later, late nineties. I can date it fairly accurately because I was presented with a new FM 8 legger in '99 and I did a few loads up there with it. The road may have actually been opened some time before that but I remember that a lot of it had to be resurfaced because there was a problem with the tarmac. It was a special spec material that was designed to let the water drain through rather than run off the camber. It was bloody sticky stuff and caused a bit of grief for us drivers when we were tipping because it would never all come out - had to use the 1RB far too many times on that job! 
Unfortunately, no pictures! How we all regret not carrying a camera It’s a good job we have Paul, Mark, Dean and all the other contributors to awaken old memories…
If this works, it’ll be a surprise 
I knew I had a pic somewhere, I just had to find it! Taken in Melksham Premix plant (I think…) a long, long time ago. Don had delivered a load of sand from somewhere down south and I had arrived with a load of stone - one of the very, very few times I had a camera with me…
Copyright me!
Piston broke:
Buzzer:
Now here is a question for you, while listening to the ITV news it reported it was 35 years ago that the Newbury bypass was started/completed and all the trouble they had with tree huggers actually living in the tree’s trying to stop construction. It was a vast improvement as one can remember coming down the A34 and thinking you had cracked it but you had to go through the town back then which could lose you 3/4 of an hour making it tight for time when going for a ferry or just trying to get home and I am sure many on here can remember the delays at Newbury, just wondered if you have any info/pictures of the construction of the bypass, cheers Buzzer.Hi Buzzer
I think the bit they did first of all was the Burghclere bypass/dual carriageway? That would have been mid/late eighties so your 35 years is about right. I do remember Swampy and his gang of The Great Unwashed causing mayhem every day while the site was being cleared. We did an awful lot of the stone and tarmac deliveries from the Bristol area and, as you say, getting through Newbury was always a bit sketchy. Usually, after tipping the last one of the day, I would come back through Kintbury and along the A4 - a much more pleasant and relaxing drive
The actual Newbury bypass would have been finished about 10 years or so later, late nineties. I can date it fairly accurately because I was presented with a new FM 8 legger in '99 and I did a few loads up there with it. The road may have actually been opened some time before that but I remember that a lot of it had to be resurfaced because there was a problem with the tarmac. It was a special spec material that was designed to let the water drain through rather than run off the camber. It was bloody sticky stuff and caused a bit of grief for us drivers when we were tipping because it would never all come out - had to use the 1RB far too many times on that job!Unfortunately, no pictures! How we all regret not carrying a camera
The last bit of the Newbury bypass would have been late 1998 as I was running regular to Soton docks, on the southbound carriageway just before the Tothill junction the protesters had one last message, they painted ‘criminal’ across the 2 lanes in white paint and it last quite a time.
Yes Newbury was heart breaking when you thought you had cracked it coming home, north bound for me, keeping up good progress until the dual carriageway part that dropped down to cross the A4, that was a good hour lost. I can even remember queuing from where the by pass starts now at Tothill on that single stretch to get through Newbury one Friday evening, the joys of motoring eh, never fails to disappoint!
Remember a load of French carrots I took on to Newcastle for tipping on a Saturday morning at 2am in the late 70’s, I was cautious about this being a bank holiday week end that any one would turn up but bang on the button a bang on the door signalled the start of unloading. My Mrs and our first son who was only a few months old accompanied me on that trip and that is still the furthest North she has ever been in this country to date, anyway when tipped by about 5am we started our journey back down South and about 3 miles before hitting the M4 was the end of the que and the radio gave us the clue, there was some sort of Military Tattoo going on at Tidworth and this was mainly traffic going to this and I decided to turn left on the M4 when reaching the M4 turn and along to Reading and down to Basingstoke and home via the M3, this was a bit of a long detour but well worth the two or so hours delay at Newbury that I would have endured, Buzzer
Swampy is still protesting , he’s up at Euston now protesting about hs2 . I don’t know what he lives on as a career protester .
Buzzer:
Remember a load of French carrots I took on to Newcastle for tipping on a Saturday morning at 2am in the late 70’s, I was cautious about this being a bank holiday week end that any one would turn up but bang on the button a bang on the door signalled the start of unloading. My Mrs and our first son who was only a few months old accompanied me on that trip and that is still the furthest North she has ever been in this country to date, anyway when tipped by about 5am we started our journey back down South and about 3 miles before hitting the M4 was the end of the que and the radio gave us the clue, there was some sort of Military Tattoo going on at Tidworth and this was mainly traffic going to this and I decided to turn left on the M4 when reaching the M4 turn and along to Reading and down to Basingstoke and home via the M3, this was a bit of a long detour but well worth the two or so hours delay at Newbury that I would have endured, Buzzer
If you search ‘old photographs of A34 in Hampshire’ it comes up with a great selection of pics on the Motorway Services online website, pics of Whitchurch and around Bullington Cross
pete smith:
Buzzer:
Remember a load of French carrots I took on to Newcastle for tipping on a Saturday morning at 2am in the late 70’s, I was cautious about this being a bank holiday week end that any one would turn up but bang on the button a bang on the door signalled the start of unloading. My Mrs and our first son who was only a few months old accompanied me on that trip and that is still the furthest North she has ever been in this country to date, anyway when tipped by about 5am we started our journey back down South and about 3 miles before hitting the M4 was the end of the que and the radio gave us the clue, there was some sort of Military Tattoo going on at Tidworth and this was mainly traffic going to this and I decided to turn left on the M4 when reaching the M4 turn and along to Reading and down to Basingstoke and home via the M3, this was a bit of a long detour but well worth the two or so hours delay at Newbury that I would have endured, BuzzerIf you search ‘old photographs of A34 in Hampshire’ it comes up with a great selection of pics on the Motorway Services online website, pics of Whitchurch and around Bullington Cross
Hi Buzzer
Out of interest where did you tip the carrots ■■ was it the Fruit & Veg market on the Team Valley Estate ■■
Tyneside
tyneside:
pete smith:
Buzzer:
Remember a load of French carrots I took on to Newcastle for tipping on a Saturday morning at 2am in the late 70’s, I was cautious about this being a bank holiday week end that any one would turn up but bang on the button a bang on the door signalled the start of unloading. My Mrs and our first son who was only a few months old accompanied me on that trip and that is still the furthest North she has ever been in this country to date, anyway when tipped by about 5am we started our journey back down South and about 3 miles before hitting the M4 was the end of the que and the radio gave us the clue, there was some sort of Military Tattoo going on at Tidworth and this was mainly traffic going to this and I decided to turn left on the M4 when reaching the M4 turn and along to Reading and down to Basingstoke and home via the M3, this was a bit of a long detour but well worth the two or so hours delay at Newbury that I would have endured, BuzzerIf you search ‘old photographs of A34 in Hampshire’ it comes up with a great selection of pics on the Motorway Services online website, pics of Whitchurch and around Bullington Cross
Hi Buzzer
Out of interest where did you tip the carrots ■■ was it the Fruit & Veg market on the Team Valley Estate ■■Tyneside
Yes I think it was but along time ago now, arrived about 5pm and tried to get a bit of shut eye but the baby as he was needed feeding so disturbed slumber, had a little battery television the screen was about 3" x 2" so had some entertainment. When arriving it was a dismal place raining hard and never thought any one would turn out to tip me but they did all handball too and they never messed about got it off quick, cheers Buzzer.
pete smith:
Piston broke:
Buzzer:
Hi PeteHope you and the current Mrs Smith are keeping well in the leafy suburbs of my birthplace.
I’ve heard that “Swampy” has a heart condition but he’s refused a By Pass !!
Perhaps we’ll see you in the New Forest later this year if this Covid ever goes away ?
Regards
Richard