the BDH truck behind the drinkwater tipper was part of the British drug houses fleet, there were two factories in poole dorset, an all bedford fleet during my time as an apprentice at the local Bedford dealership of Selbys garage, on ashley road parkstone, the white and green livery was quite new as the old livery was dark blue and phased out in about 1971 to 73, there was a quite spectacular fire at the poole town centre factory, which is now part of either the RNLI or the car showrooms of Hendy garages, (Westover motors), i know they had other factories or depots around the country, i cannot recall who bought them before closing both sites in poole, it might have been Glaxo smith cline, not sure,
DEANB:
Anyone know where the Revvo DAF is from ■■9
“Steam” Do you remember this company,think its Stokes Transport but not sure where they were based locally.
8
Tarmac Leyland Reiver.
7
“finbarot” Leyland constructor of Drinkwater Sabey.
6
F.V.Bugler Volvo F86 brick truck from Poole,packed up now.
5
DAZ, Looks like an ex ARC Routeman chap,possibly bought by an owner driver here ■■
4
Looks like Clifford’s Dairy Products on the Volvo trailer. Anyone know where they are based ■■
That 2 CR thats following always looked like they were going to turn over on bends and roundabouts.
3
John Kett DAF tipper,dont recognise it ! Anyone know where they were based ■■
2
Mussons of Bewdley Volvo F6.
1
Anyone know where the R.D.B.Freight Lines Leyland Freighter is from ■■
0
Hi Dean there are some stunning pictures here in this batch of tippers especially the John Kett DAF tipper that looks very smart indeed considering i have never seen that company before and dont recognise it the Scammell Routeman tipper is definiitely ARC and does look like it now belongs to a owner driver as you have stated in your comment above dean that photo is a new one to me which i have never seen before what a lovely god send shot.Great work as always coming from you guys on this brilliant thread All the best Daz 
DEANB:
Dont think we have had a Stephen Histed motor on before,anyone know where they are from ■■9
SK Haulage Volvo.
8
B.H.Freight Renault.
7
S.T.Challis ERF from Daventry.
6
P.Flannery Scania. Anyone know where they are from ■■
5
T.A.Reader from the Isle of Wight.
4
Hemmings Foden,anyone know where they are based ■■
Hemmings are based in Bristol
3W & S Recycling Volvo roll on roll off.
2
Trevor Pye tidy DAF.
1
Bob Gay Plant Volvo. Anyone know whats the make of the crane ? Possibly Grove ■■
0
Me again Dean P Flannery Pant & machinery hire are based at Flannery House Third Way in Wembley West London 
DEANB:
Dont think we have had a Stephen Histed motor on before,anyone know where they are from ■■9
SK Haulage Volvo.
8
B.H.Freight Renault.
7
S.T.Challis ERF from Daventry.
6
P.Flannery Scania. Anyone know where they are from ■■
5
T.A.Reader from the Isle of Wight.
4
Hemmings Foden,anyone know where they are based ■■
3
W & S Recycling Volvo roll on roll off.
2
Trevor Pye tidy DAF.
1
Bob Gay Plant Volvo. Anyone know whats the make of the crane ? Possibly Grove ■■
0
Trevor Pye Fleet i see regularly and they always look tidy and clean 
Kempston:
Anyone know where the R.D.B.Freight Lines Leyland Freighter is from ■■Think someone else replied to this a couple of weeks ago Dean, I know them from the Sheffield area but I know they had a few regional depots one being near Bedford in Hitchin.
Thanks for your comments “Kempston” too many companies to remember them all chap. 
Chris Webb:
Hi Dean and Kempston.
The RDB Freightlines Leyland is from Birley Vale Sheffield 12.They were taken over years ago by J J Shepherd of Oughtibridge.They did have a depot in Rutherglen Glasgow and one at Stotfold I think but I don’t know if it still applies.
Thanks Chris for the info.
windrush:
R.D.B were Sheffield based at one time Dean, and Cliffords was our local dairy when I lived in Reading and their headquarters were at Bracknell.Pete.
Cheers Pete.
tastrucker:
“DEANB”Anyone recognise the Volvo bulker ■■
Hello DEAN ,the Volvo bulker on the A49 looks like Portcullis transport from Ludlow ,that piece of road between Craven Arms and Dorrington is a favourite of Pauls ,thank you Trevor
Thanks for the name Trevor.Paul cant wait to get back up to your part of the world.
robthedog:
DEANB:
Anyone know where the Revvo DAF is fromHi Dean
You should know this one, your neck of the woods
REVVO Castors are from Christchurch on the airportAlot of things i should know Rob.
a truck running around your local area and you never see it.Chris Webb:
“Ray Smyth” Hi Dean, The white van, BDH, behind the Leyland tipper looks like " Bradford Drug Houses ",
a pharmacutical manufacturing company, if my memory serves me well.Hi Ray.
I think you mean British Drug Houses who were based in Poole.I tipped some solvent there once from BP Saltend Hull.
Thanks for the comments Ray and Chris.
Heres one of there trailers on a BRS motor.
240 Gardner:
“DEANB”Sparks Volvo wrecker recovering Online ? car transporter. Anyone know where the Sparks Volvo is from ■■
The transporter is from Ontime Automotive’s Volume Distribution division, which was closed around 2008 when Ontime withdrew from open car transport. The business is fully focussed on enclosed car transporters now.
Funny enough that pic was taken in 2008 Chris.
diggerdb:
Dont think we have had a Stephen Histed motor on before,anyone know where they are from ■■Stephen Histed is an owner driver running out of Stroud , Gloucester. I think he has a son and a daughter that also drive for him now.
Thanks for the details about Stephen Histed,good stuff chap.
hotel magnum:
the BDH truck behind the drinkwater tipper was part of the British drug houses fleet, there were two factories in poole dorset, an all bedford fleet during my time as an apprentice at the local Bedford dealership of Selbys garage, on ashley road parkstone, the white and green livery was quite new as the old livery was dark blue and phased out in about 1971 to 73, there was a quite spectacular fire at the poole town centre factory, which is now part of either the RNLI or the car showrooms of Hendy garages, (Westover motors), i know they had other factories or depots around the country, i cannot recall who bought them before closing both sites in poole, it might have been Glaxo smith cline, not sure,
Thanks for your comments “hotel magnum”. The Bedford dealer Selby’s garage was before my time, heres a pic
of it on Ashley Road.
Spudgun Richards pic.
Thats right there were two factories in Poole,one at Broom Road where Paul Gee worked for a while !
The other one was on West Quay Road and like you say where the new RNLI building is, and your right about the fire that
happened on the 21st June 1988. Heres a couple of pics.
ArcDaz:
“DEANB”DAZ, Looks like an ex ARC Routeman chap,possibly bought by an owner driver here ■■
John Kett DAF tipper,dont recognise it ! Anyone know where they were based ■■
Hi Dean there are some stunning pictures here in this batch of tippers especially the John Kett DAF tipper that looks very smart indeed considering i have never seen that company before and dont recognise it the Scammell Routeman tipper is definiitely ARC and does look like it now belongs to a owner driver as you have stated in your comment above dean that photo is a new one to me which i have never seen before what a lovely god send shot.Great work as always coming from you guys on this brilliant thread All the best Daz
Glad you liked them Daz,thanks for your comments about Hemmings,Flannery and Trevor Pye who i agree always has
very smart motors.
Anyone recognise the DAF ■■
DAZ, Don Bush DAF. Old colour scheme much better.
M.S.Ellis DAF.
Smiths DAF
Bartrums Mercedes.
Pitter Iveco and Mansel Davies Volvo.
Tidy ERF, anyone make the name out ■■
Malcolm Volvo.
Trevor, T.Alun Jones Scania.Nice colour scheme.
Anyone recognise the Scania logger ■■
“Tidy ERF, anyone make the name out ■■”
Bamford of Coleford Forest of Dean.
On the ball today Dean
Oily
Dean B,
If I am not mistaken the ERF loaded with bricks is an ex Roger Miles of Monmouth motor operated by one of his ex drivers Raz and his son
Regards Allan
The Metalair advert brings back memories, all our tanks on Tilcon were made by them. I used to work near their Wokingham factory in the early seventies, and then when I moved north and later worked for Tilcon I visited their Sutton Bridge works a lot to collect tanks that had been removed from six year old chassis (which were then sold) and reconditioned and fitted to new Fodens. One tank could do three different chassis before it was scrapped. At first the tanks used probes with socks over them, later we had them converted to pad discharge and two Metalair mobile fitters spent several weeks at the quarry converting them. One lad named Steve lived in Cheshire where there were plenty of tanker fleets, the other, Rick who was sadly killed in a RTA, was based near Kings Lynn. Good lads and we had some happy times working with them.
Pete.
Hi Dean, Great pictures of Rank Hovis lorries. My main source of work from 1979
until 1997 was with Rank Hovis, loading at their warehouse at Westhoughton on the
A6, and delivering to bakery shops, wholesalers, hospitals, prisons & catering colleges,
in Lancashire, Cheshire, North & Mid Wales, ■■■■■■■■ & Staffordshire.
I bought these two Ford D Series D1311 curtain siders from Rank Hovis in 1981
Despite being a registered carrier with Rank Hovis, they insisted that all of their names
and signage had to be removed before putting them back on the road, so I rubbed them
down and brush painted them over two weekends. Cheers, Ray Smyth.
Ray Smyth:
Hi Dean, Great pictures of Rank Hovis lorries. My main source of work from 1979
until 1997 was with Rank Hovis, loading at their warehouse at Westhoughton on the
A6, and delivering to bakery shops, wholesalers, hospitals, prisons & catering colleges,
in Lancashire, Cheshire, North & Mid Wales, ■■■■■■■■ & Staffordshire.
I bought these two Ford D Series D1311 curtain siders from Rank Hovis in 1981
Despite being a registered carrier with Rank Hovis, they insisted that all of their names
and signage had to be removed before putting them back on the road, so I rubbed them
down and brush painted them over two weekends. Cheers, Ray Smyth.
Having delivered many times to Westhoughton Ray , I don’t recall what happened to local deliveries from there after the closure . I think the bean counters got there figures confused over the whole reorganisation at the time , it more or less signalled the demise of Rank Hovis .
DEANB:
Anyone recognise the DAF ■■9
DAZ, Don Bush DAF. Old colour scheme much better.
Dean i second this comment of yours.
8M.S.Ellis DAF.
7
Smiths DAF
6
Bartrums Mercedes.
5
Pitter Iveco and Mansel Davies Volvo.
4
Tidy ERF, anyone make the name out ■■
3
Malcolm Volvo.
2
Trevor, T.Alun Jones Scania.Nice colour scheme.
1
Anyone recognise the Scania logger ■■
0
DEANB:
“FLOURPOWER”
Hi Dean,thankyou for the excellent Hovis flour items,Many of these Hovis motors would have been Southampton and Barry mill motors the Barry motors had a welsh flag on the door.Sadly both mills gone now.Sad to see this large miller only left with one mill now big user of British trucks in the past.cheers FLOURPOWER KEITH.
We have had some cracking Hovis trucks on here.9
8
7
6
5
4
3
2
1
0
oiltreader:
“Anyone recognise the Scania logger ■■”
Allan Rowlands of Wem and credit to SCP for the photo.
Oily
Thanks for the name Oily.
Wem,had a bit of a nightout there years ago that ended with a lock in after hours in a cracking locals pub. 
oiltreader:
“Tidy ERF, anyone make the name out ■■”
Bamford of Coleford Forest of Dean.
On the ball today Dean
Oily
Very good Oily.
Mrsteel:
Dean B,
If I am not mistaken the ERF loaded with bricks is an ex Roger Miles of Monmouth motor operated by one of his ex drivers Raz and his son
Regards Allan
Thanks for the name Allan,dont think we have had one of there’s on before.
windrush:
The Metalair advert brings back memories, all our tanks on Tilcon were made by them. I used to work near their Wokingham factory in the early seventies, and then when I moved north and later worked for Tilcon I visited their Sutton Bridge works a lot to collect tanks that had been removed from six year old chassis (which were then sold) and reconditioned and fitted to new Fodens. One tank could do three different chassis before it was scrapped. At first the tanks used probes with socks over them, later we had them converted to pad discharge and two Metalair mobile fitters spent several weeks at the quarry converting them. One lad named Steve lived in Cheshire where there were plenty of tanker fleets, the other, Rick who was sadly killed in a RTA, was based near Kings Lynn. Good lads and we had some happy times working with them.Pete.
You cant knock a body outlasting 3 chassis Pete,must have been very well built. Cheap in the long run,bit of a refurb
when being fitted to the next chassis.
Ray Smyth:
Hi Dean, Great pictures of Rank Hovis lorries. My main source of work from 1979
until 1997 was with Rank Hovis, loading at their warehouse at Westhoughton on the
A6, and delivering to bakery shops, wholesalers, hospitals, prisons & catering colleges,
in Lancashire, Cheshire, North & Mid Wales, ■■■■■■■■ & Staffordshire.
I bought these two Ford D Series D1311 curtain siders from Rank Hovis in 1981
Despite being a registered carrier with Rank Hovis, they insisted that all of their names
and signage had to be removed before putting them back on the road, so I rubbed them
down and brush painted them over two weekends. Cheers, Ray Smyth.
Glad that brought back some memories Ray and thanks for the pic.
Now does D1311 stand for 13 ton gross with a 110 bhp motor ?
rigsby:
Ray Smyth:
Hi Dean, Great pictures of Rank Hovis lorries. My main source of work from 1979
until 1997 was with Rank Hovis, loading at their warehouse at Westhoughton on the
A6, and delivering to bakery shops, wholesalers, hospitals, prisons & catering colleges,
in Lancashire, Cheshire, North & Mid Wales, ■■■■■■■■ & Staffordshire.
I bought these two Ford D Series D1311 curtain siders from Rank Hovis in 1981
Despite being a registered carrier with Rank Hovis, they insisted that all of their names
and signage had to be removed before putting them back on the road, so I rubbed them
down and brush painted them over two weekends. Cheers, Ray Smyth.Having delivered many times to Westhoughton Ray , I don’t recall what happened to local deliveries from there after the closure . I think the bean counters got there figures confused over the whole reorganisation at the time , it more or less signalled the demise of Rank Hovis .
Thanks for your comments Dave.
ArcDaz:
“DEANB”DAZ, Don Bush DAF. Old colour scheme much better.
Dean i second this comment of yours.
FLOURPOWER:
DEANB:
“FLOURPOWER”
Hi Dean,thankyou for the excellent Hovis flour items,Many of these Hovis motors would have been Southampton and Barry mill motors the Barry motors had a welsh flag on the door.Sadly both mills gone now.Sad to see this large miller only left with one mill now big user of British trucks in the past.cheers FLOURPOWER KEITH.
We have had some cracking Hovis trucks on here.
Where is the mill they are still operating then “FLOURPOWER” ■■
Its a shame like you say,as when i was a kid tipping at the Southampton mill on the docks was a regular trip.
I believe its now been demolished which i think is a great shame,as i alway’s thought it was an iconic Southampton
building/ landmark. 
Hi Dean, Yes, you are correct regarding the D1311 on the Ford lorries. They were 13 tons G.V.W.
The 2 D1311s that I posted earlier were 5200 kg unladen weight, so they could carry 7800kg.
For a 13 tonner they were quite heavy, they were on 10.00 x 20 ten stud wheels, and the bodywork
was by Southfields of Loughborough. In my opinion, Southfields curtainsided bodies were in the same
league as " Tautliners " from Boalloy from Congleton. The lorry curtains on the Ranks Southfields
lorries was much thicker than some others that I have seen since. I have attached a picture of another
ex Rank Hovis Ford D1311 curtainsider which I acquired in 1983, LYK 434P was a little bit lighter in
unladen weight than the previous two, it was on 11.225 wheels and tyres. I happened to have a tin
of " Midnight Blue " paint in the depot, it was ex " Robert Baillie ", hence the appearance of LYK 434P.
Cheers, Ray Smyth.
