Pete.
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pete 359:
hi all,
i am loving these evocative images,every day it gets better and better.thanks for sharing.
regards andrew.
Pauls busy scanning the next batch !
backsplice:
I know all you lads appreciate that these photos are all PRE digital and there has been a lot of expense accumulating the collection …a lot of stuff just disappears without the enthusiasts … think of all the things most of us have seen but no camera ■■?
What a great collection … parking up now !!!
I think we all feel like that,should have taken a camera !
ERF-NGC-European:
DEANB:
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Mercedes, That cab lasted them years,although the steering wheels were too big !
That big steering wheel was the best thing about those NGs - loved 'em! lol. After that, the German’s dropped their long-standing legislation that all commercials should have big enough steering wheels to get the driver home in the event of power-assistance failure. It was a good common-sense rule: I’m only a little chap but I got an MAN home from Belgium with no power-steering one day because the big wheel enabled me to - and saved a fortune! Robert
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The only good thing about them was you could nod off on them ! 
kingswinford kit:
Hey DEANB,nice kick off with that lot with the Issac Caswell Borderer . He had a big immaculate fleet and his Borderers were the finest in S Wales ,thanks again for some superb stuff,regards Keith .
Thanks for the input Keith !
windrush:
DEANB:
Half cab yes brill pic B D Whitwick A R C had 4 drove 1 on nights dry stone to M Keynes for a while , alright I thought but called Animals by everybody
Cant really remember them coomsey,but must have been a bit tight for storing your personal bits and bobs
you take to work. Would imagine that they were pretty rare ?■■
They were not THAT rare, at Tilcon our depot alone had around 20+ of them (tippers and powder tankers) and there were many more nationwide based at other quarries. Not a bad truck, you could just squeeze two people in the cab which we sometimes had to do on breakdowns but it was tight! Ivonbrook Quarries had a few as well locally, also ARC had a lot of tippers and mixers (ex St Ives Sand and Gravel I believe) but fitted with the ‘dumper’ type of half cab instead.
Pete.
Thanks Pete,coomsey for your comments !
jshepguis:
Once again DEANB thanks for posting these superb photos. On the F88 agree that they do look better with the sun visor fitted. On that note remember when mating for Stevens running over Scammonden dam on the M62 a lorry passed us and when passed sudden wind gust blew visor slamming it back onto roof. I do remember driver saying it had happened before, and also another of Stevens F88 same problem smashing that one ,so was removed and never refitted. Just wondering if other drivers on here had same problem?
Never heard of that before ? Thanks for the observation.
HRS:
LR Man:
Thanks Dean and Paul for the great photos, any more of Bakers of Southampton? Excellent shot of Bakers Volvo F89 and top timing, Jimski has just finished building a model of this very truck for me, which my uncle, Phil Dibden used to drive!
Fantastic model, the man has a gift indeed.
I remember when it was draged back from a water dyke, might have been France, and it needed a shovel to get the mud out from inside the cab before it could be put back together again, Eric was so relaxed about it I could not believe it. In my earley days knowing Mr Baker he would have gone loopy. Harvey
Lovely motor and model Harvey. 
windrush:
coomsey:
Hi Pete, don’t recall any later than J reg n only Foden, would that be right?
Ideal for tipper work most lorries I drove never went anywhere near the passenger seat. N you could get to nearside window always a game on hot days on the road.Plenty of room for flask n snap.
Was there any payload gain? Paul
We had several J reg tippers but they were all short wheelbase 24 ton eight leggers. There were two J reg tankers, NRB 174 J and ORA 310 J, all the rest were long wheelbase thirty tonners on K plates. Several of the thirty tonners were recabbed with S40 Motor Panels cabs to give them a longer life as the half cabs rotted badly, plus there were insurance issues with there only being one door in case of an accident. I took most of them to North riding Garages at Middleton St George for recabbing and engine overhaul while the cabs were off. Payload was about the same as the plastic S39 cabbed ones I think, around 21 tonnes. They did plenty of distance work, Isle of Wight and back in the day and Truro, Scotland, Crediton and down into Kent were regular runs. Of course during winter the sugar factory at Felsted in Essex had a large tonnage of limestone daily so they were kept busy on that.
Pete.
Good point about only having one door !
DAF
F88
Transcon, looks like a removal truck ■■
F88
ERF
Maggie
MAN, Dont think the ministry would be to impressed with that today ?
Dont see many Aveling Barford’s on the road.
Crusader.
Tidy transcon.
Join the “piggy back club” ! this was a common sight in the late 60’s and into the 70’s, particularly Scottish firms such as Sam Anderson. These two Bewick motors are on their way to Ellesmere Port IIRC when we had regular Russian pulp ships in and provided the bales of pulp were loaded straight onto “wheels” and didn’t touch the dock the Mill didn’t have to pay port fees ! so it was always a desperate panic to at short notice to get as many trailers into Ellesmere to load as much as possible straight onto trailers . The rest went into the Shed and we worked away on it over the following couple of weeks ! Cheers Bewick.
Will let you know when i hear back from him.
