Kempston:
http://www.trucknetuk.com/phpBB/download/file.php?id=323571&mode=view
Thanks for that Dean, a couple more here of another old firm from yesteryear.
You can post as many of those F88’s as you like “Kempston” 
What did ACH stand for chap ?
windrush:
“DEANB”
Thanks for the comments Pete. Was the reason for so many broken springs due to the rough terrain in the quarry ?
I can remember seeing a couple of Routeman’s parked up and one of them had a big lump of wood jammed in a broken spring !
Not really the quarry Dean, admittedly the Fodens occasionally broke springs before they started using rubber suspension on the rear but the Sed Ak 400’s (Atkinson back end) almost always broke at the spring eyes which were very small in diameter compared to the large Foden eyes. I broke two second axle spring eyes drawing off of our weighbridge and a rear one broke going through the Queensway tunnel on the A38 in Brum. I managed to limp to the tipping point at the council yard in Northfield and two fitters came out from the quarry and changed it. I treated them to a tea at the cafe on Tyburn Road, then when we got back to the quarry they removed it again and refitted it the correct way round! One Sed Ak came in with the front axles out of line so we suspected a broken spring, however when the driver turned the steering we spotted that the chassis frame had broken in half behind the cab and opened up when turning on left lock. The driver said that the steering had felt strange for a day or so… 
We had a couple of those Atkinson dumpers at the quarry, six wheeler ones though. They had ■■■■■■■ 220 engines and six speed ZF boxes but were smaller than the Foden dumpers so carried less.
Pete.
Thanks for the info Pete,so the Seddon sounded like a bit of a deign fault really.Did they improve it over time ?
"The driver said that the steering had felt strange for a day or so !!! 
240 Gardner:
“robroy” “smallcoal” Iveco fords are putting Atkinson badges on their truck to celebrate Atkinson 50th anniversary
Does the A stand for April by any chance?
Oh yes… and it would have been 104 years for Atkinson anyway
neversweat1:
Dean - This Is Claude Fenton Plant Hire From Reading Berkshire - Depots in Southampton and Swindon
neversweat1:
Dean - This Was Terranova Crane Hire Reading Berkshire
Thanks for the info on the Fenton and Terranova motors,good stuff chap. 
240 Gardner:
DEANB:
We have had a few Atkinson Black Knight 8 wheelers on here.
I expect a few of these will be wrong so will wait for a bollocking of “240gardner”
You did OK son
The Bibby-liveried motors were actually on contract from an old established outfit from Bootle, Gilbert Lawrenson. They were still running those Mk.1s in the late 1980s when I was working in Liverpool. I think they wrapped up not much after that, and Abbey Road Tanks took on the Bibby contract.
The first one, with Hopkins from Evercreech, was new to the famous fleet of Gibb’s of Fraserburgh
To be fair it was a joint effort as i said to Mr Gee we would be in trouble if we got it wrong !!!
Chris,what was the difference between the Black Knight and the Gold Knight ■■
finbarot:
Hi Dean
back in the eighties I worked on a Foden S80 R reg with a bulk body on waste disposal. The haul road into the tip had a number of speed humps. The driver was , shall we say, ‘enthusiastic’.In one year we changed 55, yes, 55 springs on that lorry.In the end we could almost spin the u bolt nuts off by hand!!
Thanks for the comment “finbarot” but that driver needed his P45 !
Unless you have owned your own trucks some drivers do not appreciate how much it costs to repair them.
I wonder how many he would have broke over the same period if he had been an owner driver ?
windrush:
“finbarot” Hi Dean
back in the eighties I worked on a Foden S80 R reg with a bulk body on waste disposal. The haul road into the tip had a number of speed humps. The driver was , shall we say, ‘enthusiastic’.In one year we changed 55, yes, 55 springs on that lorry.In the end we could almost spin the u bolt nuts off by hand!!
Ours were not quite that bad! However we had two brothers driving for us at Tilcon, Vernon drove a S80 powder tanker and Dennis a tipper, and I remember once on a fornightly service Dennis came down to the repair garage from the service/inspection bay with three springs broken. We set to on that and an hour later Vernon appears with four broken springs! As we had run out of springs, and tankers were more important than tippers, we had to remove two of the new springs from Dennis’s truck and fit them to Vernon’s.
Pete.
Stroll on Pete ! Those drivers obviously took there morning checks very seriously…
Spring advert from 1957. Just look where they had agents around the world. This was when Leylands,Bedford,and the other
UK manufacturers were exported all over the world.
