Just a bit short of the Peak but nearly.Does anybody recognise any of these Happy Hauliers at the role out
of the Derbyshire Transport Group Training Association in the car park at the Hurt Arms, Ambergate 1970.
Only one I’m sure of is Dennis Phillips ( Carney ) with the cig. in the 2nd pic.,some others are familiar but can’t place.
And was’nt Bernard Hudson one of the instructors.
Mike.
Wasn’t one of the instructors Gordon Thorpe, from the family that owned Norman Thorpe Transport Ltd of Holloway, I am sure it was him who taut me. I passed my class II there in January 1971 after a weeks course on the 6w Dodge.
Fodenfan:
Wasn’t one of the instructors Gordon Thorpe, from the family that owned Norman Thorpe Transport Ltd of Holloway, I am sure it was him who taut me. I passed my class II there in January 1971 after a weeks course on the 6w Dodge.
Yes Gordon Thorpe.I’m sure Gordon finished up at Tarmac in Dene on a Foden in the 80s, must be well retired now.
Mike.
3300John:
Hiya…looking at the hadfields foden’s would the body be some kind of early tautliner. well a fitted sheet over that central bar.
also registered together …that would be a spectical then i’d think… also a good order for foden.
John
Hiya.When I left school in 58, 
no 1958,i worked for Edge Bros,Matlock, fruit and vegetable merchants and they had that arrangement
on a Morris Commercial.The sheet was sewn on to the top bar and could be slid along the length of the body as required making a tent shape that the rain ran straight of.Handy for small shop deliveries. They had an Austin Loadstar and a Austin 403 series and these had dropside bodies with a frame built on and then a fitted sheet over,
similar in style to the pic.,below that were popular in those days.Seems to be all uninteresting white vans these days but I suppose they are handy warm and quiet and have the ability to sit on the car in fronts boot lid. Just a pity like a lot of others on here did’nt take any photo’s. Cheerio Mike.
These were regulars during the 60s/70s out of the quarries in Buxton (Pics with the permission of Bubbleman) although during the 60s they ran quite a big fleet of 4 wheeler TKs and boy could they fly.
i don’t remember tk’s john , but i know they had s load of traders , mostly od s in the sixties . i think they had to fly about just to make a living , the rates were very poor . i remember when the runway extension was on at manchester airport ,( ringway then ) they were booking 8 or 9 loads a day out of buxton , and getting the gangers to sign all the tickets for a sweetener . most of the loads got tipped over the cat and fiddle somewhere . cheers , dave
Yes John, one of Derek Barlow’s fleet of workhorses! I don’t think the trucks stayed idle for long, down into Kent and then flints back to the Potteries was a decent days work! We used to get spares (they were also a Foden sub agent) from their ‘field stores’ ie any parts that they didn’t have in stock were removed from one of the stockpiled new chassis/cabs in the yard! Ken Hodgkinson drove his own Ford D series four wheeler from Tilcons Ballidon quarry when I worked there, he did mostly selected stone or dust to London etc.
Pete.
Did B&H Finish in about 92 ? ,i remember their tandem tipper trailers tasked bodies with AHP chassis on twins ,i think Stephen Dale had 1 and tri axled it ,may be Ernie Walker bought 2 and Ben Bennets had 1 , i fitted a hand brake cable to one we borrowed they stood down via gellia in the colour works for a while.
The date is about right dan, i am 99% sure that most of the bodies on the twin tandums were mackworth, i remember the one s dale had
i used to work in the bodyshop at mackworth from 1990-1993, the 8 wheeler in the pic above is also mackworth as well as the allinsons in the other pic, they also used mainly mackworth, back in the day they were one of the best money could buy, never the lightest or the cheapest though!
moose
Quite possibly the best body i ever seen was bought from David Wigley ,an AHP chassis with a body built by Jeffreys from Swad 6mm sides 10mm floor 6inch cross members with a 6inch gap between each one ,the wurst has to be weightlifter cracks everywhere top corners ,where body sits on chassis at front ,bottom of up rights,each side at back,i dont think you can beat a wilcox/seadyke or steve castle.
b&h finished in 1991 i think dan , hazel croft bought the e and f reg artic tankers , the rest were only fit for scrap . 3 of barlows drivers came with them . jimmy buxton rip , ian clayton and ron ? lived in the houses at the bottom of alsop moor . i got one of the e reg , what a state ! there were 5 rings on the bunk where they had carried the spare drums of diesel , took some doing to get the cab liveable . jimmy buxton said he got nearly twice the wages running legal at hazel croft than he got at barlows doing twice the work running bent . cheers , dave
that is a smart bit of kit moose , i could manage that foden if someone helped me up into the cab , cheers , dave
It needs a bit of tlc but i am hoping to tidy it up and use it, i was given the pic’s of when it was new when i colleced it yesterday
Thats a late one moose for L10 most were M11 by then ,whats the crane it looks like about 14tonne metre?
The crane is a fassi 220t.22b3 swl 11000kgs @ 1.9 metres
swl 3620kgs @ 6.0 metres
the engine is the last type of L 10 before the m11 so it has no computer and manual pump but the same block as the m11, but yes is is a late one!
Early (well earlyish) deliveries of the essentials in Bakewell.
Mike.
Couldn’t get any nearer unfortunately. Dowlow Quarry (if its still called Dowlow that is) took it from the entrance on the main road 
