Chris Webb:
tonyj105:
pete smith:
Chris Webb:
I used to see H C Davis’ wagons when I were on neets at MFS.We did Leicester and Corby and H C Davis artics were regulars ont road between Market Harborough and Corby,usually with loads like the one in the photo,tubes out of the old Stewart and Lloyd mill.
Morning Chris,
I think H C Davies controlled a lot of the loads out of Corby, must have devastated that town when the works alone closed not taking into account the Iron ore quarries etc, Cheer’s Pete
he still does nearly all the steel work out of corby as far as i know ,i drove for him from about 1982 to 88 and i was his transport manager from about 1988 to 1991 ,they still roll tube there , and more money is thrown at corby than i like to think of, they have a dedicated rail line from kettering to corby,a crackin dual carriageway to get there , and the town centre is being rebuilt .
noahs ark was the first c series with the L10 engine he had , i had b105mju which came in the next lot, they all had l10 250’s apart from b723lju which had an l10 290
Hi tony.
There was a haulier from Peterborough area in BSC Corby who did a lot of the steel out of there and also a tanker firm from Orton Longueville that ran out of the by products plant to BSC Chemicals at Orgreave Sheffield. Where does the steel for rolling come from? South Wales? It would be a shame for all the lot to close,I always liked going there to load,you could load the crude benzene on days and afters shift which was handy ………….saying no more. 
I collected a return load of 80 mm square 5 mm thick posts in Ipswich early this yr it was corus spec side posts for p&o going in to Corby steel works .
Caddies ERF yes, but what’s that car on the trailer on front of it??
The blue and silver stripey ERF is Michael Bailey from Stoke - used to sub quite a bit to him in the 1980s. If I remember rightly, Mrs Bailey (June, I think) was the daughter of Critchlows of Stoke.
moomooland:
You beat me to it Chris while i was putting this post together 
Didn’t one of your relatives work in the office at Cannings ?
3J Canning of Leyland also traded under the name of Elizabethan Tankers for the bulk powder side of their business.
They ran quite a mixed fleet over the years including Atkinson Borderers, Leyland’ Mandator’s and even some Volvo F10’s towards the end.
1In this cracking picture one of their Leyland Mandator’s makes its way through traffic in Lewisham in May 1976.
Photograph courtesy of Geoffrey Tribe.
It’s not often I beat you to it, Paul!! 
And well remembered - my cousin ran the accounts office at J Canning Transport. I did meet Mr. Jim Canning once - I thought he was a nice chap, but I declined an opportunity to become his Traffic Manager c.1986. I saw some of the rates they were working for, and the operation seemed a bit old-fashioned, and I didn’t think it had a long future. Sadly, I was right.
You might not realise that the Borderer photo you’ve shown is XTF 235N, well-known in preservation.
And the Manx Tyke (aka Chris Webb) will be jumping up and down in his bathchair at your last comment - a “Leyland Mandator”!! 
M&C steve:
Reply to Pete Smith, re’ the last picture, of the F16.
It is one of 2 f16’s that a chap called Lawrence, trading as Knight Errant, bought from Peter King/Peterlea Trucking.
They were less than 2 years old when he bought them, the one in the picture being in the original factory white with added silver stripes, the other being in Peterlea’s familiar blue/silver colour scheme. They were both on contract to GB Spedition doing groupage to the UK from mainly the Munich area.
I had the pleasure of maintaining both trucks for many years.
Steve.
Thank you for the info on the Volvo’s Steve, its good to see a motor you recognise especially one you worked on as well, Cheer’s Pete
moomooland:
0Here’s C432 AHW when it was a Seddon Atkinson demonstrator before joining the Torridge fleet.
Regarding Torridge i have been looking for ages for a picture of Seddon Atkinson Reg No TUN IIIT in Torridge livery with out success.
Ridings bought it off them in 1981 and ran it for six years after which time it was sold on to John Killingbeck.
Thank you Dean for the Torridge pic,
Paul,
Was that Atki a special edition called a White Knight? Will keep a look out for a shot of that Torridge motor for you, Cheer’s Pete
ramone:
pete smith:
240 Gardner:
pete smith:
Paul,
Thanks for the info on those Iveco’s, never a motor I cared for but they look the part in Ridings livery, Pete
For various reasons, we had one at W. H. Bowker in the early 90s, and none of the drivers there cared for it either - they referred to it as “The Skoda”, and no-one wanted it when there were FL10s available.
It went at 5 years old, with serious structural corrosion in the cab
532 BUY Iveco 220-36 by Chris Gardner, on Flickr
Hi Chris G,
I only encountered these type of Iveco’s as hired vehicles, 190.30 and a 190.36, they seemed to go ok but the cabs were rusty and the trim inside very tacky, brown with orange stripes I think, I preferred my Roadtrain!! Pete
We had a fleet of them the 360s pulled very well but they fell apart
Ramone,
Even the 300’s we had on hire went like stink, I think they had a 9 speed fuller in and the only 360 we had was fitted with a 13 speed fuller, you could get them off the numbers on the tacho no problem! Pete
Chris W, Dan, Tony and ROF,
Thanks for all your comments on Corby steelworks, Pete
240 Gardner:
moomooland:
You beat me to it Chris while i was putting this post together
Didn’t one of your relatives work in the office at Cannings ?
3J Canning of Leyland also traded under the name of Elizabethan Tankers for the bulk powder side of their business.
They ran quite a mixed fleet over the years including Atkinson Borderers, Leyland’ Mandator’s and even some Volvo F10’s towards the end.
1In this cracking picture one of their Leyland Mandator’s makes its way through traffic in Lewisham in May 1976.
Photograph courtesy of Geoffrey Tribe.
It’s not often I beat you to it, Paul!!
And well remembered - my cousin ran the accounts office at J Canning Transport. I did meet Mr. Jim Canning once - I thought he was a nice chap, but I declined an opportunity to become his Traffic Manager c.1986. I saw some of the rates they were working for, and the operation seemed a bit old-fashioned, and I didn’t think it had a long future. Sadly, I was right.
You might not realise that the Borderer photo you’ve shown is XTF 235N, well-known in preservation.
And the Manx Tyke (aka Chris Webb) will be jumping up and down in his bathchair at your last comment - a “Leyland Mandator”!!
“Leyland Mandator”■■ I’m sure Paul means Leyland Beavers as I remember Cannings using them.Bathchair Chris? No not yet.
240 Gardner:
Caddies ERF yes, but what’s that car on the trailer on front of it??
The blue and silver stripey ERF is Michael Bailey from Stoke - used to sub quite a bit to him in the 1980s. If I remember rightly, Mrs Bailey (June, I think) was the daughter of Critchlows of Stoke.
Afternoon Chris,
The Michael Bailey ERF, Badley! was a typo, fat fingers!
The car on the trailer in front of Caddies ERF looks like a Buggatti, obviously a kit car as the real thing would be too valuable to transport in that way, probably on its way to Oulton Park?
Thanks also for the information on Canning’s, Pete
pete smith:
Even the 300’s we had on hire went like stink, I think they had a 9 speed fuller in and the only 360 we had was fitted with a 13 speed fuller, you could get them off the numbers on the tacho no problem! Pete
That’s interesting, Pete 
! I didn’t know you could get TurboTechs with 9-speed Fullers in. Drivers report on here that the Fuller 13-sp installation was very good and I know from my own Iveco that the Twin-splitter installation was excellent. Presumably your hired TurboTechs were 190.30s if they were 300bhp jobs. Cheers, Robert
240 Gardner:
.And the Manx Tyke (aka Chris Webb) will be jumping up and down in his bathchair at your last comment - a “Leyland Mandator”!!
Whys that Chris 
Chris Webb:
“Leyland Mandator”■■ I’m sure Paul means Leyland Beavers as I remember Cannings using them. Bathchair Chris? No not yet.
Unless i am losing my marbles I can assure you this is a Leyland AEC Mandator powered by an AV 760 engine in fact Canning’s ran about 6 of them in total and never had any Leyland Beavers in their fleet at all.
moomooland:
240 Gardner:
.And the Manx Tyke (aka Chris Webb) will be jumping up and down in his bathchair at your last comment - a “Leyland Mandator”!!
Whys that Chris
Chris Webb:
“Leyland Mandator”■■ I’m sure Paul means Leyland Beavers as I remember Cannings using them. Bathchair Chris? No not yet.
I can assure you this is a Leyland AEC Mandator powered by a AV 260 engine in fact Cannings ran about 10 of them and never had any Leyland Beavers in their fleet.
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OK Paul,I know what you mean as they were part of the Leyland Group, AV760 engines though. I thought I’d seen tilt cab Leylands in Canning’s fleet,maybe I’m thinking of Ridings as they ran similar tanks?
ERF-NGC-European:
pete smith:
Even the 300’s we had on hire went like stink, I think they had a 9 speed fuller in and the only 360 we had was fitted with a 13 speed fuller, you could get them off the numbers on the tacho no problem! Pete
That’s interesting, Pete ! I didn’t know you could get TurboTechs with 9-speed Fullers in. Drivers report on here that the Fuller 13-sp installation was very good and I know from my own Iveco that the Twin-splitter installation was excellent. Presumably your hired TurboTechs were 190.30s if they were 300bhp jobs. Cheers, Robert
Hi Robert,
We only had them on the fleet for 3 months and I think they were Turbo stars? There was 3 of the 300’s and they had the fuller gear knob and incidentally belonged to Morgan varylease an off shoot of D N Morgan from Craven Arms and the sole 360 definitely had a 13 speed fuller as this is the one I used after doing an 11 hour shift shunting to do a Welwyn or a High Wycombe trunk, can remember splitting the top gears to keep it lit!! Also had air horns and the switch was on the floor! Definitely not a slap over lime a Merc of the later Eurotecs, Cheers Pete.
pete smith:
ERF-NGC-European:
pete smith:
Even the 300’s we had on hire went like stink, I think they had a 9 speed fuller in and the only 360 we had was fitted with a 13 speed fuller, you could get them off the numbers on the tacho no problem! Pete
That’s interesting, Pete ! I didn’t know you could get TurboTechs with 9-speed Fullers in. Drivers report on here that the Fuller 13-sp installation was very good and I know from my own Iveco that the Twin-splitter installation was excellent. Presumably your hired TurboTechs were 190.30s if they were 300bhp jobs. Cheers, Robert
Hi Robert,
We only had them on the fleet for 3 months and I think they were Turbo stars? There was 3 of the 300’s and they had the fuller gear knob and incidentally belonged to Morgan varylease an off shoot of D N Morgan from Craven Arms and the sole 360 definitely had a 13 speed fuller as this is the one I used after doing an 11 hour shift shunting to do a Welwyn or a High Wycombe trunk, can remember splitting the top gears to keep it lit!! Also had air horns and the switch was on the floor! Definitely not a slap over lime a Merc of the later Eurotecs, Cheers Pete.
Great stuff! TurboStars then. Cheers, Robert
Blundell & Rimmer Haulage Contractors Ltd were from Burscough working mainly out of Liverpool
delivering fruit & veg as well as being potatoe merchants,
Their livery was strikingly similar to R. A. Larkin Transport Ltd below of nearby Knowsley who
were also in the same game transporting fruit and veg.
