Chris Webb:
Morning Pete.I recognise the Scania powder tanker but can’t think of the name of the company.
It’s an owd age thing………………
And are Bowrings from Mansfield still operating,I think it was them that did the motorway resurfacing work,amongst others.
Morning Chris
Was the powder tanker Schmidt, or something similar. And yes, Bowring’s are still going. I saw one of theirs on the A1 near Newark about a month ago.
Hi Pete that Foden tipper looks very much in the stance of one of the Sweating’s on the quarry work out of Somerset they always used to go in for fancy sign writing and scrooled lettering, old school nowadays but done right it looked good, Buzzer.
Chris Webb:
Morning Pete.I recognise the Scania powder tanker but can’t think of the name of the company.
It’s an owd age thing………………
And are Bowrings from Mansfield still operating,I think it was them that did the motorway resurfacing work,amongst others.
I think the Scania is one of my old wagons THG 248H 470 sold to John Smith of BLACKPOOL who sub for EBT Dover he had about 6 on for them 
Looks a via gellia transport Foden in laportes livery .
Thanks to Graham, Chris and Lance for the comments on the Scania powder tanker.
Buzzer,
I vaguely remember Sweetings Fodens with all the fancy signwriting,
Dan,
I thought may be an ex Ben Bennett with out the stripes! Cheer’s Pete
We still run twins on tri axles… I don’t have a problem with it… If you get a blow out at least you can get to a safe place before you have to change it…
Jeff…
Jelliot:
We still run twins on tri axles… I don’t have a problem with it… If you get a blow out at least you can get to a safe place before you have to change it…Jeff…
Hi Jeff,
I was on about the extra drag compared to a super single set up and some of the conversions from tandems to tri-axles were a bit of a bodge!
Where were Jones and Campbell from Pete do you know ? Certainly run smart looking motors as that
Scania looks just right.
Yes I remember some dreadful conversions… and wondered how some of them got through inspection…Given that trailer was Stevensons I would recon that conversion was done by Robert Pettigrue at Gylemuir trailers…
Jeff…
Morning Pete.
Are Taylors of Martley still going? When I was on Ross or Chepstow trunk in 80s I’d see up to half a dozen heading north on M5,also that mail order firm from Worcester whose name escapes me,unless it was White Arrow? ? I presume Taylors did a lot for Metal Box.
DEANB:
Where were Jones and Campbell from Pete do you know ? Certainly run smart looking motors as that
Scania looks just right.
Hi Dean,
It looks like Larbert on the cab, yes it looks a smart unit, Cheer’s Pete
Chris Webb:
Morning Pete.Are Taylors of Martley still going? When I was on Ross or Chepstow trunk in 80s I’d see up to half a dozen heading north on M5,also that mail order firm from Worcester whose name escapes me,unless it was White Arrow? ? I presume Taylors did a lot for Metal Box.
Morning Chris,
Taylors of Martley are part of Bibby Group and White Arrow was from Worcester or Droitwich? Cheer’s Pete
Taylors of Martley used to do a lot of empty tin cans that’s the reason for the high tautliners, I met the main man on a freeby trip to Sweden in 93 courtesy of Volvo and a decent bloke I found him to be. Think he had several sons in the business each taking responsibility for different sectors of the company, maintenance, traffic, and also warehouse etc that way probably less arguments, cheers Buzzer.
Chris Webb:
Morning Pete.I recognise the Scania powder tanker but can’t think of the name of the company.
It’s an owd age thing………………
And are Bowrings from Mansfield still operating,I think it was them that did the motorway resurfacing work,amongst others.
Hello Chris Bowrings are still going strong they run a lot of Mercs now
Cheers Gary
I’ve just across this amazing site thanks to Roger and to Pete for your hard work
Ps have you any photos of Stirlands of Nottingham
Cheers Gary [emoji106][emoji2532]
pete smith:
Thanks to Graham, Chris and Lance for the comments on the Scania powder tanker.
Buzzer,
I vaguely remember Sweetings Fodens with all the fancy signwriting,
Dan,
I thought may be an ex Ben Bennett with out the stripes! Cheer’s Pete
Well pete smith, you can thank them for their information on the Scania silo, unfortunately they are all wrong. It belongs to Schmidt’s largest subby, then and now with around 60 in colours, it’s Hassles from Gronau. Besides all the vehicles on for Schmidt, they also run a smaller fleet of Euroliners in their own livery at one time doing a lot of Russia and they are a Scania service dealer, a great many of their units I don’t know about that one, are bought as right offs and rebuilt in their own workshops and interestingly despite being a Scania dealer they always ran a fair proportion of MANs. The Silo number I can’t quite make out, is it 127? It definitely starts with a 1■■ which indicates a German subby, if it was a Brit it would start with a 7 and at that time it would have said EBT Dover in the S rather than SCHMIDT Heilbronn.
On taking a better look it’s one of a fairly large number of 143-400 toplines they bought new in the early 90s the silo was a good age then, it’s a steel chassis on steel, looking like it may have had a recent repaint. Hassles own all their own tanks although to Schmidt spec and livery.
Buzzer:
Taylors of Martley used to do a lot of empty tin cans that’s the reason for the high tautliners, I met the main man on a freeby trip to Sweden in 93 courtesy of Volvo and a decent bloke I found him to be. Think he had several sons in the business each taking responsibility for different sectors of the company, maintenance, traffic, and also warehouse etc that way probably less arguments, cheers Buzzer.
Hi Buzzer,
Yes Taylors had a load of those version 1 FH’s and Scania P113 320’s but seemed to stay with Scania until they became part of the Bibby Group, they also used to have a warehouse the side of junction 2 on the M5 for pallets of pop, I copped for “doing a favour” one Saturday morning with one of those P113’s for a mate, can you just nip this load down to Sainsburys at Charlton? did’nt get back till half eleven that night, the beginning of the end of my 1st marriage! Cheer’s Pete
acd1202:
On taking a better look it’s one of a fairly large number of 143-400 toplines they bought new in the early 90s the silo was a good age then, it’s a steel chassis on steel, looking like it may have had a recent repaint. Hassles own all their own tanks although to Schmidt spec and livery.
Thank you acd1202 for the information on Hassles Scania.
