Hi all,
This may be a long shot I know, but it never ceases to amaze me what turns up on here, so here goes !!!
Does anybody have any photos of any ERF 8LV series 8x4 mixers/ tippers from Rugby cement, from about late 60’s to early to mid 70’s I guess.
I drove a couple that were ex Rugby cement and I am trying to find photos of them in there 1st life.
Fingers crossed
Many thanks
Ant
Hello Ant,
Cant supply any photos but have a little info on Rugby cement.
Up to the late eighties they ran a few trucks from an old railway yard at Thorpe St Andrew, Norwich. They used to load from a goods train shunted into the yard. The whole area around the yard is marshland and is now a conservation area bordering on the river Yare.
Anyway…probably useless info 
Maybe of interest to someone maybe?.. 
I cant help with Rugby Cement either but Bill Clowes has a lovely picture of an A Series with a cement tank. 
Rugby Cement had a place at South Ferriby in north Lincs,and their drivers were never in a hurry,hence the tailbacks on the old A18 
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They were mostly if not all 8-wheeler tankers when I used to get tangled up with them in the 60s/70s.
Wheelnut,
Thanks for that, just been having a look at Bills site, FANTASTIC !! is all I can say, not seen it before.
Having had a look at my photos again, I think they are actually ERF 8LV’s and not A series, although they are roughly the same to me (Oh dear - I’ll get shot down now by someone from REVS !!!)
Can’t post the 2 photos I have of the 2 x 8 wheelers in there 2nd life with Showman, as they are not my photos, however the REG No’s are
PNX 533 F
NAC 363 F
Both from 68 I think.
Regards
Ant
You don’t need to be a member of REVs to know your stuff about ERFs Willie - you’re spot-on, they never produced a single A-Series eight-wheeler.
The A-series technology (which was centred on the chassis and suspension) was restricted to the tractor units and 4-wheel rigids. All the multi-wheeled chassis continued to be known as LVs until the B-Series was introduced in 1974.
Chris Webb:
Rugby Cement had a place at South Ferriby in north Lincs,and their drivers were never in a hurry,hence the tailbacks on the old A18
They were mostly if not all 8-wheeler tankers when I used to get tangled up with them in the 60s/70s.
They were the yellow bellies Chris
Do you remember the cement plant on the way into Hull just off the junction at Welton?
We had our own cement works north of the river in the form of Earles Cement at Melton Bottoms which became Portland Cement & Blue Circle and has gone through many identity changes since then before becoming Omya.
My mate who I later worked with at DHL worked for them with an old ERF blower tank. It was another licence to print money 
History
Industrial production started at Melton Quarry in 1921 under the ownership of W.Marshall (Hessle) Ltd, supplying chalk slurry to the nearby Humber Cement Works. In 1937 production of the first non-cement grade (an agricultural chalk) followed the introduction of a farming subsidy for such applications. Further capital investment expanded the range of products. In 1946 Pfieffer classifiers were installed to produce a putty grade. In the 1950s more classifiers were installed extending the range to seven grades and by 1983 the whole plant had been reorganised into nine classifiers producing seven grades. By 2002 the plant had expanded to include a marble processing plant, a coating plant and a granulating plant on a modernised site.
In 1958 Blue Circle took over the site and in 1987 the Melton plant was divorced from the Humber Cement Works. The latter closed in 1981 and Melton Plant became fully independent. In 1989 Blue Circle and Croxton + Garry Ltd formed a joint venture, merging their industrial minerals operations. An amicable separation followed in 1992 and Melton Plant is Omya UK Ltd’s largest chalk whiting production site.
I have also learnt something today as i have been guilty of calling the ERF with that cab an A Series.
I have also been guilty of calling all Atkinsons in the same casual manner as Borderer’s.
I am suitably chastised
Sorry but havnt any photos of Rugby LVs, but i remember nearly buying a book at Gaydon last year about the lorries run by Rugby Cement and i think it is still available from Roundoak and Nynehead Books. It had olot of pics of LVs, B and C series ERFs amoungst alot of others. Hope this maybe of some help, if i come by any pics i will post them a.s.a.p.!!
Again no photos, but I used to run out of Rugby depot for K&M Hauliers of Bulwell Nottingham delivering around the midlands and down to London.
Best paying job I ever had, measured day work. The hourly rate was paid for 35mph on the motorway (in a wagon that did 62) and 28 on other roads with an extra 2 hours to deliver to the London area. Then, before we started 24 hour running and I handed over to a night driver, they would always give me a load to Sandiacre depot to get me home for the night.
Someone will come along soon with some pictures of those impeccable orange 8 leggers (and artics).
Wheel Nut:
I have also learnt something today as i have been guilty of calling the ERF with that cab an A Series.I have also been guilty of calling all Atkinsons in the same casual manner as Borderer’s.
I am suitably chastised
I’m guilty as well Malc,always thought the 8-leggers were A Series,you learn summat every day .
I remember the works at Melton which you say is now Omya. The ex Blue Circle plant at Hope,Derbys. was G and T. Earle of Hull when I was a lad living in Derbyshire and unless it’s changed is now Lafarge.
There was another works on the A18,after Brigg towards Grimsby where you turned off for Immingham,they ran grey wagons but the name of the company escapes me.
Any ideas?
Wheel Nut:
I have also been guilty of calling all Atkinsons in the same casual manner as Borderers
Eeeeek!! 
Chris Webb:
Wheel Nut:
I have also learnt something today as i have been guilty of calling the ERF with that cab an A Series.I have also been guilty of calling all Atkinsons in the same casual manner as Borderer’s.
I am suitably chastised
I’m guilty as well Malc,always thought the 8-leggers were A Series,you learn summat every day
I remember the works at Melton which you say is now Omya. The ex Blue Circle plant at Hope,Derbys. was G and T. Earle of Hull when I was a lad living in Derbyshire and unless it’s changed is now Lafarge.
There was another works on the A18,after Brigg towards Grimsby where you turned off for Immingham,they ran grey wagons but the name of the company escapes me.
Any ideas?
Do you mean Singleton Birch Chris?
Wheel Nut:
Chris Webb:
Wheel Nut:
I have also learnt something today as i have been guilty of calling the ERF with that cab an A Series.I have also been guilty of calling all Atkinsons in the same casual manner as Borderer’s.
I am suitably chastised
I’m guilty as well Malc,always thought the 8-leggers were A Series,you learn summat every day
I remember the works at Melton which you say is now Omya. The ex Blue Circle plant at Hope,Derbys. was G and T. Earle of Hull when I was a lad living in Derbyshire and unless it’s changed is now Lafarge.
There was another works on the A18,after Brigg towards Grimsby where you turned off for Immingham,they ran grey wagons but the name of the company escapes me.
Any ideas?Do you mean Singleton Birch Chris?
That’s them Malc,Singleton Birch at Melton Ross I think they called it.Blue Circle also had a works at Kirton Lindsey as well but I don’t know whether it’s still open.
I live under the shadow of Rugby cements Southam Chimney & have always been fond of the orange lorries, before the company turned Mexican. These two photos I bought from an ebay seller, they dont have the photographers details on the back, so I will delete if anybody wishes.
This is the book you may want to get hold of. Rugby Portlant Cement Transport by Glen McBirnie. 248 pages & 430 photos.
30 odd years ago I worked for a local delivery firm in Coventry and I would deliver quite frequently to Gloucester and I well remember Rugby Cement,I always thought the lorries were restricted to 40 mph they never went any faster
all ERF tankers,I don’t know if they had a depot in Gloucs.
There were a lot of 8wheel flat O/Ds that worked for them and a famous(at the time)firm from Long Itchington subbed to them with artic flats,this firm had quite a reputation,I think there was a Cafe on their yard ,there Yard was on the right as you came into the village,cant remember the name tho.
Talking of Omya ,I worked for a firm who did a lot of tank work for Britomya who had a quarry at Baldock ,Herts and offices at Epsom ,I wasn’t on the Tankers so i don’t know who they delivered to but I think it was some sort of chalk
Would Omya be a connection with these firms.
regards derek
trucking482002:
30 odd years ago I worked for a local delivery firm in Coventry and I would deliver quite frequently to Gloucester and I well remember Rugby Cement,I always thought the lorries were restricted to 40 mph they never went any faster
all ERF tankers,I don’t know if they had a depot in Gloucs.
There were a lot of 8wheel flat O/Ds that worked for them and a famous(at the time)firm from Long Itchington subbed to them with artic flats,this firm had quite a reputation,I think there was a Cafe on their yard ,there Yard was on the right as you came into the village,cant remember the name tho.
Talking of Omya ,I worked for a firm who did a lot of tank work for Britomya who had a quarry at Baldock ,Herts and offices at Epsom ,I wasn’t on the Tankers so i don’t know who they delivered to but I think it was some sort of chalk
Would Omya be a connection with these firms.
regards derek
Derek,was the firm at Long Itchington called H.E. Saunders or something similar?
Hi,Chris yes thats the one,there was some scandal at the time about them but I can’t remember what it was.
There was another firm came to mind the other day,Reg Morris Green lorries used to do milk tanks always seemed to be rushing about.
I was talking to a lad down at the harbour he was telling me je’d been taking truck pics for years ,I was asking him about Stockton and he’s having a look thro his pics for me ,he lives in Belfast so I’m going up to have a look at them,just to let you knoe I haven’t forgotten ,You are on Irish rigs aren’t you ,there was a guy posting on their that his dad worked for N.I.T. in the yard that Stokcton took over ,it was in reply to one of my posts.
Still lookig for you.
regards derek.
If you look for Fry’s Transport pic on Irishrigs that I posted Fry’s have the yard that Stockton worked out of.