Hello again,heres more of the same…like I said a couple of pages back,these cuttings were the rejects and not so interesting 
,Cheers Bubbs, 
bubbleman:
Hello again,heres more of the same…like I said a couple of pages back,these cuttings were the rejects and not so interesting
All your pics are good pics, Bubbs, and always interesting, thought provoking and bring back happy memories. Tis a thread you should be immensely proud of…
Piston broke:
bubbleman:
Hello again,heres more of the same…like I said a couple of pages back,these cuttings were the rejects and not so interestingAll your pics are good pics, Bubbs, and always interesting, thought provoking and bring back happy memories. Tis a thread you should be immensely proud of…
Evening all, totally agree, its got me into the office whilst the JD fills up with precious “cherry”, in the middle of mowing!! Bubbs please keep going!! Cherio for now, (looks like an all nighter tonight,whil`st the weather holds).
Saviem:
Piston broke:
bubbleman:
Hello again,heres more of the same…like I said a couple of pages back,these cuttings were the rejects and not so interestingAll your pics are good pics, Bubbs, and always interesting, thought provoking and bring back happy memories. Tis a thread you should be immensely proud of…
Evening all, totally agree, its got me into the office whilst the JD fills up with precious “cherry”, in the middle of mowing!! Bubbs please keep going!! Cherio for now, (looks like an all nighter tonight,whil`st the weather holds).
This has got to be your “third cut” surely “Saviem” ? How many tonnes per acre do you dress your fields with ? I was under the impression that Farmers (well maybe not Bollinger swilling “Gentleman” Farmers!) respected their land and refrained from “beating the crap” out of it with 4 cuts of grass!!! Friend of the Earth,ret. Anon!
bubbleman:
Hiya,heres some more then,Cheers Bubbs,
Avonmouth Commercials must have had some great deals with those 2300 DAF’s when they first came out, there seemed to be hundreds of them around, all of a sudden! My old firm bought one, TWS 515T, brand new in '78. The driver came off of a fixed head Buffalo with no power steering and sat in the DAF for the next 6 or 7 years - he thought he’d died and gone to heaven 
Not a bad little truck at 32 tons, reliable and quite comfy, but never the same after he ran up the back of another of ours and it had to be re-cabbed… 
It happened at Colnbrook when they had delivered to Heathrow Terminal 4 and he drove it back with no windscreen in winter…
That was an interesting ‘Well Boss…’ moment when he pulled into the yard
hiya,
Still as brilliant as ever Bubbs I look in two or three times a day and with
several other threads added to the mix my day is really enjoyable, I just
wish I was a bit more knowledgable about the workings of the computer
and had collected/taken pictures of things that only now am I finding I
liked in the past, I do feel a bit of a fraud letting you and all the other
contributers do all the work, but great stuff it is and I’m grateful too you
and everyone else, and long may it continue.
thanks harry, long retired.
Hi Bubbs.Yes always something of interest from yourself and others,
here’s three from the local authority and service sector as opposed
to the usual haulage theme,but hope some find of interest.Good old Bedfords
that most of the old ones on here will have grumbled and kicked down the years
when they were one of the main lightweights in a lot of transport fleets.
All MT cuttings.
Mike.
I do feel a bit of a fraud letting you and all the other
contributers do all the work,
Yes, me too Harry!
sadly when I was driving “interesting” trucks, I was always too busy for taking pics and the few I did take are long gone.
many thanks to those that do have the pics and post them!
harry_gill:
hiya,
Still as brilliant as ever Bubbs I look in two or three times a day and with
several other threads added to the mix my day is really enjoyable, I just
wish I was a bit more knowledgable about the workings of the computer
and had collected/taken pictures of things that only now am I finding I
liked in the past, I do feel a bit of a fraud letting you and all the other
contributers do all the work, but great stuff it is and I’m grateful too you
and everyone else, and long may it continue.
thanks harry, long retired.
Hi Harry, I fully endorse the above -i am much about the same as you regarding Trucknet threads -it makes my day at times -a big thankyou to Bubbs and other contributors
Hello again lads,good to see that the regulars like Harry and Toshboy still look in and Mike puts his old clippings on too,heres todays effort from me…a good old Mammoth Major from the 60’s to start with ,Cheers Bubbs,
toshboy:
harry_gill:
hiya,
Still as brilliant as ever Bubbs I look in two or three times a day and with
several other threads added to the mix my day is really enjoyable, I just
wish I was a bit more knowledgable about the workings of the computer
and had collected/taken pictures of things that only now am I finding I
liked in the past, I do feel a bit of a fraud letting you and all the other
contributers do all the work, but great stuff it is and I’m grateful too you
and everyone else, and long may it continue.
thanks harry, long retired.Hi Harry, I fully endorse the above -i am much about the same as you regarding Trucknet threads -it makes my day at times -a big thankyou to Bubbs and other contributors
ditto ditto
bubbleman:
Hello again lads,good to see that the regulars like Harry and Toshboy still look in and Mike puts his old clippings on too,heres todays effort from me…a good old Mammoth Major from the 60’s to start with
Those MK5 Mammoth Majors were grand motors,A E Evans ran plenty of them,most of them ex Shell Mex and BP, Harold Woods or Petrofina. The later ones with the AV690 or AV691,6-speed box and rotary pump were topshelfers. The early ones with the AV590 and 5 speed box were hard work though,a MK3 with a 6-speed box would be far better. 
thelongdrag:
Hi Bubbs.Yes always something of interest from yourself and others,
here’s three from the local authority and service sector as opposed
to the usual haulage theme,but hope some find of interest.Good old Bedfords
that most of the old ones on here will have grumbled and kicked down the years
when they were one of the main lightweights in a lot of transport fleets.
All MT cuttings.
Mike.2
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Tell you what mate that first pic of the bedford bin wagon takes me back to when i was a nipper.Todays binmen have it easy not like the lads in the pic lifting galvanized bins full of ash and emptying into truck.it was a hard job then.
regards dave.
jf1970:
wheeltapper:
What happened to this outfit
I turned out a number of times to them on nightime breakdowns when on the spanners at a VOLVO dealership at Preston late 1980’s
When repaired they would be off like a Bat out of Hell
I think they ran between Bristol and somewhere in Ayrshire (But I may be wrong ?)Think they got swallowed up by securicor omega logistics,then again by dhl.they ran to a hub in dundonald.not far from kilmarnock.
i worked for SEI at their telford branch,they were taken over by omega,then,deutz post and are now DHL sadly the telford branch closed last year,they had depots at aberdeen,dundonald,hawick,newcastle,■■■■■■■■■■■ over the uk and they were a descent firm to work for aswell a sign of the times i guess…
Cheers Phil
Could this be the same lorry? Photo taken 1975 when it looked very new… 
/Stellan
Chris Webb:
bubbleman:
Hello again lads,good to see that the regulars like Harry and Toshboy still look in and Mike puts his old clippings on too,heres todays effort from me…a good old Mammoth Major from the 60’s to start withThose MK5 Mammoth Majors were grand motors,A E Evans ran plenty of them,most of them ex Shell Mex and BP, Harold Woods or Petrofina. The later ones with the AV690 or AV691,6-speed box and rotary pump were topshelfers. The early ones with the AV590 and 5 speed box were hard work though,a MK3 with a 6-speed box would be far better.
Ha ha my dad would agree with you there Chris
Autotransit:
Could this be the same lorry? Photo taken 1975 when it looked very new…
/Stellan
Yes Stellan its the same regestration nuber,well spoted
I found the photo in a binder from an exhibition of refuse collectors somewhere in the UK in 1975, so it´s a real coincidence that I have scanned the same lorry
/Stellan