Seen in the Shobdon area of Herefordshire.
Sorry, back to older days and the black & white era. I am busy final proofing on screen the next Dave Lee heavy haulage book but at my age the concentration is so demanding that I need a break now and then and that is why I find relaxation in posting images for other to enjoy from the ingram/kenney neg archive.
The above image was taken by Roger Kenney in Liverpool and featured in our tribute book to him ‘Views from the North’ but I thought that it might be welcome to the members on this thread. Interestingly the negative was damaged to the point that I had to recreate the rear wheels of the second foden by cloning and resizing the rear wheels of the front S21. Even then, if you look closely I did not get it totally right. Still a great image from around 50 years ago.
Another from the same era but possibly a little later. The AEC MkV tanker (Harold Wood?) is parked just up from a transport cafe. The negative is not to clear but the sign appears to read LX Transport Cafe although I may well be wrong. Does anybody recall the cafe and its location.
HER IS THE SISTER, YWN 915J NEW TO W.G.DAVIES, SWANSEA.
Well,I’m not sure where the cafe is but I know a bit more about the AEC MK5. With a high fleet number like that and a West Riding reg. it’s got to be a Harold Wood motor.The compartment lids remind me of the Guinness tanks,but I think this motor would be passed for carrying bonded spirits like meths and alcohol.
And with it’s next owner,A E Evans’, Sheffield depot,fleet 164,it had a tar products tank fitted and worked out of BSC chemicals at Orgreave. I should know,I drove it odd times.It’s shown below after a long life… 
Photo courstesy of Tony Griffin
But before that it had a 4000 gall s/s tank on spot hire,and I drove it with that tank as well. 
A Peter Davies photo
Ex Barrio Volvo F88…
daibootsy:
SWANSEA TRUCK CENTRE A.E.C
The original Globetrotter is it still around?
Muckaway:
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Here’s a much missed motor of ours. Cat 14l 455. Now preserved apparently.
nice looking motor
Hello again lads,great pics coming in…heres some more restored stuff,all these pics were taken years ago 
,Cheers Bubbs, 
Chris Webb:
Well,I’m not sure where the cafe is but I know a bit more about the AEC MK5. With a high fleet number like that and a West Riding reg. it’s got to be a Harold Wood motor.The compartment lids remind me of the Guinness tanks,but I think this motor would be passed for carrying bonded spirits like meths and alcohol.
And with it’s next owner,A E Evans’, Sheffield depot,fleet 164,it had a tar products tank fitted and worked out of BSC chemicals at Orgreave. I should know,I drove it odd times.It’s shown below after a long life…
Photo courstesy of Tony Griffin
But before that it had a 4000 gall s/s tank on spot hire,and I drove it with that tank as well.
Hiya…now i know years ago when folk did,nt read a write very well some mechanics could easly put the wrong bumper bar or even a number plate on the wrong lorry…look at the cab above the windscreen on fwt. harold wood cab… now look at the others
i,am not complaining just noticed a small difference…oops mirrors…now webby has told us about 2 log books, it seems he has two
aec,s with 1 set of number plates…you can;t do enough for a good boss
John
Eyup John.
Never noticed that pal,must have been re-cabbed.It came to Sheffield about 1970 IIRC. Two log books,who me? Never,plenty of log sheets though.
Chris,pure as the driven snow…
Hiya chris…i just could,t resist posting that…i,am still smiling…i thought a recab job was on the cards when
i saw the silencer under the front on all the photo,s. as we know in the old days that many bits got swapped
you never knew what was what. at adams i,ve seen a door off a scrapper just fixed on for 1 trip so a door
mechanisum could be sorted. some of the ergo trucks was 8 legger chassis cut down and a set of no plates screwed on.
if it said AEC on the front it was a AEC that was good enough before the plating days.
the AEC 100 was a real good weekend chris. pitty you missed it
John
Hiya chris …if you,ve got a chrome bumper in,th shed put my name on it would you.
mine looks dull without the proper chrome jobbie.
John
daibootsy:
HER IS THE SISTER, YWN 915J NEW TO W.G.DAVIES, SWANSEA.
I bet the MPG was low pulling that load, not too much weight but plenty of wind resistance! It’s bad enough piggy-backing one trailer let alone two.
Dad getting his new Foden, and leaving his old one behind.
He’ll be doing this again for the last time soon…Sadly it wont be a Foden.
3300John:
Hiya chris …if you,ve got a chrome bumper in,th shed put my name on it would you.
mine looks dull without the proper chrome jobbie.
John
I haven’t got a shed John but I’ve driven plenty in me time.
If I see a nice chrome bumper for a MK5 you’ll be the first to know.
Few more cuttings . Mike.
Hello again lads,still feeding you these old restored lorries…wont be long before we go back to the cuttings .Todays ones start with a restored Foden but the 1st shot is of it in 1966 parked outside a cafe on the A420 through Swindon,taken by my old pal Adrian Cypher…then it turned up in Cornwall then heading back up north to join T.E.Ps ,hope these are of interest,Cheers Bubbs,
