bubbleman:
When I was a kid instead of investing my hard scrounged pocket money on “Spank monthly” I would cough up 2 bob for a copy of “Commercial Motor” or a "Motor Transport " .As they piled up in the corner of my bedroom my mum decided it would be a good idea to chuck them away,after the threat to leave home didn’t work a compromise was to cut out the bestist bits and create a scrapbook,the result of this was 1000’s of cuttings that ended up in a box. here are a few of them ,they may be of interest to someone. Marc
Hope you like them
Cracking Atki shots, thank you!
Here’s a sister motor from the Silver Knight fleet:
I still have the original factory build cards for them… (tucked up my anorak sleeve!)
Some real gems here. Thanks for taking the time to post them. As a kid, most of my clippings got pasted to my bedroom wall. Oh how I wish i’d put them in a scrapbook instead. Like the fact that you’ve got the text to go with the picture, as it makes them even more interesting. Did’nt realise that Bussings were imported into the UK.
Rob Campbell:
Marc This is great stuff brings back so many memories keep going Please.
Second that, I reckon that WhiteTrux 89 is the one I had in '83, the number is very familiar but the only picture I have to hand at the moment has my lady standing in front of it.
However it wasn’t still silver in '83 although I seem to remember another one was.
this guy was an ex demonstrator from guy motors, as a few of the older members will notice it has a wolverhampton registration. my grandfather bought this from guy motors when it was 6 months old. as a kid it was my job on a saturday morning to clean all the crud out of the tipper for the pricely sum of 5 bob. thanks for the pic, it has bought back many memries, not all of them good
i used to have a book telling you all the towns and letters many years ago, i just tried searching the web but all i came up with was loads of private reg plates for sale. you might be right with warks for WD, its definately from that area, but remember conty boundaries have changed a lot since then
Firstly apologies to 240 Gardner for not thanking him for posting the pic of the Krupp cabbed Atki, so for taking the trouble to do that here are some Atkis/Seddons etc which i hope he and everone else will like
) but thought I’d have a quick look before bedi -byes so seeing Bonkey is about here are a few tippers.
