Hi bubbleman thanks for sharing the Foden pics, i can remember most of them when they first appeared in the publications of the day. The Kenneth Wilsons S36 was driven by a chap called Arnold (can’t remember his surname) who lived just outside York near Haxby/Strensall area. he used to keep his motor at home and was always good for a fiddle lift home or back out again next morning. Happy days 
regards doublereduction
Hi all , hope not stepping on bubblemans toes but i found some stuff .Hope its of interest 
Hello lads,thanks to tonyhogi for that lot…actually Biggee asked me if I had the Foden advert with a driver in front of H.Bakers Foden…I couldnt find it for him,he sadly told me the lad stood in front (Keith) had passed away.I hope he see’s this.
Another mixture today.First one should pop back into Dave the renegades memory
Hope these are ok.
Cheers Bubbs. 
hi bubbleman,yes thats the picture about bakers i asked you about,shame about keith,or fatty keith as he was know.glad your back.will pass the picture on to aiden at bakers.regards biggee
bubbleman:
Hello lads,thanks to tonyhogi for that lot…actually Biggee asked me if I had the Foden advert with a driver in front of H.Bakers Foden…I couldnt find it for him,he sadly told me the lad stood in front (Keith) had passed away.I hope he see’s this.Another mixture today.First one should pop back into Dave the renegades memory
Hope these are ok.
Cheers Bubbs.
Hi Marc,
Bulmers no more,now owned by Carlsberg or one of the other big brewrs,whichever took over Scottish & Newcastle,moved a lot of the work from Hereford to Ledbury,nearer the moterway network.
Cheers Dave.
hiya,
Bulmers ah yes, had a few loads from there usually shipping, in the warm weather the wasps were everywhere i always seemed to get handball so it was a shirt off job and the little buzzing sods would’nt leave you alone, then handball at the other end re-palletising the stuff for those hard working dockers.
thanks harry long retired.
harry_gill:
hiya,
Bulmers ah yes, had a few loads from there usually shipping, in the warm weather the wasps were everywhere i always seemed to get handball so it was a shirt off job and the little buzzing sods would’nt leave you alone, then handball at the other end re-palletising the stuff for those hard working dockers.
thanks harry long retired.
Hi Harry,
If it’s not wasps it’s seagulls at Bulmers,there’s more there than on the coast,scavenging after the waste from the apples.
Probably ■■■■■■ as well 
.
Cheers Dave.
A bit of a Cider theme going on here over the last few days with Friday’s ‘Whiteways of Whimple’ A-Series ERF NTA643F.
My father used to haul apples from the Whiteways farms, & many others in the area to Showerings at Shepton Mallet, the home of Babycham. Whiteways used to operate a collection point at the village of Hele, just by the M5 between Cullompton & Exeter. Farmers brought their apples in, tipped them into a large collection pit, from where they were loaded onto lorries by elevator. The site is now the home of Fagin’s Antiques which can be seen from the motorway.
Whiteways & Showerings became part of Allied Breweries, they closed the site at Whimple in 84 (now a housing estate 
), & sold the rest off.
Andrew
Here are some old shots of Whiteways & one Showerings vehicle. Most are in & around the Whimple Factory & village. The Pub is still there, but not the Cider Factory.
They are from the Chris Hodge / Commercial Motor Truck Archive Pictures site at: chrishodgephotos.co.uk/pagec … photos.htm
Whimple Village.
The New Inn (now The Thirsty Farmer).
Thornycroft?
REO Speedwagon?
Albion (a few headaches in there!)
Guy
Guy artic
Showerings (presumably at Earls Court?)
Hope you like them!
Andrew
Pebbles 74:
A bit of a Cider theme going on here over the last few days, what with Friday’s ‘Whiteways of Whimple’ A-Series ERF NTA643F.My farther used to haul apples from the Whiteways farms, & many others in the area to Showerings at Shepton Mallet, the home of Babycham. Whiteways used to operate a collection point at the village of Hele, just by the M5 between Cullumpton & Exeter. Farmers brought their apples in, tipped them into a large collection pit from where they were loaded onto lorries by elevator. The site is now the home of Fagins Antiques which can be seen from the motorway.
Whiteways & Showerings became part of Allied Breweries, they closed the site at Whimple in 84 (now a housing estate
Andrew
Hi Pebbles , remember going to Whimple with my dad when he drove for Swifts in the late 70s- delivering a full load of rockware glass bottles on a flat trailer , seem to remember they asked for flat trailers because of a low canopy in the factory 
bubbleman:
Hello again lads,a few Fodens today…
Cheers Bubbs.
Hello Marc, and welcome back!!
I don’t know if you twigged it, but this Foden is still alive and well today: ccmv.fotopic.net/p25988348.html
Hi again,didn’t know that old Foden was still around Chris,will look out for it .Another mixture with another one for Dave which I may have put on before
One for my mate moomooland to finish off with.
Cheers Bubbs.
Thanks for that Marcus great stuff as usual
This picture was taken on the A640 Huddersfield Road (known locally as Nont Sarahs) next to Dowry Reservoir near Denshaw.
Regards Paul Northwest Trucks
hiya,
Just travelled the A640 via Google maps, it was the early 70s the last time i tackled it for real, don’t know when or what time the satellite pics were taken but travelled from Rochdale to Huddersfield via the laptop and did’nt see much traffic using the road i know the M62 takes the brunt of the traffic now but it looks like a waste of good road hard work in a loaded motor i know but you can get a move on in a car or light vehicle and very scenic for free.
thanks harry long retired.
harry_gill:
hiya,
Just travelled the A640 via Google maps, it was the early 70s the last time i tackled it for real, don’t know when or what time the satellite pics were taken but travelled from Rochdale to Huddersfield via the laptop and did’nt see much traffic using the road i know the M62 takes the brunt of the traffic now but it looks like a waste of good road hard work in a loaded motor i know but you can get a move on in a car or light vehicle and very scenic for free.
thanks harry long retired.
But the trouble is Harry, anyone born since about 1975 doesn’t know there are any other roads apart from the M6, M62 and M1
Both myself and Neil Hobbs (Coffeeholic) have said how interesting a map book can be to read and study over the kitchen table, Sat Navs and the nimby will have all the original A & B roads closed, except for access.
Wheel Nut:
But the trouble is Harry, anyone born since about 1975 doesn’t know there are any other roads apart from the M6, M62 and M1
Wheel Nut:
Both myself and Neil Hobbs (Coffeeholic) have said how interesting a map book can be to read and study over the kitchen table
It’s not just me, then??
I still call the A14 the road that ran up to Godmanchester through Caxton Gibbet and the A14 as now I still call the A45.And Alconbury - Cambridge is still the A604,can’t help it
I remember one driver at MFS wanting to know why I got to Chepstow before him on trunk.The only way he knew was M5 and over the bridge,never knew about M50/A40/A449 to Newport and a left on the M4.I took him back to Maltby that way and then came off at Longbridge and down Bristol Road into Brum and out on the old A38 through Sutton to Lichfield for a change - he was right up my a*** through Brum
hiya,
Yes Chris we can still teach the sprogs a thing or two hide their sat navs and they’d have to phone a sickie.
thanks harry long retired.
I agree,like most of drivers in those days the map book was king.We used to do continental with a map - the job got done just as well.900X20.
bubbleman:
Hi again,didn’t know that old Foden was still around Chris,will look out for it .Another mixture with another one for Dave which I may have put on before
One for my mate moomooland to finish off with.
Cheers Bubbs.
Hi Mark,
Haven’t seen that cracking pic of Radco’s Foden eight wheeler. I used to drive for S W Brisbane who were next door to Radco at the Teme Mill.
Cheers Dave.