Hi chaps is the Foden of Bulwark that of the Chippenham based firm ? Can any one confirm please regards kk
kingswinford kit:
Hi chaps is the Foden of Bulwark that of the Chippenham based firm ? Can any one confirm please regards kk
Would imagine it is of the same,must admit i thought they only ran tankers though.
Suedehead:
kingswinford kit:
Hi chaps is the Foden of Bulwark that of the Chippenham based firm ? Can any one confirm please regards kkWould imagine it is of the same,must admit i thought they only ran tankers though.
Thanks suedehead ., I can remember a firm called Silcox from i think Wootton under edge whom ran similar Fodens . regards kk
Hello,This old girl according to my old pal Adrian Cypher was new to W.G.Golding from Wooton-u-Edge but sold not long after it went on the road.
Cheers Bubbs, 
Cheers Bubbleman got the name wrong ! regards kk
Sorry,lost my marbles again!
bestbooties:
bubbleman:
Cheers Bubbs,This was the last part of the Wild Group to be running after “The Vicar” died and the group fell apart.
Madderns was running out of the Sowton industrial estate in Exeter although the original Madderns when the Wild Group took them over was in Redruth.
Madderns at this time was,I believe run by Tom Heaver who was a junior transport manager in the days of the Wild Group when their depot was in the quarry on Sidmouth Road,100 yards up on the left from the roundabout by Exeter services.
I think Madderns then became Heaver Brothers,haven’t seen them about for a while.
The original Exeter firm that was part of the Wild Group was Tancocks of Exeter.
Trev_H:
240 Gardner:
bubbleman:
Cheers Bubbs,
Someone must have taken loads of photos at that junction! Anyone any idea where it is?
Don’t know but I don’t think Spencers strayed far from Stoke / Cheshire area, their lorries wouldn’t have made it much farther
Must be somewhere between Stoke and Chard then!
Sorry,double post!
hiya,
The location, ah somewhere twixt Lands End and John O’ Groats methinks.
thanks harry long retired.
Hello again,I had an e-mail from an old pal today who kindly sent me the location of the mystery roundabout,its Well Hall Road, London SE9 and the photographer was Phil Moth of PM Photos .He is responsible for a lot of the black and white photos I’ve put on here and the reason the photos are copyrighted as its his way of earning a living.He’s the fella to contact if you fancy buying some b/w photos…
More oldies. 
Cheers Bubbs,
Hi Marc this old girl is still going strong in Portugal my driver Terry Moody took this pic last week
bubbleman:
Hello again,I had an e-mail from an old pal today who kindly sent me the location of the mystery roundabout,its Well Hall Road, London SE9 and the photographer was Phil Moth of PM Photos .He is responsible for a lot of the black and white photos I’ve put on here and the reason the photos are copyrighted as its his way of earning a living.He’s the fella to contact if you fancy buying some b/w photos…
More oldies.
Cheers Bubbs,
Was the pic of that Erf with the washing line on the trailer taken in the County ground lorry park?
Looks like one of J Curtis on s dodgy
Hi,Spot on Suedehead,the ERF was taken parked in the County Ground car park ,Swindon …Great 88 pic as well Pat,thanks for putting it on,did Terry take any more?
Cheers Bubbs,
bubbleman:
Hi,Spot on Suedehead,the ERF was taken parked in the County Ground car park ,Swindon
Cheers Bubbs,
The tyres and rims are still there
Suedehead:
kingswinford kit:
Hi chaps is the Foden of Bulwark that of the Chippenham based firm ? Can any one confirm please regards kkWould imagine it is of the same,must admit i thought they only ran tankers though.
Think the Steel Company Of Wales Newport,s Wagons were Bulwark Contracts,could be wrong.
Not wishing to detract from the bubblemans brilliant thread and images. Here are some very old B&W photos that are for sale but you can view them for free. All catalogued and sorted into sections, from early commercial motor show pictures to Gracie Fields.
1899 to 2000
Wheel Nut:
Not wishing to detract from the bubblemans brilliant thread and images. Here are some very old B&W photos that are for sale but you can view them for free. All catalogued and sorted into sections, from early commercial motor show pictures to Gracie Fields.1899 to 2000
What a great site that is.
Another one that you have not seen Bubbs, Bristol & West Tar Distillers.
I can ramble on about this one. When I left school I worked in an office until I was 21 and I left to work for this firm repairing the lorries. ( posh suit to boiler suit). My only transport was a motorcycle but I soon passed my car test and before I knew it I was driving the lorries including this one. It was a while before I could afford my first car.
The six wheel conversion on this Commer was done by Unipower and when it was delivering to a quarry one day the chassis broke right through on the drivers side behind the cab and opened a fair gap. We went out in the pick up and got the quarry crane to lift the tank off and we pulled the chassis back together with a wire rope strainer. The wokshop welded it good enough for it to be driven to Dando,s at Chipping Sodbury for a proper job to be done.
The firm had seven of these Commers and they all had to go back to Unipower for the chassis to be plated. I had to take this first one and I had never driven anywhere near London but the foreman told me it was behind the Hoover factory and you could see it from the North Circular. By the time I had got near Reading on the M4 the flex exhaust pipe had broken away from the manifold and all the bird life on the lakes beside the M4 fled in terror from the noise of the two stroke engine.
I think I got as far as Edmonton on the North Circular before I stopped to find out where this Hoover factory was. I only needed to turn onto the A40 at Hanger Lane and it was about a mile to the Hoover factory. You can see it from the North Circular but only when you know thats what it is. A walk to the nearest station and a train to Bristol and I was back home
deaf,dirty and hungry but at that age a great day. The end came for No 10 in Somerset when the engine gave up with a hole in a sidecover and I towed it back with a Mk V mammouth major and we scrapped it.
Cheers Phil
