fryingpan:
Any chance of locations and dates for these great pics, or were such details not recorded at the time?
If you are refering to the Roger Kenney pictures, most of them I have no information. I believe the A One S21 wrecker is in their yard and the yard shots the premises of the hauliers although I maybe wrong with one or two. The Sabrina ERF was at a LDoY heat in the North.
Retriever
Hi again,nice Commer brochures GB1,well done mate,heres the last lot of Rogers pics then,
The last 1 coming up is’nt 1 of Rogers but as its a period shot like the rest then it fits in well
Thanks to Pointerdog2 for the pic …1949 by the way.
Cheers Bubbs, 
Hello,lets try some cuttings 
Cheers Bubbs,
Is Simon Sargent still going?
yes ADR, he sub contracts for Edwin Shirley and the like with a smart Magnum. Love the Roadtrain, real old school.
love the pics bubbleman, my dad drove for caledonian at felling for years until they packed in he drove ksm 39e for years .
he’s passed on now but i know my mother has some old pics of him in various trucks and firms i will get them and try to post them
Dieselcowboy:
yes ADR, he sub contracts for Edwin Shirley and the like with a smart Magnum. Love the Roadtrain, real old school.
Hi Dieselcowboy, I heard from someone a couple of months ago that Edwin Shirley had gone bust? That was the Roadtrain/Interstater that he won in the Truck magazine competition, in the mid early-mid 80s I was a Young HGV Driver Trainee at British Leyland Transport Dept, Cowley, Oxford & we had the Roadtrain stored in our depot for a while waiting to be presented to the winner, it really was the Donkeys-doo-dars back then!
Sorry, should have been more specific, I meant the French one! I remember and have the Truck magazine article on it. I like it as it’s old school driver customising, no spotlight bars just clipped on! I did hear that Simon still has the Interstater in storage, and no Transam bought EST, can’t remember if they went into administration, possibly, they are still run as a separate company ( in fact I am out on one of their jobs next week). However, I have just realised that the last time I saw Simon was when I was on a Redburn Transfer job, not EST, sorry. That was last year so not sure what he is up to.
Dieselcowboy:
yes ADR, he sub contracts for Edwin Shirley and the like with a smart Magnum. Love the Roadtrain, real old school.
The Roadtrain is probably the one he won in Truck magazine all those years ago.
wasn’t the roadtrain he won a low roof one 
or did he have it converted to an interstater.
i belive he still has the one that he won.
cheers
gaz
Dieselcowboy:
Sorry, should have been more specific, I meant the French one! I remember and have the Truck magazine article on it. I like it as it’s old school driver customising, no spotlight bars just clipped on! I did hear that Simon still has the Interstater in storage, and no Transam bought EST, can’t remember if they went into administration, possibly, they are still run as a separate company ( in fact I am out on one of their jobs next week). However, I have just realised that the last time I saw Simon was when I was on a Redburn Transfer job, not EST, sorry. That was last year so not sure what he is up to.
Ah that explains the Trans-am motor I saw on the M4 by Swindon a couple of weeks ago pulling a EST trailer! Thought they might have just bought the trailer being air-ride & built for the job. Giraud actually ran about 8 Roadtrains at one point, they had such good service from a couple of old Marathons they ran it encouraged them to stay with the Leylands, one of the Roadtrains was actually used by them on Middle East work! They also employed a handful of British drivers.
adr:
Dieselcowboy:
Sorry, should have been more specific, I meant the French one! I remember and have the Truck magazine article on it. I like it as it’s old school driver customising, no spotlight bars just clipped on! I did hear that Simon still has the Interstater in storage, and no Transam bought EST, can’t remember if they went into administration, possibly, they are still run as a separate company ( in fact I am out on one of their jobs next week). However, I have just realised that the last time I saw Simon was when I was on a Redburn Transfer job, not EST, sorry. That was last year so not sure what he is up to.Ah that explains the Trans-am motor I saw on the M4 by Swindon a couple of weeks ago pulling a EST trailer! Thought they might have just bought the trailer being air-ride & built for the job. Giraud actually ran about 8 Roadtrains at one point, they had such good service from a couple of old Marathons they ran it encouraged them to stay with the Leylands, one of the Roadtrains was actually used by them on Middle East work! They also employed a handful of British drivers.
France was a big market for the Leyland Roadtrain and later for ERF. They even liked our Rover cars 
Here is a Marathon from Traveler Dave
Wheel Nut:
Dieselcowboy:
yes ADR, he sub contracts for Edwin Shirley and the like with a smart Magnum. Love the Roadtrain, real old school.The Roadtrain is probably the one he won in Truck magazine all those years ago.
that is the roadtrain he won and had it converted to a interstate and he still has it in storage he is running a silver/grey lowride magnum now ,we park in the same yard as simon
Hi again,lets try some old photos…see if these create any interest.
Not one of my shots,but taken by Adrian Cypher,I know its in Swindon.
This Marathon of Ings Tpt of Fordingbridge is seen heading for the Truckline ferry in Poole about 1984
Sheddicks of Newport going homeward bound on the M4 one summers evening,1983ish.
Seen climbing out of Dover at the top of Jubilee way…this Ivyco-co of B.J.Myers.
Nearly new 2028 Merc of Tony Bunns at home in Keynsham.
And finally George Hicks’s 1626 resting at the weekend at Tetbury lorry park.
Hope these are of interest.
Cheers Bubbs,
Hi Marc congratulations on 500,000 views and your threads 3rd birthday you should it the million mark in around another couple of years as it seems to be getting more popular and us that are getting senile have to keep going back 
to see what you posted the day before so it will boost it up.
cheers Johnnie
P S I was going to decorate one of your bubbles but photo bucket won’t let put text on 
Thanks Marcus, great stuff. Particularly like the Ings Marathon.
bubbleman:
Hi again,lets try some old photos…see if these create any interest.
Not one of my shots,but taken by Adrian Cypher,I know its in Swindon.
This Marathon of Ings Tpt of Fordingbridge is seen heading for the Truckline ferry in Poole about 1984
Sheddicks of Newport going homeward bound on the M4 one summers evening,1983ish.
Seen climbing out of Dover at the top of Jubilee way…this Ivyco-co of B.J.Myers.
Nearly new 2028 Merc of Tony Bunns at home in Keynsham.
And finally George Hicks’s 1626 resting at the weekend at Tetbury lorry park.Hope these are of interest.
Cheers Bubbs,
Great pics as ever Bubbs.
The pic of the Aec, looks like Emlyn square in the railway village.
Outside the Bakers Arms pub which is still there . . . . the pub that is, not the Aec 
tetragaz:
wasn’t the roadtrain he won a low roof onei belive he still has the one that he won.
cheers
gaz
I’m almost certain that’s the same one, he had it converted. I remember speaking to him about it, I think it was for the 25th anniversary of Truck of the Year celebrations, I’ve got a copy of that issue of TRUCK somewhere, I’ll have a butcher’s when I get time
As a footnote, what is with the marking of the pictures? All this copywriting crap, they’re just photos of old lorries, as fantastic as they are, they ain’t the Crown Jewels and surely the rights to the pictures belong to the owneres of the lorry being photographed, I’m a big fan of this thread and the old pictures, but they’re spoiled by the writing all over the pictures.
