TRUCKIN IN THE 80's (International)

UK PROFESSIONAL DRIVERS FORUMS OLD TIME LORRIES, COMPANIES AND DRIVERS (INTERACT
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Here are a few pics of E M ROGERS trucks

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Hope youj liked them

Andy

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Is that number plate held on with Velcro :question: :laughing: :laughing: :laughing:

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newmercman:

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Is that number plate held on with Velcro :question: :laughing: :laughing: :laughing:

Thats odd - the one above as the identical plate on !!! :laughing: :laughing: :laughing: :open_mouth:

For those who know !!!

Ant

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Willie Roadstar:

newmercman:

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Is that number plate held on with Velcro :question: :laughing: :laughing: :laughing:

Thats odd - the one above as the identical plate on !!! :laughing: :laughing: :laughing: :open_mouth:

For those who know !!!

Ant

‘999’! Very apt numbering! Like it!

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adr:

Willie Roadstar:

newmercman:

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Is that number plate held on with Velcro :question: :laughing: :laughing: :laughing:

Thats odd - the one above as the identical plate on !!! :laughing: :laughing: :laughing: :open_mouth:

For those who know !!!

Ant

‘999’! Very apt numbering! Like it!

Not really that strange,i can count another seven amongst these thats got the same number :laughing: :laughing: :laughing:

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[ Not really that strange,i can count another seven amongst these thats got the same number :laughing: :laughing: :laughing:

I bet you can’t :laughing: :laughing: :laughing: .

Happier times setting off from Europort on a Sunday morning enroute to Istanbul and Ankara in 1980.

Regards Steve.

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[ Not really that strange,i can count another seven amongst these thats got the same number :laughing: :laughing: :laughing:

I bet you can’t :laughing: :laughing: :laughing: .

Happier times setting off from Europort on a Sunday morning enroute to Istanbul and Ankara in 1980.

Regards Steve.

…both great pictures MM!!

Take it easy,

David :laughing:

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Lovely Picture of truck and trailer, and number plates :wink:

I worked out of Zust and Bachmeir after the demise of DOW, either through Panalpina or direct. I didn’t realise DOW did though.

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TRANSCON ANDY:

Is that an SK with a pod next to the Ashton Clinton Volvo ? . . . trailer looks a bit high.

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That’s an SK with a pod for sure, the trailer, as well as looking high, also looks like it’s got very chamfered corners, judging by the reg no on the ACH motors I would say it’s a late 80s pic, in those days the French, especially, were running around in some curious creations to maximise cube within the old length limits.

I remember one firm that was absorbed into ND, they were on 71 (Chalons) plates, they had pod equipped day cab G290 Renaults with the cab shortened so that the window behind the door was gone, how they ever got behind the wheel I don’t know, De Rooy also got into that, along with many others, it all got a bit silly in the end :open_mouth:

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newmercman:
That’s an SK with a pod for sure, the trailer, as well as looking high, also looks like it’s got very chamfered corners, judging by the reg no on the ACH motors I would say it’s a late 80s pic, in those days the French, especially, were running around in some curious creations to maximise cube within the old length limits.

I remember one firm that was absorbed into ND, they were on 71 (Chalons) plates, they had pod equipped day cab G290 Renaults with the cab shortened so that the window behind the door was gone, how they ever got behind the wheel I don’t know, De Rooy also got into that, along with many others, it all got a bit silly in the end :open_mouth:

Girauds ? (spolling- skuse le french) :laughing:
Bowkers,Brit European used them as well though didnt they?

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Yeah Bowkers had some ultra short cab F12s annd IIRC BET cut the back off some MANs, they had the underfloor engines too, probably so they could make the BBC length shorter without lopping off the back two pots :laughing:

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Were those f12s the eurotrotter.
We had a man7.5 toner with a pod and the fitter was shagging a old boiler from the pub and tried to get her up there one saturday afternoon and she got wedged in the trap door. Someone spotted them we came rushing out of the pub to see her legs hanging out and her arse stuck in the hole

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richmond:

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richmond:

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Evenlode Truck Centre on the mud-flaps, if I remember right this bloke was an owner-driver from Witney. Oxon way!

My wife who used to work for reingold, has said this was alan hutts motor and he was from hook norton, so there ya go !

It’d never have been Mick Price has he was driving a Volvo F12 back then. I remember Alan though, as he was featured in long distance diary and i met him a couple of times when i went to Spain with my Dad in the 80’s. Those were the day’s :smiley:

I also thought that mick price had a seddon atkinson 411 at some point, probably after his volvo, i expect he noticed the differance an after that he had a magnum i think.

Yeah remember the magnum, it was a 500 and he was pulling an american fridge with it. Before the magnum he had a 8 wheeler maggie deutz :open_mouth: (with the fiat cab) tipper running out of Croft quarry. Then he teamed up with Dave Lambert ■■ (think that was his name) Rugby freight. Then he disappeared, last heard he was in the Philippines. Nick.

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Think his name was mick lambert, and he married a girl from thailand called patara, and eventually gave up on england and moved out to thailand, though that was about ten yrs ago so he may have moved back by now, mick was a nice guy, i liked working with him.

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Is this the Mick Lambert that I went to school with I wonder, never saw him after leaving school in 1969 until I met him in Dover around 1985, he was running fridges, he came from the next village Stoneleigh