Classic pictures Updated 13/04/2024

[FOWLER MAN]

Some good photos there Fred! The Dodge 4 wheeler similar to one that my Father ran. Early Bray with the Bedford S type? The 2 Foden S21s looked like they had a hiding.

Yes Pete,
Coal reclamation was a rough old game and Larry Ryan was a hard taskmaster. I used to hire our Bison and Octopus tippers to them on those sites in the 1980s.
Sadly I have no photos of those trucks except the pic. of one of the Octopuses below which Ford and Slater sent me from Leicester when I was buying the truck from them.
Before she saw service in South Wales she was re-sprayed with a "Priestman Orange" cab and the body was restored to its original shiny aluminium with several applications of Nitro-Moors paint stripper.

[FOWLER MAN]

Looking at the Shorts Foden, is that the same Shorts that operates around the Windsor area?

Hi Rob,
I don't know, but Short Bros had depots all over South Wales and at Scunthorpe, Leatherhead and Middlesbrough. There may have been more

[Mrsmackpaul]

Fred it is always the way with me not having a photo of things past and always thinking no one would want to see that but the world has changed so much with the internet and computers
Todays world almost all of us have phone with a camera so we have little excuse any more

Paul

[Neversweat]

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Steve

[Neversweat]

Tim - Anything on a company called Eales Bros ?

[Mrsmackpaul]

that Daf is working hard there
great photos


Paul

[essexpete]

that Daf is working hard there
great photos


Paul

Talk about torque

[Jeremy Rowland]

that Daf is working hard there
great photos


Paul

Talk about torque

I recall many years ago now as I had just pulled away from a set of traffic lights on one of the steep hills into Dudley there was a loaded Mk 2 Atkinson Borderer behind me and the driver struggled to pull away from the lights due to the steepness of the hill; I watched in my mirror as the old Atki's front wheels left the floor at least two or three times, it jumped all over the road until it pulled away, how the front wind screens stayed in the old fibre glass cab I have no idea, would have given anything to have been at the roadside with a camera.

Jeremy

[hair bear]

that Daf is working hard there
great photos


Paul

Makes you wonder if the occupants of the Sierra had considered that a sheared prop or even a missed gear could have had that lot coming back their way.

[Jeremy Rowland]

that Daf is working hard there
great photos


Paul

Makes you wonder if the occupants of the Sierra had considered that a sheared prop or even a missed gear could have had that lot coming back their way.

Not having generally experienced driving heavy goods vehicles I doubt it crossed their minds!

Jeremy