ROADLINE resurrection thread

[Skizzer]

the problem is in the UK is that the demand for quality bread undermines the bread industry that was based around the industrial production of crap 70's bread

 

Ah, you mean a bit like the way demand for quality motors undermined, say, the Morris Ital?

 

Hope you're feeling better scoot

[Mr Lobster]

...Back in early 80s, my dad used to work for them at their Burnley branch.

 

Just out of idle curiosity, where abouts in Burnley was it?

[Guest]

Not sure bud, was only a nipper, sorry...

[Tayne]

Its still there.

No photos owing to darkness and other traffic, I'll try and get some pictures at the weekend.

 

Well its only taken 8 months.

 

Sunblest by Tayne, on Flickr

 

Sunblest by Tayne, on Flickr

[Guest]

[worldofceri]

STOP PRESS!

 

ROADLINE boxes spotted in the wild. Not one, but three together!

 

 

I know you can't tell very well from my rubbish long-distance camera phone picture (taken through a big gate) but the three small boxes in the middle definitely have the Roadline livery.

 

If anyone else wants to go and make further enquiries (and perhaps get a better photo) they're behind Crossroads Garage (Murco) on the A425 between Southam and Daventry, at Napton, Warks.

 

Do I win this thread?

[DSdriver]

Do I win this thread?

No, but if you buy the two Roadline boxes you get the third one free*

*Only if you fill in the coupon

[Vin]

On page 41 of the current issue of 'Classic & Vintage Commercials' there are a couple of photos of the Roadline depot in Canterbury. It's predominantly all Leyland Terriers parked up.

[Guest]

LONDON 1978 July pic17 by streamer020nl, on Flickr

[chaseracer]

/\/\ What IS that?

 

Must be the ugliest example of "form follows function" since the Velorex! Consequently, it is sublime...

[Guest]

[ShiteRider]

On page 41 of the current issue of 'Classic & Vintage Commercials' there are a couple of photos of the Roadline depot in Canterbury. It's predominantly all Leyland Terriers parked up.

Little local garage in my village has two leyland terriers as recoverys. I'll see if i can street view them.

Just checked on street view, can't see them (bulldog garage, 17 liverpool road south, burscough, lancashire). I'll go out with the camera tomorrow and have a nosey.

[trigger]

 

Also a 1976 advert here too. http://archive.commercialmotor.com/arti ... stribution

[cms206]

Picture 523 by cms206, on Flickr

[ruffgeezer]

Little local garage in my village has two leyland terriers as recoverys. I'll see if i can street view them.

Just checked on street view, can't see them (bulldog garage, 17 liverpool road south, burscough, lancashire). I'll go out with the camera tomorrow and have a nosey.

 

It's Bull & Dog garage, and I think this is one of what you mentioned?

[ShiteRider]

Little local garage in my village has two leyland terriers as recoverys. I'll see if i can street view them.

Just checked on street view, can't see them (bulldog garage, 17 liverpool road south, burscough, lancashire). I'll go out with the camera tomorrow and have a nosey.

 

It's Bull & Dog garage, and I think this is one of what you mentioned?

It is indeed ruffgeezer, the pub next door is called the Bulldog . They used to have petrol pumps on the front of the garage, can't remember what the brand was though, think it my have been a Total or an Elf (there used to be four or five different petrol stations when i was a kid, now there's just one BP which is the dearest for about 8 miles )

[binhoker668]

YESSSS!  I finally found one!  
Llanidloes yesterday.  
I was way more excited than I should have been.

 

 

[Lankytim]

On 17/01/2011 at 21:12, Electric Leyland said:

Having just lost about 15 mins worth of inane rambling about Roadline lorries (probably a good thing), I'm doing a short recap to myself.

 

The excellent Shite On A Farm thread from bangers & mash made me remember the old Roadline lorries, in fact I was half expecting to see one in there somewhere. For the younger viewers who never got to see the original Roadline thread which was lost in the great board purge, here is my one and only photo of one, taken on the M1 northbound just after the M6 joins it.

 

http://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r131/ElectricLeyland/2011%20Jan/Roadline03v2.jpg

 

Taken a few years ago, sadly it has deteriorated a lot since.

 

Anyway here's one I just found on Flikr, which looks to be the one Regie Ritmo found for sale in that Classic Commercials mag a few years back, surely the last remaining one in the world...

 

http://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r131/ElectricLeyland/2011%20Jan/4886325038_6c468dc9f7_b.jpg

 

 

Mr Bollox found one once too, and someone scanned in an old lorry brochure featuring one. Also a lorry magazine article too. Plus various sightings on the train to Leeds, on a farm near Potters Bar, and in the background on Minder and the end of a Stray Cats video (Runaway Boys I think)...

 

Anyone seen any more around the past couple of years of this rarest of commercial vehicle sightings? If so, you now know where you post your pics.

The junction between the end of the M6, M1 and A14  was extensively remodelled a few years ago and the land the roadline truck body was on was swallowed up, presumably it’s been scrapped as it was falling apart. 

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

My GP wrote this exact phrase on a prescription pad and pinned it to my jacket when I asked if she could hook me up with something cheaper than Ozempic

[Missy Charm]

To change the subject slightly: does anyone remember the name of a freight carrier called 'Business Post' or similar, whose emblem was three grey ducks?  Their lorry trailers had white sides, and were liveried with a line of three grey ducks, reminiscent of the popular chimney breast adornment of the twentieth century, wearing bowler hats.  Each duck (I think) also had a tie round its neck, the ties being different colours.

The carrier would have been operating in Southern England, perhaps further afield too, back in the eighties and nineties.  They have almost certainly disappeared as the aforementioned lorries haven't been seen on the road for yonks.  There were a lot of them, way back.

This thread reminded me of it because I saw one of the mystery firm's trailers in a field a while back.  Can't remember the name, though!  Do you?  

[grogee]

I don't remember duck lorries but @Missy Charm thank you for resurrecting this thread. 

I have a very clear memory of staring at a Roadline lorry parked next to my primary school playground. I liked seeing the lorries, I think the logo appealed somehow, and the green stood out. 

Anyway for a long time I couldn't remember the lorry company, just the green colour, and reading this thread has educated me that it was indeed Roadline. 

Happy days. Hello to all you truckers out there. 

[500tops]

Funny that this thread has been resurrected. I discovered this beauty up the loft yesterday!

[Missy Charm]

57 minutes ago, grogee said:

I don't remember duck lorries but @Missy Charm thank you for resurrecting this thread. 

I have a very clear memory of staring at a Roadline lorry parked next to my primary school playground. I liked seeing the lorries, I think the logo appealed somehow, and the green stood out. 

Anyway for a long time I couldn't remember the lorry company, just the green colour, and reading this thread has educated me that it was indeed Roadline. 

Happy days. Hello to all you truckers out there. 

The credit for resurrection goes to @binhoker668; I'm hanging on Jesus's coattails, so to speak.  

Thanks anyway, but I remain hopeful that someone can shed some light on the duck lorries!  

Likewise, truckers: keep on trucking.  

[UltraWomble]

Lynx used to do a lot around here

White arrow used to deliver Empire catalogues stuff