Laid up lorry yard

[wackywacerwill]

First posted this on RR a fair while back and was reminded of it by the digger thread on here. Think you might like it.

 

This yard has been here yonks(same owner since '71) and is the last remaining of a few breakers in the same area. We climbed the fence as kids and play amongst the wrekers pretending to drive the old cars that used to be in there when this yard was bigger also containing cars that were piled high. I can vividly remember being chased out by a angry man (who I now know to be the owner) and his even moreso angry dogs.

These days it's just this old lorry yard left and after snapping a few pics over the fence some time ago I had to pay another visit.

 

A pre work fence jumping mission yeilded these pics

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I've heard rumors that this place is going though it's still there at present. The yard owner shifts stuff through a glossy commercial mag and everything has a price. There's real treasure in there to be found, I've got more pics though they came out in a funny format and I had trouble loading them last time I tried

[fotorabia]

awesum and cool..great find mate

[Wilko220]

Great pictures! The Leyland Daf 200 looks a bit out of place though - about 20-30 years newer than everything else!

[Shep Shepherd]

The back yard of my workplace is chock-full of time expired lorries (mainly ERFs from the early and mid 1990s, but there is the odd Leyland and Volvo), as the company's owner doesn't like to throw things away

[michael1703]

cool spottings, the trouble being that they are worth more in scrap to most people and more likely to be cubed than rescued.

 

buying an old truck to restore is more costly as you typically have to spend £450 transporting the hulk home on a low loader

[Captain Mainwaring]

...the trouble being that they are worth more in scrap to most people and more likely to be cubed than rescued.

 

To be fair, many of those look like they're well beyond saving anyway.

 

Good find.

[eddyramrod]

The back yard of my workplace is chock-full of time expired lorries (mainly ERFs from the early and mid 1990s, but there is the odd Leyland and Volvo), as the company's owner doesn't like to throw things away

 

I used to work for someone like that. There were three brothers, two running farms, the other running the wholesale operation which I was part of. Some of the wholesale trucks would be kept at one of the farms, where an interesting collection was developing among the weeds. In the four years between my two stints, the collection expanded to include the six Iveco Turbo Daily fridge vans that were delivered new in September 97. These vans were less than 10 years old when they were retired. They were surrounded by the remains of several bigger trucks, some of which were even still capable of motion!

[VWPowered]

cracking little yard

[wackywacerwill]

More pics found and loading as I type

[wackywacerwill]

MOAR

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[maxpower]

haunting and eerie

[Shep Shepherd]

The back yard of my workplace is chock-full of time expired lorries (mainly ERFs from the early and mid 1990s, but there is the odd Leyland and Volvo), as the company's owner doesn't like to throw things away

 

I used to work for someone like that. There were three brothers, two running farms, the other running the wholesale operation which I was part of. Some of the wholesale trucks would be kept at one of the farms, where an interesting collection was developing among the weeds. In the four years between my two stints, the collection expanded to include the six Iveco Turbo Daily fridge vans that were delivered new in September 97. These vans were less than 10 years old when they were retired. They were surrounded by the remains of several bigger trucks, some of which were even still capable of motion!

 

Apparently, most of the ERFs have been off road since at least 2000, when they were replaced by Volvos, which are still being used by the company for local bulk powder and liquid haulage. Even so, the majority of them still run and are able to be used as yard shunters. Indeed, only this week one of them (the rigid-bodied bulk liquid tanker in the far right of the following photo) was brought back to life for some purpose, presumably to carry nasty chemicals from one part of the works to the other

 

[Split_Pin]

Excellent pictures. I particularly like the Volvo F7.

 

Takes me back to my mid teens when I used to go down to Andersons sawdust yard. I was friends (still am) with the owner's son and he had an F7 shunter that we would tool around in all day, moving trailers. The place was a haven for old lorries both running and in store. Volvos, Fodens, Ivecos and Seddons, there must have been loads! Some were really old.

 

The owner seemed to have a knack of bringing something spectacularly dead back to show condition. I remember a really rotten seddon from those days, which I now see him driving from time to time to local shows!

[Rhythm Thief]

I love those old ERFs. I had an E14 on heavy haulage for a bit, with a Cummins 14 litre engine and an Eaton twin split gearbox. It leaked through the gaps at the top of the doors, it was cramped and uncomfortable, but it was a proper drivers' truck. I'd have another tomorrow.

[Cavcraft]

They seem very popular those old ERFs. Pretty much everyone from fleet managers to the workshop lads and the drivers liked them. There's a firm not far from here who still work two or three like the ones pictured above. The drivers used to say they take some getting used to, something about having to let them creep forward when pulling away, but they loved them once used to them.

[Shep Shepherd]

I love those old ERFs. I had an E14 on heavy haulage for a bit, with a Cummins 14 litre engine and an Eaton twin split gearbox. It leaked through the gaps at the top of the doors, it was cramped and uncomfortable, but it was a proper drivers' truck. I'd have another tomorrow.

 

The boss likes them as well, owing to the fact he founded the company with a single A Series tractor unit in the 1970s, which his family pulled out of the back yard (he really doesn't like throwing things away) and had restored for his 65th birthday. He laments the fact that they aren't available any more, although the Volvos and MANs currently on the fleet do a great job.