Classic pictures Updated 02/06/2024

[Mick Annick]

I was working for Dave Hazelwood when we bought this new from Moreys, driven then by John Bradley and his sidekick Lurch..

Thanks for the info Mick-what happened to Hazelwoods? Also did they run 2 of these double drive Dafs?

Tim
No, just the one, we bought it along with some 2800 two axle units for low loader and bulk grain haulage - all had consecutive reg no's - HOT 42X, 43X, 44X and the one in the photo 45X.

From memory it was as already mentioned a Watson trailer, though the rest of the fleet were Kings. Much of our work was for Poclain where I worked before joining Hazelwoods, though we also pulled piling rigs for GKN in Coventry, though can't remember who our other customers were, it was a long time ago...

Hazelwood owned Fosters Yard, and also bought the old Howard Tenens yard in Mapledurwell, though we never operated from there.

[Mick Annick]

Forgot to say, I gather Hazelwoods went bust some time soon after I left in the mid 80's, Dave went to the USA, don't know what happened to his partner Wyndham Curtis though.

[tim]

I was working for Dave Hazelwood when we bought this new from Moreys, driven then by John Bradley and his sidekick Lurch..

Thanks for the info Mick-what happened to Hazelwoods? Also did they run 2 of these double drive Dafs?

Tim
No, just the one, we bought it along with some 2800 two axle units for low loader and bulk grain haulage - all had consecutive reg no's - HOT 42X, 43X, 44X and the one in the photo 45X.

From memory it was as already mentioned a Watson trailer, though the rest of the fleet were Kings. Much of our work was for Poclain where I worked before joining Hazelwoods, though we also pulled piling rigs for GKN in Coventry, though can't remember who our other customers were, it was a long time ago...

Hazelwood owned Fosters Yard, and also bought the old Howard Tenens yard in Mapledurwell, though we never operated from there.

Thanks Mick I asked whether they ran two big Dafs because I've had this photo in my collection for sometime(photographer unknown) so I presume this Daf was replaced by HOT 45X.

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Tim

[Mick Annick]

Tim

yes, that was HOT 45X's predecessor, though the same trailer!

HOT 45 was also the first truck on the fleet to have an in-cab telephone - in 1981!

It was the predecessor to today's mobiles and was called London Radio Telephone network; no keypad, you picked up the handset, pressed the one and only button and a posh woman would answer, asked what number you wanted and would then call you back when she had got hold of the other party!

As most jobs in the those days needed a police escort, or at least their permission to move from one force area to the next, it saved a lot of time for the driver in looking for phone boxes.

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[essexpete]

The last photo? The unit is not straight but the it looks like fairly level concrete? Stuck load?

[Jeremy Rowland]

The last photo? The unit is not straight but the it looks like fairly level concrete? Stuck load?

Good question just a good job that nobody was in the 400 with the heavily modified cab.

Jeremy

[FOWLER MAN]

A few more work-horses from me.
Fred

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[gah1950]

hello fred.
the D1000 looks very much like an R M Douglas truck.