Graham Bellman has oviously ben rootling through his collection of old truck pictures as he has sent me these shots and says: "Brian, some pics of that famous Oswestry hauliers trucks, Caddies...proprer!"
He goe son to say: "Caddies also carried out of Shotton steel works, I seem to recall they were one of the last firms to be still running 88s in the 90s?"
And of course the other claim to fame of Cadwallders was that editor of TRUCK Georege Bennett. Now click through here for more...
Chatting with another former driver Len Evans yesterday I understand that one of the Cadwallader brothers has sadly passed on quite recently.
Classic F88 or is it an 89...you tell me?
And old enough to have an Seddon Atkinson 400 next to it!
Hi Graham.I have some interseting pictures to submit shortly.
SUJ 241R MUST be an F88 and not an F89 - it's a right-hooker
I saw the photo in the September edition of Truck and Driver,in the Truckstuff pages,of what was said to be "A Volvo F89 in "Caddies" colours".
The registration number is RWD 239R.
Now I worked for Chapman and Ball from Stoke on Trent from 1977 until their demise in 1979,doing the Middle East run.
We had a pair of left hand drive Volvo F88's,one was RWD239R,and I drove the sister,RWD 240R.
I have a photo of RWD 239R in C & B's colours clearly showing the F88 badges on the doors,and it has the narrow rediator grille.
So,how did it become an F89?
Cadwalladers and George Bennett, TRUCK magazine editor.
What exactly was the connection between Cadwalladers and George Bennet, the editor of TRUCK in late 1980s or early 1990s? The relevant sentence under pic. no. 3 seems to be incomplete?
All the best,
Andrzej
Hi Andrzej,
George used to drive for Cadwalladers--that's the connection.
BLB
hi ian only just seen your info on rwd239r am very interested as i own this volvo now me and my father bought this unit and restored it in caddies colours my farther used to work for them as far as we know it is an f89 but we dont have much history on the volvo the engine tilts to one side and the engine cover is bigger inside the cab which is a couple of features of an f89 i suppose anything could of happenened in its life i would like to find out more thankyou
I don't remember any more than I said in my post.
However,if you contact me through me email,I can send you a pic of RWD 239R as it was in its C & B days.
By the way,my email is:
ianandann.taylor@btinternet.com