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A brief moment in history? Last one for tonight..Richard Smith has sent me this photo and says: "This is, I think, is Ralph Davies's first ever truck, though obviously he now runs Volvos." So what do Raplh Davies afficionados have to say? True or false? And click through here for a slightly-more up-to-date RD wagon.
And here it is...another fine machine from the man from Cheltenham.
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Nope. I understand that Ralph started with an S-Type Bedford and then a trio of TKs. There followed some oddments like a Dodge K500 and a Seddon wagon and drag. The 141 was, I think, his first Scania, and it was later converted to 6x2 configuration.
Today he is not all-Volvo, with a DAF XF having recently usurped his long-term Scania Topline as S777 RDF.
Hi Brian, Sorry but the Scania 141 was by no means Ralph Davies first truck, he actually started with a humble Bedford T.K, had a Seddon rigid that pulled a drawbar trailer. This truck was cut down into a tractor and I first saw it when he used to pull tipping trailers for George M Read.
It had the very rare factory built non-tilting sleeper cab and Cummins engine, pretty flash back in the 70's. He went on to have a couple of DAFs and I think a Magirus Deutz, the 141 was his first Scania.
I wonder if any body can remeber why his trucks are painted red and black, Ralph told me the answer while we were waiting during a ferry strike in Dunkirk in about 1982.
i am sure bob beach once told me that ralph davies' seddon drag was purchased second hand from a welsh operator whose fleet colours were black and red? from then on all davies' trucks were black and red.
Andrew You have spent too much time in the spray booth, I told you that Ralph Davies painted his trucks red and black because his uncle was Philip Jones Transport of Forestfach Swansea and he used to paint his Leylands, AECs and ERFs etc, black and red with a white roof.
Ralph used to have and may well still have, a picture of two of Jones Scammell Crusaders on his office wall, remember now.
Brian , Education is wasted on the young Rgds Bob
Wern't black and red the colours of his Grandad's lorries?
aaaaaaaaaaaaaah! mr. beech,i remember now, as usual you were right and i was wrong.thanks for clarifying my cock up!hope to see you and mark on sunday's b.to.bath run.