Thread: The Temple of Grockle

see ya tomoz Andy

Originally Posted by LandyAndy

See you lot tommorow.
Andrew

Night Andy.

Originally Posted by Grockle

right then Ian,
How did Bristol early sixties achieve there lowbridge decker to be different from the normal way bus body manufacturers did it and what was it's name,Dennis also had the same built under licence from Bristol.

Ummmmmmmmmm, cut the roof off, let the tyres down, get the passengers to duck, drop centre or offset aisle, drop chassis with underslung rear suspension? All guesswork mate.

Originally Posted by V8Ian

Ummmmmmmmmm, cut the roof off, let the tyres down, get the passengers to duck, drop centre or offset aisle, drop chassis with underslung rear suspension? All guesswork mate.

on the right tack,Bristol Lodekka, Sucken lower deck walk way,off centre propshaft to a drop centre axle,all built by ECW of Lowestoft which was owned by the BET federation and could only sell to BET companies who nearly all ran Bristols.

Originally Posted by Grockle

on the right tack,Bristol Lodekka, Sucken lower deck walk way,off centre propshaft to a drop centre axle,all built by ECW of Lowestoft which was owned by the BET federation and could only sell to BET companies who nearly all ran Bristols.

My Grandfather came from Lowestoff, he moved to Aylesbury when his employer relocated. He worked for the one company his entire working life. Does that give you enough information to work out, for whom he worked?

no

Originally Posted by Grockle

no

Damn, I don't know who it was either.
He was a printer for a large book printers and binders. Hazel, Whitney (?) and some other dude.

Hazel Whitney and Dude Ltd., 14, The Arcade, Aylesbury,Buckingham.
ceased trading in 1966 when one of the directors Erwin T Dude the 3rd of Shreveport Louisiana USA ran off with a local married libary assistant(Joan Grimthorpe)following a book review on book binding for bored folk,telling her husband(Norman) his tea was in next doors bin along with his collection of painted eggs,Erwin taking all the blue ink with him,this wouldn't normally cause to much trouble but they were printing police hand books which bankrupted the company because Chief Constable Gibbs was Normans half brother(Joans ex)and didn't like Erwin for obvious reasons(he didn't get an invite to the book binding review)