It's nice seeing the volvo f7 I worked for a company in 1979 A one transport from leeds I was at midelsborogh we use to run steel all over I had a little f86 then I got a new f7 I loved it at the time it went like a train but I felt the same when I got a new FH volvo when I was working for canute Haulage over 30 years had lotos of lorry's but I still love the volvo.
My old F7 was sold to a livestock haulier in Ayrshire and stretched into a 6 wheel rigid. (A765 ASX) it had the 16 speed box, that made it a great machine.
Really enjoyed the interview , I drove a F7 - it was a lease truck/loan from Tankfreight . Its Reg was A123 LWU ,then later a FL7 -C243 YWY -Supplied from Yorkshire Via "Tank Freight "
Basil L Leeder at long stratton had a full fleet of rigid F7's day cabs and sleeper cabs and one artic that pulled the flour tanker (A190LNG) that my father drove in the 80's.
An interesting amalgam with Renault and Saviem. So many about once over, driven several. So few about now. Be nice to see this one get a thorough makeover.
I'd love to see that restored and on the show circuit. It's all well and good having 141/ 142/143 Scanias and F16s and F88-290s, but F7s (like their F86 predecessors) were workhorses and should be represented. Where I lived in 1980 (Somerset) by far the most common F7 was an 8-legger tipper.
Mason Bros, near Boston, had a few late registered F7s,(B)reg, and had them converted, to 3 axle, by fitting a tag axle, to pull, mainly, potato bulkers. J.W Cousins, was another big user, of F7s,(T, V,W,X,Y,A,and B) registrations,mainly artics, two eight wheelers, and one six wheel flatbed. Grahams,of Brigg, had a few 8 wheelers,Stones,of Keelby,had one six wheel flatbed. Most, in Lincolnshire, would have been supplied, by John Hebb, of Wootton, near Immingham,later took over, by Crossroads Commerccials, moving to Stallingborough.
A R Kent at pulham market had an f7 in the same colours as this one I used to go with my uncle in it on sugar beet and cartco in diss had one f7 tractor unit and they stretched it and added a tag axle my uncle also drove that aswell
It's nice seeing the volvo f7 I worked for a company in 1979 A one transport from leeds I was at midelsborogh we use to run steel all over I had a little f86 then I got a new f7 I loved it at the time it went like a train but I felt the same when I got a new FH volvo when I was working for canute Haulage over 30 years had lotos of lorry's but I still love the volvo.
My old F7 was sold to a livestock haulier in Ayrshire and stretched into a 6 wheel rigid. (A765 ASX) it had the 16 speed box, that made it a great machine.
Really enjoyed the interview , I drove a F7 - it was a lease truck/loan from Tankfreight . Its Reg was A123 LWU ,then later a FL7 -C243 YWY -Supplied from Yorkshire Via "Tank Freight "
Basil L Leeder at long stratton had a full fleet of rigid F7's day cabs and sleeper cabs and one artic that pulled the flour tanker (A190LNG) that my father drove in the 80's.
An interesting amalgam with Renault and Saviem. So many about once over, driven several. So few about now. Be nice to see this one get a thorough makeover.
A&NJ Turner at soham have a restored f7 tractor unit. Those hauliers mentioned were a blast fro the past. East Anglian history there..
I'd love to see that restored and on the show circuit. It's all well and good having 141/ 142/143 Scanias and F16s and F88-290s, but F7s (like their F86 predecessors) were workhorses and should be represented. Where I lived in 1980 (Somerset) by far the most common F7 was an 8-legger tipper.
Mason Bros, near Boston, had a few late registered F7s,(B)reg, and had them converted, to 3 axle, by fitting a tag axle, to pull, mainly, potato bulkers. J.W Cousins, was another big user, of F7s,(T, V,W,X,Y,A,and B) registrations,mainly artics, two eight wheelers, and one six wheel flatbed. Grahams,of Brigg, had a few 8 wheelers,Stones,of Keelby,had one six wheel flatbed. Most, in Lincolnshire, would have been supplied, by John Hebb, of Wootton, near Immingham,later took over, by Crossroads Commerccials, moving to Stallingborough.
A R Kent at pulham market had an f7 in the same colours as this one I used to go with my uncle in it on sugar beet and cartco in diss had one f7 tractor unit and they stretched it and added a tag axle my uncle also drove that aswell
Was that ecl 778t.
I can’t remember the reg
We're they the Walkers lorries?
What is the future of the Volvo F7 ? If you guys are restoring the truck keep us updated like to see how is going. Keep on trucking.
It was sold to someone up in Norfolk who is planning to restore. I'll ask Simon to see whats happening.
Simon 🤢
E&J Meeks had one that was later wrecked (there's a photo online of it) and I remember them buying the FL10s when they first came out.