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by Mike Jeffries
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Our greeting cards are 5" x 7" in size and are produced on digital offset printers using 100 lb. paper stock. Each card is coated with a UV protectant on the outside surface which produces a semi-gloss finish. The inside of each card has a matte white finish and can be customized with your own message up to 500 characters in length. Each card comes with a white envelope for mailing or gift giving.
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Fighting it�s way up Telegraph hill on the old A38 this ERF eight-wheeled tipper of Exeter based haulier Frank Tucker sports the first type of LV... more
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Fighting it�s way up Telegraph hill on the old A38 this ERF eight-wheeled tipper of Exeter based haulier Frank Tucker sports the first type of LV Jennings cab while in the background a Castrol tanker starts it�s gingerly descent. Even today with the gradient eased by a new road layout the hill is still fearsome but to the lorry drivers of forty years ago taking a 24 ton gross lorry down that hill was to say the least quite daunting.
For many years on the adjacent Haldon hill there lived an old tramp in a makeshift tent in the lay-by halfway up where many a lorry would stop to cool off a boiling radiator and he lived on the generosity of the drivers for food and fags as he sat by his campfire winter and summer. One day in the 1970s a busybody from the local council made it his business to have old �Smokey Joe�, as we called him, carted off to Exeter hospital for a check-up���..Joe died in there within the week, some say of a broken heart at the loss of his freedom...
COMMISSION A PAINTING FROM MIKE. It is with great regret that I have to inform you that Mike sadly passed away November 2020 aged 81, but I, (his partner) will keep his shop here going and am happy to reply to any emails you might send to his own email address at mike@transportartist.co.uk. Virtually nobody considered the humble lorry worthy of the subject of a painting until Mike made it so. Years of being at the sharp end of long distance HGV driving has given him an insight and knowledge into the industry that enables Mike to depict lorries as they really were in the past and not the idealized view of the less knowledgeable making him the man to paint an original of your favourite commercial vehicle. He is without a doubt THE lorry...
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John Malone
Congratulations! Your skillful and interesting painting has been FEATURED on our homepage. Well done!
Mike Jeffries
Thanks Eric for the feature in your group Drawings and Paintings.
Mike Jeffries
Thanks Darren for the feature in your group 3A Day Greetings Cards.
Mike Jeffries
Many thanks Gynt for the feature in your group Greetings and Posters.
Mike Jeffries
Thanks Darren for the feature in your group 3A Day Greetings Cards.
Mike Jeffries
Thank you Cheryl for the feature in your group Vehicle Enthusiasts.
Tami Elise
Terrific painting!! v
Mariusz Kula
Well done, featured in our group Original For Sale - Free Shipping.
Kimberleigh Goben
We have hills like that near me,and i can sometimes hear the trucks grinding when they are new to it. Great work love your whole gallery!
Mike Jeffries replied:
Even today with the gradient eased a little by a new road Telegraph is still a test for lorries but years ago it truly was fearsome!