
I want the van...a life-sized one please
I get emails every day. Some people tell me how my beer blog would benefit from linking to their blog about wine or podcasting or viagara and yet sometimes they have a "do not reply to" notice on their email. Some others invite me to promote movies about, say, beer festivals but then haughtily refuse to send money or good swag to cover their advertising costs even though they represent billionaires. Yet others, a fine example of which you will soon learn about, do in fact send quality swag which encourages me to enter into a deep and abiding relationship of mutual respect.
And then some folk send me emails about what they are doing in their corner of the global beer culture and earn my immediate adoration:
Hi,Fantastic! I now want this book, this toy and this vehicle...no, the actual one. Please go have a look at Clive's work of love.I just found your website today and have added it to My Favourites. I have been a Campaign for Real Ale member since 1979 (with the expanded midriff to prove it) and have always had an interest in real beer and trucks. Quite a few years ago (I can’t remember when it was exactly that I got the first) I started collecting models of beer trucks and vans and, to-date, I have over 900 models covering 368 world-wide breweries. As you may imagine, I would have needed a large house to exhibit all of my (expanding) collection so I decided to share it with the world and created www.modelbeertrucks.com, an online exhibition-space, if-you-will.
If you have anywhere on your blog site to place a link to my collection it would be much-appreciated, as I always look-forward to hearing from fellow collectors. I would also appreciate any comments or suggestions you might like to make about the website which is not created by a professional, just by an enthusiastic-amateur.
Best of luck with your blog site, I shall keep reading it regularly now I’ve found it.
Kind regards
Clive Luff (The Drayman)
Hampshire
UK






Comments
DUR - September 17, 2006 11:07 AM
Check this out Bud Mustang.
gr - September 17, 2006 1:09 PM
I am wondering about model train cars featuring classic beers? There must be some.
Sarah Lakeman - June 16, 2009 11:52 AM
Do you have any idea where I could get a model of the Lakemans Brewery van featured on your site ?
Alan - June 16, 2009 12:08 PM
Hi Sara,
I would contact Cliff Luff through his website linked above.
Martin Ulman - March 31, 2012 6:46 PM
Do you know where I might find a Streamliner LaBatt's Beer Truck model for sale?
Thank you
diane lyng - November 20, 2012 3:29 AM
are you related to Stephen Lakeman of Brixham
if so we may be related
my 2x gtgrandma was Jane lakeman born 1805 Dodbrooke Devon daughter of Peter A Lakeman &Sarah Jackson they had 6 children
Anne Mary b1804 married ??Weir
Jane marr Christopher Ash in Dittisham
Peter b 1807
John Jackson 1810 (mariner)
Sarah b1813
Stephen Thomas b 1817
all born Dodbrooke Devon
Peter & Sarah marr 1803
John & stephen married in London
Terry Lakeman - November 23, 2012 4:27 AM
Hi Diane,
I am also researching "The Lakeman Family" of Brixham. Fortunately I live in Paignton just a couple of miles away from this port and am a member of Brixham Museum and have access to their archives. I would be interested in your own research so that we can maybe check dates and other information.
Terry Lakeman
diane lyng - December 11, 2012 3:50 AM
I would love to share my info with you
could your email me and I will send what I have
Diane Auckland NZ
Terry Lakeman - February 8, 2013 5:00 AM
Diane,
Trying to contact you reference case history of the Lakeman family in Brixham. Have posted, but not sure you have received? Can you contact me by e-mail and I can send again.
dtlakeman@hotmail.co.uk
Terry Lakeman - March 29, 2013 6:20 PM
I am trying to contact Diane Lyng in Auckland New Zealand. Can anyone supply her e-mail address?
Terry Lakeman
dtlakeman@hotmail.co.uk