Old Hull Haulage companys

[JonB1973]

Dont think so m8

Apparently Robertson Dale Haulage was named after 2 Film stars from the olden days

Wish someone had some pictures

[botch]

used to back load off a&s haulage of hull mostly timber are they still about , know that old jimmy and henry both past on, also there was an owner driver said he was david whitfields brother, he drove a fodon all ways immaculately dressed nomally spoke to him on the docks shed 10,

[JonB1973]

Yeh A.S Haulage are still going m8, there one of the old school

My First job when i left school was at Blakeys as an apprentice mechanic, But i left after 3 weeks i couldnt hack been covered in oil all the time lol

[Wheel Nut]

used to back load off a&s haulage of hull mostly timber are they still about , know that old jimmy and henry both past on, also there was an owner driver said he was david whitfields brother, he drove a fodon all ways immaculately dressed nomally spoke to him on the docks shed 10,

Yep. A & S are still going strong, we used to load a lot of big Russian timber from them.

Not so sure about David Whitfields Brother though

[Wheel Nut]

Dont think so m8

Apparently Robertson Dale Haulage was named after 2 Film stars from the olden days

Wish someone had some pictures

JonB, is Grandad still with us?

The only bloke I knew at Mauri was Chris Davison, (the other one)

The other Davidson was TODON

[JonB1973]

Na M8 my grandad passed away in 91 his name was Kenny Downs

He was on Mauri pretty much from the start along with Bernard Shaw, Ray Leake, Jock O Donnel,and two drivers called Mally and Ted(dont know there second names)

They all started with X plate Merc 1619s at 32 tons pmsl except my grandad who got one of the old F7s(used to leave the mercs standing)

Have some great memories of them days

[JonB1973]

[JonB1973]

Anymore Pics

[TREV]

i used to reload from them they had a depot at drypool 5 mins up the road from the fruit mkt ,at that time they ran leyland marathons

[JonB1973]

Correct m8 they had quite a few Marathons running alongside the F7s mainly pulling flats and skellies

[dean0]

:lol:
You must have an encyclopedia of owd Hull hauliers.
Why couldn't I remember The Eclipse Motor Transport Company,Ferndale Transport and Willow Transport?
The Woodside's getting full now Malc!

But you don't recall Thompsons of Hedon - livestock carriers? Their yard was past BP further up on the left where you turned off for Hedon village - I think
Ran a lot of Leyland/AEC motors,brown livery and I think a couple of drawbar outfits.

they are now KLMS winter
they still do livestock and was a coal merchents until a couple of years ago

[Wheel Nut]

:lol:
You must have an encyclopedia of owd Hull hauliers.
Why couldn't I remember The Eclipse Motor Transport Company,Ferndale Transport and Willow Transport?
The Woodside's getting full now Malc!

But you don't recall Thompsons of Hedon - livestock carriers? Their yard was past BP further up on the left where you turned off for Hedon village - I think
Ran a lot of Leyland/AEC motors,brown livery and I think a couple of drawbar outfits.

they are now KLMS winter
they still do livestock and was a coal merchents until a couple of years ago

Cheers DeanO. I did think KL & S Winter were who Chris was thinking of, but I do have a clouded vision of Thompsons of Hedon. I just can't remember them or the trucks.

Hedon had a few companies running out of there but never as many as North Newbald. There were something like 70 trucks pulling out of there on a Monday morning, there were only about 50 people lived there

A couple of other companies who came to mind recently were Sid Howard who ran out of Capper Pass at Melton,

Ray Allison who was in Welton, Ray retired from haulage when times were hard and then he got a job as an electrician at Crossroads Volvo. I wonder what he would think today, as he thought he got out when things were bad.

[jessicas dad]

Remember loading in Spear Transport, Struthers and Carter and Panalpina though

i think spear are still going i used to top for holland out of spears about 6 years ago.

[mick terry]

hi a;ll what about "JACMIL" was owned by marrs fish used to do fishmeal down to hook,hants o/night sleep in warehouse inday while we tipped load on farms and reloaded in portsmouth albert johnson quay jersey fruit and veg back to hook where drivers used to ship back to hull that night oh happy days mick terry

[dafdave]

A few more local firms running from Hull.

Ferndale Transport

Eclipse Motor Transport

Frances Motors

Joseph Cox

Ernest Waudby

Freemans

Willow transport

I remember ferndale tpt,used to load back off them regular for m/c area and lancashire.

[jessicas dad]

A few more local firms running from Hull.

Ferndale Transport

Eclipse Motor Transport

Frances Motors

Joseph Cox

Ernest Waudby

Freemans

Willow transport

I remember ferndale tpt,used to load back off them regular for m/c area and lancashire.

i loaded at ferndale a few weeks ago, right miserable git in charge wouldnt let me use the kahzi as he thought i was going to smash it up.

[Chris Webb]

Springfield Haulage was another company in Hull and they had an office in Salford,Trafford Road I think it was.I used to backload zinc and copper bars off them for Sheffield,straight off Salford docks,in the 60s.Geoffrey Reyner had an office down there as well IIRC. Springfield in Hull very often used to backload us with timber from a place called Catfoss out towards Beverley or maybe Driffield.I think it was a disused RAF base.

[Big Al]

Readers are still on the go Chris, albeit a bit smaller.

I remember Henery although not seen them for a while.

Albert Baxter is still on the go too.

Do you remember Coastal Transport from Hull, I think they were dark blue Leylands with a cab headboard "Coastal Transport (Hull) Ltd" I used to stay in the Silvertown Motel down in the east end of London and Coastal drivers would stay there in the early 60's. regards Big Al

[mushroomman]

Springfield Haulage was another company in Hull and they had an office in Salford,Trafford Road I think it was.I used to backload zinc and copper bars off them for Sheffield,straight off Salford docks,in the 60s.Geoffrey Reyner had an office down there as well IIRC. Springfield in Hull very often used to backload us with timber from a place called Catfoss out towards Beverley or maybe Driffield.I think it was a disused RAF base.

Hi Chris, didn't Springfield Haulage have a depot just outside Howden on the I.I.R.C. the A614 where the M62 used to end.
I am sure that there was a really good transport cafe there and I can remember a swing bridge being somewhere in the area.
Regards Steve.

[Chris Webb]

Springfield Haulage was another company in Hull and they had an office in Salford,Trafford Road I think it was.I used to backload zinc and copper bars off them for Sheffield,straight off Salford docks,in the 60s.Geoffrey Reyner had an office down there as well IIRC. Springfield in Hull very often used to backload us with timber from a place called Catfoss out towards Beverley or maybe Driffield.I think it was a disused RAF base.

Hi Chris, didn't Springfield Haulage have a depot just outside Howden on the I.I.R.C. the A614 where the M62 used to end.
I am sure that there was a really good transport cafe there and I can remember a swing bridge being somewhere in the area.
Regards Steve.

Hi Steve.Not sure about Springfield at Howden but maybe wheelnut will remember. There was bridge at Boothferry and it was a bit narrow on the bend to the west side.There was a cafe there called the Airmyn IIRC but maybe the one you are thinking of was the Woodside at Rawcliffe Bridge about half a mile from the M62 junction with the A614. It was a really good cafe and a lot of dodgy nights out taken there by drivers from a wide area.
It's a long time since I was in that area - 30 years or more,so I stand corrected on any of the above.

chris.

[Wheel Nut]

Springfield Haulage was another company in Hull and they had an office in Salford,Trafford Road I think it was.I used to backload zinc and copper bars off them for Sheffield,straight off Salford docks,in the 60s.Geoffrey Reyner had an office down there as well IIRC. Springfield in Hull very often used to backload us with timber from a place called Catfoss out towards Beverley or maybe Driffield.I think it was a disused RAF base.

Hi Chris, didn't Springfield Haulage have a depot just outside Howden on the I.I.R.C. the A614 where the M62 used to end.
I am sure that there was a really good transport cafe there and I can remember a swing bridge being somewhere in the area.
Regards Steve.

Hi Steve.Not sure about Springfield at Howden but maybe wheelnut will remember. There was bridge at Boothferry and it was a bit narrow on the bend to the west side.There was a cafe there called the Airmyn IIRC but maybe the one you are thinking of was the Woodside at Rawcliffe Bridge about half a mile from the M62 junction with the A614. It was a really good cafe and a lot of dodgy nights out taken there by drivers from a wide area.
It's a long time since I was in that area - 30 years or more,so I stand corrected on any of the above.

chris.

Bloody hell. I forgot Jacmil

Springfield Haulage definately did have a place at Boothferry Bridge Howden. It was my mum who ran the Resil Plastics traffic office. The cafe was then called Mayphil and was then taken over by a cafe at Wakefield called Redbeck.

This was next door to the TDG warehouse which was originally Econofreight and Gillyot and Scott

[mushroomman]

Springfield Haulage was another company in Hull and they had an office in Salford,Trafford Road I think it was.I used to backload zinc and copper bars off them for Sheffield,straight off Salford docks,in the 60s.Geoffrey Reyner had an office down there as well IIRC. Springfield in Hull very often used to backload us with timber from a place called Catfoss out towards Beverley or maybe Driffield.I think it was a disused RAF base.

Hi Chris, didn't Springfield Haulage have a depot just outside Howden on the I.I.R.C. the A614 where the M62 used to end.
I am sure that there was a really good transport cafe there and I can remember a swing bridge being somewhere in the area.
Regards Steve.

Hi Steve.Not sure about Springfield at Howden but maybe wheelnut will remember. There was bridge at Boothferry and it was a bit narrow on the bend to the west side.There was a cafe there called the Airmyn IIRC but maybe the one you are thinking of was the Woodside at Rawcliffe Bridge about half a mile from the M62 junction with the A614. It was a really good cafe and a lot of dodgy nights out taken there by drivers from a wide area.
It's a long time since I was in that area - 30 years or more,so I stand corrected on any of the above.

chris.

Bloody hell. I forgot Jacmil

Springfield Haulage definately did have a place at Boothferry Bridge Howden. It was my mum who ran the Resil Plastics traffic office. The cafe was then called Mayphil and was then taken over by a cafe at Wakefield called Redbeck.

This was next door to the TDG warehouse which was originally Econofreight and Gillyot and Scott

It was a really good cafe and a lot of dodgy nights out taken there by drivers from a wide area.

That's probably why I remember it Chris.
If I remember it was a white building with a black slate roof and the word's CAFE painted on the roof in huge white letters, which could be seen for miles, it also had a large cinder parking area at the front.

[Wheel Nut]

We have done the Cafe thing elswehere but the cafe's where Wheelnut expanded his stomach on the A63 were Woodside, near Goole /Rawcliffe then to Mayphil at Boothferry bridge, this one looked more like a 1950's holiday camp. Closer to Hull was Normans Cafe and Swifts near Eastrington and then Wembley Cafe in Newport close to the old BP/Mercedes Benz garage.

It sounds like the Woodside Cafe that mushroomman remembers

[mushroomman]

Dont think so m8

Apparently Robertson Dale Haulage was named after 2 Film stars from the olden days

Wish someone had some pictures

Going back to the days of black and white T.V. on bakelite T.V. set's there was a guy called Dale Robertson who starred in I.I.R.C. Wagon Train and Wells Fargo.

Maybe I should nominate him on " Who Is The Oldest Driver " thread as he was still wagon driving about three month's ago on Fox Classic's on satellite T.V.

[moomooland]

I remember Reader Bros well.They used to pull Dutch trailers off the dock and drop them in Humber Street (I think) loaded with lettuce and I used to go and load my wagon when I worked out of Sheffield market in the late 60s.

Here's the best i can do for a picture of an old Readers truck.
Taken on King Edward Street Hull in 1963 hes just coming into the picture from the left

[Wheel Nut]

Some good pictures of Hull Corporation trolley buses too Moomoo. the front one with the ROSS Fish advert.

Any more of Hull Hauliers?

[Archie Paice]

:lol:
You must have an encyclopedia of owd Hull hauliers.
Why couldn't I remember The Eclipse Motor Transport Company,Ferndale Transport and Willow Transport?
The Woodside's getting full now Malc!

But you don't recall Thompsons of Hedon - livestock carriers? Their yard was past BP further up on the left where you turned off for Hedon village - I think
Ran a lot of Leyland/AEC motors,brown livery and I think a couple of drawbar outfits.

they are now KLMS winter
they still do livestock and was a coal merchents until a couple of years ago

Cheers DeanO. I did think KL & S Winter were who Chris was thinking of, but I do have a clouded vision of Thompsons of Hedon. I just can't remember them or the trucks.

Hedon had a few companies running out of there but never as many as North Newbald. There were something like 70 trucks pulling out of there on a Monday morning, there were only about 50 people lived there

A couple of other companies who came to mind recently were Sid Howard who ran out of Capper Pass at Melton,

Ray Allison who was in Welton, Ray retired from haulage when times were hard and then he got a job as an electrician at Crossroads Volvo. I wonder what he would think today, as he thought he got out when things were bad.

Hullo Wheelnut,
You`re certainly right about the ammount of trucks coming out of North Newbald each day. Do you remember though that they were all the nicest turned out vehicles you ever saw, Albert Fishers in that beautiful Pale Blue and Grey, from that farm just past Newbold on the Marker Weighton road, then there was Johnsons, with the first two 140 Scanias that I remember seeing, they were Pale Blue with Johnson in large red lettering on the sides, Glasgow and back each night, and over the old A66 at that. Then of course Tery Cawkwell, LTC, in that very distinctive White and Yellow with Red lettering. Then just up the road not far before the old twisty railway bridge was old man Hydes`wagon parked outside his house each night. There were I think also more O/D`s in the hull area than anywhere else. And me in my old TK or my single cab Scania 110

[Archie Paice]

Hullo again,
I have just had a thought, when I was subbing for MAT Transport, there was a chap called Graham Wells also doing work for them out of TEPS with a couple of TK Bedfords, they were really posh looking Dark Blue with large Gold and Red lettering WELLS CARGO.

[Wheel Nut]

Hullo Wheelnut,
You`re certainly right about the ammount of trucks coming out of North Newbald each day. Do you remember though that they were all the nicest turned out vehicles you ever saw, Albert Fishers in that beautiful Pale Blue and Grey, from that farm just past Newbold on the Marker Weighton road, then there was Johnsons, with the first two 140 Scanias that I remember seeing, they were Pale Blue with Johnson in large red lettering on the sides, Glasgow and back each night, and over the old A66 at that. Then of course Tery Cawkwell, LTC, in that very distinctive White and Yellow with Red lettering. Then just up the road not far before the old twisty railway bridge was old man Hydes`wagon parked outside his house each night. There were I think also more O/D`s in the hull area than anywhere else. And me in my old TK or my single cab Scania 110

Fishers is still going Archie, still a tidy fleet too.

Terry Cawkwell LTC was named because of his wife. Lorraine. It stands for Lorraine and Terry Cawkwell but was regularly altered to Leveritts Travelling Circus as that was her maiden name I believe

Len and Ted Bayram also ran 2 companies from North Newbald, the haulage and the timber.

In fact most of the hauliers were related, not just because it was a small village but just that there were some large families having ties to the local transport industry.

Leveritts
Ken Matthews
Bayrams
PG Herdsman
Hatfields

many people may have seen the white FH powder tankers operated by Simon Gibson who also hails from Newbald.

Other local hauliers were John Thompson from Sancton and Ernest Waudby in North Cave who ran a Scania Vabis and a 140 before the 141.

Just down the road was South Cave and Cleminshaws Transport (Transportkunst) and Sid Howard (Cappers).

Another name to tempt you with, did you have any dealings with Miss Forbes

[Archie Paice]

Hullo Wheelnut,
You`re certainly right about the ammount of trucks coming out of North Newbald each day. Do you remember though that they were all the nicest turned out vehicles you ever saw, Albert Fishers in that beautiful Pale Blue and Grey, from that farm just past Newbold on the Marker Weighton road, then there was Johnsons, with the first two 140 Scanias that I remember seeing, they were Pale Blue with Johnson in large red lettering on the sides, Glasgow and back each night, and over the old A66 at that. Then of course Tery Cawkwell, LTC, in that very distinctive White and Yellow with Red lettering. Then just up the road not far before the old twisty railway bridge was old man Hydes`wagon parked outside his house each night. There were I think also more O/D`s in the hull area than anywhere else. And me in my old TK or my single cab Scania 110

Fishers is still going Archie, still a tidy fleet too.

Terry Cawkwell LTC was named because of his wife. Lorraine. It stands for Lorraine and Terry Cawkwell but was regularly altered to Leveritts Travelling Circus as that was her maiden name I believe

Len and Ted Bayram also ran 2 companies from North Newbald, the haulage and the timber.

In fact most of the hauliers were related, not just because it was a small village but just that there were some large families having ties to the local transport industry.

Leveritts
Ken Matthews
Bayrams
PG Herdsman
Hatfields

many people may have seen the white FH powder tankers operated by Simon Gibson who also hails from Newbald.

Other local hauliers were John Thompson from Sancton and Ernest Waudby in North Cave who ran a Scania Vabis and a 140 before the 141.

Just down the road was South Cave and Cleminshaws Transport (Transportkunst) and Sid Howard (Cappers).

Another name to tempt you with, did you have any dealings with Miss Forbes

Hullo again Wheelnut,
I thought Terry`s missus was Levinia, still as you say it was a combination of his and hers. SHIELA FORBES eh ? A most formidable woman. She lived exactly opposite the LTC yard. I used to get the Scania serviced in there by a moonlighting MAT Fitter, I came out rather late one night from a Service, it was snowing, I had to swing wide as I came out of the Yard and on turning to go up the road my offside rear wheel was in the gutter, on the snow and slush and slight gradient I got stuck, diff lock, no difference, just spinning. I eventually after chucking some sand and gravel down got moving. The next week I got a summons, SHE had got out of bed clocked me, got back into bed and then did me. Do I remember SHIELA FORBES ??

Cheers, Archie.