yes i should have some more but they are hiding in negatives as lost the prints. and it will take some time to locate them.
regards bill.
the trucks with yellow stripes were currie uk . the ones with the yellow and white were european trucks.
regards bill.
Hello Bill, I think I know you. Looking for some Currie photos as mine vanished. Can we do a deal, don’t be too hard on me I am getting on a bit. ■■? ££££££
Look forward to your comments
hi burningoil when i am back in the uk we will meet up and i will give you a copy of my curries photos
regards bill.
Fantastic photos!!! You can never take enough photos.
thank you scaniamanv8 for your post.
regards bill.
Many thanks to all for clarifying why the liveries differed.
added a few newer curries white truck pictures.
regards captmarvell
captmarvel:
http://www.trucknetuk.com/phpBB/gallery/album.php?album_id=437
During your time at Welch Transport, did you come across a big bloke called Malcolm Pierce. He moved up to Yorkshire and drank in the local pub where my friend lived?
Cheers Cap’n, just spent a happy hour browsing through those photos of yours (large malt in hand).
Absolutely brilliant sir!!
Never knew Curries ran Macks. Were they popular - apart from the flash factor?
Cheers again and thanks vm
MacD
hi macdangerous, curries had only one mac in their colours. owned by alister peters [ owner driver ]
he turned it over in france on the N1 from calais to paris, when the spare wheel fell off,
he then had to wait months to get a new cab from the states.
Thanks again Capt.
Looking at all those photos got me thinking about Curries again.
I’ve always thought of them as international hauliers, but saw your post about the UK fleet. All the Curries motors I remember seeing loading were export loads - did they do much UK work? And who were their customers?
Questions, questions huh? 
While I’m at it, might as well ask another one - how did they get started? Can’t recall seeing any old photos of Curries wagons (unless you count the 70s, which isn’t old for me - that’s when I was about!).
macdangerous:
Thanks again Capt.Looking at all those photos got me thinking about Curries again.
I’ve always thought of them as international hauliers, but saw your post about the UK fleet. All the Curries motors I remember seeing loading were export loads - did they do much UK work? And who were their customers?
Questions, questions huh?
While I’m at it, might as well ask another one - how did they get started? Can’t recall seeing any old photos of Curries wagons (unless you count the 70s, which isn’t old for me - that’s when I was about!).
Brilliant questions mac, I often wondered these things myself. I read a commercial motor article about them around 1982-83 it said that there was three transport companies;- european, UK, forwarding. The two fleets (UK, european) had about 18 vehicles each plus numerous subbies. The UK customers appeared to be WCF West ■■■■■■■■■■ Farmers, SAI and Uniroyal.
From what I understand Norman Curries family owned J + J Currie an agricultural company, he branched out in to fuels starting Curries Fuels based in Dumfriesshire and ■■■■■■■ this company was sold to WCF, later he started Wallace Oils which he sold to Carrs and he also had a plastics business in Dumfries.
I am not too sure how he got into haulage and about his partnership with Johnstone, no doubt Captmarvel “bill” shall enlighten us. I remember the article quoting someone called Henderson who appeared to manage the company. There was someone called Sharky who posts on here who was involved in managing the european side of the business in the early 90’s.
Here is Brian Edgars photos of Curries, Curries of Dumfries (Currieuropean), Dumfries, Dumfriesshire, Scotland album | Brian Edgar | Fotki.com, photo and video sharing made easy.
Curries fuels used to load out of Workington docks using a couple of Foden tankers and believe that they used to do the European haulage for Workington based Pentagon Chemicals, they were a common sight in West ■■■■■■■ in the 80’s and 90’s.
I have really enjoyed looking at captmarvels photos and reading his comments about Curries.
aye, j+j currie was a fair sized firm in its day ,all merc 6x4,8x4 tippers , bloody italians that had the contract for the new m74 build ,ran with the money a lot of people went down due to them ,j+j had to sell 99% of the fleet,they
ran a couple o trucks on with lk walther ,a merc& a scania (talking back a few yrs before i leftuk). rab patterson ex currie euro,pollocks drove the merc.
j+j currie is based at lockerbie road dumfries still run tippers+low loaders
presto51:
j+j currie is based at lockerbie road dumfries still run tippers+low loaders
They are based at Dargavel Stores, Lockerbie Road, Dumfries which was Curries original depot. If you look at the old Curries photos they have a Collin telephone number on them.
jimmy johnstone was norman curries partner when currie european started, jimmy also ran one truck painted, Currie and Johnstone European, as was the O licence in that name.
currie did a lot of european work from ■■■■■■■ mainly Sidac from Wigton. and Smiths Packaging and medical. from all arround Whitehaven.
sorry forgot to answer the uk question. Curries uk work from Dumfries was mainly treadair from Uniroyal at Heathhall. and ICI from Cargenbridge.
is j d enginering at dargavel stores any conections with curries uk/european
no jd engineering is owned by john miller.