Brill silver fox
Used to have a couple of them off aucotts as shunters at the mill, & a 4 wheeler rigid which i had a night out def not the most comfartable.
Not the best quality picture but interesting all the same. This picture is taken looking down Wm Rowe & Sons workshop at Elford. Down the right hand side is two Volvo F6’s of Swish Products, down the middle is one of Rowes Roadtrains and down the right hand side is one of Hayton Coulthards Scania’s from Twyholm Scotland which ran for Eternit. Picture taken 1990.
brings back a few memories andy working with ■■■■ in the front garage doing clutches on the swish f6 s
CRAIG-D:
gunnerheskey:
Superb thread lads, and some excellent pics.
Thoroughly enjoyed trawling through it, and can remember most of the old firms on here !
Specially the Simon J Sargent pics, can remember his maiden voyage with his brand new 1st Magnum, the red one. And Truck magazine were present at Pinnacles yard in Narborough photgraphing his every move . I was running france on traction for Pinnacle International Leicester, and we all ran down to dover together about 91’.hi gunnerheskey dont know if youll remember my dad aswell he did work for pinnicale with simon sargent too doing germany and swiss iirc he had the red n white 1635 or a red n white f12 maybe…we park in the same yard now as simon
Hi Craig D, yes i do remember seeing your dad about in the merc and the F12, also the firm i used to drive for in the early 90s AML Transport of leicester used to do traction for TNT and always saw Deeley’s at the hub in Atherstone.
Who was the driver on Deeleys with the blonde teddy boy type ■■■■■, big red dock martin boots ? used to see him there a lot …
gunnerheskey:
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gunnerheskey:
Superb thread lads, and some excellent pics.
Thoroughly enjoyed trawling through it, and can remember most of the old firms on here !
Specially the Simon J Sargent pics, can remember his maiden voyage with his brand new 1st Magnum, the red one. And Truck magazine were present at Pinnacles yard in Narborough photgraphing his every move . I was running france on traction for Pinnacle International Leicester, and we all ran down to dover together about 91’.hi gunnerheskey dont know if youll remember my dad aswell he did work for pinnicale with simon sargent too doing germany and swiss iirc he had the red n white 1635 or a red n white f12 maybe…we park in the same yard now as simon
Hi Craig D, yes i do remember seeing your dad about in the merc and the F12, also the firm i used to drive for in the early 90s AML Transport of leicester used to do traction for TNT and always saw Deeley’s at the hub in Atherstone.
Who was the driver on Deeleys with the blonde teddy boy type ■■■■■, big red dock martin boots ? used to see him there a lot …
hi gunner heskey the driver would have been Dale Cottrill …he died about 15 yrs ago now i think …you prob remember lenny harris that drove for us he was the canteen clown look a bit like roy orbison sadly no longer with us anymore too …if i remember right the pic of the truck on your profile used to get painted at k-spray at lutterworth who we use to use too aka keith and lou
Hi craig
did you used to do some haulage for briers into smurfits till they brought there over the top 500 merc i think your cousin drove that didnt he, mick harris?
i uesd to work for briers when i was 19 for 3 n half years starting on a 7.5t then on to the 17t and 6 wheeler then after starting working for my dad we started doing there artic work baled card and plastics bulk bags of granulated plastics and hazardous waste …mick uesd to driver the 8 wheeler rel and the artic but hes not my cousin we known each other since we were kids as our dads knew each other for years …but ive not seen him on there for a bit now and i havent spoken to him for a bit
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brings back a few memories andy working with ■■■■ in the front garage doing clutches on the swish f6 s
Yes mate me to it was a long time ago now, ■■■■ was a good man.
time seems to fly by now doesnt it andy …was talking to a agency driver with my dad in tnt the other day who came from cliffton campville and they started remanising how ward ys drivers keept the green man going …remember going to the pub in elford when we finished for one xmas with you and others out the garage and getting a lift home in your 2.0s n you what ever you do dont throw up in here lol 
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time seems to fly by now doesnt it andy …was talking to a agency driver with my dad in tnt the other day who came from cliffton campville and they started remanising how ward ys drivers keept the green man going …remember going to the pub in elford when we finished for one xmas with you and others out the garage and getting a lift home in your 2.0s n you what ever you do dont throw up in here lol
Both drivers and Directors of Wards kept the Green Man going, alot of Wards truck purchasing was done in the Green Man with George Ward and salesman over quite a few beverages, them were the days!!.
I was only looking at the 2.0s yesterday and thinking i must get it out this summer!.
Tamworth1:
Both drivers and Directors of Wards kept the Green Man going, alot of Wards truck purchasing was done in the Green Man with George Ward and salesman over quite a few beverages, them were the days!!.
I was only looking at the 2.0s yesterday and thinking i must get it out this summer!.
yes on fine days and dry days
Before the days of Smurit it was Alders Paper Mills Tamworth, Pictured here loaded with reels this D series Ford was only days old. Picture taken at Alders Paper Mill Lichfield road Tamworth in 1974.
Another company not far away from Tamworth is Charles Hines Removals from Lichfield one of the oldest removal companies in the area, pictured is a very smart Thames Trader in Wintertons sale yard in Lichfield.
Another company not far from Tamworth was Alrewas Mills Ltd. Top picture shows driver Frank Harrison with his Foden FG6/15 eight wheeler with a very large load of sugar beet. The bottom picture shows driver
George Prince ready to load at the Alrewas Mill. Both pictures taken late 50’s early 60’s.
Tamworth1:
Another company not far from Tamworth was Alrewas Mills Ltd. Top picture shows driver Frank Harrison with his Foden FG6/15 eight wheeler with a very large load of sugar beet. The bottom picture shows driver
George Prince ready to load at the Alrewas Mill. Both pictures taken late 50’s early 60’s.
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hi andy is that what was later called MPP mills that ran the orange erf s and constructor
theses used to run out of hopwas quarry iirc
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Tamworth1:
Another company not far from Tamworth was Alrewas Mills Ltd. Top picture shows driver Frank Harrison with his Foden FG6/15 eight wheeler with a very large load of sugar beet. The bottom picture shows driver
George Prince ready to load at the Alrewas Mill. Both pictures taken late 50’s early 60’s.
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Yes Craig MPP mills ran out of the same place many years later, when Rowe’s looked after their vehicles they had a mammoth major, a C & E series ERF, after that they had a Volvo F7 IIRC all eight wheelers.
Euro SDB Ltd a member of UPN based on Lichfield road ind est Tamworth.
Atkinson heavy haulage tractor unit converted into a recovery vehicle by CTS of Tamworth, many years later operated by Clarke’s Transport.
A very tidy ■■■■■■■ powered Scammell Roadtrain with high datum cab of Distillers MG from coleshill, picture taken 1988.
