Here’s a couple from a modern Blackburn firm.
Does anyone recall a haulage company called “John D Potts Transport” from Blackburn in green and red livery. They were bought by Mellings haulage of Preston, who I was working for in the early seventies and I was given one of their two AEC mercury trucks to drive registration no MCW 146H. At the time we were working out of ICI Hillhouse Thornton and Squires Gate Blackpool. If my memory serves me right three drivers came over to Preston from Potts, Ed Donnelly and two brothers I think were named Alan and Ronnie Jackson. The good old days.
I know that East Lancs Warehousing closed down some time ago , have they gone back into business under a different name etc , they always seemed to have a fair amount of work on their books or was it not worth while starting again , and what happened to the family ( Maudsley`s ) who owned the company .
falcoman77:
Does anyone recall a haulage company called “John D Potts Transport” from Blackburn in green and red livery. They were bought by Mellings haulage of Preston, who I was working for in the early seventies and I was given one of their two AEC mercury trucks to drive registration no MCW 146H. At the time we were working out of ICI Hillhouse Thornton and Squires Gate Blackpool. If my memory serves me right three drivers came over to Preston from Potts, Ed Donnelly and two brothers I think were named Alan and Ronnie Jackson. The good old days.
Two drivers from Mellings I remember, George Doherty and Jimmy Foster, both good lads.
Jakdaw:
falcoman77:
Does anyone recall a haulage company called “John D Potts Transport” from Blackburn in green and red livery. They were bought by Mellings haulage of Preston, who I was working for in the early seventies and I was given one of their two AEC mercury trucks to drive registration no MCW 146H. At the time we were working out of ICI Hillhouse Thornton and Squires Gate Blackpool. If my memory serves me right three drivers came over to Preston from Potts, Ed Donnelly and two brothers I think were named Alan and Ronnie Jackson. The good old days.Two drivers from Mellings I remember, George Doherty and Jimmy Foster, both good lads.
After leaving Bridges transport in 1972, I decided to have ago at general haulage thought it would make a change from Parcels. The first week at Mellings, they put me with George running out of Simpsons steel Manchester. What a character he could certainly tell a good tale. He was that good you couldn’t tell fact from fiction. Spent many an hour after work having a pint in between laughing at the Caribbean club that used to be on Kent st with George and a few others. I can’t remember a Jimmy Foster, being on the haulage side we had different start and finish times to tipper and skip drivers. Mick
240 Gardner:
Guesty44:
Jacks transport was another in Blackburn. Holdens was another,They run out of star paper mill.
Killingbeck paid the best money round the area so I was led to believe.
GUESTY44Kenyon is another one in blackburn The transport manager there was dob
Don’know if he is still there
Earl Transport not sure if they were Accrington or not.
He was a relation to Harold Newlove Best T/Manager ever worked under from many years
ago.
GUESTY44
Earl Transport was in Clayton-le-Moors, I think. In the Blackburn area, there was Wood & Butler, Walsh & Dearden (Jos Walsh earlier). Mercer Road Services (wasn’t there a fire…?
), Thos Fox, Joan’s Van Transport, P & G Fogarty, Wilfred Holden, Schofield of Ossy (bought by Wilfred Holden), CSH (who moved into the Killingbeck depot), Kitchen of Darwen (having split out of Ditchfield & Kitchen), Reed Transport, Chapman Group Transport, Jack’s Motors (owned by Gilbraith Tankers), East Lancs Warehousing (previously Maudsley), and several more at various times
Wilfred Holden are now part of WH Malcolm, I believe.
006 by Niall Daniels, on Flickr
003 by Niall Daniels, on Flickr
Seen at a test centre in Dublin yesterday.Tidy looking truck.
Ex Bowker lorry.
Guiy de Montfort:
240 Gardner:
Guesty44:
Jacks transport was another in Blackburn. Holdens was another,They run out of star paper mill.
Killingbeck paid the best money round the area so I was led to believe.
GUESTY44Kenyon is another one in blackburn The transport manager there was dob
Don’know if he is still there
Earl Transport not sure if they were Accrington or not.
He was a relation to Harold Newlove Best T/Manager ever worked under from many years
ago.
GUESTY44Earl Transport was in Clayton-le-Moors, I think. In the Blackburn area, there was Wood & Butler, Walsh & Dearden (Jos Walsh earlier). Mercer Road Services (wasn’t there a fire…?
Wilfred Holden are now part of WH Malcolm, I believe.
Malcolm bought Holden’s in the late 90s
240 Gardner:
Guiy de Montfort:
240 Gardner:
Guesty44:
Jacks transport was another in Blackburn. Holdens was another,They run out of star paper mill.
Killingbeck paid the best money round the area so I was led to believe.
GUESTY44Kenyon is another one in blackburn The transport manager there was dob
Don’know if he is still there
Earl Transport not sure if they were Accrington or not.
He was a relation to Harold Newlove Best T/Manager ever worked under from many years
ago.
GUESTY44Earl Transport was in Clayton-le-Moors, I think. In the Blackburn area, there was Wood & Butler, Walsh & Dearden (Jos Walsh earlier). Mercer Road Services (wasn’t there a fire…?
Wilfred Holden are now part of WH Malcolm, I believe.
Malcolm bought Holden’s in the late 90s
I joined Wilfred Holden’s in 1976, we were taken over by W.H.Malcolm in 1999 and moved over to Bamber Bridge where I remained until I retired in 2005. Shortly after I left Malcolms closed the depot and transferred everything to Haydock. Bowkers have now taken the site into their operation.
falcoman77:
Does anyone recall a haulage company called “John D Potts Transport” from Blackburn in green and red livery. They were bought by Mellings haulage of Preston, who I was working for in the early seventies and I was given one of their two AEC mercury trucks to drive registration no MCW 146H. At the time we were working out of ICI Hillhouse Thornton and Squires Gate Blackpool. If my memory serves me right three drivers came over to Preston from Potts, Ed Donnelly and two brothers I think were named Alan and Ronnie Jackson. The good old days.
I am the grandson of John D. Potts ( his middle name is Deakin ). The business was run from Delph Lane, directly behind the old Fountain pub on Accrington Rd. The garage was a timber construction and housed two vehicles. The main detached house is still occupied but the rest of the site is long gone, passed into the hands of housing developers.
The fleet never exceeded four vehicles all two axle various makes and were employed primarily on I.C.I. work carrying Perspex from the two Darwen mills, Orchard and Brittania and goes back to the 1940’s. As the years went on, two vehicles were running out of Hillhouse works carrying ‘Corvic’ down to the paints division at Hyde. They always delivered and then re-loaded back at Hillhouse ready for an early start next morning. No pallets in those days, all handball!.
The other two were the distance vehicles, mainly ‘Perspex’ up to the Newcastle-upon-Tyne area. In later years they ran into Billingham plastics division with scrap plastic which was processed into pellets and exported. Back loads were found either at Billingham or Wilton works courtesy of W&J Riding.
Sadly, the business was sold to Mellings in 1972. Artics were now firmly established and I.C.I was geared up for 20 ton loads, expansion at Delph Lane was out of the question as was relocation and new vehicles.
The Potts name goes back to the steam days when John Potts & Son carried for Duttons brewery and Eccles Oils of Blackburn using Leyland steam wagons.
J.D.Potts is third on the right.
J.Potts’s Leyland on hire to Eccles Oils whose factory was on Burnley Rd, Blackburn.( Near the entrance to Kenyons Transport ). That is J.D. Potts posing along side. The camera shy driver’s mate is under the front of the wagon!
Does anyone remember a firm called Chew brothers, they had some Seddon Atkinsons, used to load at a place I worked in the 70s
atlas man:
Does anyone remember a firm called Chew brothers, they had some Seddon Atkinsons, used to load at a place I worked in the 70s
Brown-and-white motors in the mid-80s, but I don’t remember them being around for very long
Yes that was them, anybody any pics
Chew Bros were around for quite a while in 50s-80s,their garage was on Highfield road in Blackburn,it is still there next to canal bridge but is now taxis and car repairs etc.
Hiya,
Anybody remember Kings they ran green Seddon four wheeler’s I don’t think
they had anything bigger they had a yard behind Blackburn railway station
and carried mainly Irish beef from off Preston Dock, I did a couple of weeks
holiday relief for them back in the 60s, the hardest job was getting rid of
the dry ice after tipping because it was usually electrical’s back to Preston
and you couldn’t load with a wet insulated box, was asked did I want a full-
time job but I declined, it was one of the rare occasions I’d driven a small
vehicle, I couldn’t half get the speedy Seddon swaying about with all that
swinging beef and me never having done that sort of work before.
thanks harry, long retired.
pantahman:
J.Potts’s Leyland on hire to Eccles Oils whose factory was on Burnley Rd, Blackburn.( Near the entrance to Kenyons Transport ). That is J.D. Potts posing along side. The camera shy driver’s mate is under the front of the wagon!
Two great photos there , it looks like he`s used the grass to stop the steamer from running away