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JAKEY:
Thanks Dean , i hear he be in next week ,but packing only !!!
Hi Steve ,give my best to your brother hope he on the mend soon let me know when you down west see where I am try and meet up
hELLO John , i am loading Monday in Oxford with my brothers motor and the Hoffs motor both got to tip Newton Ferriers by Plymouth tuesday ,i have to dump and run ,The hoff will stay there and be back Wednesday evening ,i was hoping to get to junction 24 cattle market tuesday evening ,where will you be tuesday evening ? 
JAKEY:
hELLO John , i am loading Monday in Oxford with my brothers motor and the Hoffs motor both got to tip Newton Ferriers by Plymouth tuesday ,i have to dump and run ,The hoff will stay there and be back Wednesday evening ,i was hoping to get to junction 24 cattle market tuesday evening ,where will you be tuesday evening ?
Tuesday most probably Plymouth as nothing monday,Tuesday there’s bath,henbury,Exeter,Newton abbot,plymouth so all will be on me so no doubt I will see you ,been to Plymouth today 3 drops and 1 in exeter
smallcoal:
Meeting jokey in Exeter services last night ,nice to see you mate
Jakey that is supposed to be,bloody text on this I pad got mind of it’s own 
Hi Steve ,I’m back in Plymouth tomorrow,got Plymouth,yeovil and taunton not out tomorrow night.my load turned up 8.30 this morning left gardners Exeter 9.30 ,done swindon and bath ran straight back to yard ,got Swindon for Friday ,
Hello John ,
I am so glad we met up after all these years (and with social distancing of coarse ) , lovely chat .
I made it up to Leigh Delamere for the night ,rant to Wallingford and loaded two empties out of our warehouse,ran back to our yard ,washed my brothers truck ,ran to Rygor Cassington to have my wheels torqued up on my truck ,45 at Bp Peartree ,then a quick NHS job in the JR Oxford ,ran back in again then out in the Vito to do two quotes 
Loved seeing your truck and lovely it looked .
Hi Steve mate was a good catch up ,it was actually nice to put a face to each other both trucks look good together hope to meet up more
DEANB:
One of yours Carl.0
Thanks, Dean, We had Marsden build quite a few trailers for us before Vanplan split away and on that occasion We had two trailer chassis in Marsdens at the same time as 2 in Vanplan fot 4 bodies in Thorn Livery. The price of each was the same and the end products were identical but it helped make them competitive on delivery dates and I think it pushed them both on a bit and we got them on the road a bit earlier. Had we known Vanplan were going to photograph we would have made sure our Leyland Comet Tractor unit had clean wheels
Helping my brother clear out his house, prior to sale, we came across the photo of the interior of one of Dad’s vans. It must have been taken before 1948 as Dad’s removals business was nationalised then. I can vaguely read EO without a prefix and four numbers. So, an old Barrow registration. What was unusual for the time was that Dad built his own bodies - in aluminium. He was the type of bloke who could do anything - as I remember he told us that he did the signwriting too. The photo of his yard in Salthouse Rd shows a couple of the vans. Perhaps he should have specialised in building van bodies, it looks professional. When I was about 12 he bought a chassis from Peak Trailers at Stockport and built his own caravan, with a large sliding back door. There was still A B and C licensing then, so he built the caravan to bring larger goods from Manchester back to Barrow for the shop he had then. He could close the curtains and the cops didn’t bother him. And of course we used it for holidays too!
Hello John ,
Thank you for showing us the lovely old photos ,and yes the body looked very nice ,plenty of raves .
Hi all ,what cracking pics ,hi Steve you busy ,I haven’t stopped all week 12 hr shifts except for Thursday 14 hrs ,done 9 hrs 40 driving,done Barnstable,Tavistock,Plymouth,lostwithiel,back to yard ,bloody knackerd thank god for weekend,down Newton abbot monday
Hello John , you look busy mate !! Do you know the layby at Blackwater gate ? we got two wagons soon doing a trans -ship there with a local Barnstaple firm to assist us as its a tight lane 2.7m wide and long and hilly to get to out destination . i most likely have to take the new wagon down again with phil on his motor , i have to dump and run to get back again . 
JAKEY:
Hello John , you look busy mate !!
Hi Steve where is that as not ringing any bells with me,I on Newton abbot Monday so early start again 