nigelhunt:
Great pictures lads.I remember the brewliner volvos being based at NEWARK in courage livery.At that time it was one of the best driving
jobs you could get.Tried once but you had to wait for someone to die ,and with all jobs its not what you know its who you know.
Newark was a very well known for its breweries in the 1960s.JAMES HOLES brewery one end of the town,and WARICKS and RITCHARDSONS
the other.Now converted into living accomidation,but still standing.
Your right about it being one of the best jobs,I was on watneys which became brewliners.I worked out of mortlake brewery doing night trunk up to halifax,huddersfield,and tadcaster.My p60 when i was made redundent in 1993 was 36k.If you went sick you got as much mony as if you were working.In the end the drivers were earning more than managment so courage took over the trunking then scottish an newcastle.When brewliners started they had approx 72 volvo,s and 300 trailers.Half the units were based at transport avenue brentford and half at huddersfield in hoyers yard in leeds road.There were day and night drivers,all the nights were drop and pick up,sunday night start through to thursday then friday over time if you wanted it.In the 11years i worked there i think only 1 person left and that was a drink driver.
Hi boyzee do you remember a lad on there by the name of Eddie Nuttall plus a mate of his called ■■ Montgomery both came onto brewliners from wilsons/watney @ manchester,made redundant when it finnished
Im sorry Stanfield i don,t remember the names of any of the drivers from any of the other depots as i was on nights most of the time.
Some photo’s, one I posted on the tanker thread, most of the smaller breweries seem to have dissappeared, presumably bought out by the national companies but I wonder how many of the older names that are around are still truly independant and family run
TautlinerTerry:
Hello everyone and how are you?? At long last I’ve scanned in three pics of a Simonds ERF. This Lorry is a Tug and used to pull a drawbar trailer and it dates from the 1930’s era (I’m not sure exactly when). It was restored by Courages and sat in The Berkshire Brewery, Reading. I took these shots in 1993 and as now the brewery has shut I wonder what happened to it? Does anyone know?
Lovely photos Terry. The registration dates from november 1948 (Reading), although the cab does seem older. The interesting thing is that I’ve just bought a Dyson Trailers catalogue from 1950 which has a 3/4 rear view of this (or an identical) wagon pulling a new Dyson-built six-wheel tanker trailer. The wagon is carrying eight large and eight small barrels in its body, although whether these are full of beer or something heavier as ballast is not explained. It’s a shame that the registration number is not visible in the catalogue picture. The trailer is a low-slung affair with ackerman steering and a tandem rear bogie, all on large single tyres. These trailers could be transported on railway flat wagons for longer journeys, and had two huge anchor rings on either side of the tank for lashing down. What colour was Simonds’ livery?
Fodenway.
The only way to describe this colour is that it was a pale orange coulour-an odd one to describe-it just happened that i had b/w film in me camera !!
Not strictly a brewery wagon but Pickfords used to have contracts with several brewers for moving finished beer up and down the county, used to move a lot for Greenalls and Whitbread IIRC
nigelhunt:
Great pictures lads.I remember the brewliner volvos being based at NEWARK in courage livery.At that time it was one of the best driving
jobs you could get.Tried once but you had to wait for someone to die ,and with all jobs its not what you know its who you know.
Newark was a very well known for its breweries in the 1960s.JAMES HOLES brewery one end of the town,and WARICKS and RITCHARDSONS
the other.Now converted into living accomidation,but still standing.
Your right about it being one of the best jobs,I was on watneys which became brewliners.I worked out of mortlake brewery doing night trunk up to halifax,huddersfield,and tadcaster.My p60 when i was made redundent in 1993 was 36k.If you went sick you got as much mony as if you were working.In the end the drivers were earning more than managment so courage took over the trunking then scottish an newcastle.When brewliners started they had approx 72 volvo,s and 300 trailers.Half the units were based at transport avenue brentford and half at huddersfield in hoyers yard in leeds road.There were day and night drivers,all the nights were drop and pick up,sunday night start through to thursday then friday over time if you wanted it.In the 11years i worked there i think only 1 person left and that was a drink driver.
Hi boyzee do you remember a lad on there by the name of Eddie Nuttall plus a mate of his called ■■ Montgomery both came onto brewliners from wilsons/watney @ manchester,made redundant when it finnished
Think Roy Carling and Andy Swift came from Brewliners, then Joined the courage Dray fleet Manchester “Lordy”
This is one of the old Brewliners from Fountain Head Halifax, I was the HGV instructor at Websters, Newton Heath, Manchester, Great job getting the Dray lads through there test “LORDY”
boyzee: This is the only photo i have taken in 1985.Brewliners was previously,watneys,then courage took over in around 1992?The tractor unit in this photo ended its days as a shunter for courages in their brooklands depot.It was a real shame as it got knocked about an smashed up while in the yard at brooklands.
Hi Just a quick Tale My dad used to to work for Howcrofts In Bolton and on my birth Certificate 1957 reads Occupation of Father // Motor Driver (Brewery) He worked along side my uncle Jeff (Robinson ) and apparently you were allowed so many free pints per day whilst you where working ie when you stopped at the pub to unload. The old Man wasn’t much of a drinker so i am not sure how accurate the tale is perhaps any of you Mancs may know?.
Yes very true.As soon as dad finished unloading malt at the brewery,there was always somebody to point him in the direction of the [tap room ].
Help yourself drive was the pun.In them days it was classed as the norm.Dad never got drunk but we always used to stop in a lay-by on the way
back,for him to have his five minuites rest.I spent many hours bored in the passenger side,waiting for him to finish his so called break.
You wouldn’t get away with it today.Mind you he drove lorries for over 40 years trouble free,he was a stickler for time and an ambasadore
to his company,at that time A.B.M maltings.
Hi Nigelhunt,
Ito have great memories of Brewery life I worked in a small Brewery called Rayments of Pelham in the 60’s, they were based in Hertfordshire but belonged to a Larger Company Greene King Ltd of Bury St Edmunds Suffolk and are still a major Brewer in the south of england.
If you have any photos of Samuel Smiths Austins from Tadcaster i would like to see them as i have a 1960 Austin FFk 140 in preservation see enc Photos + some from the rallies i have attended.
This is the only photo i have taken in 1985.Brewliners was previously,watneys,then courage took over in around 1992?The tractor unit in this photo ended its days as a shunter for courages in their brooklands depot.It was a real shame as it got knocked about an smashed up while in the yard at brooklands.
