Suedehead:
harry_gill:
Suedehead:
Adrian Cypher pic. Fao harry_gillHiya,
Harry Gill’s phoned in sick.
Orr Bless him. 
Harry has an allergy you know.
If somebody would disconnect the hose pipe and remove the bucket and the brush from the yard, then I am sure that he will be in first thing in the morning. 
Meanwhile, in the last month there have been several claims (with photographic evidence) for bad back injuries at the Bootle Benefits Office.
Spardo:
Ray Smyth:
I found this picture on the Bootle History Forum. I am fairly sure that it is a B.R.S six wheeler from
Greenheys depot in Manchester, and it has a Bolton number plate. I dont know if the driver is the
chap stood up on the lorry, or the boiler suit man on the left. The location is Gladstone Dock in
Liverpool, dated August 9th 1965. In addition to the 5 dockers unloading the sacks off the lorry,
there would be another 5 of them down in the hold of the ship unloading the nets of sacks.The steel plate on the overhead travelling crane shows Stothert & Pitt, Engineers, Bath. My Mother,
born 1918, lived as a child directly opposite Stothert & Pitt factories on the Lower Bristol Road, Bath.Ray Smyth.
The dockers, to be working like that, must have been on a special ‘closing’ bonus, otherwise the driver would have been on his own apart from a man with a clipboard. If a ship was due to be sailing money was thrown at it to get it away.
If that photo is genuine (not posed) it’s worth a fortune in rarity value. Gladstone dockers just didn’t, wouldn’t, couldn’t work like that.
Hiya,
Vot is dis voshing, mi chauffeur.
Don’t tell him Pike. 
There are a couple of B.R.S. motors on here with a C.H. depot code which I always thought was Cheetham Hill (Manchester).
I had three mates who worked at B.R.S. at Cheetham Hill in the seventies and I am sure that they always referred to it as Red Bank.
They all said that it was the best U.K. job that they ever had.
Sorry if this has been posted before and the credit must go to whoever made the video.
mushroomman:
Don’t tell him Pike.There are a couple of B.R.S. motors on here with a C.H. depot code which I always thought was Cheetham Hill (Manchester).
I had three mates who worked at B.R.S. at Cheetham Hill in the seventies and I am sure that they always referred to it as Red Bank.
They all said that it was the best U.K. job that they ever had.Sorry if this has been posted before and the credit must go to whoever made the video.
Ch fleet was Queensferry depot if my memory is right all the best Alan
bridgend:
mushroomman:
Don’t tell him Pike.There are a couple of B.R.S. motors on here with a C.H. depot code which I always thought was Cheetham Hill (Manchester).
I had three mates who worked at B.R.S. at Cheetham Hill in the seventies and I am sure that they always referred to it as Red Bank.
They all said that it was the best U.K. job that they ever had.Sorry if this has been posted before and the credit must go to whoever made the video.
Ch fleet was Queensferry depot if my memory is right all the best Alan
Yes CH,was the former Queensferry Deeside fleet ,Trevor
tastrucker:
bridgend:
mushroomman:
Don’t tell him Pike.There are a couple of B.R.S. motors on here with a C.H. depot code which I always thought was Cheetham Hill (Manchester).
I had three mates who worked at B.R.S. at Cheetham Hill in the seventies and I am sure that they always referred to it as Red Bank.
They all said that it was the best U.K. job that they ever had.Sorry if this has been posted before and the credit must go to whoever made the video.
Ch fleet was Queensferry depot if my memory is right all the best Alan
Yes CH,was the former Queensferry Deeside fleet ,Trevor
Cheetham Hill,I am sure was C.P. on old depot code[stand corrected]
Dai
Thanks to Alan, Trev and Dai for the info.
Hi ALL RE THE GLADSTONE PHOTO,
unbelievable, 2 on the lorry and the tea leaf all have their dockers hooks ,2 in the pockets and one using it ,if their was any handball on any lorry the dockers would not get on the back and unload[not our job driver] however what you see is a miracle also the driver on the left has not got standard BRS overalls ,also he has his had on the bung ,also along the rave there are letters not BRS. my view .
also it is 60]%a clan line boat [white samson posts]and derricks].dbp
peggydeckboy:
Hi ALL RE THE GLADSTONE PHOTO,
unbelievable, 2 on the lorry and the tea leaf all have their dockers hooks ,2 in the pockets and one using it ,if their was any handball on any lorry the dockers would not get on the back and unload[not our job driver] however what you see is a miracle also the driver on the left has not got standard BRS overalls ,also he has his had on the bung ,also along the rave there are letters not BRS. my view .
also it is 60]%a clan line boat [white samson posts]and derricks].dbp
I think you’ll find GWH 312 was indeed a BRS lorry, DBP. It was a Leyland Octopus and it was immortalised by Mike Jeffries in this picture of it on the road.
ERF-NGC-European:
peggydeckboy:
Hi ALL RE THE GLADSTONE PHOTO,
unbelievable, 2 on the lorry and the tea leaf all have their dockers hooks ,2 in the pockets and one using it ,if their was any handball on any lorry the dockers would not get on the back and unload[not our job driver] however what you see is a miracle also the driver on the left has not got standard BRS overalls ,also he has his had on the bung ,also along the rave there are letters not BRS. my view .
also it is 60]%a clan line boat [white samson posts]and derricks].dbpI think you’ll find GWH 312 was indeed a BRS lorry, DBP. It was a Leyland Octopus and it was immortalised by Mike Jeffries in this picture of it on the road.
Also not true PDB that Liverpool dockers never got on the wagon and handballed when it suited them. I have reported before of the load of whisky I brought from Dumbarton bond in 1966, which they handballed completely while I was away ‘searching for change to pay for labour’. All I did was remove the ropes and sheets and roll them up and secure them afterwards. They swarmed all over the wagon as soon as I exposed the load and I stayed away long enough to make sure I didn’t touch even one case.
That was my revenge for a previous experience where I had to unload totally alone a high and wide load of cartoned Raleigh bikes, quite apart from the fact that it was late in the day and I had had enough, but they insisted, the boat was finishing and they were on a bonus to get it away.
I have got to agree with you David, they would help you unload when it suited them. 
I remember taking a load of biscuits from Scotland down to the King George 5th Dock in London. The phrase 'like a tramp on a bag of chips ’ springs to mind.
mushroomman:
I have got to agree with you David, they would help you unload when it suited them.I remember taking a load of biscuits from Scotland down to the King George 5th Dock in London. The phrase 'like a tramp on a bag of chips ’ springs to mind.
That reminds me of the Dogana at Aosta after seeing that I had a load of magazines bound for England. They thought they were those horrible ■■■ and violence ones we found in the printing works where we loaded. Should have seen their faces when they saw the Wickes catalogues. 
yes ok ,maybe that was a BRS lorry however in that photo ? ,also yes with the whiskey, you must have had to stay in a BRS depot on the way down, dockers they would be like rats up a drain for any spirits ,normally loaded in a strong room within the cargo hold however they would all still be ■■■■■■ drop one case on its edge drip in to a cup.
Help with general cargo no way, unless edible. they would show you where to handball it then leave the checker, we even had to sling the case cars ,before they made the cases with the base for fork lifts.dbp.
peggydeckboy:
yes ok ,maybe that was a BRS lorry however in that photo ? ,also yes with the whiskey, you must have had to stay in a BRS depot on the way down, dockers they would be like rats up a drain for any spirits ,normally loaded in a strong room within the cargo hold however they would all still be ■■■■■■ drop one case on its edge drip in to a cup.Help with general cargo no way, unless edible. they would show you where to handball it then leave the checker, we even had to sling the case cars ,before they made the cases with the base for fork lifts.dbp.
The name on the rave is Greenheys, which was a BRS Manchester branch. Looking back over the 131 pages of this thread it would seem that lettering wasn’t fully standardised. Some are thick brush, some are thin; some words are double-spaced and some aren’t. Size too would have to differ according to the huge variety of vehicle types and makes. Some of the raves are lettered in white on red, whilst others are red on a white panel. Depots would probably have used local signwriters.
PDB:
also yes with the whisky, you must have had to stay in a BRS depot on the way down,
Not BRS, never worked for them, this was a regular backload from Glasgow for Ilkeston Hauilage to all English ports. No overnighting at depots, there were none and we slept where we could in lay-bys, when the police weren’t moving us on that is, didn’t want a major crime on their own patch. Perhaps that is why we never got asked for our log books, they knew how we were running and didn’t want to know. 
This must have been quite an early BRS acquisition:
Looking at this picture, when BRS introduced the new area liveries and the new logo in about '73, they must have been running some fairly old kit still in good nick to have gone to the trouble of re-painting them!
les
The first company I drove for in 1973 they ceased trading a few years later, Toft Brother’s and Tomlinson of Darley Dale, their logo can still be seen on this BRS lorry.
A rare visit to my BRS album these days but this Jensen i thought was worth a mention , my memory is of aluminium construction and with a 3O ft overall length giving a body of 26 ft and within the under 3 ton unladen allowing the 30mph limit of the day . They were largely used by Coventry depot for Massey Ferguson tractor deliveries which were loaded across the body, With a Perkins P6 and a Eaton two speed axle they did not hang about either ! – –
Toshboy
