hiya,
worked for the brs 3 times. i have said this previously the only proper job i ever had if it was still going the transport industry would have been a better place for everybody who didn’t like wearing spurs, when the last depot i was at closed i packed the distance work in and just did local for the local authority until i retired my class 1 expired half way through my last week and believe me iv’e never missed it, the brs where the best days of my life thanks harry long retired.
Hi nianiamh
You could`nt turn the codes into photos could you or is there something I have to do to view them
Regards Frenchy
frenchy:
Hi nianiamh
You could`nt turn the codes into photos could you or is there something I have to do to view them
Regards Frenchy
Ive posted 10 pics there Frenchy, there all from my photobucket album and posted the same as i always have havnt a clue why you cant see them,
Is anyone else having trouble veiwing them 
pics come up perficccc
hiya,
pics ok with me and they are brilliant too,thanks happy new year to everybody,thanks harry long retired.
HI Frenchy, your old steam computor mut be playing up, because the photo’s are fab. Sandman norman
Does anyone happen to have a list of depot codes ?. I have the BRS Book “The Early Years 1948 - 1953” but it seems they changed them after this time.
I’m trying to sort out photos and match them to depots, but I am struggling. Any help would be greatly appreciated
Cheers
Happy New year
Brian Edgar
Dya know Norman all the photo postings have opened perfectly ,Im dissapointed I cant open nianiamh , Ive logged onto photobucket and tried to paste em but no luck .
Bedgar047 , All I can tell you was Southampton was AS and in 1972 became RC , Bristol was AB and became RB , might help contacting the BRS association , there is a following they had thier 60th anniversary run 2008 .
Frenchy
A few more in the colours of other contracts at Wrexham depot, all posted before but nice to stick em in this thread
This first pics was kindly sent to me by truckerash, with a load of free bar beer on 
Later Tetra Pak colours, but sadly without it matching trailer
The next few are out of the books i have
And this one from the tinterweb
Frenchy, its ashame about the photo’s, I go around the mountains to get things, I would print them, then scan the prints, into my gallery, then send them to my mates, but I would end up with them ha ha ha, a bit like me driving to Glasgow via Cardiff.
Bravo Nianiamh
What have you done for me to view all them cracking pictures , makes you misty eyed don`t it . Beats the Fleet of rusty red heaps we had .
Many thanks , Frenchy
frenchy:
Bravo Nianiamh
What have you done for me to view all them cracking pictures , makes you misty eyed don`t it . Beats the Fleet of rusty red heaps we had .
Many thanks , Frenchy
Havnt a clue whats gone on with the pics, just glad you can now veiw them Frenchy :smiley: Since weve gone from BRS to Exel and now DHL all we have now is white units with blue trailers so not really worth looking at,
I cant see anyone in 20yrs asking if theres anyone with pics of plain white & blue motors, can you
This could have been Southampton for this Western BRS GUY but I am having trouble placing it with the Abbey National in the background.
Hi gazzer
Deafinately a Southern Lorry and that step frame trailer looks like it mightve been one of Southamptons cable carriers but cant make out the fleet codes so it could`ve been anyone of the southern depots .
Great pic though , keep em coming .
nianiamh
Been fiddling with Photobucket and Got all you pics now , many thanks .
Frenchy
Frenchy, when I saw those tankers, it brought back memories, we used to go there regular, I was there till they shut it down, they was going to close it twice, but they kept it on when they had problems at Carlsberg Nortrhampton.
Hi Norman
Another pic of the old Red and Rust .
I hope youll forgive my withered memory but Im at a loss as to what Tankers you refer mate .
Frenchy
frenchy:
Hi Norman
Another pic of the old Red and Rust .
I hope youll forgive my withered memory but Im at a loss as to what Tankers you refer mate .
Frenchy
The photo’s on this page ,you poor old frog, bright blue and got Wrexham Brewery on the tank, Brs used to run the contract, Ha Ha Ha, and I thought I was getting a little over the hilllllllll, bye norman
Alan Spilett a former HGV driver, now a commercial transport artist has done a few BRS paintings, if you look on his website called Roadscapes you will see whats available.
Dave the Renegade:
Alan Spilett a former HGV driver, now a commercial transport artist has done a few BRS paintings, if you look on his website called Roadscapes you will see whats available.
Thanks Dave nice of you to tell us Sandman Norman
bedgar 047,
Only just looked at this site, l not been on forum long. l have a handbook the abc of BRS, lists all the depot area/district codes, 1st published in 1952, lists how many wagons & what size, whether 4/6/8 wheelers based at each depot. l also have my dads old copy of the BRS drivers handbook, not sure of exact year he was given it, but he was a Tramper out of Oxford from 1950-1958.