2cnd that, Excellent pics moomoo 
RE-ELK MILL PHOTO,I THINK THE TRUCK IS A LEYLAND HIPPO AND WAS OWNED BY T SCHOFEILD &SONS OF ROYTON. THE DRIVER THIRD FROM LEFT WAS JACK METCALF WHO WORKED THERE ALONG WITH MY FATHER IN THE EARLY FIFTYS. ALSO RE- OLDHAM H.G.V.DRIVERS BENIFIT â â â THIS WAS FORMED IN THE SEVENTIES BY ROY HARRIS DAVE BURNS JACK PINDER JACK KERSHAW & TERRY MAYES SADDLY TERRY PASSED AWAY ABOUT THREE YEARS AGO.HOPE THIS IS SOME HELP
Does anyone know the chap on the right. He is Freddy Brown from Wigon. He had two sons the eldist was called Stephen, the last I heard of his son he was running a F10.This photo was taken 1976/77 south of France. Freddy did used to work with us out of Garston docks Liverpool then did one trip for Chapman and Ball to the ME in a Daf 2200. He then brought this F88 and started Europe.I have not seen them for at least 20 years. By the way thats me on the left with the 110.
Here is another one off Freddys Volvo with my father Peter Millington posing.
Regards Keith.
i remember prescotts transport my dad drove for them sammy broderick excellent on the rope and sheeting
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my dad also drove for prescotts for over 2oyears, i remember sammy broaderick well, i am sure he use to do a mean donald duck impression he drove for them when they were proper drivers, not like pretenders who joined the firm later .i have told my dad that sammys name came up on here, he remembers him with fondness.
my dad worked for sammy scotts & j l townson his name is mick milburn,he might have drove the f88 pictured i just cant make the reg out,he drove PBA 310R & peter kenworthy drove PBA 309R,before they moved on to f10s,townsons were on bell street oldham behind the bus garage,they got bought out by sadler tankers thats were i started by washing the trucks.it all came to an end when stillers bought them out,m milburn & p kenworthy are still working for stillers.
all the best to your dad ,sadly sam past away few years now he may remember as you the old atkis ,then the whent and spoilt him with a ford d1000 i can remember when he took the side engine panel of the atki may be erf not sure to keep warm of the x manifold i can remember the cold mornings he would get us out of bed 4am yes 4am and crowbar back wheels to bump start that bone shaker atki 150 but i whent in a few feet left us in smoke zone pip on horn and away thanks
dessert driver:
Does anyone know the chap on the right. He is Freddy Brown from Wigon. He had two sons the eldist was called Stephen, the last I heard of his son he was running a F10.This photo was taken 1976/77 south of France. Freddy did used to work with us out of Garston docks Liverpool then did one trip for Chapman and Ball to the ME in a Daf 2200. He then brought this F88 and started Europe.I have not seen them for at least 20 years. By the way thats me on the left with the 110.
Here is another one off Freddys Volvo with my father Peter Millington posing.
Regards Keith.
fred and jean are still going doing swiss 3or 4 trucks, steve still drives for his mam and dad eric works for montys from heysham,
I worked for london carriers in the 80s/90 we where based at heywood int est. I remember these tractor units coming in to the depot no one wanted to drive them we also got some ridges in as well they where a bag of junk
davepenn54:
Courtaulds Ltd; Northern Spinning Division whose massive transport depot was next to the British Areospace factory on Greengate, Middleton, Gtr. Manchester.
How about Alfred Bells?
Hello Big J Guy, itâs great to hear from you, sorry to hear about Terry Mayes
( Maizy ), I worked with Terry in 1973 and had many a good Saturday night out with him and his wife Pat and also Johnnie Anker, another one of Sammy Scotts drivers. Strangely enough, when I saw that photo of Moomoolandâs Remploy Ford D series I thought that driver looked a bit like Terry. By the way Moomoo that picture of the E. & D. Atki lookâs familiar, could that be Middleton Road, Chadderton in the background ?.
Another lad who was mentioned who I had the pleasure of working with and had great respect for was Dave Burnâs, as you might know he was a great lad Dave, did he ever marry Marlene and does he still drink in The Farewell on Lees Road ?.
Thanks for the info on The Elk Mill photo and I am glad that you remember The Oldham Heavy Goodâs Vehicle Drivers Benefit Association, did you ever go to one of their doâs ?, I bet that Jack Kershaw can remember them.
From what I can remember, The Driverâs Benefit Association was started in The Streetbridge pub which was on Becket Meadow Street and not Welly Hole Street as I mentioned on an earlier post, although I can remember a couple of Townson Tanker drivers supporting it and in my opinion it was a brilliant idea.
You are dead right about Roy Harris, Jack Pinder, Terry Mayes, Dave Burns and Jack Kershaw being the founder memberâs and it was started in 1973.
I.I.R.C. it came about when one of Prescottâs ? drivers had been off work for a long time after an accident. He had received sick pay for about two monthâs and then after that I think it dropped by about 50% ( although I am not quite sure about these figures ). I think the driver had a young family and was struggling as they say to make ends meet.
Most firms worked on a Saturday morning, servicing vehicles, washing and cleaning them, loading some of them and drivers running back at the end of the week, as always it was thirsty work, so it was not unusual for three or four drivers from one company to end up in The Streetbridge, which was always full of drivers. If you wanted a drivers job in the Oldham area at that time the Streetbridge was the place to go as you often found out where a drivers job was to become vacant even before the company knew about it.
Somebody started a whip round for the Prescottâs ? driver, in fact there might of been a collection box on the bar. I think it was Roy Harris or Jack Kershaw who said why donât we try and organise a benefit concert for the lad and then things started to take off.
Terry Mayes knew a few people who worked in the clubs and asked them if they would do a charity concert, a few said yes and I think that the first one was at Sharples Hall Street just off Huddersfield Road. About 50 drivers and their wives and girl friends turned up one Sunday afternoon and paid about 1 Pound at the door, so that was 100 Pound for starters. The do lasted for four hours from 12 noon until 4 p.m. and everybody had a great time. I think that the cost of hiring the hall worked out to be half of the bar takingâs ( 50 drivers multiplied by pints sold = a lot of money).
Some of the drivers who drove for the manufacturing companies tried to get the bosses to make a contribution for a raffle. Lennie Byron who drove for Vitafoam asked Vita to make a donation and I think that they gave him six pillows.
London Carriers donated a toaster or a sandwhich maker and Harrison and Jones donated a continental quilt, Park Cake Bakeries drivers managed to get a dozen large cakeâs.
Most drivers asked their bosses to make a donation and I think that a lot of companies did ranging fron ten to thirty Pounds.
At the end of the day not only were the organisers able to give the ( I think it was one of Prescottâs ) driver enough money to top up his sick pay to nearly a full weeks wage until he was back at work but they had enough to help out another driver who had fallen on hard times.
Word soon travelled around about what a great afternoon it had been and pressure was put on the organisers to arrange another one, I think that in the end they had one every three monthâs. The concerts got bigger and better and they started hiring clubs like The Candle Light Club and The Pennine Lounge, in fact firms like Blue Dart used to struggle to get Sunday Runners ( on double bubble ) when ever a do was on.
I moved away from the area in 1975 and when I went back some four years later I asked what had happened to the Drivers Association. Some body told me that there had been some falling out with different companies saying why are you having a benefit for so and so from that company while there is a driver at our place who is worst off. I donât know all the reasons why it finished but in my opinion it was a case of drivers helping out other drivers who needed a bit of help at the time. The lads who started it for all the right reasons certainly deserved a pat on the back.
P.S. I am really trying to think now, did Jack Pinder become the landlord at the Farewell Inn ?, I think that they also had meetings there.
I seem to remember Maizy having an accident while driving one of Sammy Scottâs motorâs when he was double manning with Johnnie Anker. John was trapped in the cab by his foot and I think he got scolded when the radiater burst. I remember John limping for yearâs but I donât know if they had a benefit concert for him, maybe Jack Kershaw can remember the incident.
Seeing 240 Gardnerâs photoâs of Courtaulds I have a feeling that Terry and Alan ( A1 ) Jackson a.k.a. Skippy also worked at their depot at Greengate.
Hereâs another couple of old picâs kindly sent to me by John Harrison and Foden 46.
This is probably one of Rocky 7 or Gerry Macâs old trailerâs 
and I think that the fitter was called Mick.
Another one of Lowfields.
Regards Steve 
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Hi V8 Passion
Thanks for the reply It is nice to know Highfield Haulage are still going strong.We had some good times together in the seventies.
Here are another couple of photos we have found.
We had stoped by a lake to wash the trucks after tipping steel at Bonneville near the French side of the Mt Blanc Tunnel and on route to Montpellier to load apples.
Freddy on the left, my father on the right at a services in the south of France.
Regards Keith.
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240 Gardner:
davepenn54:
Courtaulds Ltd; Northern Spinning Division whose massive transport depot was next to the British Areospace factory on Greengate, Middleton, Gtr. Manchester.
Well â240 Gardnerâ thanks for posting pics; of Courtaulds, Greengate Transport Depot, these pics have really brought some memoryâs back for me, especially the one of the man in the SUIT AFAIR he came to the Greengate Depot from Courtaulds at Spondon, Derby, as the new TM after John Clegg had passed away. Needless to say my tenure under his rule didnât last that long and we parted ways after doing the job of a full time Traffic Clerk (There were 5 of us in the Traffic Office, me the junior and 4 seniors) for 18mths he wouldnât give me any extra dosh, promote me or even put me through my Class 1, Iâd passed all the exams I had to do at day release college and become a Member of the CIT, so being 20yrs old I walked out and within 9mths I had saved up enough to pay for my Class 1 and went on to rule the world 
There is lots more I want to add to this thread as it has brought back a lot of memoryâs and lots of names of people who I remember 
although they might not remember me
I know I started this thread but havenât been as active on it as I should have been but it has been great to see some of the old pics of the companyâs that were around back in the day. And some of the things like the Oldham HGV Benefit thing and the people involved are definetly worth remembering. I have good & bad memoryâs of all these things and the proper haulage companyâs around at the time, so hope to put it all on here in the future.
Regards to all
Dave Penn;
hiya moomooland my dad MICK MILBURN & PTER KENWORTHY worked for scotts ,next time i see them i"ll ask them to get in touchto see if they have any tales to tell.
justin
Hi moomooland,
You have a PM.
Wheel Nut:
Not altogether relevant. I worked for Roger Townson of Townson Tankers after he moved from Denshaw to East Yorkshire.Townsons had already been taken over by Sadlers and Roger worked for them too. There were a couple of his drivers moved over with him when he started a new company.David Healey who had also worked for Alan Seville and Peter Kenworthy who was supposed to do 700 km a day every day when he worked for Townson
I remember the tales of the drivers coming back home and calling at the Floating Light
Hi wheelnut.Pete Kenworthy didânt move wth Roger Townson he stayed with Sadlers and is still there now under the Stiller Group at stockton.He started with Townsons around 1974.
Thanks Lads for posting these pics they bring back some memories mainly as a nipper seeing these trucks about and Iâm pretty sure my Dad (RIP) drove for a few of the long forgotten firms.
I came out of the Army back end of 92 so I never really suffered although passing my class 3 in a Bedford MJ with off road wheels wasnât a walk in the park but I think the worst truck I ever drove as a newbie in civvy street was a 83 scania ridgid for carpet express they used to be at the entrance to Stakehill itâs a Nightfreight depot now,I remember the drivers seat was so knackered it was proped up with a milk crate but boy it could shift.
I also remember driving a 87 Ford Cargo for a small outfit in Rochdale that became a part of CAM European when it rained it would collect water on the shelf above the windscreen then when you set off it would let go all over the dash and you it also had a leaky power steering pump that you had to keep topping up it soon let you know if you forgot.
The first truck I could call mine as in I was the only driver was a â98â 1617 merc ridgid with crap lock and 16 pallet box that gave you about a 8 foot over hang on the back not good for swing out probally been banned now as a health hazzard.
Sad really drivers nowadays moan if it hasnât got a CD player,theyâve never lived.
Could you imagine a new driver trying to get to terms with a back to front Merc gearbox or a twin splitter or God forbid no Cruise control.
Just wondering if anyone remembers my dad Ron Jackson he wenât driving for park cakes in 73.