Companys from North Manchester in the 70's

UK PROFESSIONAL DRIVERS FORUMS OLD TIME LORRIES, COMPANIES AND DRIVERS (INTERACT
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Stanfield:
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 :wink:

I remember the tales of the drivers coming back home and calling at the Floating Light :stuck_out_tongue:

Hi wheelnut.Pete Kenworthy did’nt 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.
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Cheers Stanfield. Sad Stiller sent me a message about Peter K. I think he may be looking in here soon.

I was hoping to contact Dave Healey to get him on on board but he must have changed his phone number.

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this is good to see some local haulage firms i no grasmere and prescotts remember them well any photos of brian prescotts or h & a the tanker company photos are good has anyone any photos of the chemical company in stalybridge

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lee mat:
this is good to see some local haulage firms i no grasmere and prescotts remember them well any photos of brian prescotts or h & a the tanker company photos are good has anyone any photos of the chemical company in stalybridge

the one that ran out of stalybridge was MANRO,then a firm from shaw road called PROFESSIONAL TANKERS ran from there,think they ran from howarth bros yard.

as anybody got any photos of SADLER TANKERS,i worked there for years as wash man/trailer fitter they were in oldham on bell street,shame i didnt think to take any

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Brilliant Site. It was worth the wait.

scottsofoldham.fotopic.net/c1674920.html

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I really enjoyed those Scott’s photo’s and it’s a great site moomooland, thank’s for sharing them and please keep them coming.

The bubbleman said that he wouldn’t mind if I put a few of his Scrapbook Memories Photo’s on this thread, so if anybody think’s that they might have an idea where this photo was taken, can I just confirm that it was on Queens Park Road Heywood, just before the bridge.

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Hi mushroomman sorry to be so long in replying but i have been on holliday. Re your question about the Remploy truck the driver is moomooland himself Paul Anderson the E&D Atki was outside my then home in Failsworth.Dave Burn’s as far as i know did not get married but moved to Cornwall afew years ago, and the Farewell closed about 8 years ago. Jack Pinder did not have the Farewell but did in fact have the Sun Mill Inn at Chadderton then went on to a pub in Rochdale last heard of in Blackpool dont know where.The pub where the H.G.V.■■■ started was the Bridge Inn on Moorhey St Lees the Streetbridge wasin Roman Rd Failsworth another pub much freequented by drivers also i.e Presscotts,Jimmy Halls,Elah Broadbents, Jefferson Bros,James Nuttall,Brian Presscott E&D,Sterling Moulding to mention a few
We ran the ■■■ for about twelve years from the midd seventies,during this time Roy Harris Jack Pinder and Terry Mayes left the commitee for various reasons but continued to support the ■■■ in manny ways. Myself and Dave where then joined by my father Ted Kershaw Bill Sturge Terry Chorley and Les Sharples who carried on the same sterling work.We stopped holding the concerts towards the end of the eighties because due to the slump we just wern’t generateing enough income.Saddly both my Dad and Bill Sturge have since passed away Les went on to keep apub in Keighley and i dont know where Terry is.
Hope this has filled in a few blanks mate.
Regards Jack Kershaw

P.S.Still Trucking

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i remember price failsworth andj barrettts haulage would like to see pictures of erf i thing reg vvh the penine ranger , i have had good time at eddys yard remember helping him fit gear box in 1 of his four wheelers long time ago loading at co op poss newton heath well that was great training so they say then drink in the club across from prescotts garage ashton road west with my dad sammy brod great times

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i had spell at pilsworth london carriers and drove the renault yes crap on agency at time but had miles under belt and some drivers look at you like leppers simple ask older driver the crack as i have dont forget you have to start at bottom so help them same as the m&s stake hill some good lads there also some think they new the lot with there advance driving skills ha ha they still bounced it in of the green

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Hello Jack, I didn’t realise that you were Big J Guy, we did meet on a couple of occasions but I dont expect you to remember them as the last time was in 1975, I obviously got one or two things wrong there so thanks for putting me right.
I think that it was Derick and Doreen Cotter ? who had The Farewell at the time and The Dog Inn on Dog Lane Chadderton was another drivers pub. Do you remember when Terry Maise and Johnny Anker had the accident while working for Scott’s ?.

What a brilliant website that one of Scott’s is :smiley: , you know the vehicles with Luxan on them, did that company become Vita Luxan at Milnrow ?.
As regards the Oldham and District H.G.V. Drivers Benefit Association you must of helped dozens of drivers who were really down on their luck at the time, so well done to you Jack.
It’s a long shot, but do you ever remember two Blue Dart drivers who were trying to go overland to Cape Town , South Africa ?.
Roy Harris and Terry asked Greens Tarpaulins if they would donate a sheet with the words Donated by Oldham Heavy Goods Vehicle Drivers Benefit Association on the side. Greens gave them the sheet big enough for a land Rover roof rack but they said that there was not enough room to do the writing :laughing:
Anyway it’s good to hear from you Jack so take care.

Best regards Steve.

Here are another couple of photo’s sent to me by John Harrison of old companies from the area. I know that they are from the 80’s and not the 70’s but I hope that Dave Penn doesn’t mind :wink: .

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Where do Hydrogen Supplies of Trafford Park fit into this timeline? I know they were still running into the 80’s

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Helo Steve
You are right Derick and Doreen did keep the Farewell and went on to keep the Colliers on Old lane Chadderton, Dericks brother Neil drives for Tesco with me.I do remember the South African trip one of the drivers Brian Walsh also works with us small world or what. As regards the accident to John dont remember the details asit was one of my away periods from Scott’s’,glad you like the site by the way should have some new pic’s on soon. Luxan was indeed swallowed up by VITA as where many more at the time
All the best Steve
regards Jack

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davepenn54:
Tommy Brierly’s from Swinton, put some (one?) bonneted type yanks on the ACT contract out of Trafford Park.

Brierleys is still going and yes they did have a Bonneted Mack, used to run 24hrs a day that bugger. Got in a lot of trouble with ACT in the Con Base for letting it appear in a magazine with some bird with her ■■■■ out sprawl all over it. Tommy also appeard on Look North or similar with Stuart Hall doing the interveiw showing it off. I do have the pictures around here some place and when i get time will scan them in and post em up for all to see.

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Hello Jack, thank’s for the info on Brian I often wonder what he’s doing now, please pass on my regards next time you see him. I think that another pub that Jack and Derek both had was The Dog and Partridge in Middleton.
Anyway, Marcus The Bubbleman has said that he doesn’t mind if I repost some of his North Manchester photo’s, they are all taken from his Scrapbook Memories thread but they are well worth a second look.
Best regards Steve.
I think that Dave Penn will remember the first one.

I am not sure where Trancontinental Freight’s depot was, it might of been on The Heywood Industial Estate but this photo was taken in Don Street Middleton outside the Vitafoam factory.

I think that Carpet Express had a depot on the Stakehill Industrial Estate in the 70’s but I think that they had a depot or moved to the Pilsworth Industrial Estate in the 80’s.

Foden 46, do you remember that Volvo jacket that you got me from Tait’s of Oldham :smiley: the best jacket that I ever had.

I think that Young’s Seafoods had a depot in Heywood but I can’t remember where it was.

Finally, I bet that every Northern lorry driver reading this has had one or two of Holland’s pies for their lunch :smiley: .

With thank’s to Marcus.
Best regards Steve.

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hiya,
moomooland i see your from ramsbottom area, once did a couple of weeks casual for a firm called stringfellows they had all 8 wheelers and drawbars if the old memory is still working not a very big outfit their place was on the main bury road i wasn’t long out of the army so it must have been about 57ish are they still going they seemed ok to work for but was only covering for someone off sick although was asked to go back later but was happy in a steady job at the time.
thanks harry long retired.

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i remember going to munro’s, i think they were on lightbowne rd.

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hello chaps queghans changed to james quinn of oldham i used to do quite a lot for them , heres one from the yard and the m60 nr audenshaw

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think stringfellows were taken over by barnett and graham of penrith , munros were at lightbowne rd next to the pub then greengate

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bob-lad:
think stringfellows were taken over by barnett and graham of penrith , munros were at lightbowne rd next to the pub then greengate

Hi Bob lad, did Munro’s do the Tizer and Jusoda from Scotland to Manchester in the 60’s / 70’s, :confused:

Hiya Harry Gill, Stringfellows had blue motors in the eighties when I lived just across the road from them and the name of the village that you can’t remember where the depot was is Shuttleworth on the A56 :smiley: .

Best regards Steve.