Does anyone know if this fella is still going ?
He’s an owner driver and was using this Trader daily up to around 2001, untill vandals set it partly on fire in his yard. He could then be spotted using a D-series from the 60’s (old white grille style) carrying for Rose Tissues of Hollinwood.
I heard he intended to use the Trader again now it’s been rebodied, someone in the Oldham area must know more of him.
Hi Tipit
About 12 month ago there was a spread about him and his motor which was a D series Ford.I think it was in the Oldham Chronicle it was saying that he had the vehicle from new and he had only changed the engine once during its lifetime and he was still using the truck on a daily basis.
Thanks Stanfield I’ll have a search round and try to get a picture of the D series to put up then, it looked a propper working truck when I last seen it on the M60.
Photobucket killed this post 
Hi Moomoo
Where is he based these days 
moomooland:
Pictured today 11/07/2009 in Hollinwood, Oldham Lancs.Fletcher’s Ford D Series can still be seen travelling up and down the M6/M5 delivering toilet tissues to the southwest of England from Oldham.
It has just undergone a respray to the cab after passing it’s 38th MOT Test!
A larger picture can be seen on Northwest Trucks
Regards Paul
Is that the one in the yard for Rose Tissues. 38 years of pulling the scented kitchen rolls for them it must smell like a tarts handbag in the back of that. 
Around 1979 / 80 there were some Scania 111, 4 wheel wagon and drag flats, they were dark blue but had no name on.
I think the firm was from the Ripponden area and carried cotton bales, does anyone know who they belonged too ?
RSM used to rent a unit off Alec at Agecroft, RSM have finished now though.
Thanks for that SJS, I couldn’t remember the name of the haulier who rented the Agecroft unit.
Do you know when Alec stopped running his own lorries, and do you have any photos.
Does anyone remember Knights transport from Ashton, and brearlys from dukinfield■■? I had a mate Tony Donhoe drove for Knights and he got killed changing a wheel on the A5 about 40 years ago.Also Nobles transport on Scotland street Ashton, later to become blue dart middleton
Did Knights have an Orange 4 wheel International rigid tipper in the late 60’s.
Their was also a firm in Ashton with a blue Hino unit, in the Uxbridge St area I think in the 80’s, who were they.
And do you remember this firm Hibbert’s from Park Bridge, Ashton. With this brown Marathon 4 wheeler, stretched from a unit. ( I’ll stitch these pages together one day.) 
Hi Rocky7
The Knights transport you are on about is this the company what used to be on the corner of Henrietta street bottom of penny meadow in ashton? blue pantecs for furnature removals.And Nobles were they brown & cream,I remember them on scotland street because it ran pararell with england street and my grandfathers brother ran a business down there called John Shockledge they ran bedfords at the time 1950/60s.
Hi stanfield, are you by any chance Jack Shockledges lad■■? and yes thats the same Knights.
I remember when Ken brearly left his handbrake off and his truck randown the hill and finished up in the side of Knights, it missed the house by inches and was embedded in the garage wall.
Re:-Hibberts of Park bridgeI remember Tipping t5here when I drove for Dow Freight and I got to know a lad called Steve Winterbottom, who was a fitter there, when Hibberts finished he went on the road , but I lost touch with him years ago.
Hi rocky 7,
A mate of mine worked for a company called Knights in A-u-L in the mid to late 70s. Not 100 percent certain, but it might have been Tommy Knight. They were behind some houses at the bottom end of Whiteacre Rd. Don’t think they had many vehicles though. He drove an Atkinson (Borderer type) 4 wheeler box van. Dark blue colour I think. He used to do London deliveries (poss multi drop) and the Atki, IIRC had a top speed of something like 38 mph 
Ray
rocky 7:
Hi stanfield, are you by any chance Jack Shockledges lad■■? and yes thats the same Knights.
I remember when Ken brearly left his handbrake off and his truck randown the hill and finished up in the side of Knights, it missed the house by inches and was embedded in the garage wall.
Hi rocky 7. I am related to the Shockledges through my mothers side her dad (my grandfather ) was John Shockledges brother Joseph both him and his son also called Joseph(sailor joe) my uncle drove for John in the 50’s before they closed down.Do you remember the firm then.
hi Stanfield I worked with a Jack shockledge at Hadfeilds when they were at the bottom of oldham road, back in the early 60s
Jack lived in the west end of Ashton, the last time I saw him was about 13 years ago in the Pineapple on Stockport rd.
RSM was Roy Masterson, he started life as the handrag in sudlows office when they were in bute st. in Eccles
hi fishfunk. yes , thats the same outfit, but the boss was Jack knight , he had two lads Tony, who finished up in a pub in hyde , and David, i dont remember what happened to him, they moved to the bottom ofpenny meadow, were the tyre company is now
my memory these days is bobbins, but I see a post on summat and I get flashbacks. like most drivers my age {67} in the 60s /70s you could walk out of one job and straight into another, some didnt even ask you for your licence, if you could drive it out of the yard without hitting owt the job was yours.