truckfing:
Very nice CG, glad to see you’ve grown out of the Stobart fixation and moved further afield
with your photography.
Hi “Truckfing” ,
Be very careful about commenting about the S (hauliers name) word ,........or youll set D.T.R. off again.
Cheers , cattle wagon man.
Here you are C W M just for you. Just to keep you happy. Also this thread has become quite interesting again with some good posts on it. We wouldn’t want to spoil it, by putting silly comments on it, would we ?
Cheers Dave.
Remember getting photos of that when it was new at Carlisle
truckfing:
Very nice CG, glad to see you’ve grown out of the Stobart fixation and moved further afield
with your photography.
Thankyou Truckfing still a passionate Stobart photographer like but I’ve always been interested in other wagons but just not had the opportunity to snap them as much as Stobarts
I’m back on Trucknet for good and I aim to post some more photos soon!!!
Do you know which BRS depot was involved with Bowaters and when ? Dennis. I remember loading large reels of tissue for Middlesborough Dock along with one of W.P. Bell’s of Wigton. We had just got loaded and sheeted and were having a cup from the flasks when suddenly Soveriegn Chemicals across the road went up in smoke very quickly before our very eyes. This was about 1969 I think.
Cheers Leyland 600
Leyland600:
Do you know which BRS depot was involved with Bowaters and when ? Dennis. I remember loading large reels of tissue for Middlesborough Dock along with one of W.P. Bell’s of Wigton. We had just got loaded and sheeted and were having a cup from the flasks when suddenly Soveriegn Chemicals across the road went up in smoke very quickly before our very eyes. This was about 1969 I think.
Cheers Leyland 600
Hiya L600,I’m not sure which BRS depot would have been involved,probably one of the Lancashire depots I assume,anyhow who were you subbing from at that time ? As regards Sovreign Chemicals and “fires” they were one of my early customers when I kicked off with my D1000 in '68 and I tipped drums a time a two from London at their first factory a reet old red brick building down Ainslie St in Barrow and they asked me if I wanted a reload for their depot in Basildon so I did two or three loads one month but um! er! I got a bit twitchy about the “lure” eh!!! Now funnily enough that factory went up in flames Then they opened the new one opposite Bowaters,and that went up in flames as well I believe they were bought out many years ago and the founders Charlie Dent and Roger Fisher were long gone.Roger Fisher went into race horses big time with an establishment on the coast road out of Ulverston other than that I don’t know owt else about them.They got their own artics later on and I’m not sure if any of the other local hauliers worked for them I think Keiths from Flookburgh may have but I’m not sure.Anyhow,my involvement ceased abruptly in early '69 and I did get paid mind but I was gay uncomfortable at the time as a 22 year old owner driver Cheers Bewick.
I went to Charlie’s house in about 1968, when I worked in the labs at Glaxo to say that Glaxo were burning several tons of waste solvents per day in huge iron rings on the old Ulverston Ironworks slag heaps. I suggested that we set up a company to distil the solvents back to their constituents.
He was very grateful for the information and said he’d let me know. A couple of months later, I noticed that a tanker called every day to take away the solvents instead of just flaring them off.
In about 1995, roger bought a couple of Amtrak vans from me for his ‘Kingfisher chemicals’ ( a clone of Sovereign). I mentioned about meeting Charlie all those years ago. He started to tell me that they’d made a fortune buying the solvents from Glaxo and reselling them to a firm in Manchester, until he realised what they’d done to me!
Naive? Qui moi?
However, I also remember that when I had the flat trailers, andy, my brother had loaded drums in Liverpool on Christmas Eve for sovereign. I needed that trailer empty because I’d agreed to load timber in Scotland on Christmas Day. The scots were less fussy about Christmas than Hogmanay then!
Andy had gone to sovereign, but it was all closed up. I managed to get hold of roger and explained the situation. He agreed that he’d send someone to unload the trailer.
When andy to home he said how the two blokes were moaning about missing the Christmas party to unload him. After a few minutes I said ‘hang on, one of them wasn’t small and dark haired and the other tall and blonde?’ You’ve guessed it, Charlie and roger had left the party to unload my trailer!
So, not all bad. I did quite a bit of work for them. They ‘negotiated’ the rate, but always paid me on the dot.
I went to Charlie’s house in about 1968, when I worked in the labs at Glaxo to say that Glaxo were burning several tons of waste solvents per day in huge iron rings on the old Ulverston Ironworks slag heaps. I suggested that we set up a company to distil the solvents back to their constituents.
He was very grateful for the information and said he’d let me know. A couple of months later, I noticed that a tanker called every day to take away the solvents instead of just flaring them off.
In about 1995, roger bought a couple of Amtrak vans from me for his ‘Kingfisher chemicals’ ( a clone of Sovereign). I mentioned about meeting Charlie all those years ago. He started to tell me that they’d made a fortune buying the solvents from Glaxo and reselling them to a firm in Manchester, until he realised what they’d done to me!
Naive? Qui moi?
However, I also remember that when I had the flat trailers, andy, my brother had loaded drums in Liverpool on Christmas Eve for sovereign. I needed that trailer empty because I’d agreed to load timber in Scotland on Christmas Day. The scots were less fussy about Christmas than Hogmanay then!
Andy had gone to sovereign, but it was all closed up. I managed to get hold of roger and explained the situation. He agreed that he’d send someone to unload the trailer.
When andy to home he said how the two blokes were moaning about missing the Christmas party to unload him. After a few minutes I said ‘hang on, one of them wasn’t small and dark haired and the other tall and blonde?’ You’ve guessed it, Charlie and roger had left the party to unload my trailer!
So, not all bad. I did quite a bit of work for them. They ‘negotiated’ the rate, but always paid me on the dot.
John.
Three “wiley” Barrovians to-gether----- much too sharp for me !!! Cheers Dennis.
Didn’t know you’d been that far south to know about camels!
They were a problem at night. They used to like to go to sleep on the Tarmac, it was warmer than the sand and they blended in remarkably! Had a few near misses, but never actually hit one. John Longhorn did, made a mess of the front of his Volvo! Don’t think the (dead) camel was too pleased either!
truckfing:
Very nice CG, glad to see you’ve grown out of the Stobart fixation and moved further afield
with your photography.
Thankyou Truckfing still a passionate Stobart photographer like but I’ve always been interested in other wagons but just not had the opportunity to snap them as much as Stobarts
I’m back on Trucknet for good and I aim to post some more photos soon!!!
Cheers
Tom
Nice one tom,good to hear buddy
Thankyou seh for your support marra
Just sorting some photos out, hope to post them tonight
Also this thread has become quite interesting again with some good posts on it. We wouldn’t want to spoil it, by putting silly comments on it, would we ?
