Carrs Flour Mill/Farm foods Silloth, 1960s to present.
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georgeking:
Regarding Robsons and Stobarts, it’s a bit like comparing Tom Finney with Wayne Rooney, different era, it must be noted though that the latter was influenced by the former.Here is some more Robsons taken from Bubblemans thread:
i ya reet , stobarts did do own work from meatal box but was glass and tbm paper i was getting at with the old mighty ford cargo, well at least they done the job , shame tom finney and rooney didnt drive trux could have opened up a new thred there, robsons work was a bit of everything ici fertilizer , tbm paper waste paper, bog rolls , scaffolding timber pop glass whiskey carnation milk , a bit of owt really just to scrape the surface , a general haulier as it states … ■■■■ shame the passage of time took its toll, but hey what legacy and some happy memories for both me and me dad, next
georgeking:
jonnyA:
re robson v stobbart or whoever , simple fact robsons first names first although irrelavant , metal box contract gentlemans agreement new people and managment different agreements time change , simple but just once at least admit robsons demise was due to changes higher than any depot could deal with, and ownership and technical jargon f.t.s.e and all that speil . stobbys , different era and before anyone says nor they never stobbys got a shed load of work subied to them by robsons regulary on a daily basis seen them first hand wi me own eyes invoice in all around 1984 onward in the days of stoby ford cargo.s, gud luck to you all . hauliers come and go times change and theres nowt ya can dee aboot it the bigger you are the harder you fall . gud luck to every haulier gannin . but remember all you people who fail to rcognise hauliers of old. you know who am on aboot , nowt lasts forever .anyway anyone notice owt strange about thi print of the border saracen , i the reg is wrong its identity was mao 701w , yep driven by alan robson of hexham way or there abuts and my gud self after alan got a new erf , useless info or wotI thought that Stobarts had their own work directly from Metal Box and did not subcontract through Robsons.
How many depots did Robsons have I only know of Haltwhistle and Carlisle?
georgeking:
jonnyA:
re robson v stobbart or whoever , simple fact robsons first names first although irrelavant , metal box contract gentlemans agreement new people and managment different agreements time change , simple but just once at least admit robsons demise was due to changes higher than any depot could deal with, and ownership and technical jargon f.t.s.e and all that speil . stobbys , different era and before anyone says nor they never stobbys got a shed load of work subied to them by robsons regulary on a daily basis seen them first hand wi me own eyes invoice in all around 1984 onward in the days of stoby ford cargo.s, gud luck to you all . hauliers come and go times change and theres nowt ya can dee aboot it the bigger you are the harder you fall . gud luck to every haulier gannin . but remember all you people who fail to rcognise hauliers of old. you know who am on aboot , nowt lasts forever .anyway anyone notice owt strange about thi print of the border saracen , i the reg is wrong its identity was mao 701w , yep driven by alan robson of hexham way or there abuts and my gud self after alan got a new erf , useless info or wotI thought that Stobarts had their own work directly from Metal Box and did not subcontract through Robsons.
How many depots did Robsons have I only know of Haltwhistle and Carlisle?
Hello georgeking
They had these depots (as far as I know):
Carlisle (HQ)
Kirkbride Airfield (one of the old hangers now used by Storage Company)
Workington (Thames Board Mills)
Haltwhistle
Alloa & Flitwick (both after the UG buyout)
I’ll have a look in my Bob Tuck Robsons book and see if theres any more georgeking.
Kindest Regards
■■■■■■■■ Gill
Bradshaws from Kirkby lonsdale,had there trucks named too,starting with Lunesdale!!!
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scaniaontheroad:
Bradshaws from Kirkby lonsdale,had there trucks named too,starting with Lunesdale!!!
Like this,Lunesdale Wanderer
Cheers Malc.
re robson depot they had one in the north east they ran out of eldis at durha the got there own depot in 1984 at birtley also if do the ug thing they were spread out quite liberally , harlow ,castleford , baleston, st helens and so , prior 1983 loads of robsons drivers ran from there homes , north east dumfries douglas water and so on , they had quite a few drivers dotted about the country especially in thearly days whe drivers would stop to help each other , mmmm now thats another thread a think . regards boys . jon
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georgeking:
jonnyA:
re robson v stobbart or whoever , simple fact robsons first names first although irrelavant , metal box contract gentlemans agreement new people and managment different agreements time change , simple but just once at least admit robsons demise was due to changes higher than any depot could deal with, and ownership and technical jargon f.t.s.e and all that speil . stobbys , different era and before anyone says nor they never stobbys got a shed load of work subied to them by robsons regulary on a daily basis seen them first hand wi me own eyes invoice in all around 1984 onward in the days of stoby ford cargo.s, gud luck to you all . hauliers come and go times change and theres nowt ya can dee aboot it the bigger you are the harder you fall . gud luck to every haulier gannin . but remember all you people who fail to rcognise hauliers of old. you know who am on aboot , nowt lasts forever .anyway anyone notice owt strange about thi print of the border saracen , i the reg is wrong its identity was mao 701w , yep driven by alan robson of hexham way or there abuts and my gud self after alan got a new erf , useless info or wotI thought that Stobarts had their own work directly from Metal Box and did not subcontract through Robsons.
How many depots did Robsons have I only know of Haltwhistle and Carlisle?
Hello georgeking
They had these depots (as far as I know):
Carlisle (HQ)
Kirkbride Airfield (one of the old hangers now used by Storage Company)
Workington (Thames Board Mills)
Haltwhistle
Alloa & Flitwick (both after the UG buyout)
I’ll have a look in my Bob Tuck Robsons book and see if theres any more georgeking.
Kindest Regards
■■■■■■■■ Gill
why i man, gis a 40 futter and a set of ropes and sheets. c if a can still dee it .ohh me backs just gon
yungnad:
the who did what thread could go on forever, because some people werent around when it was haulage and storage, roping and sheeting,phoning around for digs no msa,s , and lets face it (proper driving), they can only compare it to what they see now, logistics tautliners ratchet straps, and planners, its all worlds apart, i travelled with my old man a day to get to the tip, hours waiting to tip, handball it off, race to a layby with a phone ring around for anything north-ish load up then a day back again, in todays world a six hour trip should take five or your planner will ring for a progress report, tip, call planner on cabphone, bang postcode into sat nav, load up and back, and if its a decent wagon or (truck is the modern word ) you wont even have a clutch,
never mine double clutch,
the two worlds are just so far apart, i,m not even gonna get into for better or worse factor
EDDIE STOBART FAN:
Stobart Rail
That stobart rail trying to get his truck in one bay at KFC 
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bubbleman:
Hello…well someones gotta do it
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Cheers Bubbs.
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the erf ec 14 olympic my dad got it in the end had another axel fitted and resprayed red blue and white and pulled for tyson h burridge)
That’s an EC10 with a standard sleeper & air kit - not an Olympic.
hodgeturbo:
stampers of dearham near maryport
where did you find this picture hodge looks like of facebook
stampers:
hodgeturbo:
stampers of dearham near maryportwhere did you find this picture hodge looks like of facebook
Hello stampers
Firstly, welcome to Trucknet! I belive hodgeturbo has some explaining to do as I think your right, the photo has come from Facebook, and I don’t think he owns it. I think thats one of Leyland600’s photos from his flicker page. A bit of a laugh after hodgeturbo made such a fuss over some of Trucknets users taking a copy of photos on his Facebook page and using them on here!
Kindest Regards
■■■■■■■■ Gill
the photo in question was sent to me by paul STAMPER who now lives in canada.so ■■■■■■■■ gill if you say it belongs to leyland 600 and its on his fliker page how have i got it from facebook ■■?
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hi george stampers had pow hall at townhead dearham dont think there is a townfoot in dearham paul
hodgeturbo:
the photo in question was sent to me by paul STAMPER who now lives in canada.so ■■■■■■■■ gill if you say it belongs to leyland 600 and its on his fliker page how have i got it from facebook ■■?
Hello hodgeturbo
Firstly, I must apolyogise for putting you in the ■■■■ as it where and I was wrong about the photo in question. The website it’s from is Brian Edgars photo collection on Fotki.
Leyland600 has other Stampers of Dearham photos but not the one in question, so Please accept my apolyogy
Kindest Regards
■■■■■■■■ Gill
hi, Cambrian gill here is a few photo from my collection, of lorries from your area,carr billington driver had just delivered to the only farm on holy island, have a photo some where of him waiting for the tide to recede if i find it will post it for you, bumper
