Andmac:
Hi Everyone,
I have posted a drawing I did a few years ago of a Donnan Scania 141 on the Sugar Tongue at Whitehaven. Some of you might have seen it already but ,to those who haven’t,I hope you all like it
I remember going down to Whitehaven and watching the trawlers landing their catch and the lorries loading off the quayside. Donnans always ran a nice fleet, all the units being named after their trawlers. There seems to be very few photos about of their lorries but I have tried to capture as much detail as I can in the drawing.
If anyone has any photos of the Donnan fleet of lorries I would love to see them for possible future drawings.
Another big Whitehaven Fish merchant was Thomas W Dixon. I distinctly remember a flatbed leyland 6 wheeler of theirs - k reg. I am sure they used to load fish directly onto the flatbed and cover it with ice although I could be wrong - perhaps you lads could confirm this - just to satisfy my memory!
I also remember Donnans having a little Karrier Bantam that would be down on the quayside.
I grew up in Egremont- opposite Henry Grahams garage on the Main A595. We saw ALL the local firms passing our road end every day. Building at Sellafield was booming and the tippers and mixers passed all day long;
Eskett quarries
Watsons of Arlecdon
DA Harrison etc etc
We knew them all!
I drive a Scania R620 now for a Northern Ireland company now. I always knew I would end up behind the wheel!
Brilliant thread this by the way!
Andmac:
Hi Everyone,
I have posted a drawing I did a few years ago of a Donnan Scania 141 on the Sugar Tongue at Whitehaven. Some of you might have seen it already but ,to those who haven’t,I hope you all like it
I remember going down to Whitehaven and watching the trawlers landing their catch and the lorries loading off the quayside. Donnans always ran a nice fleet, all the units being named after their trawlers. There seems to be very few photos about of their lorries but I have tried to capture as much detail as I can in the drawing.
If anyone has any photos of the Donnan fleet of lorries I would love to see them for possible future drawings.
Another big Whitehaven Fish merchant was Thomas W Dixon. I distinctly remember a flatbed leyland 6 wheeler of theirs - k reg. I am sure they used to load fish directly onto the flatbed and cover it with ice although I could be wrong - perhaps you lads could confirm this - just to satisfy my memory!
I also remember Donnans having a little Karrier Bantam that would be down on the quayside.
I grew up in Egremont- opposite Henry Grahams garage on the Main A595. We saw ALL the local firms passing our road end every day. Building at Sellafield was booming and the tippers and mixers passed all day long;
Eskett quarries
Watsons of Arlecdon
DA Harrison etc etc
We knew them all!
I drive a Scania R620 now for a Northern Ireland company now. I always knew I would end up behind the wheel!
Brilliant thread this by the way!
A brilliant drawing Andmac.
Cheers Dave.
A very good drawing, i delivered the boat fuel to the very same spot on the quay for a lot of years,you had to drive on and reverse all the way back off,not to easy to do with an artic.
Thanks for the feedback lads!
Just remembering some of the old firms that used to pass our road end at Egremont:
Hanratty from Whitehaven
Seymour Plant Hire with a day cab 111 Scania
The Coffin lorries from Sellafield - even remember the reg nos. TSM66H and TSM65H ! We used to run to the end of the road to watch it going past!
There was a firm from Parton called Morgan I think, with tippers
Edenhall ready mix with Albions or Leylands
Remember Gunn bros builders merchants, they had a commer- cream with green lettering.
What about Mossops builders merchants from Whitehaven. Their little Karrier Bantam turned up everywhere!
There was a fella called Willie McCarron ran a dark red 4wheel Seddon and he used to shift muck.He was the guy you would ring if you wanted topsoil etc. He used to carry his DROT around in the back of the tipper to and from jobs, I wonder to this day how he got it loaded and unloaded from the back of the lorry without a ramp!
I also remember ICI tankers coming past . They were BIG lorries - Chinese six Leyland or AEC units, not sure which. One evening one had an accident up the road at StThomas Cross. I ended up with the headlamp off it!
What about the Rowntree Macintosh lorries working out of the chocolate factory at Egremont- ERFs with flat trailers
And the Milk Board lorries from Egremont- LAD cabbed Albions or Leylands with tanker bodies and Ford D Series flatbed 4 wheelers that collected churns from the farms.They had chains round the sides and a funny little rack at the front for storing the empty churns .
Its great looking back,Its amazing how one memory can spark off another, then another etc.!
Andmac:
Hi Everyone,
I have posted a drawing I did a few years ago of a Donnan Scania 141 on the Sugar Tongue at Whitehaven. Some of you might have seen it already but ,to those who haven’t,I hope you all like it
I remember going down to Whitehaven and watching the trawlers landing their catch and the lorries loading off the quayside. Donnans always ran a nice fleet, all the units being named after their trawlers. There seems to be very few photos about of their lorries but I have tried to capture as much detail as I can in the drawing.
If anyone has any photos of the Donnan fleet of lorries I would love to see them for possible future drawings.
Another big Whitehaven Fish merchant was Thomas W Dixon. I distinctly remember a flatbed leyland 6 wheeler of theirs - k reg. I am sure they used to load fish directly onto the flatbed and cover it with ice although I could be wrong - perhaps you lads could confirm this - just to satisfy my memory!
I also remember Donnans having a little Karrier Bantam that would be down on the quayside.
I grew up in Egremont- opposite Henry Grahams garage on the Main A595. We saw ALL the local firms passing our road end every day. Building at Sellafield was booming and the tippers and mixers passed all day long;
Eskett quarries
Watsons of Arlecdon
DA Harrison etc etc
We knew them all!
I drive a Scania R620 now for a Northern Ireland company now. I always knew I would end up behind the wheel!
Brilliant thread this by the way!
A brilliant drawing Andmac.
Cheers Dave.
A very good drawing, i delivered the boat fuel to the very same spot on the quay for a lot of years,you had to drive on and reverse all the way back off,not to easy to do with an artic.
I can imagine Victor ,that cant have been easy- What an obstacle course!
I have since learned that yu would never have seen a Fish lorry facing the way it is in my picture. Driving down the quayside to load was frowned upon because if you were loading at the end of the quay and other boats came in to land further down the quay it would be very diffiicult to reverse back down past them while they were landing.The Donnans drivers were told they had to reverse onto the quay and drive off forwards.
Yeah one of the hardest bits in them days was after turning left to get down to the quay was getting past the parked cars at County Motors on the double yellow lines , you had a job to get them moved some times it took up to 2 hours to get along that bit of road,i once took the side out of a cortina, the boss man was not happy and got the police they got charged with obstruction ,i got charged with driving without due care but was told they had to charge me to get him to court cos they were sick of them parking and blocking the road, they got fined a good amount but i heard nothing else about it.
Andmac:
Thanks for the feedback lads!
Just remembering some of the old firms that used to pass our road end at Egremont:
Hanratty from Whitehaven
Seymour Plant Hire with a day cab 111 Scania
The Coffin lorries from Sellafield - even remember the reg nos. TSM66H and TSM65H ! We used to run to the end of the road to watch it going past!
There was a firm from Parton called Morgan I think, with tippers
Edenhall ready mix with Albions or Leylands
Remember Gunn bros builders merchants, they had a commer- cream with green lettering.
What about Mossops builders merchants from Whitehaven. Their little Karrier Bantam turned up everywhere!
There was a fella called Willie McCarron ran a dark red 4wheel Seddon and he used to shift muck.He was the guy you would ring if you wanted topsoil etc. He used to carry his DROT around in the back of the tipper to and from jobs, I wonder to this day how he got it loaded and unloaded from the back of the lorry without a ramp!
I also remember ICI tankers coming past . They were BIG lorries - Chinese six Leyland or AEC units, not sure which. One evening one had an accident up the road at StThomas Cross. I ended up with the headlamp off it!
What about the Rowntree Macintosh lorries working out of the chocolate factory at Egremont- ERFs with flat trailers
And the Milk Board lorries from Egremont- LAD cabbed Albions or Leylands with tanker bodies and Ford D Series flatbed 4 wheelers that collected churns from the farms.They had chains round the sides and a funny little rack at the front for storing the empty churns .
Its great looking back,Its amazing how one memory can spark off another, then another etc.!
Andmac:
Thanks for the feedback lads!
Just remembering some of the old firms that used to pass our road end at Egremont:
Hanratty from Whitehaven
Seymour Plant Hire with a day cab 111 Scania
The Coffin lorries from Sellafield - even remember the reg nos. TSM66H and TSM65H ! We used to run to the end of the road to watch it going past!
There was a firm from Parton called Morgan I think, with tippers
Edenhall ready mix with Albions or Leylands
Remember Gunn bros builders merchants, they had a commer- cream with green lettering.
What about Mossops builders merchants from Whitehaven. Their little Karrier Bantam turned up everywhere!
There was a fella called Willie McCarron ran a dark red 4wheel Seddon and he used to shift muck.He was the guy you would ring if you wanted topsoil etc. He used to carry his DROT around in the back of the tipper to and from jobs, I wonder to this day how he got it loaded and unloaded from the back of the lorry without a ramp!
I also remember ICI tankers coming past . They were BIG lorries - Chinese six Leyland or AEC units, not sure which. One evening one had an accident up the road at StThomas Cross. I ended up with the headlamp off it!
What about the Rowntree Macintosh lorries working out of the chocolate factory at Egremont- ERFs with flat trailers
And the Milk Board lorries from Egremont- LAD cabbed Albions or Leylands with tanker bodies and Ford D Series flatbed 4 wheelers that collected churns from the farms.They had chains round the sides and a funny little rack at the front for storing the empty churns .
Its great looking back,Its amazing how one memory can spark off another, then another etc.!
hi andrew heres TSM 66H cheers paul
Thats Her Paul! Thanks for putting that photo up, its Superb!
EDDIE STOBART FAN:
Sorry guys but Sobarts have more lorries then all of the other ■■■■■■■■ hauliers but together.
Thanks for that snippet of fascinating information mate
Maybe they do but who is “SOBARTS” ESF? Anyway lets get a few more photos of proper ■■■■■■■■ firms.
Some early Brady photos from Barrow carnival looks to be an Austin/Bedford when Bradys were small fry compared to what they became.
Then a super DAF 2800
And an awful Seddon Atkinson 301 which I think was ex-Bowater Scott
Then a photo of the legend Harold “Big H” Troughton who has ust retired from Croppers
Ste Burrow:
Then a photo of the legend Harold “Big H” Troughton who has ust retired from Croppers
Hi Ste Burrow,
Yes, Harold thats the chap I remember from the green hut at Irlam, did he have shares in it ? lol.
I worked around ■■■■■■■ a lot in those days, I contracted for Delta metals in W-ton and delivered to Ashley rock in Ulverston and Cleator moor and also to psm eng. in Millom, it was a lousy road from Ulverston to Cleator moor via Millom.
Coincidently at one time I also drove an ex. Brady’s Scania 110 HEO 282G !
beckmike:
Hi Lads,
Posted these photos of Pickthalls of Cleator Moor where my dad worked also some of Sellafield lorries that i’ve driven,maybe of interest .
Hi mate, what did they call your dad? I used to know a couple of Cleator drivers, one was a guy with a shaved head (which was rare at that time) and another called Benny I think, and an old guy who drove a rigid (a regular at N,Castle under Lyme lorry park) called Rob or Robbo who was near retirement age in late 70s.
Ste Burrow:
Then a photo of the legend Harold “Big H” Troughton who has ust retired from Croppers
Hi Ste Burrow,
Yes, Harold thats the chap I remember from the green hut at Irlam, did he have shares in it ? lol.
I worked around ■■■■■■■ a lot in those days, I contracted for Delta metals in W-ton and delivered to Ashley rock in Ulverston and Cleator moor and also to psm eng. in Millom, it was a lousy road from Ulverston to Cleator moor via Millom.
Coincidently at one time I also drove an ex. Brady’s Scania 110 HEO 282G !
Hi Trev_H
I think Big H must have had shares in alot of cafes up n down the country! The road from Ulverston to Cleator hasnt changed much and is still as rough but now with the added hazard of tipper drivers working out of Millom quarry! You didnt happen to work for Peter Bowker as he ended up with a few of Bradys old Scanias as they were bought through b w motors on Pensnett
Ste Burrow:
Then a photo of the legend Harold “Big H” Troughton who has ust retired from Croppers
Hi Ste Burrow,
Yes, Harold thats the chap I remember from the green hut at Irlam, did he have shares in it ? lol.
I worked around ■■■■■■■ a lot in those days, I contracted for Delta metals in W-ton and delivered to Ashley rock in Ulverston and Cleator moor and also to psm eng. in Millom, it was a lousy road from Ulverston to Cleator moor via Millom.
Coincidently at one time I also drove an ex. Brady’s Scania 110 HEO 282G !
Depending on wether Big “H” was going to use the sheets again would be wether they got folded up “inside out” for the shunter or not !!! Rope, rope, I’ve enough ■■■■■■ rope for two motors !!! Cheers Bewick.
Ste Burrow:
Then a photo of the legend Harold “Big H” Troughton who has ust retired from Croppers
Hi Ste Burrow,
Yes, Harold thats the chap I remember from the green hut at Irlam, did he have shares in it ? lol.
I worked around ■■■■■■■ a lot in those days, I contracted for Delta metals in W-ton and delivered to Ashley rock in Ulverston and Cleator moor and also to psm eng. in Millom, it was a lousy road from Ulverston to Cleator moor via Millom.
Coincidently at one time I also drove an ex. Brady’s Scania 110 HEO 282G !
Depending on wether Big “H” was going to use the sheets again would be wether they got folded up “inside out” for the shunter or not !!! Rope, rope, I’ve enough ■■■■■■ rope for two motors !!! Cheers Bewick.
What a character big h,i too first met him at the hut in irlam,also used to see him regularly on standeford farm cafe,you always knew when he was around.
regards dave.
