Ellesmere Port, South Wirral and Chester Firms

[mobildave]

I worked for an outfit in Ellesmere Port called MS&D who had the grain storage warehouse down by the Grosvenor Pub , I only did a couple of years for them to gain experience from 1986 - 88 before moving on to work for Mobil in Birkenhead . It was run by a couple of good blokes John Short and Ross ■■? even though it was hard work i enjoyed it ( I was only 22 and they gave me a break as i had just got my licence ). The photos below are of the my DAF,s i drove C576 KCA loaded with reels of paper from bowaters and RTU 877V a right nail with no pulling power loaded with chipboard shunted up from the docks for storage in the warehouse . Also there is one taken at Cawoods of the queue in front of me waiting to get a boxes off . Looking at all the old firms names in previous posts brought back memories as i remember most of them .

[mobildave]

wirralpete:
ha ha i remember ringo never mind my dad, wasnt he medium height with glasses?. dad talks about the old times with the ‘dodgy squadran’ now and then

yes pete he did wear glasses but not all of the time , went out with him when i was a nipper in his castrol tanker (croda paints if i remember)

[ainacs]

Deesider:

Aahh…my specialist subject, I spent the early years of my driving career (1972 onwards) in and around Ellesmere Port so in no particular order and in answer to your various posts so far…

Another old firm from the Port was Carters Removals…a couple of Bedford TK pantechnicons but mostly Guy,Seddon,Foden and ERF boxvan artics with a few flats and early,-very early,- one of the first operators in the country of those new fangled Boalloy bodies…curtainsiders,… they got their first about 1968, I think )Turquoise blue bodies, Red chassis.Yard was in Coronation Rd. where the car wash is now, opposite the EPIC sports centre.

That tanker firm in Eastham, Pete…was it Meade, King & Robinson ■■ Bottle green and black livery with gold leaf signwriting. (Don’t think you mean Philmac, they were quite a large fleet from the off, now called Nynas, of course…)

Catchpoles were bought out by Hoyer, they also used to run a few artic tippers on the coal & coke and flats on the Cabot Carbon job, but latterly just concentrated on the tankers until they sold up.Red Atkinsons and ERFs, yard was down the bottom of Cromwell Rd.

H.H.Robertson, the manufacturers of roofing and walling sheets were also in Cromwell Rd. they had a fleet of Ford D series artics and 50 or so flat trailers.

• Just further down was Geo. L. Scott, who ran their own ERF artics delivering castings from their factory to the various motor manufacturers down south. A light custard yellow coloured fleet, only half a dozen at the most.

Ross,- I also worked for Ionian, but well before you, about 1975, I think. I drove a B series ERF, - Joe would only buy British, also had Atkinsons, Seddon Atkinsons, Fodens in the Red and blue livery, with just a couple in the yellow Macpac/Macandrews colours.

George Mayers yard was in Boundary Lane, Saltney, they only ever ran Atkinsons as far as I remember, on the steel out of Shotton. Turquoise cabs, red chassis.

Edge Transport had their yard in Hoole Lane, Chester. Sold it to a housing developer and moved to Llay Industrial Estate where they still are today, still running MANs and DAFs in their yellow and white colours.

A couple more names from the Chester area who also loaded steel from Shotton: -
Pownalls, Grove Rd. Mollington…maroon ERFs.
J.H.Hourd, Powey Lane Saughall…Blue and grey DAF 2800s.
Roley Parry, Capenhurst…Red and blue AEC and Albion 6 wheel rigids.

and don’t get me started on the own account tanker fleets based in Ellesmere Port…

Gulf, Mobil,Texaco, Shell, BP, Fina, Total, Esso, National Benzole, Jet/Conoco, Burmah, Castrol, …

Hi I bought a seconhand ‘K’ reg TK Bedford 10 tonner with a red chassis around 76/77 that had been stretched as it had something like a 24’ flat body, that had Carters of Ellesmere Port on the doors in a sort of curled belt, they apparently used it to move empty 45 gallon barrels, would that have been the same company?

It was I ideal for me as at that time I was moving small loads of roofing/wall corrugated cladding from a company called Cooksons of Bishops Waltham all over Britain.

Reghards Pat

[wirralpete]

here yer go fella

[dieseldave]

Blimey Pete, there’s a rare pic and what a blast from the past!!

I remember the Offley Brothers Transport DAFs, and that OBT used to run several Volvo F86s as well.

My first ever ride in an HGV was a trip to Manchester in an OBT F86 with a 40’ flat to assist an OBT driver with unloading sacks of Carbon Black loaded from Cabot Carbon in Ellesmere Port. IIRC, that would have been around 1970/71.

I’m not sure, but maybe somebody can help here… I think OBT also had some F88s, and later some F10s.

[dieseldave]

Wheel Nut:
One company that seems to have a good look on, is the tipper business near the Castrol lube plant, they also do tacho calibrations.

Nixon’s?

[dieseldave]

Deesider:
… Another old firm from the Port was Carters Removals… Yard was in Coronation Rd. where the car wash is now, opposite the EPIC sports centre.

OK Deesider, here’s a little trivia question to exercise the grey cells… do you remember where Carter’s other yard was before they moved to the one you mentioned?

[wirralpete]

will have to find that out from one of our lads mike carter son of the old man, stayed with them until his uncle took over the place then went onto catchpoles,
meanwhile found this while sniffing around the net

[wheel_nut]

dieseldave:

Wheel Nut:
One company that seems to have a good look on, is the tipper business near the Castrol lube plant, they also do tacho calibrations.

Nixon’s?

Magic David!

[gaz70]

wirralpete:
here yer go fella

i remember ob transport going into octel northwich in the early 80’s.