chris everitt:
Hi does any body remember Brian Price who drove for them who i worked with on tele com in the 80s
2010vagabond:
One other name just came to me. Anybody remember H.E.Dobbs of Enfield? Their yard was in Windmill Hill, and had red Scania Vabis LB’s. This thread seems to have died though, so I’m not holding my breath…
Hi chris
Have known Brian (Ginger) Price since we worked on tippers for Kniftons back when, he drove Dobbs 3 which was part of Kniftons, great character, we also worked on Cawthorns on the Thorn contract out of Brimsdown, where we got our first start on artics, before the HGV licence was introduced. After he left Tele Com he was doing show work, I think pulling for Redburn Transfer but could be wrong on that. He retired and moved to Spain for a few years, but didn’t work out so moved back, he now lives in Wiltshire, I’m still in touch spoke to him at Christmas he’s doing OK. Dobbs in Windmill Hill can’t remember them but does ring a bell.
Hi Ossie when he was on the pop tours that was fo harris and mead when i fist met him we were on for infradex doing spain and then cople of years later went telecom at colindale with gordo brown and brian the he was cambridge and kings lyn i still speak to him and silv two or three times a year at the moment i am in thailand where the weather is better. All the best Chris
OssieD:
chris everitt:
Hi does any body remember Brian Price who drove for them who i worked with on tele com in the 80s
2010vagabond:
One other name just came to me. Anybody remember H.E.Dobbs of Enfield? Their yard was in Windmill Hill, and had red Scania Vabis LB’s. This thread seems to have died though, so I’m not holding my breath…
Hi chris
Have known Brian (Ginger) Price since we worked on tippers for Kniftons back when, he drove Dobbs 3 which was part of Kniftons, great character, we also worked on Cawthorns on the Thorn contract out of Brimsdown, where we got our first start on artics, before the HGV licence was introduced. After he left Tele Com he was doing show work, I think pulling for Redburn Transfer but could be wrong on that. He retired and moved to Spain for a few years, but didn’t work out so moved back, he now lives in Wiltshire, I’m still in touch spoke to him at Christmas he’s doing OK. Dobbs in Windmill Hill can’t remember them but does ring a bell.
Here’s an old lea valley firm I worked at for a couple of years, Tommy Harris had a yard down the Highway, Enfield ran some Albions, Fords and this Leyland that I drove, never earned big money but had good laugh doing it.
Around 1998, I was on Continental Express from Waltham Abbey. One of the drivers there at that time was called Brian Price.
He would have been about 60 at the time, drove a couple of American cars, and had a dodgy hip or knee and was waiting for a replacement. He also knew my older brother from when they had both worked for Gerry Stacey many moons earlier.
Would this be the same fella?
2010vagabond:
Around 1998, I was on Continental Express from Waltham Abbey. One of the drivers there at that time was called Brian Price.
He would have been about 60 at the time, drove a couple of American cars, and had a dodgy hip or knee and was waiting for a replacement. He also knew my older brother from when they had both worked for Gerry Stacey many moons earlier.
Would this be the same fella?
Yes that’s the feller, loved his American motors and did work for Gerry for a while.
I’ve got maximum respect for Brian. He’s one of life’s nice people. Proper old school, and he’d done all kinds of work, and done it all well, but didn’t go around bragging about it. He’s a very quiet, unassuming bloke, who has no need to prove himself to anybody.
I’m pretty sure it was a knee transplant that he was waiting for, not a hip. I hope he eventually got it done, cos he was suffering a lot, (although he never went on about it. That was the mark of the man).
I’m glad to read that he’s still around.
“GOOD ON YER, MATE”
2010vagabond:
One other name just came to me. Anybody remember H.E.Dobbs of Enfield? Their yard was in Windmill Hill, and had red Scania Vabis LB’s. This thread seems to have died though, so I’m not holding my breath…
Dobbs of enfield was owned by Jack Redburn, who’s son is Chris who owns Redburn Transfer, in the early seventies I had a Saturday job in the depot at Windmill hill, winding up & down trailer legs, I received 50p for the mornings work, it was
years later before I realised he was just keeping me out of trouble as most of the legs I wound down were the same ones I wound up again, still on the same units.
Anyone remember from the local area,
Hipwood & Grundy
Coward Brothers
T.H.Griffith
Star Removals
Webb Brothers Recovery
Pickfords
Plackets
2010vagabond:
One other name just came to me. Anybody remember H.E.Dobbs of Enfield? Their yard was in Windmill Hill, and had red Scania Vabis LB’s. This thread seems to have died though, so I’m not holding my breath…
Dobbs of enfield was owned by Jack Redburn, who’s son is Chris who owns Redburn Transfer, in the early seventies I had a Saturday job in the depot at Windmill hill, winding up & down trailer legs, I received 50p for the mornings work, it was
years later before I realised he was just keeping me out of trouble as most of the legs I wound down were the same ones I wound up again, still on the same units.
Anyone remember from the local area,
Hipwood & Grundy
Coward Brothers
T.H.Griffith
Star Removals
Webb Brothers Recovery
Pickfords
Plackets
neilf, yes, Dereks back! At 68yrs of age, retirement bored him, so he’s had a mental breakdown I think. He’s gone and bought himself a secondhand lhd ex Stobart Scanny Topline, plus a trailer, and he’s started subbing for LKW Walter. When you spotted him, he was on his first trip, and to avoid the poxhole that is Calais, he shipped Newhaven - Dieppe, to tip in Paris, and reload somewhere else, whose name I can’t remember, and back via Dieppe-Newhaven, and tipping at Wigan. Everyone who knows him have told him that he must have flipped his lid. He just laughs it off. He’s nuts, but good luck to him all the same.
dave docwra,
Coward Bros. Weren’t they from North Weald?
Hipwood & Grundy were Edmonton somewhere, Montague Road I think.
Webb Bros. of Upshire, with very tasty Volvo’s.
Pickfords, Cambridge Road / Southbury Road
Placketts Millmarsh Lane, Brimsdown
But T.H. Griffith & Star Removals, you lost me there!!
2010vagabond:
dave docwra,
Coward Bros. Weren’t they from North Weald?
Hipwood & Grundy were Edmonton somewhere, Montague Road I think.
Webb Bros. of Upshire, with very tasty Volvo’s.
Pickfords, Cambridge Road / Southbury Road
Placketts Millmarsh Lane, Brimsdown
But T.H. Griffith & Star Removals, you lost me there!!
I thought Coward Bros were from Cheshunt, you are more then probably right, now I have time to think about it,
Plackets were located in Princes Ave, Edmonton where R A Haulage is now based,
Hipwood & Grundy were in First Ave, Edmonton, Where the Calor gas depot was,
Star Removals were in Haselbury Rd, Edmonton & so was T.H.Griffith Removals., Both went out of business in the early 80’s I believe.
2010vagabond:
neilf, yes, Dereks back! At 68yrs of age, retirement bored him, so he’s had a mental breakdown I think. He’s gone and bought himself a secondhand lhd ex Stobart Scanny Topline, plus a trailer, and he’s started subbing for LKW Walter. When you spotted him, he was on his first trip, and to avoid the poxhole that is Calais, he shipped Newhaven - Dieppe, to tip in Paris, and reload somewhere else, whose name I can’t remember, and back via Dieppe-Newhaven, and tipping at Wigan. Everyone who knows him have told him that he must have flipped his lid. He just laughs it off. He’s nuts, but good luck to him all the same.
Thanks for that 2010vagabond.
I’ve seen the truck a few times since on the M/A23 so I guess he’s still shipping Newhaven. Knowing its him I’ll see if I can catch up with him at some point.
I liked Derek and he was always good company when I met up with him. I did contemplate going to work for him at one point, he always tried to talk me into it, but by that time I was really looking to have more time at home so never did. I too would of said he’s mad to start up again but he knows what he’s doing so good luck to him.
I worked for Jack Redburn when it was L T Redburn, I also worked for him when he had H E Dobbs, together with Ginger Price Peter Bolden Ricky (no surname) Burt 4 wheeler driver and another guy who’s name completely escapes me, our yard was behind the renault garage on Windmill Hill. We used to do a lot of work for the Braham Millar group steel structures and machinery but a large percentage of the work was Coca Cola on the Eley Estate Edmonton, we also did a lot for Record Tower Cranes. I remember Chris Redburn when he had a transit van held together with more luck than judgement. I also worked for Hipwood and Grundy on nights.
vichobbs:
I worked for Jack Redburn when it was L T Redburn, I also worked for him when he had H E Dobbs, together with Ginger Price Peter Bolden Ricky (no surname) Burt 4 wheeler driver and another guy who’s name completely escapes me, our yard was behind the renault garage on Windmill Hill. We used to do a lot of work for the Braham Millar group steel structures and machinery but a large percentage of the work was Coca Cola on the Eley Estate Edmonton, we also did a lot for Record Tower Cranes. I remember Chris Redburn when he had a transit van held together with more luck than judgement. I also worked for Hipwood and Grundy on nights.
My Dad worked for Jack about 1971, he drove a green Scania 110 with an “S” sign written on the door. I remember the yard as Jack employed me to wind up & down trailer legs on a Saturday morning, never realised it at the time but the trailers rarely ever actually got dropped, but it kept me out of trouble for a couple of hours.
