Fagg’s Fleet had over 100 HGVS in operation all over the UK, like so many other UK operators you would see livery and remember it. Remember the dark blue cab with the white anchor emblem on top, passing in the other direction? Fagg’s Fleet did much to help Ashford Kent thrive in decades past. Joe Fagg himself was a real character, fondly remembered by many of his employees. He was involved in the Football Club, supplied the vehicles for the Town Carnival floats with a driver, was the first Willy Winkie to walk in front of the procession in his night shirt collecting for charity, ran the Happy Wanderer coach, taking elderly residents out for a coach tour, with volunteers from St. John Ambulance and other volunteer organizations. And much much more!
Time passes, there is a small group of Fagg’s drivers that meet on Friday mornings at 10.30. in the Gorge Cafe Lower High street Ashford. We would love to meet up with any other Fagg’s drivers that are able to make it there, we recall our antics back in the day. They say laughter is the best medicine, its very true !!! once the tales start to flow it’s nonstop !!!
UPDATE::Aug 2016:::: At this present time due to the Joe Fagg Popin Centre being closed due to storm damage, we happy few still meet up, but now have been made welcome at the Express Cafe at 29 High Street Ashford.
Formally known as Gizzi’s. We some times sit out in the high street in the sunshine, or otherwise can be found upstairs, where we play a few games of crib or just chat.
Old Muckers still welcome to join us :
I can remember the first time I saw one of Fagg’s Fleet and the name and the unique paint job just seemed to stick with me for life. I was near Headcorn in Kent where I loaded part of a milk bottle washing plant at a dairie which was closing and Edinburgh Dairies had bought the washer. That would be 67/68 time and in 81/82 I was on a milk tanker and odd days delivered to Edinburgh dairies and the same bottle washer was still going strong. Eddie.
Fagg’s Fleet - yet another haulier who ran huge trailers behind the poor old TK.
There always seemed to be several of Fagg’s Fleet loading up plastic pipes in Key Terrain’s? yard
on the corner of Brunswick rd Cobbs Wood ind est in the early 1970s. I think this is now
the Stagecoach bus depot.
What ever happened to Fagg’s Fleet??
Out of curiosity I drove around to where the Co’s yard used to be, the office /house is still there, but the yard is now a housing community/development tightly packed into the space.
I remember the yard was sold to a firm called Murston Plant, while Joe Fagg was still alive I think, it would seem that Murston Plant realized their asset and moved out of town to a more suitable/ spacious location. Sad though, that there is no reminder of what went on before in that place, a blue plaque, or; they could have named a street or block of buildings or even a pavement after old Joe, as he did a lot for Ashford back in the day.
We do have a building in the Station Road car park called Joe Fagg Pop in Center, that’s something I suppose.
I think that the white logo on the dark blue cab was a lifebuoy and white coiled rope.
Yes the old TK Bedfords were a real work horse with their scammal couplings, The Plastic Pipe Firm was Chemidus Plastics Ltd. They made all sorts and sizes of plastic pipes and were transported to every corner of the country for public works, ie Gas, Water, and plastic components for the building trade, ie guttering and roofing etc…
I remember the times when at the place of delivery, after a long journey, when it came to unload, if the drivers hand happened to touch the steel uprights holding the pipes in place !!!there would be a loud crack and flash of light, as the static charge went through the driver to ground, AAAAAAAaaaaarrrhhhhhhhhhh those were the days!!! No Health’n Safety then!!!.
Hi, I’m one of Joe’s six grandchildren and have recently returned to Ashford to visit and a lot of old memories resurfaced. I used to spend time down the yard from the age of 4 or 5 through to nearly my teens and have many fond memories. Joe wound down the business when he retired and my mum and dad took over Fagg’s fleet for a few years. By this time it was purely a builders merchants where mainly railway sleepers were sold. Joe’s son became a solicitor and is still a judge and my mother is still in Ashford. Joes wife Jean is 96 this year and now lives in Cranbrook, Kent
I am not sure what Joe would think of Ashford today, but Joe’s employees- Steve Hills, Nobby Clarke, Derek Poole, George Cooper and a Mr Woodcock (forgotten his first name) are all firmly etched in my childhood memories.
hi my dad drove for your grandads company in the early 70"s his name was Les Hirst as a boy used to sleep on parcelshelf of a Bedford TK rmbr taking flour to mills arnd Manchester Mr Kiplings was one just wondering if anybody rmbrs him ■■
He was involved in the Football Club, supplied the vehicles for the Town Carnival floats with a driver, was the first Willy Winkie 
to walk in front of the procession in his night shirt collecting for charity, ran the Happy Wanderer coach, taking elderly residents out for a coach tour, with volunteers from St. John Ambulance and other volunteer organizations. And much much more!