milkmantom:
aye they look [gay]nice dogs sorry i forgot good dogs was impressed wid them horses dennis wat happened to ian that was on fridge used t see him most days at bellshill we took butter up frae carlisle me @geordie thirwall [he was an ireby pilot
Ian Williams,now he was a great lad,still is by the way! He gave up driving and turned his hand to general building and property repairs and has never looked back,ex farmers son,turn his hand to owt’.He started with us as a young lad,without a licence,we set him on working with the shunters and then put him through his test,he went onto the long distance fleet and then in '84 when we started pulling Ross/Young trailers he went onto days up to Scotland and back,that job ran like clockwork for years with Ian on days and Eddie Airey on nights to Grimsby and back.Cheers Dennis.
milkmantom:
dennis another ex dairyman came to you john goggins last heard he was badly
Yes,John drove for us on our European fleet another grand lad,I believe he started work with his son on Landscaping work after he finished driving.Great shot of the Robsons 6 wheeler loaded with Metal Box by the looks of it.And here is a shot I would take just when we started pulling Ross/Youngs trailers in early '84,this was Ians fleet motor which was about 8 or 9 months old at the time,we put it onto the job double shifting for a month or so while we got a new 112 ready to take over.Cheers Dennis.
milkmantom:
another oldie joe routledge frae spytrie
Now thats a tidely sheeted and roped load at a time when the “old school” took imense pride in the job,tidy Commer as well,looks fairly newish ! Cheers Dennis.
milkmantom:
here,s another old yan you would,nt be able t climb up that height tday
The Robson Trader loaded with MB tins brought back an old memory when I started with my first motor,sometimes when I was empty in London,J & W Watts would send me into MB Acton where I would load a double pallet load of tins for Glaxo in Kendal,sometimes it was just 4 pallets of tops from MB Portsmouth (IIRC) they were fairly heavy,however,the 20 pallets of tins required every scrap of sheet I carried.First I hung my little tail sheet down the back of the load,then I hung the Fly sheet down the near side,and partly around each end of the load and finally I spread my main sheet out over the whole load and mainly down the off-side.I left all the sheets a foot or so shy of the bottom edge of the load so when I got down I could pull each sheet down quietly to the edge of the chock rail therebye keeping them all nice and tight,I couldn’t abide sagging sheets on high loads (which is the only critisism I have of that Robson Trader) So by the time I’d roped the load everything was as tight as a drum.Pity I have no photos of these MB loads but I was too busy grafting up and down the road at the time !!Cheers Bewick.
Nice photo Tom,Jazzer ran a nice fleet in the day,I never met him but I think he went to Express Dairies at Appleby after they sold out to Onward ?Cheers Dennis.
milkmantom:
think i shud keep them coming or wat dont no if many are interested only thee
Divent worry about anybody else Tom,there’s not many shots better than what you put on Marra,well that MMB yan is a bit dodgy like eh!,but niver mind eh! somebody had to drive for them eh!You keep ‘em coming Marra,they’ll be well “looked at” don’t worry thee sel’.Cheers Dennis.
