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globby 480:
GORDON BENNETT kw, NAMES mmmh, did you know, andy theabold “aka jabba”, bobby buck, big brian “had a canmar unit” , glenn “aka glenda hes on at bawdsey now”" davie may,
grays depot? barry “aka beefy” little mo?? carnt remeber his first name now, big happy evelin in the office??
mcr depot, happy brian “yard man??”,john ““marsh changed to dean??””, ken “sumo” mind has gonna a blank now , most may have been after you had gone tho KW,Bobby Buck is probably Bob Back,he was a Londoner who was one of the first Manchester driver’s.
Glenda I know,I remember him from way back when he was at Taylor Barnard,along with Ricky (Bald-Rick) who is also at Bawdsey with my brother.
Big Brian was,maybe one of the old Tracto drivers,always polishing his truck and wheel trims,nice bloke,but if it is the Brian I’m thinking of I can only remember him at Tracto’s,long before Goodways took them over.
Dave May and I were best mates,we went on the ■■■■ every weekend together,either out and about in Felixstowe,or round each other’s house.
Dave has been off sick for some time now,I believe it’s Parkinsons or Alzheimer’s,which is very sad as Dave was always very fit and active.
The last I heard,Harvey Macintyre had given Dave the job of nightwatchman,but whether he’s still there,I don’t know.Grays
Beefy Barry I know too,he was Big George Carling’s son.There was also his brother at Grays too,but I can’t remember his name.
Little Mo I also remember.
‘Happy Evelyn’■■? Evelyn yes.Happy?Never!Manchester
Brian the yard man,oh yes,he thought he owned the place!
John Marsh I remember vaguely.
The manager in Manchester was,at that time,John Tutton,who,apparently,was sorting out Alison round at the Village Inn,if you get my drift
He was always round there every evening anyway,then Alison became mysteriously pregnant,so John stopped going there.He was actually becoming something of a ■■■■-head and got caught drink-driving.The last I heard of John Tutton he was working for Carters.
Paul Williams maybe took over from Tutton,I remember Paul.
Alan Bowden was a Manchester driver.Another Felixstowe driver from way back was,Ronny Pearce.
Ronny and Peter Pearce were twins,Peter was there first,coming from Loadwell’s I believe,and Ronny came from R.A.Robinson in Ipswich.
Sadly Peter had a stroke around 1996 or '97 and had to give up driving.At about the same time Ronny had been diagnosed with cancer,and within a few months Ronny had passed away.
By this time I had starting driving for Onsala in Gothenburg,but managed to make it home for Ronny’s funeral. Nick Barber,the Felixstowe depot manager and Sue Cordell gave me a lift over to the funeral in Ipswich,we then attended the wake back at Ronny’s house.
Standing there,with everyone in a sombre mood,well,it was a funeral,I got talking to Peter and asked him how he was getting on after his stroke.“Not too bad”,he said,“But I’ll not be going back to work now”
I said to him,‘I’m going to have a stroke on the way home’,“Oh yes”? he said. ‘Yeah,Sue’s got stockings on’! Peter burst out laughing,everyone looked at us,and Sue,who had heard all this said “Keith Williams,remember where you are”!
Ronny’s widow came over and smiled,“I might have known you would liven things up Keith”God Bless you Ron.
Hi all, really interesting read this: must add i’m not in the trade and don’t know any body mentioned on here at all, I’m just a truck mad 'big kid ’ ! I’m from Manchester and as a young kid used to see a ‘marshall’ daf 2800 I think it was parked up every Saturday facing the shopping giant supermarket in droylsden, I used to nag my mum or dad to take me over to climb up the steps and just inspect it! Then I’d get them to buy me a copy of ‘truck’ or ‘truck and driver’ or 'trucking int’l from the precinct. It must have been the same driver: he then had an iveco on for Marshall ( these were both red and White trucks) really nice livery to be honest, then over the coming years he must’ve moved to Russell davies, then morline, containership, and atkins. I loved these trucks but was too young really to have thought about taking any pics. Just wondering if any one knew this driver? And if anyone has any pics of a containership, morline or a Marshall truck of the mid eighties? I haven’t been able to find any info about Marshall, but I do know all these trucks pulled containers. It’s interesting to link up all these companies and learn how they amalgamated or became part of a different group or firm . Today I see maritime on the roads, I sometimes see a small cabbed scania in what looks like goodways colours pulling containers. I’m going to build an iveco 1.24 scale model in Marshall or atkins/ or morline colours soon too. Thanks for Reading and for any info, thanks harry.
harryvr6:
Hi all, really interesting read this: must add i’m not in the trade and don’t know any body mentioned on here at all, I’m just a truck mad 'big kid ’ ! I’m from Manchester and as a young kid used to see a ‘marshall’ daf 2800 I think it was parked up every Saturday facing the shopping giant supermarket in droylsden, I used to nag my mum or dad to take me over to climb up the steps and just inspect it! Then I’d get them to buy me a copy of ‘truck’ or ‘truck and driver’ or 'trucking int’l from the precinct. It must have been the same driver: he then had an iveco on for Marshall ( these were both red and White trucks) really nice livery to be honest, then over the coming years he must’ve moved to Russell davies, then morline, containership, and atkins. I loved these trucks but was too young really to have thought about taking any pics. Just wondering if any one knew this driver? And if anyone has any pics of a containership, morline or a Marshall truck of the mid eighties? I haven’t been able to find any info about Marshall, but I do know all these trucks pulled containers. It’s interesting to link up all these companies and learn how they amalgamated or became part of a different group or firm . Today I see maritime on the roads, I sometimes see a small cabbed scania in what looks like goodways colours pulling containers. I’m going to build an iveco 1.24 scale model in Marshall or atkins/ or morline colours soon too. Thanks for Reading and for any info, thanks harry.
The Morline truck you saw would most probably have been one of Goodways,they had several in those colours,both Volvo FL’s and Scania’s and would have been from the depot in Lyons Road,Trafford Park.
No idea who the driver would have been though.
Morline was the agent in the UK for the Russian state owned container line.
Thanks, the driver seemed to change companies quite abit as I said: Marshall (whom I can’t find any info on), then atkins (derby)? , Russell davies, containership and morline: like you say part of goodways group, bar the Marshall truck which was a daf, they were all iveco’s ! I need photo’s so I can get this model built! They were good looking trucks them too, cheers for the reply, harry.