sunbeam400:
hi im after some information or pictures of this company as my father worked for this company in the 70’s i can remeber two names chris and jamie goddard and a bloke called don with a gold tooth and i think the yard was in newland street rugby off new street they did general haulage and removals the lorries were green red and white they had leyland crysdales ford d series removal van early dafs and aec’s any help would be greatly appreciated
my father worked for goddards don was don furnace he was a driver but allso worked in the garage with stan my father worked driving one of the two 10 ton tippers pulling out of rugby and southam cement workes the other driver was ■■■■ cant they both had dodges to start and after albions iv spent many the school holliday going with my father and helping to unload the bags of cement i used to slide the bags to the end of the tipper for the blokes to grab wasnt strong enuff to lift them so my father would lift the tipper body a bit and throw sand on the floor so the bags would slide later the changed the albions for two leyland marathons ■■■■ cant left to work at rugby cement and a bloke called pete dobbin took over driving the other tipper it was my father who drove the aec tipper cut down to be an artic unit it was gutless then they baught two leyland buffaloe artics again drove by my father and the other by harry thomas they used to pull alot into and out of dover it was after the buffaloes they got the early dafs not bad trucks iv still got alot of memories if your still interested but alas no photos
hi im after some information or pictures of this company as my father worked for this company in the 70’s i can remeber two names chris and jamie goddard and a bloke called don with a gold tooth and i think the yard was in newland street rugby off new street they did general haulage and removals the lorries were green red and white they had leyland crysdales ford d series removal van early dafs and aec’s any help would be greatly appreciated
I remember Goddards, as I used to work for Mousley Trucking when they were in Coventry, I had my fan come off a Transit 35cwt by Toddy and they were supposed to come out and tow me in, but one of Batemans from Cov pulled up and put a chain on me, 75 mph all the way back to Cov, scarry!!! this was 73, did Pete Timms go on there at some point.
in 73 i was only 5 carn’t remember many more people there i think another driver was a bloke called brian burchill who lived near us in daventry at that time.i do recall that my dads last lorry used to be a luton box van until it went through a shop window and then it was made into a flat bed ,also 1 of the earlier trucks my dad drove for goddards was either a bull nose aec or an albion and the last numbers on the reg plate were 886.i can also remember goddards getting a lwb maggy duetz 7.5 tonne truck.they did i think have a 4 wheeler aec tipper they had made into a artic unit.shortly after that they got there first daf artic unit this had the head lights in the bumper and was the first unit i ever had a ride in with 1 of the other drivers because dad only had a class 3 as it was then.some thing that i,ve just remembered is that 1 of the office staff had a white triumph spitfire and 1 off the goodards lads had a orange mini rally car that my dad worked on.things keep coming back to me
sunbeam400:
hi im after some information or pictures of this company as my father worked for this company in the 70’s i can remeber two names chris and jamie goddard and a bloke called don with a gold tooth and i think the yard was in newland street rugby off new street they did general haulage and removals the lorries were green red and white they had leyland crysdales ford d series removal van early dafs and aec’s any help would be greatly appreciated
try starting with rugby’s local history center(if they have one) and its local newspapers
sunbeam400:
hi im after some information or pictures of this company as my father worked for this company in the 70’s i can remeber two names chris and jamie goddard and a bloke called don with a gold tooth and i think the yard was in newland street rugby off new street they did general haulage and removals the lorries were green red and white they had leyland crysdales ford d series removal van early dafs and aec’s any help would be greatly appreciated
try starting with rugby’s local history center(if they have one) and its local newspapers
many thanks for info so far but i’ve still come up blank
Many thanks for your reply . I had lost my post and have only recently tried search Goddard again . It’s great someone still remembers Goddard and shares some of my memories of the place .
