Any you lads got any photos of delivering in leeds or memories ,yep not the best city to enter in rush hour 
keith
I did parcel delivery for Hanson Haulage from Huddersfield to Leeds in the 1960âs for about 4 years. We carried a lot of cloth from the textile industry in Huddersfield to the Tailors and Clothiers of Leeds. We had 3 vans covering Leeds. One did all the outskirts, I started at Pudsey and worked my way in through Armley, Kirkstall Road and up to the station and York Place,(very tight), then past the University and Headingly swinging round to Chapeltown and finishing up at Montague Burtons factory. We had a small Commer cob artic for City Centre deliveries.
When I first started I had a 5 ton Thames trader and was on my own, as the round got busier I had a mate and then finished off with an AEC artic with a specially adapted shortened trailer which had originally been bought for use on overseas furniture removals. The scheme didnât work out and they were stuck for somewhere to use it. I wouldnât like to try it now but as a 22 year old and with less busy streets it was a challenge. I enjoyed my time round Leeds it was and possibly still is a great City. Hard work and very challenging but Happy Days, washed down with a couple of pints of Tetleys on the way round, try that today. Sorry no photoâs.
I also, while working for S&R tankers, later took and passed the IAM driving test starting and finishing in Leeds city centre, an oversight by the IAM whoâs examiner was scanning the start point off the Headrow looking for a Volvo Car. I turned up in the Volvo N10 and trailer pictured above. ( Photo taken at Montague Burtons around 1980 )
The Yorkshireman:
I did parcel delivery for Hanson Haulage from Huddersfield to Leeds in the 1960âs for about 4 years. We carried a lot of cloth from the textile industry in Huddersfield to the Tailors and Clothiers of Leeds. We had 3 vans covering Leeds. One did all the outskirts, I started at Pudsey and worked my way in through Armley, Kirkstall Road and up to the station and York Place,(very tight), then past the University and Headingly swinging round to Chapeltown and finishing up at Montague Burtons factory. We had a small Commer cob artic for City Centre deliveries.When I first started I had a 5 ton Thames trader and was on my own, as the round got busier I had a mate and then finished off with an AEC artic with a specially adapted shortened trailer which had originally been bought for use on overseas furniture removals. The scheme didnât work out and they were stuck for somewhere to use it. I wouldnât like to try it now but as a 22 year old and with less busy streets it was a challenge. I enjoyed my time round Leeds it was and possibly still is a great City. Hard work and very challenging but Happy Days, washed down with a couple of pints of Tetleys on the way round, try that today. Sorry no photoâs.
I also, while working for S&R tankers, later took and passed the IAM driving test starting and finishing in Leeds city centre, an oversight by the IAM whoâs examiner was scanning the start point off the Headrow looking for a Volvo Car. I turned up in the Volvo N10 and trailer pictured above. ( Photo taken at Montague Burtons around 1980 )
Hi Yorkshireman,i live not far away from Burtonâs,my mam an dad had a flat at the entrance opposite in the 1960s my dad and parked his wagon outside when he worked for a one transport Leeds,i still sometimes pick trucks up there to take for service and take them back on my way home.it is now called spectrum part of dhl,as you know Leeds was a big textile city then and made a lot of garments,now all you see is eastern europe trucks bring cheep crap in parked outside an put our tailors out of work 
the days when a englishman owned a corner shop will never be seen again,keith
keith 2:
The Yorkshireman:
I did parcel delivery for Hanson Haulage from Huddersfield to Leeds in the 1960âs for about 4 years. We carried a lot of cloth from the textile industry in Huddersfield to the Tailors and Clothiers of Leeds. We had 3 vans covering Leeds. One did all the outskirts, I started at Pudsey and worked my way in through Armley, Kirkstall Road and up to the station and York Place,(very tight), then past the University and Headingly swinging round to Chapeltown and finishing up at Montague Burtons factory. We had a small Commer cob artic for City Centre deliveries.When I first started I had a 5 ton Thames trader and was on my own, as the round got busier I had a mate and then finished off with an AEC artic with a specially adapted shortened trailer which had originally been bought for use on overseas furniture removals. The scheme didnât work out and they were stuck for somewhere to use it. I wouldnât like to try it now but as a 22 year old and with less busy streets it was a challenge. I enjoyed my time round Leeds it was and possibly still is a great City. Hard work and very challenging but Happy Days, washed down with a couple of pints of Tetleys on the way round, try that today. Sorry no photoâs.
I also, while working for S&R tankers, later took and passed the IAM driving test starting and finishing in Leeds city centre, an oversight by the IAM whoâs examiner was scanning the start point off the Headrow looking for a Volvo Car. I turned up in the Volvo N10 and trailer pictured above. ( Photo taken at Montague Burtons around 1980 )
Hi Yorkshireman,i live not far away from Burtonâs,my mam an dad had a flat at the entrance opposite in the 1960s my dad and parked his wagon outside when he worked for a one transport Leeds,i still sometimes pick trucks up there to take for service and take them back on my way home.it is now called spectrum part of dhl,as you know Leeds was a big textile city then and made a lot of garments,now all you see is eastern europe trucks bring cheep crap in parked outside an put our tailors out of work
I drove for Sumeries , mens clothing, in Leeds and used to see plenty of Burtons lorries about. Allways clean and drivers wore suit and tie, very professional.
Charles
One of my âvan ladsâ met and married a girl who worked at Burtons. She lived somewhere nearby, between Burtons and York Road.
When you go into spectrum today the gardens are spotless and a cheep works canteen,think most of the workers there now are polish who work in the warehouse,Keith
I used to deliver castings to Fairbairn & Lawsons in Leeds Many years ago from Joblings Foundry in Sunderland, I also delivered reels of paper to the Yorkshire Post just opposite where F/Bs were, Happy long gone days, Regards Larry.
The Yorkshireman:
I did parcel delivery for Hanson Haulage from Huddersfield to Leeds in the 1960âs for about 4 years. We carried a lot of cloth from the textile industry in Huddersfield to the Tailors and Clothiers of Leeds. We had 3 vans covering Leeds. One did all the outskirts, I started at Pudsey and worked my way in through Armley, Kirkstall Road and up to the station and York Place,(very tight), then past the University and Headingly swinging round to Chapeltown and finishing up at Montague Burtons factory. We had a small Commer cob artic for City Centre deliveries.When I first started I had a 5 ton Thames trader and was on my own, as the round got busier I had a mate and then finished off with an AEC artic with a specially adapted shortened trailer which had originally been bought for use on overseas furniture removals. The scheme didnât work out and they were stuck for somewhere to use it. I wouldnât like to try it now but as a 22 year old and with less busy streets it was a challenge. I enjoyed my time round Leeds it was and possibly still is a great City. Hard work and very challenging but Happy Days, washed down with a couple of pints of Tetleys on the way round, try that today. Sorry no photoâs.
I also, while working for S&R tankers, later took and passed the IAM driving test starting and finishing in Leeds city centre, an oversight by the IAM whoâs examiner was scanning the start point off the Headrow looking for a Volvo Car. I turned up in the Volvo N10 and trailer pictured above. ( Photo taken at Montague Burtons around 1980 )
Could not help but notice the photograph, obviously with you stood in front of the Volvo N10 and the fact that you mentioned S&R Tankers. I took this photo in 1983 at Crossroads Commercial in Birstall, before the Junction 27 Retail Park. Were CBL any relation to S&R as the colour schemes are similarâ â ?
Barry/Gloves
I work for Spectrum for Arcadia on the old Burtons site on Hudson/Torre road in Leeds. The site has been adapted from a manufacturing site to a cross dock pick, pack and despatch. Montague Burtons office is still there just as the day he walked out of the building, nothing has been touched. We run a fleet of DAF motors on store delivery and trunk work with trailers and demounts. We also have several Volvos on trunk work with double decker trailers to Scotland the north east, Liverpool and Warrington. All the garments are imported from China, Turkey, Portugal and some Slavic countries. The British manufacturing industry is dead and gone.
I work for Spectrum for Arcadia on the old Burtons site on Hudson/Torre road in Leeds. The site has been adapted from a manufacturing site to a cross dock pick, pack and despatch. Montague Burtons office is still there just as the day he walked out of the building, nothing has been touched. We run a fleet of DAF motors on store delivery and trunk work with trailers and demounts. We also have several Volvos on trunk work with double decker trailers to Scotland the north east, Liverpool and Warrington. All the garments are imported from China, Turkey, Portugal and some Slavic countries. The British manufacturing industry is dead and gone.
I used to park on Leeds lorry park (canât remember where in Leeds it was) late 70s, me and a mate saw a sign at a pub saying âlive music tonightâ we wondered if we would be able to get in in our work gear, but when we got in it was a punk rock night, and it turned out we were the 2 best dressed in the pub
gloves:
The Yorkshireman:
I did parcel delivery for Hanson Haulage from Huddersfield to Leeds in the 1960âs for about 4 years. We carried a lot of cloth from the textile industry in Huddersfield to the Tailors and Clothiers of Leeds. We had 3 vans covering Leeds. One did all the outskirts, I started at Pudsey and worked my way in through Armley, Kirkstall Road and up to the station and York Place,(very tight), then past the University and Headingly swinging round to Chapeltown and finishing up at Montague Burtons factory. We had a small Commer cob artic for City Centre deliveries.When I first started I had a 5 ton Thames trader and was on my own, as the round got busier I had a mate and then finished off with an AEC artic with a specially adapted shortened trailer which had originally been bought for use on overseas furniture removals. The scheme didnât work out and they were stuck for somewhere to use it. I wouldnât like to try it now but as a 22 year old and with less busy streets it was a challenge. I enjoyed my time round Leeds it was and possibly still is a great City. Hard work and very challenging but Happy Days, washed down with a couple of pints of Tetleys on the way round, try that today. Sorry no photoâs.
I also, while working for S&R tankers, later took and passed the IAM driving test starting and finishing in Leeds city centre, an oversight by the IAM whoâs examiner was scanning the start point off the Headrow looking for a Volvo Car. I turned up in the Volvo N10 and trailer pictured above. ( Photo taken at Montague Burtons around 1980 )
Could not help but notice the photograph, obviously with you stood in front of the Volvo N10 and the fact that you mentioned S&R Tankers. I took this photo in 1983 at Crossroads Commercial in Birstall, before the Junction 27 Retail Park. Were CBL any relation to S&R as the colour schemes are similarâ â ?
Hi Barry,i work for crossroads,i strated in 1999 at birstall afrer spending many years at a one transport and remember the reg of that truck but was all painted blue,i dont know where it is now,left birsall in 2002 and now at normanton,good place to work for,Keith
Barry/Gloves
Carlc:
I work for Spectrum for Arcadia on the old Burtons site on Hudson/Torre road in Leeds. The site has been adapted from a manufacturing site to a cross dock pick, pack and despatch. Montague Burtons office is still there just as the day he walked out of the building, nothing has been touched. We run a fleet of DAF motors on store delivery and trunk work with trailers and demounts. We also have several Volvos on trunk work with double decker trailers to Scotland the north east, Liverpool and Warrington. All the garments are imported from China, Turkey, Portugal and some Slavic countries. The British manufacturing industry is dead and gone.
Hi Carlc,as i see all the trucks are new dafs and the Volvo units not far behind,would love to see his office,you have brill transport manger [chris]always treats me with respect,not many of theses guys around,Keith
I used to park up for the night sometimes in Leeds when delivering in that neck of the woods, back in the 70âs. The park was just below the site of the old baths on ground owned by the British Legion at the bottom end of Headrow.
After a few drinks in the âTam OâShanterâ it was across the road to a chip shop situated on the third floor around the back of Quarry Hill flats. These flats were the setting of the TV program Queenies Castle with Diana Dors.
You had to go over there in two or threes for safetyâs sake, but the fish supper that George, the proprietor, used to cook to order was second to none. He used to make you a cup of tea whilst you were waiting for your order to be cooked. His home made fishcakes were some of the best Iâve had, they were about 3 inches thick with loads of good fish in them.
I also remember going to another pub near there called, I think, the Orchard or was it the Cherry Tree. Anyway, they had regular âGrab a Grannyâ nights, which were always good for a laugh.
Happy days!
I used to work for a company called DCB of Drighlington 1990s just off J27 before the Drig by pass (A650). The owners were 2 cracking bosses Jimmy Ball and his son Dean . They had quite a sizeable of mixed fleet on the poundstretcher contract out of Crossgreen Leeds, They had a couple of motors sign written C Scholfield. They eventually moved to Grange Road Batley.
I sometimes parked up in Leeds at Georges Café in Call Lane near the river Aire, There was a lorry park opposite, The café was open all night in those days 50/60s, Regards Larry.
Lawrence Dunbar:
I sometimes parked up in Leeds at Georges Café in Call Lane near the river Aire, There was a lorry park opposite, The café was open all night in those days 50/60s, Regards Larry.
Sorry Lawrence,thatâs a bit before my time,but nice to read the stories,keith
Hi Barry, S&R originally bought the N10âs from Crossroads, they had been ordered and then cancelled by another firm, so they came at a good price I was told. I was on the Drivers Committee at the time and we had an agreement that all new trucks would have sleeper cabs and obviously the N10âs didnât. They were initially used on jobs which did not entail nights out.
I know one was written off in an accident on the A1 at Ferrybridge, ( doing 20 mph according to the driver 
.) One was based in Lincolnshire, I think two were based at Stockton Depot and double shifted up to Scotland and back, covering, so I was told, 800 miles every 24 hours. I was also told that one of these recorded the highest mileage ever for a Volvo and that Volvo bought it back and put it in their Museum. Canât back up this last claim though. The one I had was passed on from Lincolnshire if memory serves me right, I was running from ICI Huddersfield to ICIâs at Slough, stopover Luton, and later Grangemouth three times a week. I had some good digs at Luton and Crawford and around there and continued to use them , so negated the sleeper cab rule. The one I had was great to drive and reliable, it also had better brakes than cab over Volvos. Sadly I went on Holiday and the spare driver couldnât manage it and knacked the gear box up.
There was a tie up between CBL and S&R just before I left, having seen the writing on the wall when we were taken over by BET and then United Transport when things began to go downhill fast. I wonder if CBL bought one of the N10âs when they were retired from S&R, mine was the last to go. 
I left S&R and went to work for ICI in Huddersfield running the Benzene / Nitrobenzene tanker bays.
Had some goods nights on the ale when parked up around croosgreen area The punch clock, the Goodmins, The crossgreen, the irish and labour clubs then next morning to soak up the beer either the goodmans or dunhillls café for a full English. I remember after one lock in not rolling out my bunk until 11am. Straight to the phone box to ring in, boy did I get the crap for a week or two to teach me a lesson.
The Yorkshireman:
Hi Barry, S&R originally bought the N10âs from Crossroads, they had been ordered and then cancelled by another firm, so they came at a good price I was told. I was on the Drivers Committee at the time and we had an agreement that all new trucks would have sleeper cabs and obviously the N10âs didnât. They were initially used on jobs which did not entail nights out.I know one was written off in an accident on the A1 at Ferrybridge, ( doing 20 mph according to the driver
There was a tie up between CBL and S&R just before I left, having seen the writing on the wall when we were taken over by BET and then United Transport when things began to go downhill fast. I wonder if CBL bought one of the N10âs when they were retired from S&R, mine was the last to go.
I left S&R and went to work for ICI in Huddersfield running the Benzene / Nitrobenzene tanker bays.
Hi Yorkshireman,whet to ici in Huddersfieldâs many a time on breakdowns as a lot of our continental drivers would load out of there[A ONE TRANSPORT LEEDS] i also went all the way up to grange mouth to fit a cab phone to the yard shunter we had running out of there,wot a job,took me all of half hour and back home,or maybe the pub.Keith