My thoughts exactly Gazzer …hmmmmmm
Who,s he anyway, looks kinda familiar. 
ainacs:
harry:
Ye’ah,they went bust because they invested in hundreds of 10 metre tilt trailers. The rest of the world went for 12 metre. I think the idea was to set cheaper rates per trailer to Italy because they could get a cheaper rate on the ferries. I think trains were involved somewhere along the line…? they had a driver called Pinhead.Hi Harry
I pulled for Jameson and they did not have any 10metre trailers had quite a few Kangaroo Trailers for the railway.
They did not go broke United Transport sold Jamesons to a man called David Unwin who was just an asset stripper not long after he had a big auction of all their equipment.
Same man did this to sevral companies including Renwicks!
Regards Pat
Evening all, David Unwin, Checkley Commercials, what a colourful business career!!
Jameson, Renwicks, Wilde`s, but perhaps the biggest…Wrekin Construction…a great proper company. Whose substantial assets were used as revenue raisers, being secured against a “valuable” gemstone.
Look it up, even the best fiction writers could not create such a scenario…I cannot write about it, it is just too painful…but it is really worth looking up!!!
Perchance a demi Bollinger will cool my troubled breast!!..perhaps a magnum is needed…Cheerio for now.
The name David Unwin rings a nasty dull chime in my memory !! He turned up in our depot,IIRC,in the late 80’s,Range Rover,flash double breasted suit,pocket handkerchief hanging low,shiny shoes etc etc,invited me to join the Renwick Group who,according to him,were “going places”.His demeanor reminded me of the old adages," all that glitters is not gold and if it sounds too good to be true it usually is" 
Thanks but no thanks Dave !! I also knew a scrap merchant from Stoke,George Carter,who knew Unwin well,and he used to pull my leg everytime i saw him, “your mate Unwin is up to this or that or the other”.I did hear about this fabulous Gem stone which apparently was used to support the whole “eddifice” but when the financiers requested “sight” of said stone it didn’t,or never had,existed !! Well thats what I was told long afterwards anyway !!Cheers Bewick.
gazzer:
I’m sure Robin Bartlett drove for Jan Roest, orange F12’s weren’t they?
hi Gazzer. well, Robin worked for Metrans ( later renamed Satransco ) and was on the Jan Rooest job for a while. We had 2 orange Volvos, new on T plates, but they were F10’s. He had 1, I had the other. We later added 2 new Macks to the fleet, driven by John Canty and Gary Chowns… We also had a Mack demonstrator painted up in stars and stripes, that I rolled on the way back from Portugal . But we dont talk about that 
Last time I saw Robin was well over 10 years ago I think, ( maybe more ) he was about to be laid off from Suzuki.
Cheers, stu.
Buzzer:
I know you have all been waiting with bated breath for todays truck letter which is “D” for Dennis as its quite local to us here being in Guildford of course I have not got a picture for you,cheers Buzzer.
Hi Buzzer… I remember driving a Dennis occasionaly when on for Calor Millbrook. They had 2 " mini bulkers " for Propane deliveries out in the sticks. I always associated them with dust carts and maybe the fire brigade so was a bit surprised to see them in their fleet.
Heres something that came into my mind the other day. I remember when driving for Lamberts in the early 70’s when I first started out on artics. Not what you could call " good " work from a drivers point of view , lots of rope and sheet dogs and chains and handball etc, but a good grounding… and a place quite a few young fellas got a start, Anyhoo…they had a device there that fitted on the rear cab interior. A sort of forerunner of the tachograph. Not electric but mechanical. The movement of the vehicle caused a stylus to imprint a red line on a paper disc…no other information , just showing when truck was on the go. This was used to cross check your time sheets for hours
. Any ex Lambert men from back then will know the kit, but I never saw it before or since. Any of the boys on here seen it elsewhere? TTFN balders.
Todays letter is “F” for Ford of which I only ever owned one ,think it was a D600 seven and a half tonner,in the early days all you had to do was get the unladen weight under 3 ton and on numerous occasions I can remember removing excess like the passenger seat and having only enough fuel to get back from the weighbridge just to get under,allthis so you could drive it on a car licence.Heres the one I had picture taken in 1973 my god that’s 40 years ago with a rack over the cab must have been over on the frount axle but they were not so fussy all those years ago,cheers Buzzer.
PS. Yes that is me on top of the load and was I not skinny,before any one asks.
Buzzer:
Todays letter is “F” for Ford of which I only ever owned one ,think it was a D600 seven and a half tonner,in the early days all you had to do was get the unladen weight under 3 ton and on numerous occasions I can remember removing excess like the passenger seat and having only enough fuel to get back from the weighbridge just to get under,allthis so you could drive it on a car licence.Heres the one I had picture taken in 1973 my god that’s 40 years ago with a rack over the cab must have been over on the frount axle but they were not so fussy all those years ago,cheers Buzzer.
PS. Yes that is me on top of the load and was I not skinny,before any one asks.
Hi John
A couple of local Fords
Eddie and Ronnie Huntley
Springroad next to Huntley’s Scania
Phil Grant
'F; is also for Foden here are a few locals LTS
The legendary Malcolm Millard
Regards Pat
Balders: I first met Robin when I worked for Prince’s and those F10’s were new ( “T” 1978). He is a regular attendee at the August bash.
Gordon Smith about 1977
One of Better Keep Going’s posted on past and present thread,cheers Buzzer
Hi baldrick, I think you mean that device was known as a" recorder" when I mated at hills, there was one in the big scammell, to the best of my knowledge no one took any notice of it, yes I believe a for runner of tacho??
hellow mapo, ive been out of circulation for a while what with comp probs and other things, been catching up on the news, I see you are still inline for stick re shorts etc, cant see the problem, I to use to wear them, with sometimes long socks, some times short socks!!! cant repeat what was said, !!! water off a ducks back!
hi ainiacs, thanks for Bakers lorries, they was after my time with Bakers,
To every one else have a good easter,
Trunker08…hi Mick, good to see ya back on here and thanks for your support mate.
You were obviously a fashion trendsetter before me then.
I,ve still got your phone no. i,ll give you a bell when I,m next in Grimsby and I,ll
treat you to a cuppa.
Take care, bye for now.
Ainacs…hope you and Sue enjoyed your break mate.
Can’t see who the BKG pilot is, not Del 'cos his plate isn’t in the window, don’t look like Grizzly…Brady 'praps?
Hi All
Hills had those time recorders into the late 90s perhaps longer I will check with Chris when I speak to him next.
Cheers Rich
hi all , thank’s for the info on time recorders, I thought they were unique to Lamberts…
Hi Gaz, was it 78? Long time ago! They got re registered soon after in a hookey re financing deal and ended up as V reg!? Something to do with Roger Hunt ( am sure a name known to some on here ) and he ended up doing a spot of porridge…
Probably after your time as he’s 20 years younger than us, but was Ashley White at Princes when you were there?
Give my best to Robin when next you see him and ask him about us being interviewed on a Basque underground radio show in San Sebastian circa 79… 
cheers for now…
I think the time recorders were made by Smiths and you could have them with or without a clock displayed. They were clockwork and used a 7 day disc so only needed winding up and disc change at weekends. I didn’t realise what they did until one day one of the drivers was called into the office for not taking proper breaks, but marking them as taken on his log sheets, with the wax disc being shown as proof. I think the company was (quite rightly) concerned about their A and B licences.
Hi all todays letter is"G" for GUY did 'nt own one but drove one the day after I past my test in Cornwall for Richard Benney stayed for a year,the reg was VWN 475H and had a 180 Gardner engine and six speed DB gearbox.Ironically the motor ended up working out of Southampton on containers and was run by a chap from Alderbury who worked for Earnie Smart RIP on Smart Freight along with Mo Baker and a few more.This is a pic I borrowed of another thread,cheers Buzzer.
Buzzer:
Hi all todays letter is"G" for GUY did 'nt own one but drove one the day after I past my test in Cornwall for Richard Benney stayed for a year,the reg was VWN 475H and had a 180 Gardner engine and six speed DB gearbox.Ironically the motor ended up working out of Southampton on containers and was run by a chap from Alderbury who worked for Earnie Smart RIP on Smart Freight along with Mo Baker and a few more.This is a pic I borrowed of another thread,cheers Buzzer.
Morning Gentlemen, Buzzer, remember those super “Zanetti” twin lens mirrors?? I thought that they were great, you could almost always see the back end of your trailer when reversing. Ive still got a pair in the farm workshop!!!
Now, not wishing to be controversial, but that silencer on the GL Baker Big J looks to be larger than the ones fitted to the ■■■■■■■■ and 180 Gardner models…Perchance that it could be one of Bewicks elusive 240 straight 8s■■? And whose sleeper is that, Locomotors, or Longtons??
First day out for our lad today, 17 hands, and rolling around on the sunlit snow like a puppy, and a fresh bed in the stable for tonight.Are you still having to keep yours inside with the weather? We have still got fair drifts on the lanes, yet the ground is still like soup when you break through the frozen crust, (as I did this morning). The local constabulary, (well our mountain bike equipped, PCSO,) are having a purge on tractors and trailers without number plates on, something to do with the “incomers” from the barn conversions!! Such is rural life now, (and I bet they will moan when the price of spuds goes up again)!
Cheerio for now.
Local Guy’s
Regards Pat
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