Sad news this morning as it was announced Paul Stevens aka FT had passed last evening, many would have had dealings with FT as he was a truck electrician and fixed many a eberspatcher night heater back in the day, the first job he did for me was back in 1976 nearly 50 years ago so have known him a long time. He also used to do holiday relief driving for DIT and did numerous trips abroad for us. He had been ill for a while with leukemia and after a long fight lost the battle RIP and thoughts go too all his family at this time, Buzzer
Buzzer:
Sad news this morning as it was announced Paul Stevens aka FT had passed last evening, many would have had dealings with FT as he was a truck electrician and fixed many a eberspatcher night heater back in the day, the first job he did for me was back in 1976 nearly 50 years ago so have known him a long time. He also used to do holiday relief driving for DIT and did numerous trips abroad for us. He had been ill for a while with leukemia and after a long fight lost the battle RIP and thoughts go too all his family at this time, Buzzer
Sad news, I did not know you but RIP Paul Stevens. Thoughts with his family.
Sad news about FT. Such an amiable character. He knew his stuff but never inspired confidence in his ability. FT: His nickname came about after a cab fire I believe after working on a night heater! I dont know who’s. FT stood for “Frick” Trucks, a bit cruel I know but that was the tag he was given, it stuck and he wore the badge. Known him for over 40 years, here and there. IIRC wasnt he a land Rover enthusiast?
RIP Paul, caught short at 66 bud but a revered spark around Southampton.
XCG 600R was originally an AS Rawlings truck assigned to Fozzie Bear, aka Scattercash, the one and only Ian Hellawell.
Buzzer:
Buzzer
Full-fronted Bristol single-deckers with exposed radiators were not a common sight in those days 
Nice pic of the Rank Hovis motor with the Queen Mary in the background. Used to go to there huge mill on the docks alot as a
kid in my grandads trucks. Shame they pulled it down.
Here’s one of there ERF’s returning to base.
Buzzer:
Buzzer
Green Dragon at Brook, really good steak pie & mustard mash. Ate there this summer.
My trip to that dock was to sign on to the Mary, not to deliver anything. Not the best decision I have ever made in my working life. It was a nightmare,force 10 gale battened down in the focs’le head It was so bad that Arctic Convoy men from the war were ending up in sick bay with ruptured stomachs. I remember a little of the shore leave in New York, but absolutely nothing of anything else, including the homeward voyage. The memories of that terrible trip have blotted all else.
Is that Derek there?
gazzer:
Is that Derek there?
Gaz think its Richard who was a long time driver for Derek. maybe wrong JD
Yeah it’s Richard MaGoo. As you say longtime DFM driver, now adopted by Steve Woolston & Son Ltd. on grain work.
My photo taken at Beaulieu truck fest a few years back.
gazzer:
:lol: Yeah it’s Richard MaGoo. As you say longtime DFM driver, now adopted by Steve Woolston & Son Ltd. on grain work.
My photo taken at Beaulieu truck fest a few years back.
Richie who’s a really decent bloke was looking exactly the same as ageing well at Shepton/Truckfest this year polishing his Steve Woolston FH. Far bottom end of the showground a fair way from the Davies units.
Had a beer in his hand that morning as well.
I can’t orientate that docks photo.
Ocean Restaurant? Never heard of it.
The little “monument” beside it on the grass triangle means nowt.
St Marys gasometer top left.
A berthing dock centre left.
Dont recognise anywhere else.
An important rail junction by the look of it.
Must be “Old Docks” close to Terminus Terrace Station.