Hi Charley one
Ive been reading some of your threads and you certainly have been around , most of my driving was done in England but when the oportunity came up to do some runs to Portugal I took it , from around 1988 I did 5 trips and wished Id taken it up earlier . It was a pleasure to run strait through Vilar Formosa once the borders had lifted and not have to find the Agent and wait out in cold for the Customs to clear and get out of that blasted big compound . mostly the drops were around northern portugal , Fafe ,Santa Tirso , Guimaraes , the docks of Matosinhos , Aveiro , Lisbon and Carcavelos . I got caught up in the Spanish blocade in around 1990 ish luckely going north and was escorted with a convoy of Lorries by the Basque Police from San Sebastian through to the Irun border , that was nasty . Funny thing is driving down the A10 through France I never thought then I would be living down here , I remember those Companies you worked for in fact as I read these threads I now realise how much I`d forgotten , Geat fun though .
Frenchy
O.K. chaps so I got it wrong again, he was your father in law Frenchy. So What !
No, he really was a character and I wish I had known he was still around in the 80’s 'cause I would love to have met him again. Back in the days When I first saw and met him I was just a drivers mate and he made quite an impression on me. So Frenchy, tell your wife that she had a bloody lovely dad ! Well I have to rush now, got to do my bit for Queen, Country and Camilla. As “Arny” said
“I’ll be back”.
By the way, the cafe that you mentioned at Sholing was called The Hi-Town Diner. Long gone !
One more thing about Snowy he was also known as Knocker White , his eldest son George White did some driving as well , cant remember the company he drove for in my early days of driving but I know he had a Ford Custom artic because we ran back together from loading paper reels at Convoys Deptford once but he also went on to drive for PBC at Sholing with a Foden two stroke , be nice if someone remembers George because in 1975 he emigrated to New Zealand and was killed later riding his motorbike when a car pulled out on him . Thanks for your memory again TIR Original the High town diner was a popular cafe in spite of its state. I seem to remember a cafe at Park Gate too .
Frenchy
TIR Original:
Like you say doing timber from the old dock or American Airbase stuff out of 107 berth.
Is that when United States Lines shipped into Southampton for about 11 months instead of Felixstowe? I went down and ran on that until they moved back, made some friends, can’t remember names now though. 
Trubrit:
TIR Original:
Like you say doing timber from the old dock or American Airbase stuff out of 107 berth.Is that when United States Lines shipped into Southampton for about 11 months instead of Felixstowe? I went down and ran on that until they moved back, made some friends, can’t remember names now though.
Turbit I think Tir is going back a long way before then, I remember doing container work for the US lines to a lot of US airbases in Suffolk!
Regards Pat
ainacs:
Trubrit:
TIR Original:
Like you say doing timber from the old dock or American Airbase stuff out of 107 berth.Is that when United States Lines shipped into Southampton for about 11 months instead of Felixstowe? I went down and ran on that until they moved back, made some friends, can’t remember names now though.
Turbit I think Tir is going back a long way before then, I remember doing container work for the US lines to a lot of US airbases in Suffolk!
Regards Pat
Then our paths did indeed cross Pat.
I remember doing US forces goods out of 107 berth in about 1966.Yes there are old codgers about who can still recall those days. 
charlie one:
I remember doing US forces goods out of 107 berth in about 1966.Yes there are old codgers about who can still recall those days.
I do , I used to have a BRS Leyland Comet artic with 24’ flat trailer . Load all the personal effects by handball & then rope & sheet . For Alconbury ,I think…?
Yes Harry,Not a very good job.Handball and rope and sheet.Did Alconbury a couple of times.Also Lakenheath.It wasn’t like it is there now.All that rope and sheet has made me what I am today.Arthritic,Bad back.Round shouldered.Short sighted and crabby. Would not have missed it for the world.
Well ainacs I also did a lot of USAF work in the late sixties for SRT but when United State lines came into southampton in around 1984 P&O put 12 Lorries on it but very soon Dockies strikes put paid to Southampton and it was moved to Felixstow 5 of us stayed on until around 1988 so if you helped to run it you`ve been giving me orders , sir .
Frenchy
Hi Frenchy no I was not giving orders I was just a subbie on traction delivering boxes!!
regards Pat
Yeah ainacs , did1nt read it right did I . perhaps this little story around 1985 will make you chuckle when I was on a run with united State Lines to RAF Feltwell , just past Lakenheath , At Barton Hills roundabout there was a scrapyard that took in old American stuff and Id seen a VW Camper with Loover windows on a previous run and decided to drop in the yard to buy them . I stopped in a lay-by just off the A11 with a tea van in it and walked accross tooted a horn at the entrance of the yard , an old guy came out ," I want those windows" I said , he had his back to me and was up to something with his right hand and didnt answer , when he turned around I saw what he was up to and bolted out the back gate that was opposite the lay-by , when I told the girl serving in the tea van she said " You did1nt go in the scrap yard did you , hes chased more drivers out of there than Ive served hot tea dirty ole man " . Later having told the Guys when I got back to Southampton I got the dubious nick name ,
The Mildenhall Kid .
Frenchy
Hi Pat Scorey brought in a couple more pics
Boarding the Caen ferry for Southern Transport
And Again
Regards Pat
Here is another one of Pat Scorey in a RHD for a change
Regards Pat
Been away with computer problems for a couple of weeks but managed to fit
in a couple of coincidences involving Soton drivers.
As some may know we foster dogs rescued from death row at the refuge and
before this current miscreant Collie/Breton cross arrived on Monday we had a
beautiful Golden Lab for several weeks.
On Thursday I arranged for a prospective owner to come and see him on the
Saturday, on the Friday I went up to see a man about a new LNB for the
satellite dish and met the bloke who was coming on the Saturday - an ex
driver now working as a builder for the TV bloke. 1st coincidence.
He and his wife duly arrived and couldn’t resist Bambi (yes, I know, but he has
such a pretty face ) and we fell to talking about lorries and haulage. His
name is Mark Redsull and used to work for amongst others ExGrain in the
Soton area. His wife, Wendy, said her Dad was a driver and used to drive for
STS. ‘That’s funny’ I said ‘I used to see an STS Brit who drove for them, several
times in the Limoges area and one of the TN crowd, Charlie One, said his
name was Ginger Aynsley’
‘That’s my Dad!’ said Wendy, Aynsley, and looking at her flaming locks I had no
reason to doubt her.
So, here’s an update for you Charlie, and others who know Ginger (and Mark).
Ginger retired from STS and spent a couple of years of boredom and now is
driving again, I think they said he was working for Youngs, or Youngers, while
still living down here. He isn’t far from here so I may get to meet him some day
as I will more than likely visit Mark & Wendy to see how Bambi is getting on.
Mark is keen to come on to TN now that he knows about it but has to sort out
broadband first, they are passing on the message to Ginger too as they think
he may be interested.
Now back to Rupert, the Collie, who is intent on burrowing under our fence to
get at the ■■■■■ next door - and he’s been snipped 
, can’t think what he
was like before.
frenchy:
TIR Original , what a memory all those names on SRT I forgotten , I was only 21yrs and all these fellas were my seniors , Used to meet up at Spitalfields in London , had great nights out with these guys . Cliff York , is he still out there .
I had a load of ISR rubber on around 1969 for Fort Dunlop and turned it over in a ditch near Kidlington a bit beyond Parrafin Annies on a Friday afternoon , I phoned Gordon Prebble to give him the news and he was more worried about the rubber getting wet then me , typical , Cliff turned up at Parrafins after I got a lift back there and said forget it well come back tomorrow for overtime and recover it then which we did with a big crane , and the rubber was dry.
Cliff was the docks runner so fruit and timber was his baby he also delivered your wages if you were away on payday and would have a joke with your misses saying she was different to the one hed seen in the old mans cab , it backed fired on him and he got thumped for his trouble once. That Cornick Dodge had an american Detroit V6 two stroke in it and noise was horrendous almost as bad as the two stroke Fodens that were around then. My first Lorry was a Cornicks ford trader then an ex Christopher Hill Split screen seddon from Poole on B licence my first artic . Edmond Geralds at four post , thats the company with the oldest lorries in town , he never bought anything new , well after 50s anyway . Can I ask if anybody Knows Malcome White an old mucker with coke bottle glasses , I do hope hes still around . I used to do the cape Birth it was good for overtime on a sunday loading trailers but the queues ugh. and 109 the cold store for cheese and the like , used to work a couple in and find a couple short on delivery , people helping themselves in the yard.
Frenchy
i know malcombe white i work for andrew white @ southwest trucks totton hes still about
Hi Ron Huntley
If you see Malc remind him of Clabin Haulage and a certain night trunk buddy.
Thanks Frenchy
Hi Ron I’ve put some pics up earlier in the thread one is of your 141 loading Danzas
Regards Pat
Here it is Ron
Regards Pat
frenchy:
Hi Ron Huntley
If you see Malc remind him of Clabin Haulage and a certain night trunk buddy.
Thanks Frenchy
hi frenchy yes il do that he still lives local to soton i work for andrew white and malc is his uncle il pass on the msg