IT IS SAD LOT OF GOOD BLOKES ON THERE, LEARNT TO ROPE AND SHEET WITH ROYERS IE SID WHEN THEY WERE ON THEIR OWN AT EASTLIEGH . : 
Further to the Conning issue (just seen 'em on South Today, sad day); The earlier partners in the group JG BOYES Warehousing used to be on MIllbrook Road, next to the TA Centre. They had a light blue Transcon and a light blue Bedford TM. That was about 1974/5. The building was then taken over by ACS Car Sales.
An open reply to Bojangles who mailed me, sorry, read your message and deleted it, expecting it to be on here as a PM, but it wasnt! Doh! Remember Star Transporters, Blue Leader etc, but local show I dont remember. CRAFT moment! But yes I can confirm “THE Monkey Spanner” IS on channel! lol
MORNING CHARLIE SEE A LOT OF OLD FACES ON NEWS LAST NIGHT ,DONT LOOK GOOD DOES IT,
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Hi Alan.Same here.Don,t look good.Went on to the Echo website.Some comments on there by God.One guy was saying that he was asked to work on Friday and he would be paid at the end of the day.Guess what? Yes.Nothing.Very lucky that the office staff were able to get paid and have managed to secure other jobs.And all before Friday! great news eh? Regards Charlie 
ainacs:
Jim Ski was in today and asked me to move these over from the ‘Crack on to Macon’ thread he you are Jim.
it the Dutchmans Milan or the Frenchmans
Pat, " Ellerpack" were one of the few firms that ran "Bussings " was there someone down your way who also ran them as well 
cheers Johnnie
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does any one remember this firm sorry its only the name, another to follow
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Old Fodens crumple well…NOT!
ISR vehicle
Brian White, ISR.
Photos courtesy of Alan White
sammyopisite:
ainacs:
Jim Ski was in today and asked me to move these over from the ‘Crack on to Macon’ thread he you are Jim.
it the Dutchmans Milan or the Frenchmans
Pat, " Ellerpack" were one of the few firms that ran "Bussings " was there someone down your way who also ran them as well
cheers Johnnie
Hi Johnnie
I think that SCA did run a couple of Bussings out of Chandlers Ford but that was way before my time
sorry couldnt get em on last night ,got two old names to get the grey matter going ,must be fifties early sixtys
Two great pics Alan (Swayze)
Good to meet you today, you also met up with Ennis Stratton and Pat Scorey both didn’t know your father was ‘Joe the Pole’ even though you had worked with Ennis
Looking forward to some more pics and memories
ainacs:
Two great pics Alan (Swayze)Good to meet you today, you also met up with Ennis Stratton and Pat Scorey both didn’t know your father was ‘Joe the Pole’ even though you had worked with Ennis
Looking forward to some more pics and memories
Hi Pat What another brother ■■( joe the pole) ■■ Jimski
WENT ROUND DADS AFTER SEEING YU PAT ,TOLD HIM WHO I SPOKE TO OH MY GOD ,PAT SCOREY ,ENISS ,BROUGHT TEARS TO HIS EYES, GOD IWISH WE COULD HAVE THOSE TIMES AGAIN
Another pic courtesy Chris Hill this time a demonstration against the new ‘O’ licencing laws brought out by the lateBarbara Castle (who couldn’t even drive!!!)and introduced the breathalyser among other things.
It’s on the old lorry park behind the Southampton Swimming Baths opposite the Post House Hotel in the mid 60’s.
A line up of some Baker lorries and drivers.
ainacs:
Another pic courtesy Chris Hill this time a demonstration against the new ‘O’ licencing laws brought out by the lateBarbara Castle (who couldn’t even drive!!!)and introduced the breathalyser among other things.It’s on the old lorry park behind the Southampton Swimming Baths opposite the Post House Hotel in the mid 60’s.
A line up of some Baker lorries and drivers.
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Hello Pat
When dads round next i will show him the photo and ask him if he remembers the demonstration.
Regards Jacko
ainacs:
It’s on the old lorry park behind the Southampton Swimming Baths opposite the Post House Hotel in the mid 60’s.
Don’t remember that one Pat, but do remember being there a few years later, in the same lorry park, to demonstrate about the £1 an hour !! along side my fellow communist, brother Mappo the Red, who also wanted 50p for a night out AS WELL as the quid !
Cheeky bugger !! 
Fergie47:
ainacs:
It’s on the old lorry park behind the Southampton Swimming Baths opposite the Post House Hotel in the mid 60’s.Don’t remember that one Pat, but do remember being there a few years later, in the same lorry park, to demonstrate about the £1 an hour !! along side my fellow communist, brother Mappo the Red, who also wanted 50p for a night out AS WELL as the quid !
Cheeky bugger !!
Typical
Hey you bloody pair, pack it in …must be someone else,s turn by now.
If you cast your mind back Fergie, we got the £1 an hour before the other Soton companies cos
we were on for Smiths, being a Scottish firm who were awarded that amount before the English.
As for night out money i was quite happy with my five bob ( 25p to younger members ) 
mappo:
Hey you bloody pair, pack it in …must be someone else,s turn by now.If you cast your mind back Fergie, we got the £1 an hour before the other Soton companies cos
we were on for Smiths, being a Scottish firm who were awarded that amount before the English.
As for night out money i was quite happy with my five bob ( 25p to younger members )
I do remember Tone, we had to go and support the poor old English boys, en-slaved by their tyrannical masters, where as you say, we’d already got the precious pooooound !! Don’t think we hung around though, if memory serves, we were packed off up to Scotland for a week ! £1 p.h eh! couldn’t buy a cup of tea for that these days, are we getting old Mappo, living in the past, like very old people !!!
Don’t know whether you were at Smiths at the time that a union guy called Fred the Red worked for them ? He was going to change the world and the way we worked. Unfortunately we already had one of the best jobs with pay, trucks, equipment, and contracts, so there was nothing he could change. He didn’t last long, last time I heard
( going back YEARS ) he was driving for Smiths Crisps out of Eastleigh. He seemed a decent enough bloke, just the wrong attitude at the wrong time for the wrong company. Anyone remember him and what happened to him ?
FUNNY THING HAPPENED THIS MORNING THAT JUST MADE ME LAUGH; ANY WAY HAD TO TAKE DAD (POLEY JOE) TO GET HIS FLUE JAB AT THE DOCS WHO DO YOU THINK WE BUMP INTO MR BOB ENGLISH LOOKS REALLY WELL AT 76 AND SAID HELLO TO EVERYONE ;; ANY WAY GO INTO SURGERY AND THIS OLD WOMAN CAME UP TO ME NOW DONT GET EXCITED CHARLIE SEE JUST WANTED TO TALK TO ME ; HA HA ;
ANY WAY SHE ASKED IF MY DAD WON AN AWARD FOR DRIVING BACK IN THE LATE SIXTYS OR EARLY SEVENTYS, YES I SAID IRU THING TURNS OUT SHE WORKED ON THE DRAGON AND REMEMBERS LOADS ;THEN SHE LEFT AND I DIDNT EVEN GET HER NAME WHAT A P OFF NEVER MIND 
REGARDS ALAN