Don’t you just meet the strangest of people on here…
Well, glad you finally made it, no doubt you’ll meet a few forgotten faces in the future… Dig some pic’s out of your wagons and post 'em up…and a few anecdotes as well…
Have got your PM so I’ll contact you direct soon…
Fergie
Well well Ferdie47,
Who do you mean “strange”? whats anecdotes, is that French for something? I’ll try to place some photos on here if i can.
stingray.
nope cant seem to do it. how do you put photos on here? in simple terms please.
What a turn up. I know someone who will be very interested to see those Foden and ERF pics!
I remember the second Cat Foden you bought, that nearly got written off earlier that you might have thought! I remember going up to the quarries with Dad one morning, and somewhere around Maiden Bradley as you come through the village is a sharp bend. At three in the morning, I remember Dad’s trick was to switch the headlights to sidelights to see if anything was coming around this particular corner so he could keep the throttle buried and the speed up. However, on this particular morning (your truck was only three days old) I remember Dad doing his usual with the lights and a transit van did the same coming the other way! My arse was going like a rabbits nose as we hurtled past each other! I will take that memory to my grave !!
well well well you old son of a gun,magic,fergie here,have been waiting to see if you would make contact on here one day,hope you and the mrs are ok, its been a long time since i visited you out at hale,my marrage is still very strong and still with amy and joshua,im haveing a laugh here to myself about that trip we had together down to naples,i remember you finding the heat a bit to much for you,and remember you comeing out of the shower at Danzas in Cercerta saying it had just beat your brians out,as there was no shower head,just a solid jet of water hiting you,god we had some laughs on that trip,didnt know you had a good picture of the bulldog scania,nice to see you have put her up on here,just to let you know that there is a thread for bulldog on here but you probably know that,you were right when you say what a motor the erf was,and you were the first to show me how to use a twinsplitter and once i got used to it, as far as im concerned it was the best gearbox ever made,(cheers for that mate)then you bought me the CATwhat a fantastic motor that was mate,nothing could keep up with her weight for weight,god we did some work with the motors in thoughs days didnt we mate,im still in touch with Ginger and Johnboy who were on Skinners,when i think what we all used to do in the early hour of the morning on our way down to the quarries, its a wounder that we are here to tell the story.Ian are you still in touch with brain and david as i have lost their phone numbers and yours as well, perhaps you could PM me if you havethem.by the way i have some pics of all your motors with me but am going to wait till my son comes up and get him to put them up for me, thats(lee,now chris hunter) im still driving Ian, im workin for wincanton what used to be hanbury davis been with them for about six-to severn years now.OK my good friend will wait to hear from you, take care of yourself and dont leave it to long before you make contact, will send you an email with my details,bi fr now mate.
Hi I was sent this pic in an email of Edmund Gerald who used to be at Four Post Hill, Hill Lane, where Reeves and later Begard and Molo’s had yards. Its all built on now.
does anyone on this site remember an old soton company called CEFtransport??the owner used to be John Carter who then moved to POOLE,i worked for a time both in soton and poole,i think he then moved over to holland i think, but have not heard anything about him since,
Hi Ya Fergie (Bev),
Confusing for me as I also know Dave (Fergie47)! (Not sure what the 47 implies, age, weight, shoe size or IQ- Sorry Dave)
Anyhow Fergie I’m glad you got back to me.
I hope I’m writting all this in the correct forum. As I was based in Salisbury and not Southampton. But i consider myself a ex soton haulier as 90% of my work was in thae area.
Those day eh? The older you get the more sensible you get I suppose, well I did anyway. I wonder what all those old bu**ers used to think about us back then. Now we’re all old n’ grey, their a load of tear asses all racing around at speeds up to 56mph! Criky on those wagons they had another 2 or 3 gears to go up and beyond 56. (shouldn’t boast it but I remember hitting 95, still in gear, down one of those hills on the 303 near Chicklade early one morning, loaded) shouldn’t talk about that sort of thing on here I suppose as it may give ‘you’ a bad impression eh?
As your paid by the hour now I bet you go as slow as you can? I didn’t even know Hanbury Davies had gone and become Wincanton, shows how in touch I am.
Did you know I drove for Russell Davies for a while? I got the sack form there after only 6 months. Pi**ed me right off as that’s the only time I’ve ever been sacked from any job. I got stuck in a loading bay at a freight forwarders up in West Bromwich late as usual on a Friday afternoon, stuck because the loading bay was a cheap skate hole in the ground surfaced with loose scalpings. Once loaded with a 20’ on a slider I never had enough traction to be able to get out of the hole. Eventually got out with a tug of help from a fork lift but didn’t get away without damaging one of the rear drive axle tyres on a sharp stone. I ripped off a lump of rubber the size of a 50p piece down to the wire. Phoned into RD’s office to report that I got a damaged tyre and they sent out a tyre fitter to replace it. Later on Monday I was called into the office and sacked! Being told that I had been running around on an illegal tyre for several weeks!!! Don’t think so. Can’t remember the sh*t heads name who was running it in soton but I bet someone reading this does. It was when Russell Davies first set up in soton around 1994 time. I was running in NOL colours on contract. Shame they went too as NOL was a good bunch to answer too.
I flitted around a bit after that back to P&O casual days and nights, never become “one of the lads” though! But by then I was old enough not to care what others thought. I later had this weird bloke at “Boarhunt” offer me a office job (he wasn’t weird really)…but that’s another story to be told by another close member on here!!! Daa Daa Daaa.
Ian , 95mph in gear? I can vouch for that if you are refering to the “snorker” Foden. Dad topped her out going down into Wyle on the 303 one afternoon. That thing went like a bloody train. They dont build trucks like that anymore with all this modern electronic ■■■■■■■■ to slow us down and “lower emissions” Who gives a monkeys if the world is warming up
Hello Ainacs
Im back in the land of the living after a long illness , just . Fancy that you finding a pic of Edmund Geralds ,they had the oldest fleet in Southampton as I remember , in the 60s I was on SRT , do you remember the Russian Timber ships that use to dock up on the town key , there was every haulier in Southampton moving the wood up to Monty Meyers in the new docks , a crane would dump a big unsorted bundle of the stuff between the bolsters , you had to chain it down and I got a smack in the teeth when a Silvester shot back at me once there , luckily I must have had my mouth open as usual ,and bit right through my tongue and it swelled up so I couldnt speak for a week , Mrs was pleased . I was sure I would loose the lot over them railway lines as the joined the road of the key, well one of Geralds did all over the road , good days .
IAN ROOT , hows your Dad Jim , I spoke to him a couple of years ago he was over 80 then , great fella , often I drop into see him after he retired , do you remember , you had suped up American cars with fancy paint jobs you did yourself , when you bought that ERF with the twin splitter you gave me a drive to see how many nutrals I could find .
Don`t this site drag up the oldies .
Regards Frenchy
hi ian, if it gets to confusing for you me old mucker just put up BEV,dont want to fall out with anyone on here,ie:Fergie 47,i see my son christ is letting out every thing i did on here,:re when i was working for you,anyway he got it wrong,it wasnt 90mile an hour, moor like a 100, HeeHee,Hee,was plsed to here your mum and dad are still about mate, give them my regards when you next see or speak to them,i remember when you were working for NOL and Russel Davies,hey alway thought they were the bees knees,THE111squadron,but they never ever were able to take off cause they were always hanging the job out.IAN i will post my details to you later today mate, re what my son was saying on another thread when we were on root to the quarry via maiden bradley,well i can remember it well but what sticks in my mind most of all was his last words for a few hours was,oh sh-t,that was to close for comfort,which i think i replied back was,dont worry a miss is as good as a mile,i still laugh to myself about it,catch up with you soon good bud.
well well well you old son of a gun,magic,fergie here,have been waiting to see if you would make contact on here one day,hope you and the mrs are ok, its been a long time since i visited you out at hale,my marrage is still very strong and still with amy and joshua,im haveing a laugh here to myself about that trip we had together down to naples,i remember you finding the heat a bit to much for you,and remember you comeing out of the shower at Danzas in Cercerta saying it had just beat your brians out,as there was no shower head,just a solid jet of water hiting you,god we had some laughs on that trip,didnt know you had a good picture of the bulldog scania,nice to see you have put her up on here,just to let you know that there is a thread for bulldog on here but you probably know that,you were right when you say what a motor the erf was,and you were the first to show me how to use a twinsplitter and once i got used to it, as far as im concerned it was the best gearbox ever made,(cheers for that mate)then you bought me the CATwhat a fantastic motor that was mate,nothing could keep up with her weight for weight,god we did some work with the motors in thoughs days didnt we mate,im still in touch with Ginger and Johnboy who were on Skinners,when i think what we all used to do in the early hour of the morning on our way down to the quarries, its a wounder that we are here to tell the story.Ian are you still in touch with brain and david as i have lost their phone numbers and yours as well, perhaps you could PM me if you havethem.by the way i have some pics of all your motors with me but am going to wait till my son comes up and get him to put them up for me, thats(lee,now chris hunter) im still driving Ian, im workin for wincanton what used to be hanbury davis been with them for about six-to severn years now.OK my good friend will wait to hear from you, take care of yourself and dont leave it to long before you make contact, will send you an email with my details,bi fr now mate.
