Does anybody remember Gerry Hill? with the blackand gold White.YBK 383V . if so we have his old truck, we also have some pics of his funeral which we attended with his truck in Burnley bout 3 years ago, taking him on his final journey on the back of his truck. Can somebody tell us how to upload pics onto this thread please? Thanks Phil Nash (VG Nash &son) Braintree Ex.
Hi Phil
to put pics on here you will need a photobucket account (its free) www.photobucket.com once you have your account, then upload your pics on to that, on the bottom of each pic that you upload there is code it begins with IMG, copy this code onto your post & you should have a picture displayed.
PM me if you need anymore help
cheers
gaz
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More as promised…
Nice pics Samnash, I remember an old guy with a White used to see him in Greece now & again, seem to remember they called him Skippy due to his limp, I thought the White was black & gold though, I did’nt know him personally might or might not have been your man but he was a Lancashire based bloke.
Fly sheet
Wheel Nut:
Here is another one to identify, unloved but not at the time.
It is not very clear and taken in 1981, but where?
WON 362T
I posted this one all around the site, yet no-one seems to have seen it or heard of the driver. I told him about the Stoke on Trent driver reunion and he didn’t think he would be made welcome as he was a subbie to Brits and their own drivers wouldn’t talk to subbies.
Just a note, I think that the White pulling the Brit European trailer, reg no WON 362T is the same truck as the white coloured one pulling the tilt, another ex Dave Stanway truck. I think it rolled over on the A13 about 94 or95.
Had an old driver of mine Paddy Keoghan who had his own Kenworth come in today with some pics that included this White on Middle East work
Billy Hall I think he said it was
Regards Pat
GERRY HILL — THE LITTLE MAN WITH A BIG HEART.
My name is Philip Nash. I repair heavy trucks in Braintree, Essex. I work within my own business which has been established for almost forty years.
I would like to say how honoured I am to have known an owner driver by the name of Gerrard Hill.
This man stood barely five feet tall. He came from Todmorden, Lancashire. He had a heart of gold and was one of the transport industry’s rapidly disappearing true characters. Gerrard owned an American White truck which was V registered around 1979. He owned the truck for about twenty years, and during that time he drove it all over the Middle East and throughout Europe.
To say that his truck was a very large part of his life would be an understatement. Gerrard, or Gerry to his friends, virtually lived for that truck.
I maintained Gerry’s White truck for many years, and we became good friends. Travelling across Europe in my van to get Gerry’s truck rolling again after the odd breakdown,something that I enjoyed doing and I know that Gerry’s appreciated it. Occasions such as a wiring burn out at the Neuburgring race circuit in Germany and the water pump failure in Stockholm, Sweden bring back such fond memories for me.
The hypocritical, parasitic politicians that pretend to run this country of ours betrayed Gerry. I guess that it would be fair to say that he was not an angel, but who is? Gerry did the job right, and always tried to comply with the rules. All he wanted was to make ends meet and, like most truck operators through history, at times found it extremely hard. Nevertheless, Gerry wanted to continue running his White indefinitely because of his love for the truck. He told me this.
I forget dates, and even what years things happened, but it was about nine years ago that Gerry stopped for a break in Belgium when five Iraqui men slit the roof of his tilt, climbed into his trailer and laid on top of his loads, urinating into it.
It was on the Customs bank in Dover that these creatures were found and Gerry was arrested. The Iraquis were whisked away in a mini bus and are probably still here today. Gerry had his truck taken away from him, and a £10,000 fine imposed on him.
Gerry never worked again from that day. Between us we managed to get his truck back from Customs and Excise, and it ended up in my yard in Braintree. He didn’t pay the fine, because he didn’t have it.
Despite my offer to help him get started again, Gerry could not. He was a broken man, and he was a proud man. He had been made bankrupt over this disgraceful fiasco and could not face some of the people involved.
Gerry, who was always a heavy smoker, sat in his chair and smoked, and smoked. Over the last few years he became weaker and weaker and suffered from emphysema for several years. They took his truck and they took his life, and he just lost the will to carry on.
It was a sad day when his wife, Pauline, phoned me to say that Gerry had died. Pauline asked me to go up to Lancashire with his old truck to take him on his last trip to the crematorium. The truck incidentally had stayed in Essex. I had sold it to a close friend on Gerry’s behalf, who takes really good care of it and only uses it for showing these days.
So off to Lancashire we went with a home made platform over the fifth wheel. Gerry had quite a large family and they all seemed very close. It was very emotional that day as I turned into the top of Gerry’s street with his coffin on the back, because for all those people it was the first time they had seen his truck since it was taken away several years before.
Gerry is now resting in peace, but what of the politicians who are responsible for destroying him? When will they be brought to account?
Gerry White. I never knew his name, but certainly knew the man from his photo. A sad story 
Hi samnash 16,
Thought this might be of interest to you, when I saw the ref. to a black/gold RC2, it rang a bell so I dived into my photo box and found this. I took it sometime in the mid-late 80s in South Mimms Services M25. Never new or met Gerrard Hill, but from your description he sounds like a stand up bloke, and anyone who owns/operates a wagon like this has gota have something special about him.
Hi samnash,
Thought i took another one, I prefer this one myself. What a beauty!
Hi Chris, straight eight, In answer to your questions, i have some pics of GSP 177w somewhere, but cant find them right now, keep checking this thread, we have got abit carried away with info and pics lately. regards Phil Nash.
samnash16:
Hi Chris, straight eight, In answer to your questions, i have some pics of GSP 177w somewhere, but cant find them right now, keep checking this thread, we have got abit carried away with info and pics lately. regards Phil Nash.
Cheers Phil, no worries 
I was weekended with this guy in France sometime in the early 80s, maybe someone out there knows the wagon/driver.
Hi,Bubbs has got the yank box out and found these. 
WON362T…This was the 1 Wheelnut put on in blue as a 4x2.
GSP7IIW…The 1 that Straight 8 wanted.
WON363T…The 1 that Europleb drove for Stanways but in John Goldings colours.
DHW974W…in the middle of the line up is Phil Nashs White before he transformed it into that fantstic wrecker.
Cheers Bubbs.
adr:
I was weekended with this guy in France sometime in the early 80s, maybe someone out there knows the wagon/driver.
I believe that this White was owned by Kingswood Transport Southampton which was run and owned by Les Flack it was originally a 4X2 tractor the back end was replaced with a bogie off an 86 Volvo 6X2 and was converted by Mick Winterbourne and his son.
I will post this on the Southampton thread someone there will know more detail I am sure!!
Regards Pat