I bet there is a fair few of you out there that can remember being in a line of trucks waiting to get into the Docks along Trafford Road,when at Humber McVeigh’s I used to load their special low level 20ft containers,mainly with aluminium ingots over to Canadian Docks,great days!!
5thwheel:
I bet there is a fair few of you out there that can remember being in a line of trucks waiting to get into the Docks along Trafford Road,when at Humber McVeigh’s I used to load their special low level 20ft containers,mainly with aluminium ingots over to Canadian Docks,great days!!
Remember me old man parking up around there- mid 70s to arrange backload when swifts did general haulage 
remember in the late sixties loading (handball) sacks of oxide,f**k me they must have weighed about 3cwt each!! 
no wonder i was running bent!!
park your wagon on your sheets and your bed on your boots
Queuing up for 20 x1 ton bags of rice for Kellogg’s Rice Crispies. I remember Bridgewater transport doing most of it.