Hutpik. Yes it is the same Joey Jaques that worked for Stolks!!
Very sorry to hear this news about Joe!! Hadn’t seen him for donkeys years!! We both subbed for Audrey Davies (A-line) at the same time!! He was a great bloke & my thoughts go out to his family.
Toddster.Many thanks for the reply.I worked for some time with Joe and spent many good evenings in his company,together with my wife.
As you say a great bloke,i always enjoyed his company.Sad news indeed.Mike
Very sad News about Joe. A very well respected man and also a very well respected truck driver. He’ll be sadly missed. Hopefully home and I can make the funeral. I’ll say this on behalf of all the Neill&brown boys… all the old hands anyhow. Many of our drivers send our respect and thoughts to Joe’s family
There was mention of the ‘anniversary’ clock about twenty pages back. Knew I still had one in the loft, following my brief stint in the insurance department at Arnold House in 1976.
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Hi a Cartran
Hi Cartrans
Scania pic must be late 1970s; Bit more sophisticated than the 30 footer containers with removable roofs early 1970s. If I remember there were two jaws that fitted at the front end and two screw clamps to rear of roof to keep it in position bolted down. Can you remember the 30 footer containers that opened at the rear and off-side? They were a good bit of kit in there day but hard work to close doors when heavy loads placed to middle off container. Preferred 12 metre tilts.
Regards Kev
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cartran:
Hi a Cartran
Hi Cartrans
Scania pic must be late 1970s; Bit more sophisticated than the 30 footer containers with removable roofs early 1970s. If I remember there were two jaws that fitted at the front end and two screw clamps to rear of roof to keep it in position bolted down. Can you remember the 30 footer containers that opened at the rear and off-side? They were a good bit of kit in there day but hard work to close doors when heavy loads placed to middle off container. Preferred 12 metre tilts.
Regards Kev
Kev,
Those bloody 30’'s with the side doors were bloody lethal, two doors that both folded in half, thus you might say four doors. There was no way to secure them open, except for a piece of rope for each end tied to the trailer, they were heavy sodding things, and when you tried to open or close them they always folded in half as you were holding them, and if you weren’t careful they take you with them on a windy day. As you so rightly say to try to close them when they were loaded was a miracle. Even with maybe two or three Fork Trucks you were still lucky if you could get the top and bottom lugs to fit into their sockets. They were a liability. Though it did give us an experience of a sort. Merry Christmas Kev. 
cartran:
Bedford company the Scania110, John Cahill part owner. Driven sometimes by Fergie47…
Jon Holey photo
Some good photos there of Ray Mercer’s Scania. I worked with Ray for a couple of years when MAT were at Brighton Street. A really nice bloke, I wonder what he’s doing these days.
Jon Holey
