haddy:
Hello Skandiahamn, you were right about St. Ives, they certainly did creep into Norfolk also Suffolk as they worked out of a pit, I believe, in the Flixton area. This would have been in the early 60s and I can remember them coming past my home many times as I have always lived beside the A143 and a bloke by the name of Geoff who now lives in our village drove an S50 half cabbed Foden for them. I didn’t realise they were part of the Greenwoods group until reading an article on them in one of the magazines ( I can’t remember which one ) along with some great photos, one of them of an eight-wheeler hanging off the side of St. Ives bridge as the result of a collision. When I drove for Superior in Yarmouth and used the A604 ( now A14 ) regularly,running up to the Offord depot near Huntingdon, many St. Ives motors could be seen as this single track road ran right past one of their depots, it could have been the workshops, now occupied by a bus/coach firm. In my collection I have a photo of a Mk.5 AEC unit with a four in line boogie loaded with a concrete beam, reg.285 LEW. When I get time I’ll have a look for that magazine as I keep them all and get back to you with some more numbers etc. It will take a bit of finding as I buy three a month, T&D, CCV,and Heritage Commercials. I must have been weaned on diesel ! Regards Haddy.
Hi Haddy.
Has Roudham Transport been mentioned on here.I thought about them the other day and from memory I think they were from East Harling.IIRC I had a lift with them one night from Kings Lynn to A57/A1 island above Markham Moor.Did they run a trunk or would it have been market work - it’s so long ago I can’t remember
hi chris i knew a chap called mick he left bartrums and went to roudham transport in the mid sixties , he drove a ergomatic leyland with a 4 in line trailor
there trucks were painted maroon or dark red, he stopped and had a word with me in diss one night , he had a load of land drainage pipes on board
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A few I remember and have drove for ,none of them have been mentioned yet , AA HALES pulling beams from Lenwade , Brian Carnell pulling out of Barnards and Norwich Corrogated Board , Trevor Jackson of Shipdham doing a bit for Norfolk Line ,Mick Munford doing caravan movements , J Fairweather doing Norfolk line , J Hammond doing Brookes meat packers then there was Steven Hunn , and Kirbys of Martham , Denis Shepherd , Yiddle Davis
Popeye ( A K A concrete cowboy )
P S Well done Rob on the Convoy , you have a lot to do to fill Glenn’s shoes ,and I’m sure you will ! !
Chris Webb:
Did Westwoods do the bulk malt job like Walpole and Wright Haddy? I seem to remember them,maybe running to Manchester at night.
Hello Chris, Westwoods did a lot of malt and also did books out of Clays the printers at Bungay. They were taken over by Neil Bomford from Harleston several years ago.
Here’s an old firm, Cullings of Claxton near Loddon. They did a bit of everything and ran coaches too.
I think this was in Kings Lynn cattle market and the old boy with the bell signals the start of the sale. I really love this picture.
Trubrit:
How about TJ Wyatt at Snetterton, anybody got any pics of that fleet?
can get you some, im sure tim will let me have a couple, ill try and post them on here
My father drove Tim wyatts last F88 volvo until it was sold, Reg no TWE 815S, I have loads of photos of this motor in various parts of europe with various loads/trailers, i will see if i can get on with the computer long enough to put some on here
stepthru:
anyone remember anything about James T Kirby’s - based on Black street in Martham??
the yard was right next to west flegg middle school - I went there in 84 but the yard has been built on now
J E Kirby & Sons Limited, founded 1895 traded through to September 1990 when Leonard Kirby (owner) retired.
At the peak we ran 16 trucks finishing up with 5 during the last few years. Main work was Barnards / Tinsley Wire Norwich, Omni Pac(Hartmans), Fruit for Braceys Martham, Norwich Corrugated Board and Sugar Beet Haulage.
stepthru:
anyone remember anything about James T Kirby’s - based on Black street in Martham??
the yard was right next to west flegg middle school - I went there in 84 but the yard has been built on now
J E Kirby & Sons Limited, founded 1895 traded through to September 1990 when Leonard Kirby (owner) retired.
At the peak we ran 16 trucks finishing up with 5 during the last few years. Main work was Barnards / Tinsley Wire Norwich, Omni Pac(Hartmans), Fruit for Braceys Martham, Norwich Corrugated Board and Sugar Beet Haulage.
Alastair,do you remember Trowbridge Transport from Sheffield,they ran a lot of TWIL to Barnards in the 60s and 70s.
Boatchaser:
Hi all
In the early 80s i worked for a campay called Travenol Lab there HQ was in Thetford and we where in a Warehouse in Warrington everything was trunked up to us by a company called Podmore his truckwere blue DAF 2800 pulling Tilt in Travenols colours of Blue. Is there anyone out there that has any photos or info on them
i used to live in North Lopham where Podmore came from, (im sure its the same Podmore, as they had a few bob) i used to go to school with Rachael, she was a bit of a tomboy, and there was another daughter as well, Sarah. Mrs Podmore (if my memory serves me well) was a good looking woman. I also used to go about the village (before i was old enough for a fizzie 50) with a boy called Paul Wright, whos older brother i think was called Charles, (their dad had/has still got a farm in the village) he drove for Travenol im sure, last truck i saw him in was a 112 or 113 P cab Scania. Unfortunatly no pics…
Boatchaser:
Hi all
In the early 80s i worked for a campay called Travenol Lab there HQ was in Thetford and we where in a Warehouse in Warrington everything was trunked up to us by a company called Podmore his truckwere blue DAF 2800 pulling Tilt in Travenols colours of Blue. Is there anyone out there that has any photos or info on them
i used to live in North Lopham where Podmore came from, (im sure its the same Podmore, as they had a few bob) i used to go to school with Rachael, she was a bit of a tomboy, and there was another daughter as well, Sarah. Mrs Podmore (if my memory serves me well) was a good looking woman. I also used to go about the village (before i was old enough for a fizzie 50) with a boy called Paul Wright, whos older brother i think was called Charles, (their dad had/has still got a farm in the village) he drove for Travenol im sure, last truck i saw him in was a 112 or 113 P cab Scania. Unfortunatly no pics…
i drove this for a while not for Fairweathers thou, it was after it’d been thru a couple of other owners.
MacHayes of Forncett nr Long Stratton who my dad and uncle drove for (used to do a lot of Italy amongst other stuff
B200NRT was ex Russel Davies
Hello Andy, those SEA-MAR boys were made to polish every spare minute by their boss Rod Litchfield, he was really proud of his fleet. There was no smoking in the cabs even in those days and the units were kept undercover at night where possible.The P reg. that Vince is sitting in was, I think, ex Brown and Root as was the Ford D1000 tug that ran up and down Yarmouth quay pulling an “A frame” trailer.
Here is Vince after he joined a more “down to earth” outfit.
