The oil company i was contracted to for 35 years never had in house transport from first opening in the 60s,Pillips Petroleum were ok to work with, but they did not want to know about problems, they all had to be sorted out with your employer,so they had a very easy time of it, come to think.Vic.
Very interesting to hear your views on what happened Foden thanks.But what used to really annoy me was some of the tankers turning up with a load of derv looked to have no connection with the Oil Co.we had bought the fuel off and you never knew what ■■■■■ might have been in the tank prior to them loading our derv!!! It only takes a few gallon of “contaminate” and if you had a Customs & Excise “dip” you didn’t have a leg to stand on as the Oil Co. would deny all responsibility after the fact!! At least you knew that if a company tanker delivered the load there wasn’t much chance of a mishap and in the unlikely event of a mistake the matter could be quickly resolved! Bewick.
When we changed from Air Products to Wincanton we were offererd different packages/incentives to transfer, I had been on A.P. for 6 years & I was offered a very good deal in the form of a lump-sum, then after 3 months on Wincanton another lump-sum, we were told that Wincanton had objected to this, but A.P. had insisted on it! There were other offers that involved taking redundancy that for me were of no interest as I was far too young with a young family to consider , but for a lot of the older drivers with 20+ yrs service they were very attractive, & a lot of them didn’t fancy working for Wincanton at all so they took the money. Having spent 20 of my 29 yrs driving heavies on tankers, & going with dad in his tanker since I was 5 yrs old, I have noticed that the problem with a lot of tanker men is that they can become very coccooned, during the course of their working day they don’t mix with other drivers, so they tend to lose touch with what other drivers do & what they are paid! The money we were on with A.P. was excellent, as were the conditions, but a lot of the blokes seemed to think this made them something special, & everything was just too much trouble! I have seen a driver deliberately sabotage his wagon to be delayed long enough so that he got out of doing his 2nd load! Bare in mind his nights work was 2 straight 1 hit loads, full load into 1 tank, my Mrs could have done it, & on A.P. we only did 11 hr shifts anyway, days & nights, I did 2 wks about.
Regards Chris
Odd looking old tanks these!
GUY & ERF, 2 stalwarts of Mobil fleet during 60s/70s.
Not a high viz jacket/hard hat/safety rail/mission statement in sight, & were there many more incidents/accidents? I doubt it, probably cos the drivers weren’t charging around like headless chickens!
Does anyone rememeber Arnotts Oils on the Newcastle Quayside, well I do so there must be some one out there that does .They ran a 4wheeler Thornycroft flat wagon delivering drums etc. They also had a 8wheeler Atki, Tanker, the driver was a bloke called Albert ?. The also had a 6wheeler Albion Tanker. this was the 50/60s. I think they were taken over by Burma Oils Ltd ?.any photos about lads , Regards Larry PS. The court house stands where there depot was.
It’s a pity more of these Airport wagons couldn’t have been saved cos they were both different & eye-catching, I suppose the problem was they couldn’t be used for normal use so just got cut-up!
■■■■■■■ powered, Foden’s came with excellent weight savings!
adr:
Odd looking old tanks these!
I would say that it is a lube oil tanker as a few oil company’s used to use this type of multi-compartment’s of various size’s for different oil’s.
By whiplash_012 at 2011-02-19
New tanker for someone.
By whiplash_012 at 2011-02-19
Texaco/Tankfreight FL10
By whiplash_012 at 2011-02-19
Esso Dublin terminal lineup.
By whiplash_012 at 2011-02-19
FL again.
By whiplash_012 at 2011-02-19
New trailer,and not so new KM Bedford.
All photos kind courtesy of Joe Mooney.
YEWCO (Yorkshire Engineering & Welding Co) yard at Idle nr Shipley, W.Yorks in mid 60s, an Aladdins cave for a Fuel Tanker nut!
Apart from fuel tankers, YEWCO also built bulk cement tankers and dustbins. The company was started in IDLE by Fred Wood
Wheel Nut:
Apart from fuel tankers, YEWCO also built bulk cement tankers and dustbins. The company was started in IDLE by Fred Wood
What a great yard though, the environmentalists/tree huggers would have a heart attack! And all the 9-5ers worrying about their pensions, wouldn’t they love it nowadays to have that view at the bottom of the garden! There would be little Council d**k-heads running all over the place with their sound & pollution monitors!
adr:
YEWCO (Yorkshire Engineering & Welding Co) yard at Idle nr Shipley, W.Yorks in mid 60s, an Aladdins cave for a Fuel Tanker nut!
That’s a great photo Chris. You can bet your life A E Evans would have bought one of those AEC MK5 MMs secondhand in the 60s. 
I know cos of my up-bringing I am biased, but to me this is a proper fuel-tanker, with a day-cab & the Oil Company name on the cab & tank!
im with you ADR mate nothing smarter than seeing dads seddon atkinson 400 with the castrol logo and royal warrant on cabs doors its now all wincanton, tdg or dare i say it hoyer…lol
adr:
I know cos of my up-bringing I am biased, but to me this is a proper fuel-tanker, with a day-cab & the Oil Company name on the cab & tank!
I agree 100% with you “adr”, as recipitent of many,many loads of Derv over the years at Bewick Transport,apart from the Philips 66 contractors,I much preferred the deliveries to be made by the company owned tankers of Shell,BP and Texaco.During the time I dealt with Gulf Oil in the 70’s they always ran their own motors,my favorite used to be a Guy Big J 8 wheeler,single drive ,Gardner 150. IIRC it used to bring 17000 ltrs on it’s first night shift run which for taking the out of hours delivery I got a £100 credit on the invoice! Lovely jubbly!! on the other hand ,when Shell and BP started to use contractors we did on occaisions experience problems.The worst offenders being Tankfreight ( W/ freight!!) and Hipwood and Grundy. Interesting days!! Cheers Bewick.
Cant find a photo of a Guy big J for you Dennis so this is the next best thing Albion Super Reiver.
transportphotos.com/road/photos
And another one from Alexander Russell this one an AEC Mandator on contract to Gulf Oil
