Hello,all you old ex Brady men I was there when they first started running Europe in fact I took young Bob Brady to Italy I think it was the first time he had been out of Barrow and he met his wife on the ferry going Southamton Le Havre and could not wait for us to get back with our load of ships stores for a ship in Glasgow docks,some of the old hands there were Nobby Clark,Peter Simpson,Ken Joyce,Jackson Tyson,Ronnie Ashburner,Frank Sleddon shutter,John Cornthwaite shunted at Cellophane and so many more we had good times with Nobby Clark et al with some of the tricks and jokes stayed many nights at Silvertown London then up the West End tip London Docks all closing boats etc then over to Bridgewater for load Midlands starting in maybe Leicester finish in Newcastle on Tyne .now out to grass after spending 37 years on petrol tankers 24 at Petrofina Preston moved to Stanlow then I got 13 years on a Shell contract out of Stanlow ,now just a retired layabout
Hi Buckleylayabout, Welcome to Trucknet, if you use the search function and type “■■■■■■■ companies” or “T.Brady and Son” there is loads on here about Brady’s and a fair few pics as well, apologies if have already tried this, Cheer’s Pete
Buckleylayabout:
Hello,all you old ex Brady men I was there when they first started running Europe in fact I took young Bob Brady to Italy I think it was the first time he had been out of Barrow and he met his wife on the ferry going Southamton Le Havre and could not wait for us to get back with our load of ships stores for a ship in Glasgow docks,some of the old hands there were Nobby Clark,Peter Simpson,Ken Joyce,Jackson Tyson,Ronnie Ashburner,Frank Sleddon shutter,John Cornthwaite shunted at Cellophane and so many more we had good times with Nobby Clark et al with some of the tricks and jokes stayed many nights at Silvertown London then up the West End tip London Docks all closing boats etc then over to Bridgewater for load Midlands starting in maybe Leicester finish in Newcastle on Tyne .now out to grass after spending 37 years on petrol tankers 24 at Petrofina Preston moved to Stanlow then I got 13 years on a Shell contract out of Stanlow ,now just a retired layabout
Well, to join our exalted ranks on here you will need to be (a) a grumpy old git, (b) still possess a modicum of ■■■■ 
(c) a drunk, and (d) most importantly, you MUST have a sense of humour. If you can meet all (or some) of those criteria…you are welcome. 
Hi is your first name ■■■■.You do have a good memory of the old Brady drivers.Think you are from Leyland Chorley area Bull Davies from Betham was on Continetel same time as you ■■? Frank
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Hi is your first name ■■■■.You do have a good memory of the old Brady drivers.Think you are from Leyland Chorley area Bull Davies from Betham was on Continetel same time as you ■■? Frank
Yes this is the one they called ■■■■ but always Richard on Sunday’s,yes Roy Davis was on Euro run he did mostly Germany I notice on this site he passed away recently RIP.
I notice you are using the handle Leyland680 what an engine that was in those Leyland Beavers I can remember leaning out the cab going up Lindale with a big flame coming out the exhaust boy trucker of course I took Possies 8 leg ger and drag home one night loaded with cotton ties for Liverpool docks put the willies up me but I didn’t tell the Big Un he was some card I remember the time he put a tacho in the trailer of a driver called Norman Graham but he found it and put it in the fridge at the cafe then took it home gave it back to Big Un he went ape ■■■■,so many memories some bad some good but the whole system has now changed the number of times we were in Cellophane Bridgewater staying at the cafe at North Petherton and the Athersmith lads heading home with China Clay
Hi ■■■■ Yes I trailer mated Possy for 2 year,s a real learning curv unfortunately Eric died this year.Dont no if you no Brady pack up the haulage in 1999 made us all redundent but kept the warehouse side till last year now all that has gone just like so meny other old well nown haulage firm,s. The old fashioned taco clock was put in the fridge at the celmscot. Cafe on A6 south of Chorley when Norman Graham was on tanker work Frank
Hi your right there bit hazy after all those years and old Smoky Joe was also on thanks leading Caustic Soda from Hillhouse he always hung his bully can on the indicator arm in his Scammell dirtiest cab I was ever in .
One of my funny ones was when Nobby Clark got hold of an old telephone and going to London one Sunday heading for maybe the Three sisters we stopped at Blue Boar and blokes asking has he really got a phone in the cab long before they were ever thought of for trucks as everybody who passed him he lifted the phone I think if I remember he had a big engined AEC his pride and joy
Richard
Hi ■■■■ here is a photo of Nobby with his AEC the 1 and only AEC tractor unit they bought new. And yes I remember the phone
Ronnie Lomas, Brian Sharp, Tom Sharp, Tommy Benson, Albert Coward, Dennis Lancaster, Willie Dixon, Freddie Richardson, Teddy Dentith (aka Clutchy), Harry Dentith, Joe “The Woodman” Saunders, Stan Barr, Bill Barr, Frank Sleddon (Who he!) Cheers Bewick.
Hello I presume I am speaking to Dennis Bewick? There was another old driver not mentioned in dispatches came from up Millom way called Lol Cooke he lost his wife at a very young age I think he left the industry to look after his young family Frank Sleddon was a Shunter along with Jack Thomson better known as Black Jack or words that would not be PC on this site and sad to read about all the old boys passing on but that’s the way it goes
They were some good times but bad as well I am so glad I went into the oil distribution game at the time gave me a good pension when I turned 65 I was notified by some pension company I was entitled to a pension from Brady’s I thought wow another one I have four so I sent of the form etc was informed that I could have £26 per annum wow mind you the contribution was the awe inspiring sum of 5/6 pence per week needless to say I cashed it
Trying to remember the Painters name had his own shop at the bottom of the yard
Are you still in the milnthorpe area??
Not Bewick it was Smith did you take on your grand,dads licence if not apologise on the wrong chappy maybe Confucius has been about spreading a bit of her glitter the ■■■■■ !!!
Buckleylayabout:
Not Bewick it was Smith did you take on your grand,dads licence if not apologise on the wrong chappy maybe Confucius has been about spreading a bit of her glitter the ■■■■■ !!!
I was Eric Postlethwaite’s mate on the Octopus and I left Bradys before I was 21 in early '68 to start on my own with words from Jackie " If you are ever looking for a load just pick the phone up Son and if I can fix you up I will", I actually did about 4 loads for Bradys with my first motor the “A” licence for which I got from a firm in Sedbergh. Jackie and I became lifelong friends up until he passed away RIP,and I was also good pals with “The Big’un” over the years as well, not so much with the Young’un and Glassey though as The “Big’un” and Jackie used to wind them up about that young Lad at Milnthorpe being a tidier outfit than Brady’s (which we were of course ) Some of my happiest days in the industry were at Bradys on the Octopus and I would never hear a wrong word about either Bob or Jack !! Cheers Bewick.
Well Dennis we on the same station now I remember you with Eric and his brother did he do a spell in the office?
I presume you still in touch with the young un born with a silver spoon that one was the sports car for his 17th a white Triumph spitfire they were a crap car anyway but the apple of his dad’s eye was there not a younger brother?
We get up that way quite a bit as we have shares in the pub in Crosby Ravensworth a community pup owned by the locals the sister in law farms in the village we have an apartment there great when sunny but not when wet as you may remember my wife came from Shap so always been about up that part of the world we had our wedding reception at the Greyhound our 25th at Haweswater our 40th at the Greyhound and when it came to the 50th 3yrs ago I said sod it fed up feeding and watering al, the family we went to the West Indies for a month STKI great but bloody hot in November I was looking for some old Brady wagons
Looking at some pics did they ever have a unit as is depicted in the one spotted at Stoke the Leyland tractor unit,I have a few pics about from HEO631H a Scania with no sleeper just passenger seat taken out and a single bed fitted,they will be in a drawer somewhere
I worked for Thomas Ingles in Wolverhampton we had an ex. Brady Scania 110 same spec. a couchette I think they called it in place of the passenger seat, the number was HEO 282G, it was a good old motor and we worked it hard .
■■■■ splitting hairs here it was a GT 6 reg EEO 17E for his 17 Birthday my first Scania was shared with Possy he did night caustic out of Thornton I did day runs reg JEO 165H Old Albert had HEO 999H same job his son Denis had it on days Think this is one of the motors Getting back to young Bob it wasn’t look before he got a Jenson Intersepter Seo 77 M (silver spoon)
Well that’s nearly the same pic I have got but mine has two birds at the front both American one was going to Paris and I was going over to Strazburg stayed with me the whole trip dropped her back in Oxford,that is one of the new trailers mine had Cargo European in letters are you one and the same with two different names ■■
Happy days plus lots of Cadbury chocolate fingers,I took that stupid two pedal Beaver to Paris once and run out of fuel just outside the city I forgot it only had a 35 gallon fuel tank on it
The GT6 had that independent rear suspension, which tended to tuck under if you over cooked it and as I remember the engine was too heavy for the body as well. Bob rolled his in the switchback bends heading towards Barrow, just before Greenodd.
Let’s face it us lesser mortals would never have been able to insure it in the first place!
John.
Hello again what was the name of the driver who went to Glaxo his first name was Peter was it Newall there was also bob Burns from about Grange .
Why the demise of such a big company as Brady ,was it bad management,to much debt to service,shrinking rates,'twas a shame but I suppose it went as so many before them.
We came up from Preston if I remember 5 of us started one was Walter Crow forever known as wally there was Frank Baron now passed away he was running a few trucks for himself as was Wally the was a driver called Eddie Nelson,Cliff Wilson I used to see him regular as he came into P&O depot in Stanlow to steam out his tanks he was on for Den Hartog.i suppose on oil companies at the time we were inured from all the cut throat carry ons of general haulage just a load from the depot and back empty no matter where you were
Got to ask with a handle like that, we’re you from Buckley?, I remember there being one of Brady,s parked at a house on Liverpool road quite a bit, I guess late 80s , was a 6x2 SK Merc…
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Hello no ,I live in Buckley have done for 23 yrs I was at Petrofina Preston then they decided to close the depot after the change in customs duty instead of paying duty at the depot gate the Revenue people decided it was easier to take duty at refinery Petofina was bringing train loads from the refinery in Immingham over to Preston then we were loading it and taking it back over as far as Barnsley in other words half way back and being Petrol is is so volatile so handling it resulted in stock losses I.e evaporation even with floating roofs on the tanks closed the depot and relocated them that wanted to Shell Stanlow they had a recipcol agreement with Shell I.e product swap but after 3 years the company decided to sell to Elf and in turn eventually sold out to Total France I took the redundancy package on offer and got work with first P&O then Wincanton,then Hoyer all on the Shell distribution contract when we moved we bought a nice three bedroom bungalow in Buckley ,nothing to stop us moving back up Preston but why very happy here with all amenities handy things that must be taken into consideration as one gets older even learned a few words in Welsh