mikeyb:
R F MartinHarvey Bros
Walcott Potatoes
M Woods Transport
Benton Bros
Mason’s
Benton’s still running,saw one yesterday on the A49.
Rgds,
David
Walter Game from Cambs became a brick and block hauler, later also becoming a brick and block merchant. They are still going, went into administration couple of years ago but did the name change trick.
Two in Bicker,Spriggs and Lamberts.
Lillykins:
Oh and my brother used to work at Scotts, drive for Fox Plant at Caenby Corner and now drives for G S Hughes. See it’s in the blood!
Was that scotts on deacon road?
ERFMarc:
Being a Lincolnshire type can I suggest a few…Garn (Spalding)
Machins (Spalding)
Bronco’s (Spalding - taken over by Gist?)
C F Dickinson (Billinghay - gone now I think)
C & G Concrete (Various)
H E Musgrove (Stamford - bit earlier than 80’s)
P F Booth (Boston)
E T Morris (New York)
Treasures (Grantham)
Grantham Road Services
Christian Salvesen (Easton near Grantham, Dad worked for these)
Cartwright (Lincoln)
Just over the border Ketton (now Castle) Cement
Lauds & Tongue End Transport (Bourne)
David Harrison (Colsterworth)
I used to backload off Grantham Road Services,Harlaxton Road in the 60s,concrete slabs from a place down ■■■■■■■■■ Lane off the A1. Is J O Treasure still going,they had milk tankers I think?
Chris Webb:
Is J O Treasure still going,they had milk tankers I think?
Yes they are still in Grantham near Tony’s
HI ALL,wow that fim Machins at Spalding they are going back a bit ,i used to load back off them in the fifties.cabbages and caulies to Manchester market.also used to load off BRS at Bourne in the sixties,long time ago now,good memories.cheers Ted.
Plumber34:
Lillykins:
Oh and my brother used to work at Scotts, drive for Fox Plant at Caenby Corner and now drives for G S Hughes. See it’s in the blood!Was that scotts on deacon road?
Yeah that’s the one
Lillykins:
Plumber34:
Lillykins:
Oh and my brother used to work at Scotts, drive for Fox Plant at Caenby Corner and now drives for G S Hughes. See it’s in the blood!Was that scotts on deacon road?
Yeah that’s the one
my dad worked for scotts,i might have some photos
Chris Webb:
mushroomman:
Of course Wheel Nut, Denby’s. I am surprised that nobody has mentioned them before.
I once loaded from an old airfield in Lincolnshire for Italy although I am not sure exactly where it was can anybody remember it.
If you came out of Lincoln heading north on the A15, you passed R.A.F. Scampton on the left and then after a few miles you turned left and headed into the countryside. I can remember this old airfield ( although I can’t remember seeing a runway) only having about three hangers, one of them was half full of bales of cloth from Courtaulds. I only saw one guy working there with a forklift who I think worked for Denby as there was a red and white sign on the gate saying Denby Warehousing. There were no other trucks around as it just seemed that this one guy ran the place on his own. I have looked on Google Earth and there are a few possibilities but did anybody else tip or reload from this place or do you know the place that I mean.
While we are in Lincolnshirecan anybody remember the name of the company that were on another old airfield who made similar buildings to Portacabins. I think that they were somewhere near the Gainsborough area.
Regards Steve.
Was it Sturgate or Ingham Steve,Ingham had grass,not concrete strips,just north of Scampton and Sturgate was near Gainsborough?There was also Wickenby and Dunholme Lodge. I was at Scampton just before demob in 1968 and there were a lot of old WW2 airfields in that area.Hemswell was further up and Faldingworth was (maybe still is) a nuclear storage site.
Have Fosters of Langworth been mentioned,near the level crossing on the A158 between Wragby and Lincoln?
Hi Chris, I have been flying over Lincolnshire for the last couple of hours courtesy of Google Air , I think that you are right, again, the Denby Storage place that I loaded at in the mid eighties could well of been at Ingham. I am surprised that there are no old Denby drivers on here as there always seemed to be at least one of Denby’s motors shipping in or out of Dover most days of the week back then. Mind you, they did seem to have a few old fellers working for them who looked like they had been there for a long time which was usually the sign of a decent company.
I still can’t find anything on that company who built the prefabricated buildings although I do remember that they were in competition with Portacabin.
Yes Chris, I mentioned Fosters of Langworth on page one, half way down the page, my mate drove for them for a few years. If he parked up for the night on Birch Services he used to phone me and if I was home I would go and pick him up and we would go for a drink. I know that he had a Mandator and I think he then had a Scania 111, not sure.
Another question that had always bothered me 
does anybody know if Fosters Transport, Lincoln had any connections with Fosters Engineering Works, Lincoln who were the inventers of the armoured tank 
.
Regards Steve.
Yeah that’s the one
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my dad worked for scotts,i might have some photos
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When was your dad there?
Hiya…you mention the people who build cabins… would that be anything to do with Elliots of Peterborough
i know they have more than one depot…i used to take paving flags there years ago, …That was handy we loaded
bricks back from LBC
John
Chris Webb:
Wheel Nut:
Just watching the IOM TT and was reminded about Russ Fenwick Haulage. - Carl FenwickWas W H Martin any connection to Guy Martin. I know he worked in his Dads garage in Kirmington.
When I go up to the Grandstand I’ll ask him if I can get to him unless any of the North Lincs lads on here know?
Hi lad, Guy was working for his dad at caistor but now is working for Mick Moody truck sale in Grimsby when he is not riding like a loon round the TT.
As for young Carl he was working for Crossroads truck & bus (VOLVO) up to 3 weeks ago but left to start up on his own.
The best of luck to the to the both of them this week in the TT.
3300John:
Hiya…you mention the people who build cabins… would that be anything to do with Elliots of Peterborough
i know they have more than one depot…i used to take paving flags there years ago, …That was handy we loaded
bricks back from LBC
John
Hi John, I am sorry but Elliots are not ringing any old bells for me 
I have a slight feeling that there were some of those extra long static caravans parked on the same airfield as well. Although I am not sure if they made them or they were just being stored there.
Regards Steve.
mushroomman:
3300John:
Hiya…you mention the people who build cabins… would that be anything to do with Elliots of Peterborough
i know they have more than one depot…i used to take paving flags there years ago, …That was handy we loaded
bricks back from LBC
JohnHi John, I am sorry but Elliots are not ringing any old bells for me
Regards Steve.
Steve,IIRC there was big park for static caravans on the l/h side going out of Gainsborough towards Caenby Corner,think the place was called Collingham or was it Corringham . I can’t find another airfield close to Gainsborough in my book except Sturgate and also Blyton on the A159 Scunthorpe road.Hemswell and Kirton Lindsey were the next nearest,there is a big Antiques centre at Hemswell and I think K.L. was taken over by the Army,way after I was there in 1960 and 1963.
mushroomman:
Chris Webb:
mushroomman:
Of course Wheel Nut, Denby’s
I once loaded from an old airfield in Lincolnshire for Italy although I am not sure exactly where it was can anybody remember it.
If you came out of Lincoln heading north on the A15, you passed R.A.F. Scampton on the left and then after a few miles you turned left and headed into the countryside. I can remember this old airfield ( although I can’t remember seeing a runway) only having about three hangers, one of them was half full of bales of cloth from Courtaulds. I only saw one guy working there with a forklift who I think worked for Denby as there was a red and white sign on the gate saying Denby Warehousing. There were no other trucks around as it just seemed that this one guy ran the place on his own. I have looked on Google Earth and there are a few possibilities but did anybody else tip or reload from this place or do you know the place that I mean
While we are in LincolnshireRegards Steve.
Was it Sturgate or Ingham Steve,Ingham had grass,not concrete strips,just north of Scampton and Sturgate was near Gainsborough?There was also Wickenby and Dunholme Lodge. I was at Scampton just before demob in 1968 and there were a lot of old WW2 airfields in that area.Hemswell was further up and Faldingworth was (maybe still is) a nuclear storage site.
Have Fosters of Langworth been mentioned,near the level crossing on the A158 between Wragby and Lincoln?Hi Chris, I have been flying over Lincolnshire for the last couple of hours courtesy of Google Air
I still can’t find anything on that company who built the prefabricated buildings although I do remember that they were in competition with Portacabin.
Yes Chris, I mentioned Fosters of Langworth on page one, half way down the page, my mate drove for them for a few years. If he parked up for the night on Birch Services he used to phone me and if I was home I would go and pick him up and we would go for a drink. I know that he had a Mandator and I think he then had a Scania 111, not sure.
Another question that had always bothered meRegards Steve.
Was the old airfeild called cammeringham it was built prior to Scampton and it was all moved to scampton whe a concrete runway was built for heavy bombers
Lillykins:
Yeah that’s the one
my dad worked for scotts,i might have some photos
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When was your dad there?
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1956 'til 1980
Have we mentioned Suthrells and has anyone got pictures of them?
There was a firm Eptons on the outskirts of Boston was it Punchbowl lane we turned off at hubberts bridge to get to it,We took full loads of carpets in to them they did the groupage for the Swedish boat out of Boston Dock they were quite a big firm and ran a few motors Albert one of the Epton brothers was in the yard all the time along with Pop the young forklift driver I think Pop went on to drive for Bentons. The buisness was eventually sold to Humber Mcveigh I think. Eddie.
Can anyone remember a Dutch cattle importer called Butellarr ( not sure about the spelling ) who had a yard in Boston in the late '60s/early '70s. They shipped out of Yarmouth and ran bonnetted AEC drawbar outfits, light blue if my memory serves me correctly. Regards to all, Haddy.