Trevor Yoxall
Nice pics Dan, I used to run out of Croxden in the early 80s with Stan & Budgie from B&C when I drove for Mountfords. Happy Days
Cheers
Duls
wild thing:
Nice pics Dan, I used to run out of Croxden in the early 80s with Stan & Budgie from B&C when I drove for Mountfords. Happy Days
Cheers
Duls
I was in Croxden in the early 70’s - don’t remember B&C or Mountfords, tho. Names which spring to mind are C E Edwards, Mellor Bros, Dave Kinder, Ken Mellor, Jim Bannister, Dennis and Brian Mellor, Nigel Doxey (when he was an OD with one four-wheeler!), Tommy Mullineaux and Brasso from Blythe Bridge to recall but a few.
Was Jock still running the cafe in your day?
Steve
wild thing:
Nice pics Dan, I used to run out of Croxden in the early 80s with Stan & Budgie from B&C when I drove for Mountfords. Happy Days
Cheers
Duls
Thanks they’re taken by Dennis the Highspeed oil man .
Punchy Dan:
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Trevor Yoxall
From near biddulph on the A527.
Think I heard a rumour that the Yoxhall brothers used to work for Armitages in the yard next door, & started with a couple of their old lorries, hence the same livery.
Could be just drivers tales .
They used to live in the holly bush at one time when they were on castle colours and Ryder point processing ,both nice blokes .
When I worked for Vic Wild in the early '70’s, he gave those of us who wished, the opportunity to become owner/drivers.
Some became very successful, some fell by the wayside.
I very soon got some direct work for English China Clay out of Cornwall, (At better rates than Vic was getting!), so he cancelled my truck rental deal before I had earned enough working capital to purchase my own motor.
Another successful o/d was Tony Blackburn, but another memorable character was Fred Yoxall, where does he fit in with the Yoxall family?
Punchy Dan:
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The first people to give me a driving job when I left the army in '69 were Cooke and Copestake who ran from a small garage in Smallwood.
I left after a year and moved on.
Some years later after Eric Cooke had passed on, John Copestake was operating one or two motors from next to the yard where Chapman and Ball were based, off Sneyd Hill. He still had the old Irish driver Des Carroll working for him.
I went to John’s funeral about five years ago, now I know he had two daughters, but has the present J.Copestake anything to do with the John Copestake that I knew?
gunnerheskey:
Punchy Dan:
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Trevor YoxallFrom near biddulph on the A527.
Think I heard a rumour that the Yoxhall brothers used to work for Armitages in the yard next door, & started with a couple of their old lorries, hence the same livery.
Could be just drivers tales .
YES THEY DID WORK FOR ERIC ARMITT MATE
I think it’s been mentioned before about the books of Staffordshire Haulage folk which are good.I got them both out of the library in Uttoxeter and I bought a book called Voices of the Explosion at Fauld and are published by someone in Ipstones but watch it the pages fall out becuse how the books are printed
Tony
I borrowed the Fauld book from our library a few years ago Tony and that was getting tatty. It annoys me that some of these books are quite expensive but poorly put together, I have some of Bob Tuck’s Classic Haulier ones and they are all losing pages.
Pete.
windrush:
I borrowed the Fauld book from our library a few years ago Tony and that was getting tatty. It annoys me that some of these books are quite expensive but poorly put together, I have some of Bob Tuck’s Classic Haulier ones and they are all losing pages.Pete.
Never seen a Haynes manual not fall apart.These books are dear enough. Be interested to hear what you thought about the Fauld book but perhaps not on this site as we are going off the subject
Tony
Punchy Dan:
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Do not put Ray Gillard and Eric Armitt in the same camp Dan.
Ray knew his job, and he shifted some massive weights behind his Volvo`s…legally!!
Eric, yes there and back…
Not picky, just like things to be right you see!
Cheerio for now.
Punchy Dan:
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Purchased from longton transport .
Evening all,
Dan, that yard on Mow Cop was second only to Smiths yard at Maddiston, as the coldest place on these sceptred isles! No wonder John Wesley converted the assembled Potters to Methodism when he preached to them…they wanted to go down the hill and get warm!!!
Jack ran a very tidy fleet…but talk about short arms, and deep pockets…
By gum those lorries did some work, and were always very tidy…
from our old house you could see the outline of Mow Cop on a clear day, 45 miles as the Crow flies…and I always used to shiver at the thought!
Cheerio for now.