wasnt there a firm called wasseys in longton?, when i was a kid in hospital there was a bloke in there called sam who used to work for ken beresford when he first started, not sure if thats the bloke you are on about though, there was also carr and hodgekinson although based at cheadle they did a bit of work for beresfords bringing timber back from france for beavais transit, i think COMARTS was a short name for COMMON MARKETS as i used to work with a guy who drove for them years ago, he told me that there was two gaffers and one was a pole / german■■?, not sure if some of the info is accurate though
I reckon the bloke driving the D series must have had a heart like a lion 
A good picture of the Thor Volvo in real mud
ADAM:
wasnt there a firm called wasseys in longton?, when i was a kid in hospital there was a bloke in there called sam who used to work for ken beresford when he first started, not sure if thats the bloke you are on about though, there was also carr and hodgekinson although based at cheadle they did a bit of work for beresfords bringing timber back from france for beavais transit, i think COMARTS was a short name for COMMON MARKETS as i used to work with a guy who drove for them years ago, he told me that there was two gaffers and one was a pole / german■■?, not sure if some of the info is accurate though
I think the firm you are talking about was Wass transport in Longton run by a guy called Bill Wass. It was a real shoestring outfit mostly running ex NCB and Royal Mail cast offs. Cant believe they ever did continental, Stoke to Birmingham would have been a big adventure in their tackle!! Ironically, Bill Wass became Lord Mayor of Stoke on Trent!!
Great Pics on here. I worked for Berrisfords and Comart. Never heard the "common market " rumour before. These were the days before the EEC. Some readers may remember the days we used to clear customs in Dover. Average clearance time about 10hrs parked up in the lorry park on the docks. Cant imagine that these days!!
Comart was a good firm to work for. Lots of M.O.D. work to Germany.Yes one of the directors was German. Mr Moor and Mr Lock were managers at Comart and left to form Moorlock.
Thor was a great firm. Good tackle and lots of adventure. They were always respected as the “Bad ■■■” boys.
Any pictures of other stoke continental firms? I worked for Knight and Riley(Ceramic Euroflow) and Brit European when it was based at Scholar Green and still trading as Carmans transport.
Is that Phil Bunch (Bunchie) looking very young!!
Two lads i remember from late 70s drove for beresfords. One his first name was george i think used to drive nights to london down 1 ngt and back the next. Always used to stop on lorry park at tooley st [tower bridge] he liked a drink and i think he lost his job thro it in the end.I drove for fred snaylam from bolton at the time. The second one drove days tramping i dont remember his name but he always wore a leather trilby type hat. Any info would be appreciated
thanks dave [BILKO]
Thanks very much for the wonderful photos
of the very nice vehicles,
bunchy and the hunny monster who then drove for morgan overland waiting in doha
thor transport
dafdave the lad on beresfords who had the trilby was nicknamed daft hat keith blakemoore. the other one who drank a lot was george palin .
wheelnut the lad with D series worked for pro motors named roger ,did one trip down to tehran wet nursed all the way by the two thor drivers in the picture
the flying foden:
dafdave the lad on beresfords who had the trilby was nicknamed daft hat keith blakemoore. the other one who drank a lot was george palin .
wheelnut the lad with D series worked for pro motors named roger ,did one trip down to tehran wet nursed all the way by the two thor drivers in the picture
dafdave
Thanks very much for the info spot on thanks again.
,regards dave
jj72:
brilliant phots FF keep em coming - who were Comart? interesting livery
i remember comart i think they did just fridge work remember seeing them abroad alot at one time
A few from my friend Nigel
Punchy Dan:
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Brilliant photos dan, does anybody know if c40 and b780 were new to baileys cause stan ferneyhough had similar regs, unless he’d copied them ha ha owd stan 
