Old companys from stoke -on trent

UK PROFESSIONAL DRIVERS FORUMS OLD TIME LORRIES, COMPANIES AND DRIVERS (INTERACT
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topstuff cheers ant :wink: its good to here some old ownerdrivers still going and doing the continent

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Willie Roadstar:

Carl:
another ownerdriver alan barlow from stoke ran a lhd iveco turbostar on with carmans(bet) stoke his regular run was raleigh nottingham to germany.does anyone know what he,s doing now

Carl,

Yes Tony is still going, based in Mkt Drayton, still doing Int. last time I spoke to him, Still running F12 also, Sold Alan Barlow a Eurostar a number of years ago, was pulling for a Bakery to Belgium last time I spoke to him, but that was years ago, He had a Turbostar on Frans Maas for a while which Big H drove for him. I have a Photo of the Eurostar somewhere, had it painted in Gold with decals of his Westy dogs on it.

Regards
Ant

Carl,

Photo of Alan Barlow’s Euroster as promised

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Also a photo of the Eurostar that Shirleys had off me which Terry Lewis (Ex Comart) drove on European a few years ago

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Regards
Ant

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cheers ant :wink: ive seen alans eurostar a few times on the road but never guessed it was him.i thought it were a scotish motor with the tartan on.av ya got many more eurostar pics mate .as a truck i really like em and having lived in one week in week out i couldnt fault it

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Carl:
another ownerdriver alan barlow from stoke ran a lhd iveco turbostar on with carmans(bet) stoke his regular run was raleigh nottingham to germany.does anyone know what he,s doing now

Alan has got a plain white topliner pulling a plain white fridge now .
his truck is based in biddulph stoke on trent .
still running over the water .
if i see him down the yard will get a photo.

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Carl:
another ownerdriver alan barlow from stoke ran a lhd iveco turbostar on with carmans(bet) stoke his regular run was raleigh nottingham to germany.does anyone know what he,s doing now

Alan has got a plain white topliner pulling a plain white fridge now .
his truck is based in biddulph stoke on trent .
still running over the water .
if i see him down the yard will get a photo.

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Willie Roadstar:

Willie Roadstar:

Carl:
another ownerdriver alan barlow from stoke ran a lhd iveco turbostar on with carmans(bet) stoke his regular run was raleigh nottingham to germany.does anyone know what he,s doing now

Carl,

Yes Tony is still going, based in Mkt Drayton, still doing Int. last time I spoke to him, Still running F12 also, Sold Alan Barlow a Eurostar a number of years ago, was pulling for a Bakery to Belgium last time I spoke to him, but that was years ago, He had a Turbostar on Frans Maas for a while which Big H drove for him. I have a Photo of the Eurostar somewhere, had it painted in Gold with decals of his Westy dogs on it.

Regards
Ant

Carl,

Photo of Alan Barlow’s Euroster as promised

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alan barlow (turbo wig) now runs a 580 scania and a fridge doing bread down to paris
if any of you ever get chance to see the video alan did called on your bike just watch alans face when bob matthews tells him he has to reload from italy .it’s a picture bless him :laughing:

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the flying foden:
Ant

if any of you ever get chance to see the video alan did called on your bike just watch alans face when bob matthews tells him he has to reload from italy .it’s a picture bless him :laughing:
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FF, Bunchy gave me a copy of this DVD at the reunion.

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Willie Roadstar:
Overlooked this post somehow !! Tut Tut - The guy who lived next door to the club on high lane and drove for Morcap was named Holford, used to go to school with one of his sons - can’t remember his name now, also next door, there was a guy who drove for a number a companies who was Popeye’s Brother - Chris Oldaker.

You mean Dennis Holford who used to work for Berrisfords when I knew him.
I’ve told the tale on another thread about the time I met Dennis and Big Jack Banbury in Ankara on their way back from Teheran.
Popeye I know quite well,he was working for Chapman and Ball when I was working for Commercial Engineers,the FIAT agent that supplied C & B’s FIAT trucks.I spoke to him only recently.

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Willie Roadstar:
Further to an earlier post on here - I can’t remeber Comarts ever going to Pakistan or India.!!

And the name origanally did evolve from the word Comman Market in 71 when the UK was about to join, it was called Smith Bros or Smiths for Service before then, when my Dad started wiyth them.

We covered this earlier,I think I made the mistake of saying it was Comarts,when in fact it was Thor that went to Pakistan,intended going to India but couldn’t get in!.
I think before Comart it was called Smiths.The boss on Comarts was named Clive Smith,almost went working for him when I was an O/D but never came to anything.

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Willie Roadstar:
Overlooked this post somehow !! Tut Tut - The guy who lived next door to the club on high lane and drove for Morcap was named Holford, used to go to school with one of his sons - can’t remember his name now, also next door, there was a guy who drove for a number a companies who was Popeye’s Brother - Chris Oldaker.

You mean Dennis Holford who used to work for Berrisfords when I knew him.
I’ve told the tale on another thread about the time I met Dennis and Big Jack Banbury in Ankara on their way back from Teheran.
Popeye I know quite well,he was working for Chapman and Ball when I was working for Commercial Engineers,the FIAT agent that supplied C & B’s FIAT trucks.I spoke to him only recently.

Ian,

Is Popeye Ok, I had heard he had not been to well recently, not seen him since we were on Frans Maas about 15 years ago ■■

Ant

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Hi All,

I have been talking to a mate who as very kindly lent me these photos of his Dad from the Thor days, Carl Burgess (in the photo) who was transport manager for Thor at the time, apparently did the 1st western commercial load into the USSR to Lenningrad, where the photos were taken, which was back in 72. carl later went on to set up DOW freight with a partner and then JSL, Jasons sorting me some photos of the JSL fleet, which I will post once I have scanned them.

Anybody else got any photos of JSL ■■

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Regards
Ant

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Hi folks, I worked for a company in Southampton that had a depot in Stoke, only a few trucks based there but they were called L.T.S Had green and white sed aks. Used to have contract for JCB to France. Not a bad number but gone to the wall now… Regards Kev

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SB139:
Hi folks, I worked for a company in Southampton that had a depot in Stoke, only a few trucks based there but they were called L.T.S Had green and white sed aks. Used to have contract for JCB to France. Not a bad number but gone to the wall now… Regards Kev

Kev,

Yes they ran out of the old Moorlock yard in Chesterton, Eric (Tspt manager at Stoke) now with Browns Distribution and Wayne his side kick is with TDG now after a spell with Parkhouse Int who took on the JCB work to Spain, now also no more due to Brit taking contract.

Regards
Ant

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the flying foden:
Ant

if any of you ever get chance to see the video alan did called on your bike just watch alans face when bob matthews tells him he has to reload from italy .it’s a picture bless him :laughing:

FF, Bunchy gave me a copy of this DVD at the reunion.
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Further to this post.Bob Matthews and I did our first M/E trip together to Baghdad back in '74.

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bestbooties:

Willie Roadstar:
Further to an earlier post on here - I can’t remeber Comarts ever going to Pakistan or India.!!

And the name origanally did evolve from the word Comman Market in 71 when the UK was about to join, it was called Smith Bros or Smiths for Service before then, when my Dad started wiyth them.

We covered this earlier,I think I made the mistake of saying it was Comarts,when in fact it was Thor that went to Pakistan,intended going to India but couldn’t get in!.
I think before Comart it was called Smiths.The boss on Comarts was named Clive Smith,almost went working for him when I was an O/D but never came to anything.

Comarts yard was up Uttoxeter Rd. Longton,where Transport 2000 run from now.

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Hi All,

Now we are going back, anybody remember this firm, I think its the 1st truck my Dad had when he started driving or one of the 1st, way before my time !!!

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Regards
Ant

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Wow yes.
I drove for Vic Wild a bit later than this pic.My uncle Harry McBeth drove for him about this era.This was in the days when a run to Cornwall was a week’s trip!,finishing up delivering the load of bulk China clay on Saturday morning,with a shovel,no tippers in those days.
My uncle got me a job working for Vic in 1970 when he was esablished as the Wild Group.Some of the firms swallowed up in the group were:Gleave Transport,Maddens of Redruth,Tancocks of Exeter,a firm from Gobowen in Shropshire i forget the name of,and one or two more.
Vic would only operate Atki’s and ERF’s with a Gardner and DB 'box.That was until Gardner went on strike just as Vic was replacing the fleet with Gardner 240’s.When Vic saw an Atki with Gardner 240 running in Herman Tideswell’s colours,(he was always an AEC man was Herman),Vic rang Gardners and told them to shove their 240’s.Out of spite he went and bought a pair of DAF 2600’s,the first of which was mine,as seen in my Avatar.
All that remains of the Wild Group today is Madderns of Exeter,stll in the old Wild colours.
There was also a Wild Transport of Rochester that used to run in the same colours but had no connection.

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the flying foden:
Ant

if any of you ever get chance to see the video alan did called on your bike just watch alans face when bob matthews tells him he has to reload from italy .it’s a picture bless him :laughing:

FF, Bunchy gave me a copy of this DVD at the reunion.

Further to this post.Bob Matthews and I did our first M/E trip together to Baghdad back in '74.
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ian what happened to bob matthews after he went to nippress.?

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FF,
Didn’t even know Bob had left Brits.Haven’t seen him since I left 30 years ago.

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bestbooties:
FF,
Didn’t even know Bob had left Brits.Haven’t seen him since I left 30 years ago.

as far as i know ian he went to nippress to run there hull depot .he had to sell his own trucks though after the fall out he had with brits over them before he left there :laughing: :laughing: