Hi All
Just found this old pic in a shoe box. This is the father in law’s Austin (when new) not sure what year but he was a fruit and veg merchant, (both brother’s looking a bit doggy to me, but dont tell the wife I said that)
John
Well it’s a Stoke reg for sure,but the name was WELL before my time.
I notice no one as mentioned Mick salt { baymex} I worked for him for a whileBut I didnt reign long,
Also Alan dale who had just bought an F16 to do kosovo and bosnia just before he died.
also Lennie Dorber, another Stoke Lad who I worked with ay one time.
I did a bit of Italy when I was working for Expo Freight and we had a couple of months when we had no m/e work.
I met up with Mick Salt a time or two when he was on Berrisfords.
The only other blokes I got to know on Berrisfords were big Jack Banbury,RIP,and Dennis Holford,RIP.I met them in Ankara on their way back from Teheran which I believe was the only m/e trip that Berrisfords did.
rocky 7:
Also Alan dale who had just bought an F16 to do kosovo and bosnia just before he died.
Not sure if I have my wires crossed here but I was on the train with an Alan Dale from Stoke about 3 years ago. Probably a different one.
HI ALL
I KNOW THAT JANERITE SERVICES HAS BEEN MENTIONED A FEW TIMES IN THIS THREAD, BUT DOES ANYONE HAVE ANY PICS PLEASE.
CHEERS
GAZ
Followed one of their motors through Burslem last week heading for their yard.
I’ll try and take some pics next time I’m up that way.
bestbooties:
Followed one of their motors through Burslem last week heading for their yard.
I’ll try and take some pics next time I’m up that way.
I think you are getting confused with the new company Burgess Logistics not JSL.
Come on lads wer’er slacking on photos.You must have taken one or two of this lot.
Nixions Milton. Green and Red tippers ,JL Cooper also Milton ,George Rhodes. Biddulph ,Haydons Biddulph ,Weavers Endon ,Williamsons Endon.
Harrisons Ash bank, Five Towns Demolition, Jones Cobridge, John Royle brick lorries,Frailings Trubshire cross, John Jenks ERFs, Jack Critchlow .
Michel Bailey ,Michel Badderley, Supreem Salt, Spencers Port hill, Browns,Berrisfords Cheddleton (AEC/ Scammells).Smiths Cobridge, Plants Cheadle
Shirleys,MJS Cheadle. John Pointon(■■■) Bassets titensor, Centuary Oils, John Morley feeds, Armets Biddulph,RonCole Silver dale RIP,Tideswells,Cooke and Copstake(ERFs) Barry Proctor, Geo Poole, John Keeling(oils),Malcom Tyler,Wedgewoods ownfleet,Derek Read(foden)Edwards, Fodens(half cabs)Beeches Wreckers (Dimond T)where did that go to. EC Meirs Werrington, Browns (skips) werrington, Staffordshire Public Works,(ERFs),Mitchelin (own fleet) ANC,Alpine pop,
(we got 6 free bottles but had to sign for them)London rubber company off hot lane had 1/2 dozen Globetrotters (LRC no plates)Theirs quite a few there
and we’ve already got teens of company on this theme.what was the name of that chap subbed for Berrisfords. He did Europe in a Guy big J with a box welded on the cab for a sleeper, Then at about 70 years old stopped driving and had the T bar at JCT 15.Something to do with Armets IICR.Just woke up
Rogersons Cobridge, BRS Tunstall(that was a busy yard in its day)Sturge,yellow lorries inside BSC,Chambers Timber had a few lorries, Pot clays. ■■?Morby
did some Italy 20 years ago. Plus pot bank lorries doing local work This lot will surprise few people how many companys have gone.Can you add to the list
its a bit sad to remember that lot it was off the top of my head
John
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wasses, Davey/Beckets and Walchesters …Creada …B and S Cheadle, I must admit I’ve been working the grey matter hard for this one Norman Green
they had a stack of trucks on coal and coke its a few years back, I think Wasses are already on here somewhere, BOCM they’re on the A34 near ANC.
Mus’nt forget MR Kippling.They made exceedingley good cakes. My farther in law had 1/2 dozen motors Carrying fruit and Veg Clodd Broom market stalls Newcastle, Hanley, and Leek. He also did some general haulage in the late 70s.
I need a nap now
John
flatman001:
Brilliant set of pics once again ,flatman001.
Cheers Dave.
Ben9:
bestbooties:
Followed one of their motors through Burslem last week heading for their yard.
I’ll try and take some pics next time I’m up that way.I think you are getting confused with the new company Burgess Logistics not JSL.
You’re right of course.It’s sunday morning,well that’s my excuse!
Taken at Cellarhead yard March 1991
Taken at yard at Tittensor
Taken at M5 Micheal Wood services August 1989
Manor Bakery taken July 1889
Taken at yard at Tittensor
Well done flatman some great snaps on there, I was in that yard at Cellar head two weeks ago mvt is still in the same spot,
Their’s some good tackle in there but its going to ruin.Did you drive at Bassetts■■? They rebuilt one i used to drive years ago
it was a S39 HRE 685 K.
John.
3300John:
Come on lads wer’er slacking on photos.You must have taken one or two of this lot.
Nixions Milton. Green and Red tippers ,JL Cooper also Milton ,George Rhodes. Biddulph ,Haydons Biddulph ,Weavers Endon ,Williamsons Endon.
Harrisons Ash bank, Five Towns Demolition, Jones Cobridge, John Royle brick lorries,Frailings Trubshire cross, John Jenks ERFs, Jack Critchlow .
Michel Bailey ,Michel Badderley, Supreem Salt, Spencers Port hill, Browns,Berrisfords Cheddleton (AEC/ Scammells).Smiths Cobridge, Plants Cheadle
Shirleys,MJS Cheadle. John Pointon(■■■) Bassets titensor, Centuary Oils, John Morley feeds, Armets Biddulph,RonCole Silver dale RIP,Tideswells,Cooke and Copstake(ERFs) Barry Proctor, Geo Poole, John Keeling(oils),Malcom Tyler,Wedgewoods ownfleet,Derek Read(foden)Edwards, Fodens(half cabs)Beeches Wreckers (Dimond T)where did that go to. EC Meirs Werrington, Browns (skips) werrington, Staffordshire Public Works,(ERFs),Mitchelin (own fleet) ANC,Alpine pop,
(we got 6 free bottles but had to sign for them)London rubber company off hot lane had 1/2 dozen Globetrotters (LRC no plates)Theirs quite a few there
and we’ve already got teens of company on this theme.what was the name of that chap subbed for Berrisfords. He did Europe in a Guy big J with a box welded on the cab for a sleeper, Then at about 70 years old stopped driving and had the T bar at JCT 15.Something to do with Armets IICR.Just woke up
Rogersons Cobridge, BRS Tunstall(that was a busy yard in its day)Sturge,yellow lorries inside BSC,Chambers Timber had a few lorries, Pot clays. ■■?Morby
did some Italy 20 years ago. Plus pot bank lorries doing local work This lot will surprise few people how many companys have gone.Can you add to the list
its a bit sad to remember that lot it was off the top of my head
John
Cook and Copestake was the first firm I worked for after leaving the army in1968.
I started off on a Bedford TK and was soon promoted to an Albion Chieftain 4 wheeler.
They only had one artic when I started,an Albion Riever driven by a guy known as Acker Bilk.
When they decided to increase the fleet,a new trailer arrived,but the new Albion tractor unit was late in arriving,so Tillotsons loaned us an AEC Mandator,which was my first artic. The experience i gained on this qualified me to get my class 1 HGV licence when they came in,under grandfather rights.
The head fitter was Percy Cook,the brother of boss Eric.
To the best of my knowledge,I didn’t think they ever had ERF’s,certainly not while I was there,the only aspiration to a classier motor was when I met up with Eric Cook and his driver Eddie? at the Hungarian border in an old 1418 Mercedes formerly belonging to Carl Burgess.Eric had just subbed a load from Carl for Istanbul,that was their only foray into continental work,Eric Cook died shortly after.
The last time I saw John Copestake was about 10 years ago,he had a yard up Sneyd Hill Burslem with just a couple of motors,one driver was Eddie ? and the other driver was a little Irish fella name of Des Carroll who had been with him when I first started there,their original yard was at Smallwood,just a few miles south of Holmes Chapel.
I don’t know if John Copestake is still alive,he used to live in Wolstanton,not far from me.
Sorry,no pics.
There must be more old ERF’s ad Fodens, kicking about yards in various state’s, than any other make of old British lorry.
Just goes to ahow just what good vehicles,they were.
Cheers Dave.
3300John:
Well done flatman some great snaps on there, I was in that yard at Cellar head two weeks ago mvt is still in the same spot,
Their’s some good tackle in there but its going to ruin.Did you drive at Bassetts■■? They rebuilt one i used to drive years ago
it was a S39 HRE 685 K.
John.
I live in Derbyshire and my driving career has been with firms in Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire, I had 18 years with NCB/British Coal/NPT. The last ten years have been with Browns Builders Merchants of Derby, till I was finished through ill health. A couple more for you taken at Cellarhead in March 1991.
3300John:
Come on lads wer’er slacking on photos.Beeches Wreckers (Dimond T)where did that go to. ,Mitchelin (own fleet) London rubber company This lot will surprise few people how many companys have gone.Can you add to the list
its a bit sad to remember that lot it was off the top of my head
John
Hi John, I once worked for three months pulling out of the Stoke depot for Blue Dart Transport who had a yard I.I.R.C. on the A34 at Newcastle-under-Lyme back in the seventies. A lot of the work was for Michelin and I remember that they had a full time shunter at " The Mich " so you never had to get into the back to load, it was always a case of dropping an empty and picking up a loaded trailer 
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The yard was on the left northbound on the A34 and I am not sure if it was Lex Tillotsons or was it Beeches Garages that were also in there. The depot manager was a cracking bloke called Albert Wain who always looked after his drivers and I also remember loading once at another tyre factory in Stoke was it Pirelli 
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Photo from The Bubbleman Scrapbook .
bestbooties:
3300John:
I don’t know if John Copestake is still alive,he used to live in Wolstanton,not far from me.
Sorry,no pics.
Don’t know if there is any connection or relation but there is a Copestake who runs a couple of trucks out of Knypersley.