Old companys from stoke -on trent

3300john · 11 January 2010 18:42

Hiya …In this months Herritage commerical theres a photo of a company from Stoke…??Frost they run a 8 legger ERF KV styled cab
I don’nt remember them has annyone got any info or better a Photo.
Thanks John.

big_valve · 11 January 2010 20:16

3300John:
Hiya Flying foden What are the Sturge lads upto nowadays 1979/80 I was doing the girder off cuts out of Shelton bar and Sturge was doing all the handling
it was a good job but my boss sold the truck from under me with the work.
John.

sorry John can’t help you with that one .last time i bumped in to johnny sturge was 20 odd years ago . would like to find out me self mate

big_valve · 11 January 2010 20:22

Willie Roadstar:
Hi All,

Talking about Yoxall’s used to know a lad from Tean ‘Grant’ used to drive a mean looking 480 Turbostar for them ( don’t know which Yoxall), black with chrome stacks up the back pulling for Brit into Europe, carpets mainly, anybody got a photo of it ■■?

Regards
Ant

Ant little grant is still on for Brit European on fridges ,the yoxall was Trevor .grant did a bit on Cheltenham airways for him for a while.as well as for Brits with John plant and his wife

the_flying_foden · 11 January 2010 20:35

tetragaz:
hi flying foden

i live in the same town as trevor too mate, billy was trevs uncle & he used to run a yellow sed atki 400 with a tipper trailer 90% of the time, trev used to work for Eric Armitt then he & his brother got their own motor & started subbying for him.
I know that trev had a very nice Turbostar with twin stacks but he was coming up the motorway one day & it caught fire & he’d not had it long.

Eric Armitt another one to go on the list of Stoke hauliers long gone. he had some nice motors too.

cheers
gaz

small world gaz ,old billy also had a scania on for brit european doing uk work out of dover my best mate was the drive of it .Eric Armitt some good lads worked on there ,malcom green dougie otter .ron green sandy vickers john mellor to name but a few .
do you remember the lad that used to do his repairs for him . Brian glover good lad he was , he ended up driving for bob hartshorne .
cheers jeff

3300john · 11 January 2010 21:20

the flying foden:

tetragaz:
hi flying foden
Eric Armitt another one to go on the list of Stoke hauliers long gone. he had some nice motors too.
small world gaz ,old billy also had a scania on for brit european doing uk work out of dover my best mate was the drive of it .Eric Armitt some good lads worked on there ,malcom green dougie otter .ron green sandy vickers john mellor to name but a few .
do you remember the lad that used to do his repairs for him . Brian glover good lad he was , he ended up driving for bob hartshorne .
cheers jeff

Did you know Paul (twilight)he drove for Harrisons/Pooles/NGM/Armitts I think he’s at Bolshaws now he’s a good mechanic but he’s best at doing a days work
before 7am.I don’t know anybody who could do as much work as him without sleeping.I was with him at Crick one night as i thought we had gone to bed,
anyhow next morning we was having toast i said what time are you tipping in Leeds.HE said i’ve done that and loaded salt and was on his way to Kent.
John.

willie_roadstar · 12 January 2010 19:48

Jeff,

Brian Glover is on IRF (or was last time I called) worked with his brother at Beeches (Dave) he also drove for Eric for a while, poss part time.

Regards
Ant

the flying foden:

tetragaz:
hi flying foden

i live in the same town as trevor too mate, billy was trevs uncle & he used to run a yellow sed atki 400 with a tipper trailer 90% of the time, trev used to work for Eric Armitt then he & his brother got their own motor & started subbying for him.
I know that trev had a very nice Turbostar with twin stacks but he was coming up the motorway one day & it caught fire & he’d not had it long.

Eric Armitt another one to go on the list of Stoke hauliers long gone. he had some nice motors too.

cheers
gaz

small world gaz ,old billy also had a scania on for brit european doing uk work out of dover my best mate was the drive of it .Eric Armitt some good lads worked on there ,malcom green dougie otter .ron green sandy vickers john mellor to name but a few .
do you remember the lad that used to do his repairs for him . Brian glover good lad he was , he ended up driving for bob hartshorne .
cheers jeff

the_flying_foden · 13 January 2010 20:32

i had forgot all about Dave glover ant .he used to do the warranty claims if i remember correctly .i thought brian had left IRF ?
no sorry john don’t know the lad you mentioned ,what was his surname ?

willie_roadstar · 14 January 2010 19:13

Jeff,

Dave was my sales manager at Beechs(he was on warranty at ERF sandbach), he left there just after I moved to Scania in 2001to go to Thomas Hardie Volvo but is now at Enza Merc and selling in Staffordshire/Cheshire

regards
Ant

the flying foden:
i had forgot all about Dave glover ant .he used to do the warranty claims if i remember correctly .i thought brian had left IRF ?
no sorry john don’t know the lad you mentioned ,what was his surname ?

ben9 · 14 January 2010 21:57

How come (unless I have missed it) nothing has been mentioned of Armitts , now I know the chance of photos would be slim as they never stood still long enough but from what I can remember they were always presentable.

tetragaz · 15 January 2010 15:52

hi ben

Armitts has been mentioned mate but i dont think anybody has any pics of them, ive got the article that was in one of the trucking mags somewhere, his yard is just down the road from me & is still empty since he packed in, he was a nice bloke too.

if anyone does have any pics please put the on

cheers
gaz

the_flying_foden · 16 January 2010 09:19

gaz next time i see Ron Green i will ask him if he as any

tetragaz · 16 January 2010 18:18

that would be good flying foden mate, they had a very nice livery.

cheers
gaz

bugcos · 16 January 2010 19:32

3300John:
[ MFS was another outfit in Stoke They did containers also truck sales, If you wanted a truck they was runnig they’d sell it to you.

I used to work for them and thats very true saw hat happen to a couple of blokes good learning curve on there

bugcos · 16 January 2010 19:32

3300John:
[ MFS was another outfit in Stoke They did containers also truck sales, If you wanted a truck they was runnig they’d sell it to you.

I used to work for them and thats very true saw hat happen to a couple of blokes good learning curve on there

bugcos · 9 February 2010 23:22

This was taken around late 2001

3300john · 10 February 2010 20:19

Hiya bugcos…was Kenny Hunter working for JT. at that time or had he moved on.
cheers John

bugcos · 10 February 2010 22:43

Yes mate Kenny was on there, then left to go to Warbos, I think, then came back not long after!

bugcos · 11 February 2010 21:24

My first motor on MFS

chrisv · 21 February 2010 17:09

hi, im new totrucknet,driven hgvs for various companies in and around stoke,i drive my own van now on light haulage, got the transport bug aged 6, i used to go with my dad on walkers century oils,anyone on here recall them?

the_flying_foden · 21 February 2010 17:27

chrisv:
hi, im new totrucknet,driven hgvs for various companies in and around stoke,i drive my own van now on light haulage, got the transport bug aged 6, i used to go with my dad on walkers century oils,anyone on here recall them?

welcome to trucknet chrisv i remember walkers / century oils now fuchs . i have worked with a few lads from there over the years. if you have any pic’s feel free to add them