Old Hull Haulage companys

jonb1973 · 11 July 2008 19:07

Yeh A.S Haulage are still going m8, there one of the old school

My First job when i left school was at Blakeys as an apprentice mechanic, But i left after 3 weeks i couldnt hack been covered in oil all the time lol

wheel_nut · 11 July 2008 19:16

botch:
used to back load off a&s haulage of hull mostly timber are they still about , know that old jimmy and henry both past on, also there was an owner driver said he was david whitfields brother, he drove a fodon all ways immaculately dressed nomally spoke to him on the docks shed 10,

Yep. A & S are still going strong, we used to load a lot of big Russian timber from them.

Not so sure about David Whitfields Brother though

wheel_nut · 11 July 2008 19:20

JonB1973:
Dont think so m8

Apparently Robertson Dale Haulage was named after 2 Film stars from the olden days

Wish someone had some pictures

JonB, is Grandad still with us?

The only bloke I knew at Mauri was Chris Davison, (the other one)

The other Davison was TODON

4/4/11 adjusted a small spelling error as Davison is correct

jonb1973 · 11 July 2008 19:38

Na M8 my grandad passed away in 91 his name was Kenny Downs

He was on Mauri pretty much from the start along with Bernard Shaw, Ray Leake, Jock O Donnel,and two drivers called Mally and Ted(dont know there second names)

They all started with X plate Merc 1619s at 32 tons pmsl except my grandad who got one of the old F7s(used to leave the mercs standing)

Have some great memories of them days

jonb1973 · 11 July 2008 19:52

jonb1973 · 19 July 2008 12:11

Anymore Pics

trev · 8 August 2008 16:52

i used to reload from them they had a depot at drypool 5 mins up the road from the fruit mkt ,at that time they ran leyland marathons

jonb1973 · 13 August 2008 21:25

Correct m8 they had quite a few Marathons running alongside the F7s mainly pulling flats and skellies

dean0 · 14 August 2008 19:01

Chris Webb:
:lol:
You must have an encyclopedia of owd Hull hauliers.
Why couldn’t I remember The Eclipse Motor Transport Company,Ferndale Transport and Willow Transport?
The Woodside’s getting full now Malc!

But you don’t recall Thompsons of Hedon - livestock carriers? Their yard was past BP further up on the left where you turned off for Hedon village - I think
Ran a lot of Leyland/AEC motors,brown livery and I think a couple of drawbar outfits.

they are now KLMS winter
they still do livestock and was a coal merchents until a couple of years ago

wheel_nut · 14 August 2008 20:16

dean0:

Chris Webb:
:lol:
You must have an encyclopedia of owd Hull hauliers.
Why couldn’t I remember The Eclipse Motor Transport Company,Ferndale Transport and Willow Transport?
The Woodside’s getting full now Malc!

But you don’t recall Thompsons of Hedon - livestock carriers? Their yard was past BP further up on the left where you turned off for Hedon village - I think
Ran a lot of Leyland/AEC motors,brown livery and I think a couple of drawbar outfits.

they are now KLMS winter
they still do livestock and was a coal merchents until a couple of years ago

Cheers DeanO. I did think KL & S Winter were who Chris was thinking of, but I do have a clouded vision of Thompsons of Hedon. I just can’t remember them or the trucks.

Hedon had a few companies running out of there but never as many as North Newbald. There were something like 70 trucks pulling out of there on a Monday morning, there were only about 50 people lived there

A couple of other companies who came to mind recently were Sid Howard who ran out of Capper Pass at Melton,

Ray Allison who was in Welton, Ray retired from haulage when times were hard and then he got a job as an electrician at Crossroads Volvo. I wonder what he would think today, as he thought he got out when things were bad.

jessicas_dad · 14 August 2008 20:47

Wheel Nut:
Remember loading in Spear Transport, Struthers and Carter and Panalpina though

i think spear are still going i used to top for holland out of spears about 6 years ago.

mick_terry · 10 December 2008 14:25

hi a;ll what about “JACMIL” was owned by marrs fish used to do fishmeal down to hook,hants o/night sleep in warehouse inday while we tipped load on farms and reloaded in portsmouth albert johnson quay jersey fruit and veg back to hook where drivers used to ship back to hull that night oh happy days mick terry

system · 10 December 2008 18:40

Wheel Nut:
A few more local firms running from Hull.

Ferndale Transport

Eclipse Motor Transport

Frances Motors

Joseph Cox

Ernest Waudby

Freemans

Willow transport

I remember ferndale tpt,used to load back off them regular for m/c area and lancashire.

jessicas_dad · 10 December 2008 20:34

dafdave:

Wheel Nut:
A few more local firms running from Hull.

Ferndale Transport

Eclipse Motor Transport

Frances Motors

Joseph Cox

Ernest Waudby

Freemans

Willow transport

I remember ferndale tpt,used to load back off them regular for m/c area and lancashire.

i loaded at ferndale a few weeks ago, right miserable git in charge wouldnt let me use the kahzi as he thought i was going to smash it up.

chris_webb · 10 December 2008 21:46

Springfield Haulage was another company in Hull and they had an office in Salford,Trafford Road I think it was.I used to backload zinc and copper bars off them for Sheffield,straight off Salford docks,in the 60s.Geoffrey Reyner had an office down there as well IIRC. Springfield in Hull very often used to backload us with timber from a place called Catfoss out towards Beverley or maybe Driffield.I think it was a disused RAF base.

big_al · 18 December 2008 09:13

Wheel Nut:
Readers are still on the go Chris, albeit a bit smaller.

I remember Henery although not seen them for a while.

Albert Baxter is still on the go too.

Do you remember Coastal Transport from Hull, I think they were dark blue Leylands with a cab headboard “Coastal Transport (Hull) Ltd” I used to stay in the Silvertown Motel down in the east end of London and Coastal drivers would stay there in the early 60’s. regards Big Al

mushroomman · 18 December 2008 09:32

Chris Webb:
Springfield Haulage was another company in Hull and they had an office in Salford,Trafford Road I think it was.I used to backload zinc and copper bars off them for Sheffield,straight off Salford docks,in the 60s.Geoffrey Reyner had an office down there as well IIRC. Springfield in Hull very often used to backload us with timber from a place called Catfoss out towards Beverley or maybe Driffield.I think it was a disused RAF base.

Hi Chris, didn’t Springfield Haulage have a depot just outside Howden on the I.I.R.C. the A614 where the M62 used to end.
I am sure that there was a really good transport cafe there and I can remember a swing bridge being somewhere in the area.
Regards Steve.

chris_webb · 18 December 2008 10:54

mushroomman:

Chris Webb:
Springfield Haulage was another company in Hull and they had an office in Salford,Trafford Road I think it was.I used to backload zinc and copper bars off them for Sheffield,straight off Salford docks,in the 60s.Geoffrey Reyner had an office down there as well IIRC. Springfield in Hull very often used to backload us with timber from a place called Catfoss out towards Beverley or maybe Driffield.I think it was a disused RAF base.

Hi Chris, didn’t Springfield Haulage have a depot just outside Howden on the I.I.R.C. the A614 where the M62 used to end.
I am sure that there was a really good transport cafe there and I can remember a swing bridge being somewhere in the area.
Regards Steve.

Hi Steve.Not sure about Springfield at Howden but maybe wheelnut will remember. There was bridge at Boothferry and it was a bit narrow on the bend to the west side.There was a cafe there called the Airmyn IIRC but maybe the one you are thinking of was the Woodside at Rawcliffe Bridge about half a mile from the M62 junction with the A614. It was a really good cafe and a lot of dodgy nights out taken there by drivers from a wide area.
It’s a long time since I was in that area - 30 years or more,so I stand corrected on any of the above.

chris.

wheel_nut · 20 December 2008 01:02

Chris Webb:

mushroomman:

Chris Webb:
Springfield Haulage was another company in Hull and they had an office in Salford,Trafford Road I think it was.I used to backload zinc and copper bars off them for Sheffield,straight off Salford docks,in the 60s.Geoffrey Reyner had an office down there as well IIRC. Springfield in Hull very often used to backload us with timber from a place called Catfoss out towards Beverley or maybe Driffield.I think it was a disused RAF base.

Hi Chris, didn’t Springfield Haulage have a depot just outside Howden on the I.I.R.C. the A614 where the M62 used to end.
I am sure that there was a really good transport cafe there and I can remember a swing bridge being somewhere in the area.
Regards Steve.

Hi Steve.Not sure about Springfield at Howden but maybe wheelnut will remember. There was bridge at Boothferry and it was a bit narrow on the bend to the west side.There was a cafe there called the Airmyn IIRC but maybe the one you are thinking of was the Woodside at Rawcliffe Bridge about half a mile from the M62 junction with the A614. It was a really good cafe and a lot of dodgy nights out taken there by drivers from a wide area.
It’s a long time since I was in that area - 30 years or more,so I stand corrected on any of the above.

chris.

Bloody hell. I forgot Jacmil

Springfield Haulage definately did have a place at Boothferry Bridge Howden. It was my mum who ran the Resil Plastics traffic office. The cafe was then called Mayphil and was then taken over by a cafe at Wakefield called Redbeck.

This was next door to the TDG warehouse which was originally Econofreight and Gillyot and Scott

mushroomman · 20 December 2008 02:05

Wheel Nut:

Chris Webb:

mushroomman:

Chris Webb:
Springfield Haulage was another company in Hull and they had an office in Salford,Trafford Road I think it was.I used to backload zinc and copper bars off them for Sheffield,straight off Salford docks,in the 60s.Geoffrey Reyner had an office down there as well IIRC. Springfield in Hull very often used to backload us with timber from a place called Catfoss out towards Beverley or maybe Driffield.I think it was a disused RAF base.

Hi Chris, didn’t Springfield Haulage have a depot just outside Howden on the I.I.R.C. the A614 where the M62 used to end.
I am sure that there was a really good transport cafe there and I can remember a swing bridge being somewhere in the area.
Regards Steve.

Hi Steve.Not sure about Springfield at Howden but maybe wheelnut will remember. There was bridge at Boothferry and it was a bit narrow on the bend to the west side.There was a cafe there called the Airmyn IIRC but maybe the one you are thinking of was the Woodside at Rawcliffe Bridge about half a mile from the M62 junction with the A614. It was a really good cafe and a lot of dodgy nights out taken there by drivers from a wide area.
It’s a long time since I was in that area - 30 years or more,so I stand corrected on any of the above.

chris.

Bloody hell. I forgot Jacmil

Springfield Haulage definately did have a place at Boothferry Bridge Howden. It was my mum who ran the Resil Plastics traffic office. The cafe was then called Mayphil and was then taken over by a cafe at Wakefield called Redbeck.

This was next door to the TDG warehouse which was originally Econofreight and Gillyot and Scott

It was a really good cafe and a lot of dodgy nights out taken there by drivers from a wide area.

That’s probably why I remember it Chris.
If I remember it was a white building with a black slate roof and the word’s CAFE painted on the roof in huge white letters, which could be seen for miles, it also had a large cinder parking area at the front.