Dave the Renegade:
RIP Mac Arrowsmith.Condolences to his family.
Many thanks for posting the picture Dave, I put the original post on from my phone and didn’t have a good picture available. H
volvof10:
Dave the Renegade:
RIP Mac Arrowsmith.Condolences to his family.Many thanks for posting the picture Dave, I put the original post on from my phone and didn’t have a good spicy urge available. H
Taken at Knighton market last year H.
Cheers Dave.
RIP…Another good character gone to the truckstop in the sky
charliemjp:
how are you keeping , i was looking at haydons on here on sunday. ihad a 8 wheeler and trailor for a while, then they bought a 4 wheel mandator and trailor . it is on here a few pages back. when you look at 8 wheeler double decker they were far ahead of there time . that would have been at least 45 years ago.
Not too bad ta - I really must try and get my scanner up to Biddulph and get a load more photos as my old uncle doesn’t want me to take his albums away (which is fair enough)
We had a drawbar behind 6 legs ERF - it had the steering front axle and was a beast to reverse if you were new to it - you could also attach it the front of the wagon to move it around the yard - it was a York trailer I think - it had that hand brake and you had to get under it to yank it on or off come wind, rain, shine or snow!
Seddon Atk MJ Parry low loader cattle box
Thames trader MJ Parry Shrewsbury cattle market about 1970ish!
Gardner 120:
I lifted this from the Thames Trader post - thought it might be of interest on here - nasty looking crash for sure - I used to see Wm Rowe at Banbury market frequently - I thought they were a Northants firm but it says Rugeley - perhaps I’m mixed up with S T Challis and Charlie ■■■■.Getting on you see![/quote
Wm Rowe & sons had a small depot at Handsacre nr Rugeley but there main depot was at a Elford on the A513 nr tamworth
A.E.JONES, DOES ANY OF YOU GUYS KNOW WHERE THE ANIMAL IS NOWADAYS ? HE WORKED FOR THEM YEARS AGO<
hi ROCKY, THE nimal i new drove for RON MARSH, HE THENmoved to ludow anddrove hills tenbry wells his name is wayne. i wil ask about cheerS CHARLIE
hi monty,got mess about ron marsh.Chris hovis i was told this week has retired at christmas.Alec and stan were ome of the first i rem. i see Derick most days as he drives on swynny s, neil huff still about driving around drayton. longmans E R F6 wheeler alwas in shrewsbury market.always rem Joe on haydens and peter, as i was telling gardener 150 last time i saw peter he was driving a coach. i will ask richard parry if he has some of marshes. i did see john Marsh last year we had a parrys reuinion thougt about 30 would turn up and had nearer 80 cheers charlie.
Hi boys
Charlie, whats this hovis retiring that makes me feel old. first came across him when he bought a Foden off Frank Caulkins in the early 70’s and subbed out of Irish See Ferries Garston, had some great times with him.
Somthing that’s been at the back of my mind for a good few years now is when I was a lad riding shot gun with my dad heading south some where between Bridgenorth and Kiddy we came across a Parrys on it’s side. I think it was south of the old Little Chef on the right, out of the 40 limit then up through the rock hole then rolled onto it’s side by that lake on the left. was it a double decker? do you remember it? have I got the right place?
regards keith
dessert driver:
Hi boys
Charlie, whats this hovis retiring that makes me feel old. first came across him when he bought a Foden off Frank Caulkins in the early 70’s and subbed out of Irish See Ferries Garston, had some great times with him.
Somthing that’s been at the back of my mind for a good few years now is when I was a lad riding shot gun with my dad heading south some where between Bridgenorth and Kiddy we came across a Parrys on it’s side. I think it was south of the old Little Chef on the right, out of the 40 limit then up through the rock hole then rolled onto it’s side by that lake on the left. was it a double decker? do you remember it? have I got the right place?regards keith
hello keith is that the Frank Caulkins from Loggerheads , they had Fodens on bulk sand work and occasionally would come to Shotton . thank you Trevor
hi keith , and all yes hovis a character they reckon he used to get drunk in drayton at weekends. i will find out about the one bridge north area. the only one i rem was a subbie put a double decker on side at newtown. it was not to bad there was a high bank .hope your keeping ok KEITH iam trying to find some ron marsh photoes.found afew more parrys. cheers charlie. will have agoodthink on BRIDGENORTH it is 44 years now since i started m j parry unless it was before.
Hi boys
Trevor yes that’s the one.
Charlie this would be about 1970 /71 ish. can not be sure if it was even Parrys it’s a long time ago. would they have had double deckers then?
regards Keith
caddy1:
Hi thats parrys aec looks like charlie"s my brother had the twin steer got small photo of that going try and blow it up cheers ian
Hi,
I stumbled across this forum a couple of nights ago. When I was a kid we lived at the back of Parrys yard and my dad, Charlie Williams, had a gate at the bottom of the garden which meant he could be in the office less than a minute after leaving the house.
During school holidays I would go to work with dad every day and loved every minute of it.
That wagon and trailer as we called them then was used for the Irish cattle runs, We would load up on the docks at Hollyhead and bring them down the A5 to holding pens at Parrys yard where they would keep them for around a week to clean them up before they made their final journey to the abattoir.
In the winter when the weather in the Irish sea was bad we would have to stop every few miles to check there were none down, if there were it was a job then to prod them back onto there feet, sometimes having to crawl in among them through the little hatch.
It was a filthy job, the cattle were grass fed and there was so much liquid faeces on the deck it would be running out of the tailboard and everything used to stink.
I learned to drive in Parrys yard, Richard and I used to drive round in an old Bedford tipper and occasionally in the old Vulcan they had as a yard shunter.
Later on I worked at Thornes at Dorrington building the cattle boxes, I don’t know if anyone remembers them but Parry’s commissioned a couple of triple deck aluminum boxes with hydraulic operated ramps specifically for that contract.
I left Salop not long after but this thread has brought back some great memories of those days.
Charlies lad:
caddy1:
Hi thats parrys aec looks like charlie"s my brother had the twin steer got small photo of that going try and blow it up cheers ianHi,
I stumbled across this forum a couple of nights ago. When I was a kid we lived at the back of Parrys yard and my dad, Charlie Williams, had a gate at the bottom of the garden which meant he could be in the office less than a minute after leaving the house.
During school holidays I would go to work with dad every day and loved every minute of it.
That wagon and trailer as we called them then was used for the Irish cattle runs, We would load up on the docks at Hollyhead and bring them down the A5 to holding pens at Parrys yard where they would keep them for around a week to clean them up before they made their final journey to the abattoir.
In the winter when the weather in the Irish sea was bad we would have to stop every few miles to check there were none down, if there were it was a job then to prod them back onto there feet, sometimes having to crawl in among them through the little hatch.
It was a filthy job, the cattle were grass fed and there was so much liquid faeces on the deck it would be running out of the tailboard and everything used to stink.I learned to drive in Parrys yard, Richard and I used to drive round in an old Bedford tipper and occasionally in the old Vulcan they had as a yard shunter.
Later on I worked at Thornes at Dorrington building the cattle boxes, I don’t know if anyone remembers them but Parry’s commissioned a couple of triple deck aluminum boxes with hydraulic operated ramps specifically for that contract.
I left Salop not long after but this thread has brought back some great memories of those days.
hiya and welcome charlies lad…if you key in parry’s in the search box at the top of the page, it’ll bring up all the pages with parry’s
name mentioned. it dose say about the triple deck AEC and their’s some photo’s of them.
John
hi charlie s lad used to go out with dad most sat, did you work at wynnstay because i rem relation of Charlie s working there.
charliemjp:
hi charlie s lad used to go out with dad most sat, did you work at wynnstay because i rem relation of Charlie s working there.
Probably my younger brother, Vince, he’s the driver in the family, he’s just finished with Owens due to having a brain hemorrhage before Christmas.
charlies lad , sorry to hear about vince,it was handy for you to get to yard, where did charlie go after parrys i rem him at leanstock with garry cooper. i could be wrong did he work at coltrates on condover air drome with Ted. charlie
Vince is fine but his driving career is over.
Dad worked all over the place after Parrys, some of the ones I remember were Silver roadways, Joint Motoways and a small south wales outfit called Viking transport. They had some of the first Scania’s in the country (80s I think but could be wrong) in a bright orange livery. Without a trailer the unit was faster than most cars in the day and he loved that truck.
He did work for Leanstocks in the early 70s as did I, cutting in the head room, but we lost touch for a few years due to me not getting on with his second wife. He was a different bloke after that, I’ve heard plenty of stories about those Parrys nights out and as a teenager I looked forward to going out for a few with the old man down the Fox but it never really happened.
He finished his career driving for Salop Haulage, he was also branch secretary for the T&G which he continued until lung cancer took him about ten years ago.
His funeral at the crem in Shrewsbury was standing room only with plenty of the Parrys lads there.