I remember the racing boat,proper off shore power boat used to see in the yard at charlton.Also mr ken do you remember frigoscandia out of temple mill lane near the l.i.f.t Terry bought 3 F88 off them and an 86,they were white with torqoise blue chassis, i think the reg was whs 410g and whs 411g an the 86 was fle629j i think tell bought them off freddy taylor.
Annis were indeed in pump lane Hayes done a load of work for Wimpeys in hayesI recall worked with a few of there ex drivers @ Plant Eng Colnbrook ln the l970s check out the threads Trucking in the 80s PIE1978 you can see some of the ex men on there and Even young mr Annis I beleive 
I remember a firm out of hornchurch called B.E.T.S. which stood for Brian Elmore Trailer Services,they ran iveco,s painted in jps (john player special) colours and did unaccompanied trailers out of sheerness olau line.I think it was around 1976 time,also around this time Dartford wharfage were running across to holland with flat trailers bringing paper back,they ran atkinsons and sed akt,s they were a cream colour.
Little Al Did you ever meet Steve Dayton on HTS ? he was from Charlton.
Anyone remember this outfit?
What a smart looking Merc!
Cant read all the writing on the cab, reckon it says ****** gardens, London EC?
and anyone know where the photo was taken?
PENNANT SHIPPING AND FORWARDING LIMITED.
that motor looks the b888888s PS wouldnt wanna stop it
Carl:
gunns are still going rikki i passed there yard friday there now at belverdere/erith
They are indeed still going 
Thats who I work for, have done for about 6 years now.
At the minute we have 108 vehicles of varying size and capabilities.
three vans, about 25 7.5tonners, roughly 40-50 class 2’s, 20ish of which have
cranes on, and the rest are artics.
Convoy’s, the one’s that were from Deptford, moved to Chatham docks A while back.
The only 1 I know of at the minute still operating from Deptford, Bermondsey area is Stan Robinson. They move Timber.
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Both look like SGH Transport to me, and you won’t find any bomb sites in Wapping these days!! 
The above F88,s were owned by Terry Creasey and driven by me.The early J reg was origenally owned by Eddie Morgen from hainault,Terry bought it of him when it was nearly new.It was exchange for the 290 F88 which came new from duffields of norwich.The 290 was on contract to bleckmans a dutch hanging garment company from oldenzaal up near the danacamp german border.I used to do 3 trips a week every week with this lorry then it made way for a left hand drive 140 scania.The photo of the 290 was taken in wapping high street 1977 out side S J Selfes yard who i work for now.Terry ran under the name SGH transport an had a yard in wapping high street.
The photo of the 111 and the 140 were taken in guildway homes in guilford,we were both picking up loads for algiers.We dropped the trailers off in marseile an ran back solo.The 111 was driven by Brian Powers who now drives a lowloader for Brocks purfleet.The 140 wasdriven by me,it was bought off Alfie Hutchings and used to be orange with blue and white stripes alfie had it on italys for halpin pierpoint.Just after these photos were taken the firm SGH folded.The name sgh european continude with out Terry and was run by Derek Best who used to run Parks of harlow.Derek had a wharehouse on the thames ind est near tate and lyle and that later became inter european frieght service,s
Stupot:
Milehams had a fleet of Volvo F86’s grey with red and black signwriting.
I think they ran out of Purfleet mainly newspaper reels if my memory serves me
milehams trans used to be opposite purfleet hgv test station
RVG 271R was part of the DW Burns/Mavetons fleet out of North Farm Loughton at one time, not sure wether before or after you guys had it…
I only remember it, as despite being slightly lacking in licences(and being 16 year old) I drove it back solo from Dover once having dropped a brand new 141 off for the driver who was turning round, cant say why but the reg has stuck in my memory
Rikki-UK:
Couple more while thinking on …Gunns out of Greenwich, still going I think
used to transport a lot of scaffolding and building site stuffSouth London Storage used to run a cold store and fridge artics, (I seem to remember they had a little problem with the ministry many years ago and “pheonixed” into SOLSTOR )
Robinsons , did a fair bit out of Convoys wharf, I think their yard was at the back of Deptford Church St
gunns are now based in erith kent
Little Al:
This is Paul’s Camper Van.
George Francis’s fitter was called Paul, here’s a photo of him, the Grey haired old chap in white overalls, he had a Volkswagen campervan , he was a miracle worker, one of those blokes who could tell your problem just by listening to the engine, even if the motor was in a puddle, he would just lie in it underneath to sort it, he used to check voltage by touch, or take blister’s off his hand with a rusty razor blade.
Dont make like that anymore. no health and safety then.
This is Francis’s yard Gate 9 Finland Yard, after one of his Fires’s, he shared it with a Fruit Haulage Company, anybody else out there work in the Surrey Docks Area, I remember an outfit Called Gayfrieght, they would be popular today, and Tommy Farrants Tippers.
i remember gayfrieght used to repair their trucks early 70s i had a garage near swanleyLittle Al
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who parked that corsair on the zig-zags? that f88 was the one that jed clampitt drove from new, myself and a couple of others were really spoilt with f86`s doing italy every week, still could have been worse, cantrell was running a couple of leyland day cabs at the time, martintrux were using tk bedfords, thinking about it, we really were spoilt.
Boyzee, Just a minor detail but please tell me I’m not wrong and that tin woman in the windscreen of the 240 F88 is the original “Garanor Lady” from the very early 70’s. Every T.I.R Station had one and it was fun trying to recognise them.
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Boyzee, Just a minor detail but please tell me I’m not wrong and that tin woman in the windscreen of the 240 F88 is the original “Garanor Lady” from the very early 70’s. Every T.I.R Station had one and it was fun trying to recognise them.
You are correct i bought a load of these in the esso in garanor i also had the esso stop bikini girl ones but the last two i had were stolen out of my lorry in folkstone docks,i was late pulling in the docks ran to the freight office when i got back to the lorry they were gone.alot of drivers had them on the grill but they rusted easy even if they were laquered.They are worth mony now ive been told.
Rikki-UK:
RVG 271R was part of the DW Burns/Mavetons fleet out of North Farm Loughton at one time, not sure wether before or after you guys had it…I only remember it, as despite being slightly lacking in licences(and being 16 year old) I drove it back solo from Dover once having dropped a brand new 141 off for the driver who was turning round, cant say why but the reg has stuck in my memory
I picked RVG up from volvo,s when it was brand new and drove it untill i got the 140,the driver who had it after me went flat out every where in it and abused it,when sgh folded i think the finance company took it back and must have sold it to d w burns