Boistons Garage Seaton Burn The driver Jimmy Robinson .
This Foden of ours photographed on the weighbridge at Hull Fish Meal Works started its life with Lewis Bros Congleton then Braithwaites/ Tilcon/Sellers & Kent Ilam then me & ended its days owned by Brian Patterson & Sons Aberagie Perth, Regards Larry.
Mentioning Hull Fish Meal Works is a blast from the past Lawrence, the trademark was “Provimi” I seem to remember. I hope you could tip it out of the body without it sticking as it sometimes did on a damp day with my Foden 8 wheeler bulk blower when I had to climb in the back and assist the flow with a shovel. Smelling sweetly of herring etc I had to strip down to the buff before being allowed in the house when I got home then a good steam clean in the shower !!! I used to pick a lot of fish meal up at Alexander Silos at Liverpool also.Was your Foden Gardner 150 powered with 12 speed box, a cab like a fridge in winter and a greenhouse in summer ? Happy days.
Cheers Leyland 600
Taken approx. 1990. We had auctioned the rest of the fleet two years previously and I was running just the one 6 wheeler.
Leyland600:
Mentioning Hull Fish Meal Works is a blast from the past Lawrence, the trademark was “Provimi” I seem to remember. I hope you could tip it out of the body without it sticking as it sometimes did on a damp day with my Foden 8 wheeler bulk blower when I had to climb in the back and assist the flow with a shovel. Smelling sweetly of herring etc I had to strip down to the buff before being allowed in the house when I got home then a good steam clean in the shower !!! I used to pick a lot of fish meal up at Alexander Silos at Liverpool also.Was your Foden Gardner 150 powered with 12 speed box, a cab like a fridge in winter and a greenhouse in summer ? Happy days.
Cheers Leyland 600
I used to take Spratts into there from North Shields, But before I got my owns wagons I used to load bagged fish meal for Spillers on the Quayside Newcastle, A poxy smelly load, even after it was off loaded the smell lingered on the trailer. Regards Larry.
Talking about lingering smells, when I was apprentice at BRS TVTE a Mandator with a 40’ trailer load of HP sauces and pickles was in involved in a serious accident. The trailer (still loaded) was dragged back to the depot and put in a corner of the workshop. Some of the cases had been damaged and over the next few days sauce and pickle juice leaked through onto the concrete floor. Months later you could still smell where the trailer had been parked.
Lawrence Dunbar:
The Highwayman, Regards Larry.0
hiya,
Tidy little Bedford Larry and a nice paint job I think green and red
always make a nice livery.
thanks harry, long retired.
V8 DODGE hello larry Pendelton and Hare, Felton had one like this could it be the same truck?
Brian J SMITH:
V8 DODGE hello larry Pendelton and Hare, Felton had one like this could it be the same truck?
Quite possible Brian, I do know it came from their neck of the woods originally, Regards Larry.
This is the Atki that they operated, It hauled stone from North Tyne Roadstones quarry at Moot Law. Regards Larry.
Here’s some seasonal photo’s taken many years ago on the A68 Allensford Bank near Castleside, a couple of long departed owner driver Dave Wilson (anybody know what he is doing these days) also Neil Kendal is he still in business and lastly one of Charles Newton’s taken at Witton Castle truck show.
regards prattman.
Great photos Pratttman, I think Neil Kendal is retired now, ?, Regards Larry.
Hi Prattman,
Do you have any pictures of Dave Wilson’s first truck. He had a Volvo F10 before he traded up to the Scania.
Thanks
Phil.
Lawrence Dunbar:
Great photos Pratttman, I think Neil Kendal is retired now, ?, Regards Larry.
Hi Larry Neil Kendal was running a 7.5t sleeper cab Merc flat. Used to often see it parked at the houses at Ladypark at the TVTE so presumed he was living there.
He might well be retired now as I haven’t seen it for a while. Cheers Tyneside
Crowbar have a close look at the 8 wheeler in the background could it be the one you had that caught fire ■■?, It is IMO, Regards Larry.