Can anyone remember or work for J & P Bell who ran out of Follingsby Lane?
toonheed:
genty4444:
toonheed:
thechink1968:
Phil Gents motor, photos donated by little brother Kevin GentHow is Kevin never seen him for agesâŚis he still working for Asda. Bet hes still grumpy like his brother Phil⌠ha ha
hi colin. how you doing mate ? you are definitely mixing me up with my brother phill. lol.
iâm doing just fine. iâm a shop steward now so only drive about 4 shifts a month. mind you it will only be 2 shifts this month.
i spend most of my time in meetings & disciplinary hearings so still a fat lad. lol.
have told phill about this site and he logs on from time to time.
its a real trip down memory lane. it makes you wish weâd took a camera to work more often in the past.
by the way the â â â â â is a compulsive liar but a good mate.
take care colin.hi kevâŚgood to hear from you. I am still at the tunnel and hanging on waiting for the next round of redundancies. Terrified in case I have to go back on the road and work for a livingâŚbut hopefully I should be ok. Found this site through another mate Chris Wilson who also worked for Oldies for a while but never come across your Phil yet. Some great photos on here but what frightens me is that I can remember them allâŚhate this getting old lark
. I know we always say this but one day we will have to arrange a get together for a few bevvies. Take care and catch up with you soon I hopeâŚColin
Now then kev. Itâs the little makam â â â â â Get in touch when ya can bro my number is
Phone numbers are best sent by use of the Private Message system, otherwise everybody else can see it. dd. 
duncan bladen:
a few of my old man , and the motors he drve , but not exhaustive , as need to scan some more , Also one i drive at gibbons
Hi mate I worked with Malcolm at glendinings when I was there he drove a green erf with a hiab on
In the early 70âs I started with Cawthorne Sinclair on a night flyer from Skelmersdale to Birtley and return. I remember the interview and the driving test with a fully loaded F85 Volvo. It didnât look powerful enough to the job as I was used to old Atkinson noisy brutes with man-sized controls that you wrestled with all night.
I was very pleased with the Volvo and its comfy walk through cab and whistling turbo. No deafening noise, no draughts and my first tacho. It could easily lug 20 tonnes over the Pennines twice a night, five nights a week.
The route was along the East Lancs road to pick up the M62 then off at the A58 because the M62 ended shortly after. Over the Seven Sisters to Leeds then A 58 again to Wetherby then up the A1 to Chester-le-Street and then Birtley depot. Change trailers and head back home. I was a cushy job and there were only two night trunk drivers at this time. The company had a good social life and the drivers were all about the same age group.
On odd occasions, I would take an empty trailer to Hatfield and bring back a load of light bulbs.Then I would bump into my old pals at Suttons and marvel at how they still used to plug up and down the M1/M6 with outdated worn out Atkinsons with 180 Gardeners.
5Tony5:
In the early 70âs I started with Cawthorne Sinclair on a night flyer from Skelmersdale to Birtley and return. I remember the interview and the driving test with a fully loaded F85 Volvo. It didnât look powerful enough to the job as I was used to old Atkinson noisy brutes with man-sized controls that you wrestled with all night.I was very pleased with the Volvo and its comfy walk through cab and whistling turbo. No deafening noise, no draughts and my first tacho. It could easily lug 20 tonnes over the Pennines twice a night, five nights a week.
The route was along the East Lancs road to pick up the M62 then off at the A58 because the M62 ended shortly after. Over the Seven Sisters to Leeds then A 58 again to Wetherby then up the A1 to Chester-le-Street and then Birtley depot. Change trailers and head back home. I was a cushy job and there were only two night trunk drivers at this time. The company had a good social life and the drivers were all about the same age group.
On odd occasions, I would take an empty trailer to Hatfield and bring back a load of light bulbs.Then I would bump into my old pals at Suttons and marvel at how they still used to plug up and down the M1/M6 with outdated worn out Atkinsons with 180 Gardeners.
Hello Tony, welcome to TNUK, just heard some bad news today 
one of C&S old drivers Eddie Charlton, passed away just the other day. Regards Kev.
Hi 5tony5, Cawthorn Sinclair thread here viewtopic.php?f=35&t=26676&start=30 with driver photos.
Oily
5Tony5:
In the early 70âs I started with Cawthorne Sinclair on a night flyer from Skelmersdale to Birtley and return. I remember the interview and the driving test with a fully loaded F85 Volvo. It didnât look powerful enough to the job as I was used to old Atkinson noisy brutes with man-sized controls that you wrestled with all night.I was very pleased with the Volvo and its comfy walk through cab and whistling turbo. No deafening noise, no draughts and my first tacho. It could easily lug 20 tonnes over the Pennines twice a night, five nights a week.
The route was along the East Lancs road to pick up the M62 then off at the A58 because the M62 ended shortly after. Over the Seven Sisters to Leeds then A 58 again to Wetherby then up the A1 to Chester-le-Street and then Birtley depot. Change trailers and head back home. I was a cushy job and there were only two night trunk drivers at this time. The company had a good social life and the drivers were all about the same age group.
On odd occasions, I would take an empty trailer to Hatfield and bring back a load of light bulbs.Then I would bump into my old pals at Suttons and marvel at how they still used to plug up and down the M1/M6 with outdated worn out Atkinsons with 180 Gardeners.
Those bloody Volvoâs got a lot to answer forâŚI was trying to sell Bedfordâs for goodness sake!! 
Good post mate
Kev sorry to hear about Eddie he was a one off. had many a laugh with him over the years, RIP Eddie
Iâve moved this pic over from the Foden thread of a smart looking Gibson S20 cabbed tractor and Carrimore 4 in-line Low Loader combination, which seems new as its lacking a number plate. Gibson had their yard off Haddricks Mill Rd in South Gosforth and as a kid I remember looking down on the plant and vehicles from the wooded bank opposite we called âCowboy Valleyâ where we used to play regularly swinging on ropes from trees and generally mucking about. I always found the yard fascinating with the different makes of bright Yellow lorries and plant equipment below. Franky.
Frankydobo:
Iâve moved this pic over from the Foden thread of a smart looking Gibson S20 cabbed tractor and Carrimore 4 in-line Low Loader combination, which seems new as its lacking a number plate. Gibson had their yard off Haddricks Mill Rd in South Gosforth and as a kid I remember looking down on the plant and vehicles from the wooded bank opposite we called âCowboy Valleyâ where we used to play regularly swinging on ropes from trees and generally mucking about. I always found the yard fascinating with the different makes of bright Yellow lorries and plant equipment below. Franky.
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Thats a great photo Franky, can you remember their Mickey Mouse 6 wheeler mixers, 2 stoke engined, They were one of the first firms in the North East to do ready mixed concrete, A old pal of mine was a fitter there , Regards Larry.
I do remember them Larry I loved the noise they made especially when pulling hard uphill, I was mad keen on lorries as a kid and could usually tell the make by the engine noise even before I saw them, blimey today there is nothing to get excited about. This one is from Ready Mix but near enough. Cheers Franky.
I remember Gibsons very well Franky, my father worked for them as a plant fitter based over here in â â â â â â â circa 1955 just when construction started at Chapelcross nuclear power station at Creca near Annan they had a lot of plant hired out to the contractors there, I remember going with my father in his Ford 10 cwt service van to repair a compressor there. THey were agents for Kwikform scaffolding at the time I acquired about half a dozen of their brochure folders which I still have.
Cheers, Leyland 600
Good story Leyland 600, hereâs a couple of good pics the coloured one especially. Anyone recognise the Green and Cream cabbed motors, there is a Thruâpny Bit cabbed Austin/Morris by the side of the shed and the motor with its back turned has a Gateshead 1958 reg, the livery could be Spillers though! Franky.
Frankydobo:
Good story Leyland 600, hereâs a couple of good pics the coloured one especially. Anyone recognise the Green and Cream cabbed motors, there is a Thruâpny Bit cabbed Austin/Morris by the side of the shed and the motor with its back turned has a Gateshead 1958 reg, the livery could be Spillers though! Franky.
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Franky these are great photos, Keep them rolling, Regards Larry.
Hi Franky, I reckon that photo with loco is between 22 Shed and Spillers but it is a gey lang time since I was unloading bales of wool there onto a ship, circa 1966 or 7 I might be wrong, was there a 23, 24, 25 & 26 Shed on the Quayside. Lawrence might know ? One thing I am certain of is that the cranes in the background were built by Cowans Sheldon & Co of Carlisle.
Cheers Leyland 600.
Leyland600:
Hi Franky, I reckon that photo with loco is between 22 Shed and Spillers but it is a gey lang time since I was unloading bales of wool there onto a ship, circa 1966 or 7 I might be wrong, was there a 23, 24, 25 & 26 Shed on the Quayside. Lawrence might know ? One thing I am certain of is that the cranes in the background were built by Cowans Sheldon & Co of Carlisle.
Cheers Leyland 600.
Like you say, a long time ago. Everything that follows is only correct if my memory is working correctly. In the 1970s/1980s 22 Shed was just over the Ouseburn Bridge, leading on to 26 Shed which was the last one before Spillers. I would guess that the coloured photo was taken between 26 Shed and Spillers. The Jaffa Oranges used to come into 26 Shed and also the sugar cane waste that used to go up to Rumenco at Consett.
I reckon that the black-and-white photo was probably over the Ouseburn bridge towards the city centre. The railway used to have a shunting yard opposite about 12 or 13 Shed which Frankie Bellingham later took over as a lorry park for his digs at the top of St. Lawrence Road.
At that time the first shed on the Quayside was No 8 Shed which was opposite Youngers Storage (now the site of the Crown Court). Iâve got a rather scruffy scanned photo I took from a book many years ago showing a train further along from No 8 Shed. If anyone can give me a Janet-and-John about how to add an image to a posting Iâll dig it out and put it up.
Frankydobo:
Good story Leyland 600, hereâs a couple of good pics the coloured one especially. Anyone recognise the Green and Cream cabbed motors, there is a Thruâpny Bit cabbed Austin/Morris by the side of the shed and the motor with its back turned has a Gateshead 1958 reg, the livery could be Spillers though! Franky.
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Hi The LAD cabbed wagon looks like Clarke Chapmans crowbar
Ah yes Crowbar could be a Clarke Chapman motor and would go with the Gateshead reg No, I didnât think this was a Spillers as it seems to have hand built crates on the bed very âClarkeyâ looking, wonder if the lad looking in the passenger door is from the little FG! Postal are you thinking of this pic its appeared a few times, I canât recall any of the shed numbers now my old man knew them all, the Steenberg drivers got to know them quite quickly as the Quayside boats were their bread and butter, I was just a young apprentice and did know some of them but the years have washed it all away now. Cheers Franky.
Its quite easy to add pics on the site Postal, go to the POST A REPLY box, at the bottom left you will see a tab âUpload attachmentsâ, click on that tab and a box appears below with a button named âBrowseâ on it. If you click on that a box comes up with your PCâs picture files. Find the pic you want and click on it then click on âOPENâ, the filename will appear in the space next to the Browse button, click âAdd the fileâ and the page will disappear for a second when it comes back the file name has come on in Blue writing, you now need to move your curser below any text you may have put on and click the âPlace in lineâ button, the filename will appear under your text, just click on âSubmitâ and the whole post with picture included will appear on the site page, as you see you can also delete the file if you make a mistake or have picked the wrong picture from your PC, if so just go back to âUpload attachmentâ and find the right pic. Hope this was ok to follow its actually easier to do than the explanation. Cheers Franky.
Frankydobo:
Ah yes Crowbar could be a Clarke Chapman motor and would go with the Gateshead reg No, I didnât think this was a Spillers as it seems to have hand built crates on the bed very âClarkeyâ looking, wonder if the lad looking in the passenger door is from the little FG! Postal are you thinking of this pic its appeared a few times, I canât recall any of the shed numbers now my old man knew them all, the Steenberg drivers got to know them quite quickly as the Quayside boats were their bread and butter, I was just a young apprentice and did know some of them but the years have washed it all away now. Cheers Franky.
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Frankydobo
Thanks for the heads up about adding a pic. That is indeed the picture Iâve got on my hard disk. Happy days, eh.