Kevmac47 you have a pm btw
kevmac47:
beefeater:
Hi KevMac47,Knew you at Waughâs in the late 70âs when i was the tyre fitter passed my class 1 and got a start at CRS at Prudhoe after that spent the next 14years at Steetley Brick at Throckley running with you all and staying at Normans hope you are well and should see you at the gathering down at Howdon at the end of October.
Yes beefeater i do remember you i will look forward to speaking to you then,
ps what are you doing now? im still up and down the road as an owner driver.
beefeater i knew a lad at steetley big mick he drove one of those octopus,s
night shift bri:
CPS did a lot of work for Century Aluminium at Birtley, now being done by George Allinson I believe. Did Allinsons take CPS over or did they get the work after CPS went kaput?
Ithink that Chinky is thinking of Barkers of Birtley, used to run red and white Iveco 190-30s, dunno where their yard was thoâ. There used to be a Transport Services based in Station Road, Birtley at the back end of the 70s, ran dark green DAF 3300s. I remember them working during the haulage strike in 1979 which didnât go down very well.
Hi Bri you might be right there about Barkers. The transport sevices i was on about wasn,t from birtley they wer from the quayside then when the sheds came down they moved to great lime road nr waughs they only had 3 motors running out of tudor in the early days also black & decker, oasis etc
Talking of Waughâs , did you know that the family that used to own Waughs are now running the show at Fergusons at Washington. Call them Arkle, the father and two sons. Apparently thereâs things going on there now that would have got you the sack in Eddie Fergusonâs day.
Thanks for that, Bumper i will show him that photo when i get the chance. They used to run down to Kent and bring strawberryâs back to the factory in Low Fell. Canny little run in a motor like that.
bumper:
hi lads, tynexdaz said his dad worked for powellâs jam, here is one of their Albionâs, its owned by jimmy Wilkinson and is in pristine condition. bumper
TYNEXDAZ:
Thanks for that, Bumper i will show him that photo when i get the chance. They used to run down to Kent and bring strawberryâs back to the factory in Low Fell. Canny little run in a motor like that.bumper:
hi lads, tynexdaz said his dad worked for powellâs jam, here is one of their Albionâs, its owned by jimmy Wilkinson and is in pristine condition. bumper
hiya,
Drove a little Albion identical to this one for a couple of local jobs back in the 1950s typical old type motor one of itâs features was after being hard driven and your foot was lifted off the gas it used to backfire caused a bit of a stir with that one used to make it happen when passing bus stops and watch the passengers jump in the nearside mirror always had a cruel streak.
thanks harry long retired
thechink1968:
brillaint reading and photosâŚmy dad worked for TT walkers early seventies i knew lads at andersons, ryton and transport services off the quay infact from the age of 12 i traveled with my dads mate ken from transport sevices every school holiday happy days trampingâŚi started tramping 1990 for DCB of leeds, simpson bros, Tulips, Eley bros now at the retirement home of ASDA
old firms to add to list
transport services (Newcastle)
Blue Dart (coudon i think)
Micheal Dodds (Throckley)
hendersons (newburn)
was there a barbers of birtly that ran air cooled magi d,s
robert taits (Quayside)
Hi â â â â â , Blue Dartâs North East depot at Coundon doesnât seem to ring any bells, unless it was in or next to an old coal mine or a coal yard 
. I went in there on a couple of occasions to get fuel or to do a change over in my trusty little Ford D Series in the early seventies. The manager was a smashing bloke called Bill and they did a lot of work out of Brentford Nylons in Cramlington. For some reason I seem to think that their yard was in a little village north of Newton Aycliffe on the A167, after that they moved to Houghton le Springs near to the Vitafoam factory.
Can you tell me if Coundon was an old mining village whoâs pit closed before the seventies . Maybe Rocky 7 or Gerry Mcgrath can remember going in there.
I have asked this question before but can any of you North East Lads remember the surname of Big Les who did continental for Cawthorn Sinclare in the seventies driving a Maggie Deutsch ?.
Photo from John Harrison.
is this the bloke your looking for? les chapman who worked for cawthorns. this photo was taken at cawthorns leicester depot .
Hi mushroom that lad called Bill wasn,t a scotch lad was it?
mushroomman:
thechink1968:
brillaint reading and photosâŚmy dad worked for TT walkers early seventies i knew lads at andersons, ryton and transport services off the quay infact from the age of 12 i traveled with my dads mate ken from transport sevices every school holiday happy days trampingâŚi started tramping 1990 for DCB of leeds, simpson bros, Tulips, Eley bros now at the retirement home of ASDA
old firms to add to list
transport services (Newcastle)
Blue Dart (coudon i think)
Micheal Dodds (Throckley)
hendersons (newburn)
was there a barbers of birtly that ran air cooled magi d,s
robert taits (Quayside)Hi â â â â â , Blue Dartâs North East depot at Coundon doesnât seem to ring any bells, unless it was in or next to an old coal mine or a coal yard
Can you tell me if Coundon was an old mining village whoâs pit closed before the seventiesI have asked this question before but can any of you North East Lads remember the surname of Big Les who did continental for Cawthorn Sinclare in the seventies driving a Maggie Deutsch ?.
Photo from John Harrison.
twin splitter:
Hi Twin splitter, thats the man 
. I met him on the ferry in the seventies coming back from Zeebrugge after I had done my first trip to West Germany in a day cabbed Seddon Atkinson. I mentioned to Les that I had a problem with the Tankshein and that I didnât quite understand it. Les went back down to the lorry deck ( not an easy task for a man of his size ) and came back with his briefcase. For the next three hours he explained to me in great detail all about T Forms, tanksheins, permits, carnets and Austrian road taxes as well as telling me a couple of amusing stories .
When ever I saw one of Cawthorn Sinclares I always looked out for him but I never saw him again, he was certainly one of the old school. Thanks for showing the photo .
Hi â â â â â , the manager called Bill who I was thinking off was a Geordie and I am now wondering if the Blue Dart depot in the North East was in a little village near Ferry Hill .
i think blue dart were in a village called chilton just up the road from ferryhill, not sure if they did work for the METAL DRUM COMPANY up there.
Afew more Gallachers pics.One of the first 113s in the country E286NDC.Loaded with part of a spray booth getting delivered to Honda plant in Swindon on a Picfords trailer.Other pic taken a Normans loaded with loam for northeast from southwest.3rd pic taken in yard loade with part of a steam train that went to Tanfield Railway.
THE LATEST NORTH EAST HAULAGE COMPANY TO PACK IN
DOES ANYONE KNOW WHATEVER HAPPENED TO S694 KRG ?
NEW TO TULIPS WHERE I DROVE IT FROM 1999 TO 2002
SEEN HERE WHEN MINTOS HAD IT
IT THEN WENT ON TO MAIN ROAD TRANSPORT
WHERE DID IT END UP AFTER THIS â â ?
ONE OF THE SMARTEST NORTH EAST TIPPER OPPERATORS HAD TO BE WARDLES OF HALTWHISTLE
HAS ANYONE ELSE GOT ANY PHOTOS OF WARDLES WAGONS ?
Great pics of Wardles fleet F7 Sid.Did you know Farmer George from Haltwhistle used to run tippers, had 3 or 4 on the coal job running from Butterwell o/c and Widdrington to the Alcan power station. He acted as road foreman for Youngies of Esh Winning.
That Gallachers with the train bits could have been mine I got it handed down off Melvin when he got his FH Globetrotter one of only 2 twin steers( Blue Sure) Do I know you gazzad 
Hi Greek.No Blue Hawk E286 NDC and Blue Champ E287 NDC were the 1st 2 that came were white with blue chassis and bumpers before getting painted several months later.Melvins then came along with Peter Barrats Blue sure and Blue Wing.Think the rest were tags Blue Moon,King,Dawn,Owl,eye Boy the 143 that Gozzi had from new a few i can think of.E286 was replaced by M123 MTY 6X2 TAG and was running out of Teeside on container work years ago.
Another company I worked for as a young man was A Muat Jnr now long defunct, The AEC MERCURY is loaded with Liner Concrete machinery roped to the trailer, would H&S or the Living God VOSA allow it now?
The mercury was ok at 24t but inevitably at that time with a tandem axle trailer it was loaded to 32t, boy did you know it !! The building in the background is part of the Co-op industrial complex that stretched
from Heworth to the Gateshead border defined by the railway line at BillQuay. The picture was taken in 1972 so that vehicle was no more than one year old but looking at the bumper you would not think so.
PS not my damage!!
anyone remember coxons anfield plain black aec with gold lettering used to run out of parkgate iron & steel to jarrow tube in the late sixties-alan