hi
about right on vehicles, around 146 trailers.by old fleet lists for that time.
paw123:
hi harry
it was a Carrimore , if loaded wrongly it would dip the crossmembers and flooring down
Trailer 33 I think.allways moans about it being a heavy trailer to pull.
hiya,
Yes trailer 33 what a pill i brought trailer 55 as ivâe said earlier a 55 footer from Barry Island and the following week it had been painted up and ready for work the first job i did with it was a 60 ft coke stacking escalator to South Wales remember I took a very young Harry Bolam as second man with the intention of putting the âLsâ on to gain experience when travelling back empty on the dual carriageways/ motorways the machine was built by Boltons of Castleside anyway delivered it in A1 condition and returned empty to Consett to be told to return next day and bring it back ,on being tried in the stockyard where it was to be deployed they started to send stuff up it and it broke clean in half i only needed a ten metre trailer to bring it back it was in two pieces both about 30 foot long, Harry âBâ got plenty of driving experience on that job and i got plenty of kip, i donât know if the machine ever went back again i left soon after to return to the BRS and happier days.
thanks harry long retired.
hi harry
both Harry and his younger brother Richard worked for WAG at one time. Their farther big Harry drove for Salkelds at
Rowley.all three nice people Richard a bit hot headed at times.
paw123:
hi harry
both Harry and his younger brother Richard worked for WAG at one time. Their farther big Harry drove for Salkelds at
Rowley.all three nice people Richard a bit hot headed at times.
hiya,
Didânt Harry senior work for Whiteline well after retiring age only knew the two Harryâs and Richard to give a flash of the headlights too when he became an O/D I think but the two Harryâs was a couple of very nice people.
thanks harry long retired.
hi harry
dont know what happened to Big Harry after he retired . drove a S80 8X4 tipper at Salkelds
I know he did work for Siddle C Cooks on the heavy side.After Salkelds sure he drove for
Raymond Wright at Tow Law on the Wavin pipe job but I stand to be corrected, driving a ERF.
Ste Burrow:
Does any one remember a firm called Wallace Transport from Stockton? They worked for Bowater-Scott and had some DAFâs. My great uncle worked for a firm who I think was taken over by Wallace. The only photo I have is of these two DAFâs (a 2800 and 2500) in the background. That by the way is me sat in my dadâs ERF about 25 years ago!! This was taken at Bowater-Scottâs yard at Hinkley.
Whereâs your high vis and safety boots?
kevmac47:
Ste Burrow:
Does any one remember a firm called Wallace Transport from Stockton? They worked for Bowater-Scott and had some DAFâs. My great uncle worked for a firm who I think was taken over by Wallace. The only photo I have is of these two DAFâs (a 2800 and 2500) in the background. That by the way is me sat in my dadâs ERF about 25 years ago!! This was taken at Bowater-Scottâs yard at Hinkley.
Whereâs your high vis and safety boots?
They must ave slipped off my feet lol. I dnt ave my seatbelt on either!
paw123:
hi harry
dont know what happened to Big Harry after he retired . drove a S80 8X4 tipper at Salkelds
I know he did work for Siddle C Cooks on the heavy side.After Salkelds sure he drove for
Raymond Wright at Tow Law on the Wavin pipe job but I stand to be corrected, driving a ERF.
hiya,
Thanks for that âpaw123â donât know where âWhitelineâ came from it was defo Raymond Wright remember him doing work for Wavin at a job i was involved with for Northumbrian Water at Crook he was hauling with a Wrightâs unit for a Dutch company on some experimental work i got the task of supervising I only got that job because there was a lot of transport involved in the experiment and my usual motor was being converted to Hiab thingy so they gave me an Astra van to get back and forth to the site, spoke to Harry quite a bit on that job and I could tell he wasânt very well he died shortly after that job but he still had the âmagicâ for shoving stuff in tight spaces in one go
thanks harry long retired. .
Hi,
I beleive Ramond Wright has finished with transport,was at Pro Trucks (Auctions) Sandtoft,just off M180
Juncition 2 early January and 3or4 of his ERF ECs were waiting to go through.Did not wait to see them sold
as I got my motor and had to make arrangments to get it to docks for export to Sierra Leone.Did not see any
trailers though, possibly still at Tow Law
i,ve just been reading the last couple of pages and the posts on glenndinnings wreckers. I saw the atky 6 wheeler in tradeteams yard at dundee about 3 or 4 years ago looking sadly neglected. I remember it being in durham yard when I worked there. The last person I saw driving it was Geoff Watts when he came into normans with a unit on tow. any way ilasted 2 weeks with bruces of dunston and have got my old job back at seaham docks back on ropes and sheets. tara 4 now jeff
Old Harry B worked for Raymond Wright till he was around 70 ?buried in Lanchester worth a visit just to read his headstone a poem that sums his life up can`t remember it word for word but it does bring a tear to the eye (lovely fella).
Harry & Richie both still working on general out of Consett.
On about Glennys trailers paw, I worked out of Wavins for Armstrongs when Glennys mate moved from Mono to be transport man at Wavin.There was alot of 60ft work starting to come out so Gordon Armstrong bought a brand new extenable but when it was loaded Mono man decided it wasnt good enough he needed rigid 60 footers :unamused: :unamused: :unamused: .Anyway as you would expect Glenny got the work, now heres the crunch paw & I hope you werent responsible for the construction of that trailer with the bit angle iron on the back to make it into a 60ft. What a monstrosity mono man didn`t want any bend in the pipe wonder what he said after it colappsed on the M11 with bendy Mick stuck on the hard shoulder & the arse end of the pipe on the road 
Bit of a wry smile on the face of me & Harry B as we passed.
Hi, greek
WAG at that time had 12 or more long trailers,45 up to 60 foot plus the odd pole trailer. Definitely not involved
with the âAngle Ironâ, tendancy to over engineer projects due to some of the drivers being short of the grey
matter. Trailers for special jobs which were not in hand were usually hired from John Hudson at Bawtry,
transporter man would bear this out.Can only conclude it was cobbled together at Pity Me.
hi paw123 just been up to chopwell to see brian today hes in good nick looks younger now than he did last year told him about this site so see if he comes up with any oldies
Hi,jasper59
Next time you are speaking to Brian B just call him Shirly, be sure you are not in arms length of him!!!
ive still got the bruises from when he used to wake me up in the passenger side when i was nodding and that was 30years ago
paw123:
Hi, greek
WAG at that time had 12 or more long trailers,45 up to 60 foot plus the odd pole trailer. Definitely not involved
with the âAngle Ironâ, tendancy to over engineer projects due to some of the drivers being short of the grey
matter. Trailers for special jobs which were not in hand were usually hired from John Hudson at Bawtry,
transporter man would bear this out.Can only conclude it was cobbled together at Pity Me.
Who did WAGâs haul vehicles for?
We turned some good jobs out at SB rember the pole trailer we built none of the super troopers reckoned that it would work, ended up doing 2 90â loads of steel per week into St Pancras without any mishaps. Also the 9 car conversions on the Hoynors. I can remember a frame that was made at Pity Me to extend the Broshuis rear steer to 80â I could not imagine that it would bend as it was quite robust, have some photoâs of it tipping 80â down near Newcastle Airport.
paw123:
Hi, greek
WAG at that time had 12 or more long trailers,45 up to 60 foot plus the odd pole trailer. Definitely not involved
with the âAngle Ironâ, tendancy to over engineer projects due to some of the drivers being short of the grey
matter. Trailers for special jobs which were not in hand were usually hired from John Hudson at Bawtry,
transporter man would bear this out.Can only conclude it was cobbled together at Pity Me.
Jasper that looks like the Broshus rear steer trailer on that photo
jasper59:
transporter man heres one of those 90ft loads that i was 2nd man on with wilfy wilson