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Heres one of Armstrongs F6 wagon & Drag I started the day this went on the road Geordie Laws came off his F10 to drive this all it did was Chippenham & back with stock from both factories 2 trips one wk then 3 the next. Brian lambert went on to Geordies moter & I got Brians B reg F7 little Choo choo cracking little wagon
Theres a name from the past greek, Geordie Laws , wonder if he’s still got that Citroen DS ? PS. saw him from a distance in Linzford Garden centre last year but never got to speak to him. regards kevmac47.
hiya,
the first time i saw that motor it was blue with the Tayforth livery i think a lad called Carl Wilson ran it off the road one day the ones i got involved with came as a batch from BRS Team Valley when they gave up general haulage all tidy well maintained motors.
thanks harry long retired.
Hi Kev me & Geordie got paid off at Elddis New Yr 2008, He did a bit filling in at Nigel Roe went on for the Coop had a falling out with them packed in was nr 65 so retired, think he still does a bit now & then for Nigel. DS now gone he had another citroen based lookalike morgan 3 wheeler open top drove down to southern France with him & his misses ■■■■■■ down all the way thats now gone last time I spoke he was repairing his daughters 2cv to use himself. As you said you saw him afew weeks back ,& to me he`s never changed since I first met him when he was on for GE out of Bensham Bank 1975 still looks the same
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Hi Kev me & Geordie got paid off at Elddis New Yr 2008, He did a bit filling in at Nigel Roe went on for the Coop had a falling out with them packed in was nr 65 so retired, think he still does a bit now & then for Nigel. DS now gone he had another citroen based lookalike morgan 3 wheeler open top drove down to southern France with him & his misses ■■■■■■ down all the way thats now gone last time I spoke he was repairing his daughters 2cv to use himself. As you said you saw him afew weeks back ,& to me he`s never changed since I first met him when he was on for GE out of Bensham Bank 1975 still looks the same
Your right greek he’s never changed. Another name from Armstrongs is little Brian, I saw him in Leeds just after he finished at Tow Law. haven’t seen him since. regards kevmac47
night shift bri:
Here’s a bit about Wades from a mag from years ago. I remember that Hino of Bells, it was painted up with a big red indians head on the cab.0
every driver should have day in a hino its a experience ? this one had a crash box i hated it
Here’s another of John Wades I forgot I had. It was taken at the Geordie Truckers show at Witton Castle in the 80’s. Whatever happened to the Geordie Truckers Club?
Some good pics there F7 sidd and some names that haven’t had a mention on here before, Charlie Newton’s smart fleet all with private regs, Dunns of Shildon and Sunderland Metals now part of EMR. Stan who worked for them always kept his rolly wagon immaculate, it’s not always the big glamourous Volvo or Scania tractor units that catch the eye. I know you like your tippers so here’s an Iveco 8 wheel muck shifter when it was brand new to Alex Smiles. They were tough motors and could go for fun grossing 32 ton, and sometimes a bit more and didn’t seem to rot away as quick as the artics for some reason. This one was on show at Tipcon at Harrogate before it was delivered.
The other one is a Merc 1838 which I drove from new. Did nearly a million k in this and the only bother it gave was dirty fuel filters, probably the dusty work it did in scrapyards and quarries plus Smilesey wouldn’t buy genuine Merc filters for it.
Have not seen any pics of Elmfield Haulage from consett here yet.Gordon Wilson had about 10 motors at his peak,dad used to work for him then.Did the kettle chips work out of norwich,long hrs for him but kit was good.
REF photos Geordie Truck Show Sid the one with Richie Bolams Scania the one next to it is my FL it had just been painted in wavins colours but it had a red visor so me & Proudlocks driver in the photo below that which had a blue visor did a bit of a swap I got his blue one & he took the red one Wonderd what Gordon Armstrong would say about it but he was OK as it did look better
Somebody on earlier asking why Geordie Truckers packed in all of the lads were just working truckers & the show was getting bigger Witton castle was wanting more out of it,It took all yr to organise Maurice Jarvise, Jeff West, Richie Bolam, Jeff Suddas (RIP), Biilie Lister, Davy Rogerson, & me & one or two others that used to help with them. Not so much us on the fringes but the main men got a bit fed up with all the (unpaid) work it took to get it on every yr so Geordie Tuckers was disbanded its a pity because it was a good little show that took nobody``s eyes out not like the likes of Peterboro etc
Spot on them Sidd, Robinson’s at Blaydon and Jimmy Stanley’s, you can always tell when the scrap prices are rock bottom when Jimmy Stanley’s yard is empty.That MAN of Stanley’s is typical of scrap men, nice shiny motor with a battered old bin on it’s back. When I got that 1838 at Smilsey’s it was the first brand new unit he’d ever bought. He had two trailers, a tidy one and one that looked like the army had been using it for target practice. Guess which one I got to put on the back of the shiny new Merc.
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REF photos Geordie Truck Show Sid the one with Richie Bolams Scania the one next to it is my FL it had just been painted in wavins colours but it had a red visor so me & Proudlocks driver in the photo below that which had a blue visor did a bit of a swap I got his blue one & he took the red one Wonderd what Gordon Armstrong would say about it but he was OK as it did look better
Somebody on earlier asking why Geordie Truckers packed in all of the lads were just working truckers & the show was getting bigger Witton castle was wanting more out of it,It took all yr to organise Maurice Jarvise, Jeff West, Richie Bolam, Jeff Suddas (RIP), Biilie Lister, Davy Rogerson, & me & one or two others that used to help with them. Not so much us on the fringes but the main men got a bit fed up with all the (unpaid) work it took to get it on every yr so Geordie Tuckers was disbanded its a pity because it was a good little show that took nobody``s eyes out not like the likes of Peterboro etc
You’ve just mentioned another name frome the past Greek,Davey Rogerson, had some great nights out with him.
Did you drive the Volvo FL10 4x2 unit of GE Armstrong, that was painted Maroon and Silver to celebrate their anniversary?.
Some pictures are on this site somewhere!!.
I remember the truck brand new, when it arrived at Harold’s paint shop - Harelaw in 1986, it was my first job since leaving school. They used to paint all the new trucks from Darlington Commercials, and Union Trucks.
My Dad had Signwritten the truck, as he did to all the GE Armstrong Volvo tractor units.
Previously - Didn’t Armstrongs also have a Renault TR280 unit also?.
Did you know Ian Farrell, and Phil Turner while you were working at Gallachers?.
They are working at Co-op Birtley, along with Lynne Gallacher who works in transport office!.
No Phil the silver one was driven by Micky Hopkins I only had that wavin FL a few months then Kieth Butler went on shunting in Wavin so they gave me his F10 F830 JBB, Micky now shunting in wavin for Durham City&I do know Ian & Phil didn`t Know Lyn was working down there.
Kev I started for Elddis after getting paid off at the Brewery firstly at Consett but Davy who was working for Elddis out of Durham had a heart attack never got his licence back so I ended up working out of Durham
hi phil
i can remember ian farrell he worked in the garage at grady halls for a short spell cant remember if he came to gradys from gallachers or went there when he left.
mick
i dont know how many there was but we got four.dad.
