greek:
Cant remember the Atki of Williams but remember the tms Dont think you had that many artics remember the vans always liked the livery. Who was the little company that did simular work to you from spennymoor D type fords single axle vans name wont come back (age ) Davy jackson & Little Maurice used to drive for them
not worthington’s you thinking about is it greek?
Were you thinking of Ray Hardwick? (D & R Hardwick). He had fords, atki’s and Maggie D’s on work out of Thorns. Have some pictures somewhere. He packed in years ago. His yard now covered in housing.
Thats it dm Hardwicks could I hell remember the name, they also had a couple of them Romanian built MANs but just the day cab little Maurice had one of them we had one at Collinsins but full sleeper
I can’t remember him having the Romans. He had a couple of TM’s and in the last few years a couple of SA 411’s. I remember Collinsons from Melanate. I used to get in there with my Dad during the school holidays when he was on for Dents. Anyone out there have any photo’s of Dents of Spennymoor they can post up■■?
greek:
Cant remember the Atki of Williams but remember the tms Dont think you had that many artics remember the vans always liked the livery. Who was the little company that did simular work to you from spennymoor D type fords single axle vans name wont come back (age ) Davy jackson & Little Maurice used to drive for them
not worthington’s you thinking about is it greek?
Were you thinking of Ray Hardwick? (D & R Hardwick). He had fords, atki’s and Maggie D’s on work out of Thorns. Have some pictures somewhere. He packed in years ago. His yard now covered in housing.
Thats it dm Hardwicks could I hell remember the name, they also had a couple of them Romanian built MANs but just the day cab little Maurice had one of them we had one at Collinsins but full sleeper
I can’t remember him having the Romans. He had a couple of TM’s and in the last few years a couple of SA 411’s. I remember Collinsons from Melanate. I used to get in there with my Dad during the school holidays when he was on for Dents. Anyone out there have any photo’s of Dents of Spennymoor they can post up■■?
Got one here i will look for some more.vic
Cheers Vic. I saw this one on the forum a while ago but would be great to see any others you have. I’ll see what I can dig out too.
Yep know Ronnie say hello little Kenny off Collinsons aka greek & any of the others you might see ,Magic, Chappie ,Kieth Stretch, worked with micky the pole when he was on for Wrighty. Spoke to one of the Davys couple of yrs ago on for Wincanton now, & is Corkscrew Davy still down in Ponty. I think Yan is on for Katem, Rowley, Billy see he was on for the office furniture company at Croxdale. Other names floating about somewhere in the grey matter but Its harder to get out as yrs pass
brothertonmick:
HOPE THESE ARE OF INTEREST TO YOU WAUGHS LADS, REGARDS MICK.
Great photos brings back a lot of memories for me drove and worked on all them vehicles and a photo of
the truck from hell the devil himself made STY 38S.
Note in the first pic KTN 726P Alan Payne got this motor new was one of the first batch of 1418, the first 1418 being
PTY 884M which was a demonstrator from Bells of Ashington it replaced ONL 482M (ended up at bewick’s) it had an extra large fuel tank on the nearside and when full would lean over on the nearside, so when the new 1418s came instead of
getting the extra large fuel tank from Mercedes.
MR I.C.I.(ideas in action) Forrest got some tanks made from a fabrication shop next ind est along from Benton square and we ended up
fitting them on the back of the cab.
Took all the suspension out of the sprung cab they should have been made from aluminium but came metal they weighed
a ton empty and rust from the inside used to block the extra fuel filter that was fitted to the gravity feed into the main fuel tank
still think they should have come with the larger Mercedes tank it was one idea that i personally hated spoilt the nice comfy ride of the little merc.
Great times.
WAUGHS TRUCKS.
KTN 726P from new Allan Payne (grumpy), motor nickname tick tock.
TNL 558S P&G trunk motor,Drivers Arthur Mallin,Brian Johnson. motor nickname the snow globe. The first V8 MERCEDES.
STY 39S from new John Yendall , 8LXB, David Brown 8-Speed.
STY 38S P&G trunk motor, motor nickname THE TRUCK FROM HELL. The only Rolls Royce motor Waugh’s ever had.
This motor was pure evil everything would break,leak,drop off it was i think the most awful piece of British engineering
that had inflated rubber tyres to come from Seddon/Atkinson,The two trunk drivers loved it Taffy Newman, Davy Blyth.
YVK 388V from new Eric Burns.
YVK 389V from new Dicky Oliver,
The other vehicles not 100% sure of yet but was a long time ago.
Great pics of Bensons and Waughs Brotherton Mick. Any pics you have from Norman’s are most welcome on here, it’s not only the motor you’ve taken a shot of but also what’s in the background like one of Chris Herring’s ERF B series and the Smith’s Sedatki. Another thought, why don’t you start a Norman’s thread off, you never know what else might turn up.
brothertonmick:
HOPE THESE ARE OF INTEREST TO YOU WAUGHS LADS, REGARDS MICK.
Thanks Mick, I think the first one was the ex demonstrator driven by the late Stu Cartwright, the only one we had with a ratchet handbrake. If i’m wrong no doubt Brian will correct me!!!
The dark blue was from WAUGHS when Tony Waugh ran it then Bob Kinghorn took over and kept the
same colours, when Sir Robert sold the company to the ex seddon/atkinson sales man John arkle
the colour changed to the lighter blue.
Great photos Mick.
brothertonmick:
HOPE THESE ARE OF INTEREST TO YOU WAUGHS LADS, REGARDS MICK.
Thanks Mick, I think the first one was the ex demonstrator driven by the late Stu Cartwright, the only one we had with a ratchet handbrake. If i’m wrong no doubt Brian will correct me!!!
Sorry Kevin the first photo is 726P Alan Payne got it new, Stu had PTY 884M then Les Newton got it as Stu went on to the
change over with commercial carthorse from east india docks change over at Markham moor ,transport gave Stu LBB 815P
as it was the only day cab 400 series and no nights out for Stu.
brothertonmick:
HOPE THESE ARE OF INTEREST TO YOU WAUGHS LADS, REGARDS MICK.
Thanks Mick, I think the first one was the ex demonstrator driven by the late Stu Cartwright, the only one we had with a ratchet handbrake. If i’m wrong no doubt Brian will correct me!!!
Sorry Kevin the first photo is 726P Alan Payne got it new, Stu had PTY 884M then Les Newton got it as Stu went on to the
change over with commercial carthorse from east india docks change over at Markham moor ,transport gave Stu LBB 815P
as it was the only day cab 400 series and no nights out for Stu.
Your right as usual Brian, my memory is definitly slipping. Ps, do you think you might make it to the Tyne Tees run next month? it would be great to see you again. regards kevmac47.
