Heres some for wingnut.
Canny photos of Kennys old wagons whats he up to these days the last time I spoke to him he was working with Fuzzy Gillinder at North East Truck & Van cheers Larry
Hello Larry ,Kenny is still on the spanners at Simpsons not sure what Fuzzy is doing can you remember this one that my dad drove for Fuzzy?
Aye a remember it big step up for Fuzzy I remember when he had a 4wheeler Dodge painted Tilcon colours a flyer he would try to pass you whenever he was going to same job I will have to look him up one of these days if I remember rightly they used to call him Mother at NET. cheers Larry PS. Colin Davison might know ?
f7sidd:
Heres somemore old names that are no longer with us
JOHN HOGG Prudhoe
J R HENDERSON Newburn
BOWMANS Hexham
JOHN SCOTT Blaydon
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My first class 1 job was driving for J R Henderson LUP 438T the same one in this photo at the age of 21 good times!
Lawrence Dunbar:
THE GREEN PIMPERNEL:
ERF from painters the depot is now boundary mills at killingworth, note the in house body built by Rowland.I remember Paynter Stadium the ERF dealers the Stadium Garage was at Gosforth & Paynters were the Gardner Engine experts in Melbourne Street Newcastle the joined forces and moved to Shiremoor. Did Tucky end up with ERF at his Nasco place ? Regards Larry
The wagon should have been a sedd ak with a gardner in but engine factory went on strike like a lot of other companys in those days,Rowland seemed to think some else got the sedd ak he ordered as the dealer bell trucks offered him one with a ■■■■■■■■■■■■ cancelled ERF same chassis length bought so body went straight on with 220 ■■■■■■■ !
THE GREEN PIMPERNEL:
Lawrence Dunbar:
THE GREEN PIMPERNEL:
ERF from painters the depot is now boundary mills at killingworth, note the in house body built by Rowland.I remember Paynter Stadium the ERF dealers the Stadium Garage was at Gosforth & Paynters were the Gardner Engine experts in Melbourne Street Newcastle the joined forces and moved to Shiremoor. Did Tucky end up with ERF at his Nasco place ? Regards Larry
The wagon should have been a sedd ak with a gardner in but engine factory went on strike like a lot of other companys in those days,Rowland seemed to think some else got the sedd ak he ordered as the dealer bell trucks offered him one with a ■■■■■■■■■■■■ cancelled ERF same chassis length bought so body went straight on with 220 ■■■■■■■ !
Yes tuck did end up with it.
night shift bri:
gazza25:
marcus 22:
Hi kevinMark
hi mark/kevmac its gary smith hows yous long time hear/c hope yous r keeping cool gazza d who i work with at the coop at birtley said u were asking about me im fine your dad ok mark neva seen him in yrs tell him am asking after him n hows u kevin u ok u neva c anybody now a days hardly see any ex fergy lads either keep looking but always someone diffrent ( must be getting old )might pop in 2 rth oneday mark cos a couple ov lads i know work there cu soon lads all the best gary
There’s not many long serving drivers left at Fergies now Gary, most have retired or left after the Waugh’s takeover. Davy Clark is still there, Hughie Baird and Micky Beer retired last year, Albert Kelly is still there (over 30 years now) most of the Wooler drivers left when Fergies lost the Scotts work although Alan Easton stayed on as a nightshift driver until he retired a couple of years ago.Steve West is in the office. Bobby Nicholson went to James Bros. You probably know that Bob Brown died a few years ago but Alec Purvis is still in the office, due to retire at the back end of this year. Most of the trampers there now are new faces or ex Waughy’s men.
hi bri i sometimes see alan easton in wooler when i deliver 2 the coop there n a always have the job stopped there having a bit crack with him the locals winge on but alan knows everybody there just tells them where 2 go sometimes see young john purvis on his travels but other than that like u say new faces
Aye I forgot about John Purvis, can’t miss him he fills the windscreen. Last I heard of Alan Easton he was driving a taxi for his Brother in law.
brooksy89:
If I’m not mistaken that Bowmans Seddak ended it’s days with Douglass Bros in Blyth before going to Central Stores (Coatesy’s)
Lawrence Dunbar:
Aye a remember it big step up for Fuzzy I remember when he had a 4wheeler Dodge painted Tilcon colours a flyer he would try to pass you whenever he was going to same job I will have to look him up one of these days if I remember rightly they used to call him Mother at NET. cheers Larry PS. Colin Davison might know ?
Hello Larry, is this the dodge your thinking of,
and can you remember this 86 he had after the dodge,
and this ex M&M Haulage 86 he had after that,
he had another 6 wheeler 86 after that then the 8 wheeler and finnished up with this F7
No this Dodge is a six wheeler painted Tilcons colours but it belonged to Les Scott I think he still has a tipper on Tarmac the 6 wheeler Volvo I remember very well Ronnie Story swapped bodys to put on his ERF to get the tare weight down now Im sure that ERF belonged to Kenny Balls father & law ? Cheers Larry
hodgeturbo:
shephards
Now there’s something that you didnt see very often, 1 of Sheppy’s parked up!!! 
andrewv8:
hodgeturbo:
shephardsNow there’s something that you didnt see very often, 1 of Sheppy’s parked up!!!
Is that the Shephards from down Bishop way? I can remember running scrap out of Dalzeill works at Motherwell into Lackenby and they were on the job. I think it was J J Wards from Leaming that we subbed it off. Shephards “sailed a bit close to the wind” if you get my drift. At the time the Yorkshire Post were running a bit of a campaign against them.
Lawrence Dunbar:
No this Dodge is a six wheeler painted Tilcons colours but it belonged to Les Scott I think he still has a tipper on Tarmac the 6 wheeler Volvo I remember very well Ronnie Story swapped bodys to put on his ERF to get the tare weight down now Im sure that ERF belonged to Kenny Balls father & law ? Cheers Larry
Hello Larry, i knew i had a photo somewhere, Les is still running a 8 wheeler daf out of Barrasford.
Heres another Mootlaw regular for you Larry
