Heres a couple of Ritchies “building products division” Carl Williams will remember the driver pictured (Jack) he worked for him
many years ago. Regards kevmac47
many years ago. Regards kevmac47
Sorry double post.
kevmac47:
Sorry double post.
hiya,
Double posts Kev, time you changed to Scottish Larry and me don’t do double posts.
thanks harry long retired.
harry_gill:
kevmac47:
Sorry double post.hiya,
Double posts Kev, time you changed to Scottish Larry and me don’t do double posts.
thanks harry long retired.
Harry you of all people should know you can’t kid a kidder. 
harry_gill:
kevmac47:
Sorry double post.hiya,
Double posts Kev, time you changed to Scottish Larry and me don’t do double posts.
thanks harry long retired.
Yes well he was a bit slow on the up take other night when reversing onto drive 
Yes I change my vehicles quicker than I change my knickers
kevmac47:
harry_gill:
kevmac47:
Sorry double post.hiya,
Double posts Kev, time you changed to Scottish Larry and me don’t do double posts.
thanks harry long retired.Harry you of all people should know you can’t kid a kidder.
hiya
My old sergeant who incidentally drove for BRS Consett and Gallachers to name a couple used to say 514 Gill you can’t kid the kid who’s kidded thousands,Kev did you ever come across Jacky Pulman we was in Korea and Malaya together and I didn’t meet up with him after 1956 until he got a start where I was working at BRS Consett in about 1974 haven’t seen him for years just hope he’s well.
thanks harry long retired
The other day when I was asking about a Wallsend haulage firm, I have been racking my brain, & I have remembered it may have been T Stockhill & Sons ? anyone remember them. Regards Larry.
kevmac47:
Heres a couple of Ritchies “building products division” Carl Williams will remember the driver pictured (Jack) he worked for him 01many years ago. Regards kevmac47
Thats my truck with the Hiab trailer on…i would have posed in front of it if i had known it would be put on here …i will let you know when i get it ‘sorted out’ so you can take some more of it…it was nice to meet you today in the yard Kev.
kevmac47:
Frankydobo:
Seeing as we are into remembering names from long ago, I was going through my old mans stuff a little while ago and came across a list of drivers, probably something to do with the union but anyway see how many names are rcognised, they all worked for Steenburgs at the time but no doubt at many other places too. Here goes;Bill Ashworth, John Dickman, Jock Mundell, Peter Green, Ray Smith, Tony Hyde, Tony Chapman, Nigel Smart,
Alfie Greives, Ernie Dobson, Gill Todd, Bobby Duggan, Dicky Oliver, Geordie Storey, Don Bryden, Alan Patrick,
Jimmy Simmons, Jimmy Logan, Joe Pepper, Bob Aitchenson, George Collis, Cliff Natton, Ken Hogg, Ray Hogg, Bob Best, Brian Maiden, Bob Dowling , Lenny North, Phil Gent, George Woolfe, Dicky Akenhead, Jimmy Hepple, Ronnie Hodgen, Stan Bolam, Arthur Marsh, Joe Brown.
Probably a few more that arn’t on the list and I know one or two more but can’t remember their names, I know some of these arn’t around anymore including my old man, any of these ring any bells!
Cheers Franky.Peter Green is this PG. that worked for Jacky Adams & ended his days at that Sandy Lane Testing Station
Quite a few names I remember,Logan, Pepper, Aichie R.IP.Collis,North, Gent,Hepple(highspeed).When’s the next model out Franky?? regardskevmac47
Jimmy Logan, did he work for Jacky, then Shorties , then Hoggies until he retired.?
kevmac47:
Heres a couple of Ritchies “building products division” Carl Williams will remember the driver pictured (Jack) he worked for him 01many years ago. Regards kevmac47
Hi keymac 47
I don’t know whether its my sight or my memory, but I have increased the size of the photo. Still no luck.
Please put me out of my misery. Who is the drivere?
Best wishes
Carl
Hi Larry, that’s correct Peter Green retired from the Test Station but I’m sure he had his own motors for a spell, I knew Jimmy Logan was at Murray Hogg but not sure if he finished there although he probably did he had been there a while by then. Alfie Greaves was one of the very few Black drivers seen in those days, especially up our part of the country, he was a lovely bloke. Poor ‘Jimmy Simmons’ not a way any driver wants to go, my Father was quite upset when I told him about his death, I worked at Fergies Sunderland depot at the time and our Gaffer Bob Brown (who you’ll know) told me. He did night trunk to Mossley with Dad together for a few years late Sixties and he always called Dad ‘Fatha’. I was only talking to him in the Derry a week before he was killed, shame. I remember Tony Van Hee thought the A59 was a terrible road and prefered us not to use it, thought it was a strange thing for a gaffer to say at the time. Cheers Franky.
hi lads, seems a lot of lads started their life as as lorry drivers at steenberg jimmy login worked for Matty armstong after steenberg’s, remember john Mckenna when he work for keels & holmes at benwell, they had the building that was to become blocks garage, freightways herbie smails had 3 motors painted in their colours, think his wife was related to the guy who started it off, there used to be a photo of a thornycroft trident on the desk in freightways office,reg JNL8 that was one of Herbie’s lorry’s,bobby fairburn was the driver, alan tune started at freightways as a office boy, oh boy where have the years gone, 
here is a few more pics from the past, bumper
Frankydobo:
Seeing as we are into remembering names from long ago, I was going through my old mans stuff a little while ago and came across a list of drivers, probably something to do with the union but anyway see how many names are rcognised, they all worked for Steenburgs at the time but no doubt at many other places too. Here goes;Bill Ashworth, John Dickman, Jock Mundell, Peter Green, Ray Smith, Tony Hyde, Tony Chapman, Nigel Smart,
Alfie Greives, Ernie Dobson, Gill Todd, Bobby Duggan, Dicky Oliver, Geordie Storey, Don Bryden, Alan Patrick,
Jimmy Simmons, Jimmy Logan, Joe Pepper, Bob Aitchenson, George Collis, Cliff Natton, Ken Hogg, Ray Hogg, Bob Best, Brian Maiden, Bob Dowling , Lenny North, Phil Gent, George Woolfe, Dicky Akenhead, Jimmy Hepple, Ronnie Hodgen, Stan Bolam, Arthur Marsh, Joe Brown.
Probably a few more that arn’t on the list and I know one or two more but can’t remember their names, I know some of these arn’t around anymore including my old man, any of these ring any bells!
Cheers Franky.
franky the only name i know from your list is phil gent dont know if its the same lad as i have not seen him in a while to ask him but if it is he is now driving for james burrell out of gateshead
mickhep:
gordy69:
night shift bri:
This is the only pic I’ve got of an Albany motor. It belonged to Milky Bar and was taken at the Geordie Truck Show at Witton Castle in the 80s. The kid sitting in it is my lad who is now 36.2
I found this one of John Kerss Services from 1987. I went from a new R112 at Van Hee to this thing, what a come down.1
This 190/30 was the last motor I drove for John Kerss, good puller for a 300hp, with a 13 speed Fuller box in it.0bri the white belonging to albany motors driven by milky.he would,nt happen to be called bobby brown would he
yes it is bobby brown i worked with him at canutes aswell as entwisles hes now at jakeys on a rigid
i mickhep seen bobby on friday gone he,s looking well never changed tho
Aye Peter did have his own, he had a 4w.Atki,Ex Smiths of Wishaw, then he started an owner drivers Co, called Quayside Commercials, we had an office the Quay in the Baltic Chambers, Albert Greenwood, Norman Barwick,Myself,Little Buck Richardson drove Peters wagon for a while, when he was in the office,sorry to say it didnt last, couldnt get money in off the people we were getting work off, oops nearley forgot John Lowes was in it to. Jimmy Logan is retired,but he still takes Hoggs 4wAustin to the shows.I also remember Alfie, he sometimes was tipping at Baxters Warehouse,canny lad as I recall. Its sad that that Jimmy, Peter, &Bob are not with us anymore,nice blokes to work with. Regards Larry.
Great old photos Bumper, I remember Herbie Smailes wagons pulling for F/Ws. an 8wheel Leyland,8wheel Atki,6wheel Reiver.6wheel Dodge,about the same time Neil Spowart, Telfers form the Gap, Joe Burns from Hazelrigg,& some one from Birtley,&Alnwick ?. The 1935 Bedford of Staughns looks great,my great uncle at Seaton Burn had some of these. Regards Larry
Another name Bob Dowling, went to work for Fergy, Had father Dowling name plate showing in his windscreen,a bit of a loner I thought when he was there, but he was ok to get on with.
gurty:
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Hi gurty is you posing as a lumberjack or skip driver ?