f7sidd, Nice photos of Gerrys volvo B833 EBB. We bought this wagon off Gerry plus another F7 and aFL7 .Top motors well maintained. Gave us good service . R.I.P. Gerry. Roy Bisset
Father and Son Tommy Dodds Jnr and Tommy Dodds Snr with there new Waggons
Loaded for the Manchester Evening News in Deansgate Manchester.
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Lawrence Dunbar:
0This was Bobby Meggs motor. Regards Larry.
Aye it is a good one, I think it was taken at Kates Cabin , the driver then would be Bobby Marsh.[Possa]. Regards Larry.
kevmac47:
My good friend Stuart Ritchie gave me permission to post this 1920s advertising flyer. If anyone still wants to join the “club”
Im sure all donations will be gratefully accepted.
Great stuff Kev, I have a 1931 Roadway Book, & E&N Ritchie are listed & their phone nunber is H le H. 34, Regards Larry.
@ Lawrence Dunbar
Thanks. I recognise some of those names that I couldn’t remember.
Can’t view photo’s & attachments for some reason. Frustrating. 
@ thechink1968
Did you live near or on Ambleside at one time?
Isaac Smiles,s sister lived there her married name was Crozier her husband Fred was a cricket player, Regards Larry.
hi lads, these photos are from norman sinclair, ex direct driver, they are of north eastern haulers or were taken in the north east area, no doubt someone will know where they were taken, bumper
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hi lads, these photos are from norman sinclair, ex direct driver, they are of north eastern haulers or were taken in the north east area, no doubt someone will know where they were taken, bumper
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I think the Banks volvo and Bobby Durhams ERF are both on the 167 between Ferryhill and Thinford,regards Vic.
hi lads, some more north eastern haulage outfit from the Gordon Mitchell collection, this where all taken at Normans cafe brotherton, bumper
Lawrence Dunbar:
The one legged lad was Joe Brown he was a fitter, Old Isaac Smiles & Tommy Smiles [The Bull], lived next door to each other on Hexham Rd, just allong from the Frenchmans Arms, Lawrence Smiles [British Plant Hire] Bells Close lived a bit further allong plus Jimmy Fell another fitter lived a couple of doors away. Regards Larry.
Larry
When I started at BRS workshops TVTE in 1970 there was a fitter called Joe Brown who only had one leg. Would this be the same fella that worked at Smiles ? He was a really nice bloke and never ceased to amaze me as he balanced his ‘stump’ on the handle of the crutch to leave both hands free to work, especially in an inspection pit.
Aye that was the same Joe, I was once told when I worked at Smilers the had a wagon with a attachment on the gearstick so he could opperate the clutch by hand, he was a nice bloke & a first class fitter too. Regards Larry.
I remember the fitter with 1 leg he could get in and out of a lorry faster than a cat if my memory serves me right he worked on the long distance fleet most of the time
I will always remember the Bull he used to spend a lot of his time spying on the drivers one occasion when we were pulling shale from a shale heap near Bedilington can not remember the village could it be (Scotlandgate?) going to Cramlington i drove a 6 wheel Trader anyway i was having my wicked way with one of the local girls but still doing as many loads or more than the rest of the lads and the old Bull Caught me one day but he did not sack me ,the old machine driver was an old freind of Tom i think his name was George hay ho happy days.
Re paper work at Smiles it had to be done everyday the one that Laurence refers to, in the little of office and handed in to bloody hell his names escapes me one of the brothers was it (Earl)
Tarslag i remember them when i was a young boy my parents had a country pub outside of Fishburn on the back road which was a short cut from near Wynyard to Coxhoe i remember so many of the companies using this route but the Tarslag lorries stuck out a mile mainly because most of the drivers where woman mainly with blonde hair and brown overalls as far as i can remember and i think they smoked woodbines mainly Dodge lorries painted Black they used to stop at the old mans pub Three Horse Shoes for lunch own sandwiches and a beer
Aye it was Earl he was the youngest brother, very quiet sort of bloke, sadley he died at a very young age, What year did you drive for them, ? Regards Larry.
I would think about 1967 time i remember them getting some new Dodge lorries with tilt cabs while i was driving for them, bloody old grey matter not as good ,i first drove a Trader then a Dodge 6 wheeler
I was there 1963, driving RJR 349. Until 1965, that was working for Fred, then I was back for 9 weeks driving a tipper for The Bull BJR 310 B that was a 6 W, Dodge. Regards Larry.
Lawrence Dunbar:
I was there 1963, driving RJR 349. Until 1965, that was working for Fred, then I was back for 9 weeks driving a tipper for The Bull BJR 310 B that was a 6 W, Dodge. Regards Larry.
PS, That was 1968.