Lawrence Dunbar:
Of course Jet Morgan, my memmorie sometimes fades a bit, he was good pals with the late Tommy Dodds, Sorry to hear he passed away,a true gent as they say, Regards Larry
aya him and tommy got on well ,i remember him working at capstaff’s hauling tyne brand of the fish quay and he knew a lot of waugh’s lads billy robbo ,the bear, our neighbors where john hannard and his son ray who worked for paul ray until his death
if you go on the car transporter old and new thread on page 7 theres a you tube link to traffic going through glouscester in the 50/60’s.See if anybody recognises the CAPSTAF wagon.
Aye Lawrence, Bloody Cowboy Peter Mangen started for Collinsons early 80`s,one of the characters of this world good mate of mine everybody knew him. Had heart attack up at Carlisle when on for Freeways RIP
THE GREEN PIMPERNEL:
Here one for ■■■■■ hiab
Thanks GP. Nice to see that truck again. Wish I’d taken more photo’s years ago, this is a great forum.
Still haven’t sussed who you are!!
Do you think his is under cover for the Scarlet Pimpernel, ■■?, Mind you his photos a great,Old Roly must be well pleased, Regards Larry
Lawrence Dunbar:
Do you think his is under cover for the Scarlet Pimpernel, ■■?, Mind you his photos a great,Old Roly must be well pleased, Regards Larry
Yeah I agree about his photo’s Larry…great! I drove that Volvo in about 1982 or 3. I quite liked the grain work but I hated the local coal work…talk about rat race.
G.P. is keeping me guessing though…won’t let on who he is.
Cheers. Chris K.
glenny54:
if you go on the car transporter old and new thread on page 7 theres a you tube link to traffic going through glouscester in the 50/60’s.See if anybody recognises the CAPSTAF wagon.
Just watched that you tube film. Did anyone notice the car transporter loaded with Austin Metropolitans, Jeez they were ugly cars.
And did I see a Whilock “dinkum” digger go past? Drove one of those once too!!
Great film though.
Chris K.
Aye the coal job was a rat race, we used to do a bit For Moody, & Alan James job Brenkley to Bates, the bloody weighbridge men were right awkward gits, 2 onces over your gross & it had to come off. New Moor was the same, I was looking to 5 Loads to Formica a day, which was a decent days work, but they messed about so you only did 4. Drivers had a special name for these geazers, & Im sure you will know what it was, Regards Larry.
Lawrence Dunbar:
Aye the coal job was a rat race, we used to do a bit For Moody, & Alan James job Brenkley to Bates, the bloody weighbridge men were right awkward gits, 2 onces over your gross & it had to come off. New Moor was the same, I was looking to 5 Loads to Formica a day, which was a decent days work, but they messed about so you only did 4. Drivers had a special name for these geazers, & Im sure you will know what it was, Regards Larry.
I remember doing coal from Banks opencast at Brenkley , can’t remember where it went but we had to weigh at Weetslade screens. It was quite normal for a couple of your loads to be over the top so you just had to climb up and throw off a few big lumps! I went one day and there was a different guy on the weighbridge… I had no overweights that day…he used to ask you for your gross and you would say “thirty, four ninety” (30.490) turned out when we looked at the tickets he had written 34.90…no wonder we weren’t overweight that day!!
I remember there was a nice chap on the weighbridge at Whittle too!
Happy days?? NOT!
Cheers,
. Chris K.
bowserman:
Here’s an old Tulip tipper en route to Lagos, pictured at Tilbury Docks last year.
so Tot managed to get old geordie out of that MAN
H.Nichol Gateshead. This was taken when the Tall Ships Race came to the river first time round 1980s I think.
I shot this pic from a picture on the wall at AS Tyres so the quality isn’t so good. It was given to Alan Symm
by H Nichol so the copyright is his. Ps I hope Alan is going to get some more shots from “H” so that I can
reproduce them on TNUK (withhis permission of course) regards kevmac 47.
kevmac47:
H.Nichol Gateshead. This was taken when the Tall Ships Race came to the river first time round 1980s I think.
I shot this pic from a picture on the wall at AS Tyres so the quality isn’t so good. It was given to Alan Symm
by H Nichol so the copyright is his. Ps I hope Alan is going to get some more shots from “H” so that I can
reproduce them on TNUK (withhis permission of course) regards kevmac 47.0
i worked there for 25 years the aki brick wagon was mine at the time , the old man had thirty trucks a t one time when he retired it soon went down to three thanks to his son.
Lawrence Dunbar:
Aye the coal job was a rat race, we used to do a bit For Moody, & Alan James job Brenkley to Bates, the bloody weighbridge men were right awkward gits, 2 onces over your gross & it had to come off. New Moor was the same, I was looking to 5 Loads to Formica a day, which was a decent days work, but they messed about so you only did 4. Drivers had a special name for these geazers, & Im sure you will know what it was, Regards Larry.
we used to do the same at nichols with our old fodens i used to give the weighbridge man at new moor a lift in from the paper shop in ashington that got me first in and always on weight . we used to run to either darlington or the ministery at benton ,our depot with doubles or Q.E hosp sometimes we did the brenkley ,whittle run good canteen at brenkley
We used to do a bit work for old Harry, Coal from Seaham Dock, Lime up to Auchenlek. I remember running out of Tilcons at Greenleighton, Arthur Hewson had the first 8.wheel Foden they had, then Tommy Marsh came to work for him & drove the first 6 wheel Mercedes, & then towards the latter end Bobby [Posa]Marsh worked there when they ran dust from Moot Law Quarry up to Rolands Gill. Its nice to hear old Harry is still about, Regards Larry
Lawrence Dunbar:
We used to do a bit work for old Harry, Coal from Seaham Dock, Lime up to Auchenlek. I remember running out of Tilcons at Greenleighton, Arthur Hewson had the first 8.wheel Foden they had, then Tommy Marsh came to work for him & drove the first 6 wheel Mercedes, & then towards the latter end Bobby [Posa]Marsh worked there when they ran dust from Moot Law Quarry up to Rolands Gill. Its nice to hear old Harry is still about, Regards Larry
that was my last job there moot law to the gill , 6 loads got you 12 hours only thing is it took 13 good job we wern’t on didgy then
dennis the menace:
Lawrence Dunbar:
We used to do a bit work for old Harry, Coal from Seaham Dock, Lime up to Auchenlek. I remember running out of Tilcons at Greenleighton, Arthur Hewson had the first 8.wheel Foden they had, then Tommy Marsh came to work for him & drove the first 6 wheel Mercedes, & then towards the latter end Bobby [Posa]Marsh worked there when they ran dust from Moot Law Quarry up to Rolands Gill. Its nice to hear old Harry is still about, Regards Larrythat was my last job there moot law to the gill , 6 loads got you 12 hours only thing is it took 13 good job we wern’t on didgy then
Some more names come to mind, Arty Richardson from the Gap. last I heard he was on for Geo Smith at Felton, Micky Boyds brother, & Bobby Brown worked for John Crow at one time… Regards Larry
Lawrence Dunbar:
dennis the menace:
Lawrence Dunbar:
We used to do a bit work for old Harry, Coal from Seaham Dock, Lime up to Auchenlek. I remember running out of Tilcons at Greenleighton, Arthur Hewson had the first 8.wheel Foden they had, then Tommy Marsh came to work for him & drove the first 6 wheel Mercedes, & then towards the latter end Bobby [Posa]Marsh worked there when they ran dust from Moot Law Quarry up to Rolands Gill. Its nice to hear old Harry is still about, Regards Larrythat was my last job there moot law to the gill , 6 loads got you 12 hours only thing is it took 13 good job we wern’t on didgy then
Some more names come to mind, Arty Richardson from the Gap. last I heard he was on for Geo Smith at Felton, Micky Boyds brother, & Bobby Brown worked for John Crow at one time… Regards Larry
larry i remember geo smith when he used to work fore joe armstrong at prestwick could not read or write i have a drink whith his brother bill on sunday dinnertime at swaland village club 12 oo till 2 oo pm
Jimmy do you not Joe Smith, he went to Pentledon & Hare, after Armstrongs, Geo Smith has the Bulkers & Depot 0n the A1, ■■ Regards Larry
