hi pat,
ive found another fed ex truck for you ,bet you dont know where that comes from. 
does anybody remember CLARKS TRANSPORT from w,boro they used to run a smart fleet of erf artics ,now sadly all gone
cheers diesel
i remember clarkes very well, based at what is called nettlebush in wellingborough, pete clarke lived in finedon and sold up while he had the chance, very nice looking motors doing mainly waste leather work, with the demise of the shoe industry most of his work dried up.
Clarkes Transport were in a little lane off Finedon Rd, on the right just down from Eastfield Rd (?). I didn’t know it was called Nettlebush though. If I remember correct the motors were a dark green. Do you remember when they ran Scammell Crusaders. I once worked with a chap who was a fitter there . Alan Dyke, from Wellingborough, built his own wedding cars that used to run around Wellingborough. He was later the fitter for David Bletsoe-Brown at Finedon Sidings.
hi steve and classicman.
i never knew clarkes yard was called nettlebush, and i used go there loads of times. 
■■■■ hull used to keep his lorry there and i used go there to service it.
the last time i went there, williams transport from spaldwick were in his yard, also there was one of clarkes old scammell crusaders parked up, looked a sorry sight.
cheers diesel
Just today I was driving back from Bournemouth, and I passed a removal lorry from Northampton near Newbury Pinkney & Jones, I did not realise they was still going.
Norman Ingram:
Just today I was driving back from Bournemouth, and I passed a removal lorry from Northampton near Newbury Pinkney & Jones, I did not realise they was still going.
Pink & Jones a very old Kettering removal firm,still operating from the Telford Way industrial estate. Used to be all green motors but I think that now, most if not all are in a white Brittania Removals livery with Pink & Jones name.
hi norman, i too thought they were long gone, do they still have green colours?
STEVE OWEN:
hi norman, i too thought they were long gone, do they still have green colours?
heres there site : http://www.pinkandjones.co.uk
Diesel/Steve,
Do you remember when C ■■■■ was a general haulier?, came across a couple of pics on Bubblemans thread of their F7 tippers, an Atkinson with a bridge beam on etc. They used to run a very mixed fleet.
Also Lilleys of Wellingborough, maroon Volvos and then later all sorts in white and maroon.
Barton Plant with their Volvo tippers and Bennie also had quite a few as well.
Just thought of Thrapston Warehousing as well, was it mainly O/Ds pulling their trailers?
Also remember Brookside the Dodge dealer and was it Hamblins? that supplied Scanias at one time.
Cheers
Mark
hi mark.
yes i remember butts on general haulage, dont remember the atky,they did have an old scammell lowloader and some f88,s at one time.
lillys. when the m1 was being built they had a fleet of et6 fords and parrot nose dodges on the site,i used to go and help roy cox their mechanic rebuild them at night ready for the next day,not many lorries lasted for long on that job.
thapston wharehousing,i think its under another name now, its on a new ind estate near morrisons, also have a wharehouse on polebrook airfield.
hamblins, rectory road rushden.remember them well, used to be seamarks.they were one of the first scania dealers,they supplied a 110 super unit demonstrator to ucl.the drivers loved it as they were useing aec mercury/mandators at that time, but they drove it like they had stole it, and it was terrible on fuel, so that was the end of that. 
heres one for you, do you remember bodens transport fromm w.boro.had some connection with nde and bfi. atlas carriers ended up with bfi iveco turbo stars. cheers diesel 
Come on 
there must be some of you from northampton 
no one has mentioned Agnew & Lithgows ( where was there yard?) & whats there connection with A.C.K haulage ? Also Harris haulage red lorries from far cotton known as scab harris & a lots been mentioned about Butty’s who remembers Mike Butts pale green dafs on contract to blackwood hodge
anyone remember edwards brother tippers thrapston I think brown bedfords?
Mike ■■■■ was in St James Mill Rd ind est Northampton in the 70’s I think.
I think Edwards Bros were at Spaldwick just at the side of the A14 now its an agricultural enineers. Edwards went into Bennies, they also ran a lot of Volvos.
Harris Haulage used to do all Airflow Streamlines work and I’m not sure but I think they were owned by them and finished when the cab works did
Yes steven in the old colours, it look like it needed a paint job, I could not look at it too long, as it was going up hill, and i went by in my Peugot 306 deisel estate at a fair rate of knots, just to keep some of them lorries running up my backside. 
robinswh:
anyone remember edwards brother tippers thrapston I think brown bedfords?
as classic said, edwards were from spaldwick, they also had a farm out there where i loaded a few times.
steve
roadcommander2:
Diesel/Steve,Do you remember when C ■■■■ was a general haulier?, came across a couple of pics on Bubblemans thread of their F7 tippers, an Atkinson with a bridge beam on etc. They used to run a very mixed fleet.
Also Lilleys of Wellingborough, maroon Volvos and then later all sorts in white and maroon.
Barton Plant with their Volvo tippers and Bennie also had quite a few as well.
Just thought of Thrapston Warehousing as well, was it mainly O/Ds pulling their trailers?
Also remember Brookside the Dodge dealer and was it Hamblins? that supplied Scanias at one time.
Cheers
Mark
was it tony franklin who was the last guy to run lilleys? not long before they finished i had their last A reries ERF and used it to shunt empty trailers to ditchford, then tarted her up a little and took it to the show at crick.
hamblins of rushden, one of the sales guys was barney ? i still have one of the original key rings that he gave me with a scania 110 on it.
did’nt aileys have the building after that? ■■■■ grant? before hamblins it was the bus garage i believe. andy hamblin was married to one of my wifes friends.
hornigold first got into continental work through thrapston warehousing.
dan,did’nt bodens have orange and white seddons? wobbly bob stevens went their after w.g.eales, you must remember him?
hey, i have just made the 100th post on this thread! steve
I didnt realise Lilleys were involved with the M1 works.
Do you know of any other local firms who were also on the job?
I remember Mike ■■■■’s DAFs always looked good and had the important extras of the time, visor,air horns and wheel trims!!
Edwards Bros and JJ Edwards were originally at Easton, where Williams Transport is now.
They had a big fleet of four wheeler Bedfords and then moved over to Volvos with F86 six and eight wheelers. They continued to run a few Fodens and ERF eight wheelers as well.
They were taken over by Bennies and moved to Spaldwick where they had all Volvos.
A couple were still outbased there until a few years ago.
At one time in the 70s every surrounding village had two or three Edwards tippers parked up in gateways laybys, driveways etc.
Dont remember Bodens though.
Cheers
Mark
hi steve /mark.
ref lilleys,when they were on the m1 arther lilley owned the company,then there was some connection with billsons (brookside) as david billson ran it.i remember the erf, the last time i saw it was in davella,s yard. did they have more than one eales were also on the m1 job, and also len sturgis transport from irchester,
yes, bodens did have seddens i think and then had some bigj guys.they were based on turnells mill lane est, be late sixties.steve, i dont remember bob stevens, i think there is a 15 year time difference from when i worked at eales to the period your talking about.
ref hambins,they had a big car garage in rectory road rushden,before that it was seamarks transport.i always thought that was the scania garage,but you are proberly right about the bus garage,it was birch bros, and i remember derek jones working there, im talking69ish and aileys did have it at one time,it is now a bed shop.
How about Goode & Marlow from Desborough and Trevor Tann from Stoke Albany
Phil6x4:
How about Goode & Marlow from Desborough and Trevor Tann from Stoke Albany
Goode & Marlow were basically old time parcel carriers. Mainly dark blue Bedford 4wheelers. In later times I think they did branch out a bit, I seem to recall them finishing with a DAF boxvan and one of those 6 wheel Volvo FL6’s of Weetabix that seem to get into a lot of local fleets after Weetabix had finished with them.
Trevor Tann. A nicely kept fleet of light blue artic tippers all named Albany *****. This was after the village of Stoke Albany where he lived. The motors were kept down the lane from Rigid Containers to the village.
Interesting footnote,his son Tim Tann operates as Holmleigh Haulage curently running a red/blue Magnum.