These Scania Trucks were painted at a Commercial Vehicle Paintshop in South Moor Stanley Co Durham circa 1981 - 1983.They were supplied by Union Trucks - Main Scania Dealer. My Father - Peter Butler was involved in this business as a Signwriter.The first 3 trucks were signwritten by him, and the last 3 were done by a local signwriter when my dad took ill.
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As the art of signwriting is a dying trade, its great to see how many trucks back then were painted and lettered properly, and not using cheap and nasty graphics.(IMAO).
I hope some of these pics bring back good memories to all drivers who remember these trucks.
Regards
Phil Butler.
hello philbutler
you should put them on the old north east driver thread mate i recognise john mcdines scania but someone might recognise the others or may have even driven them , you father may have done this one it came down from stanley.
regards
mark
Hi Mark,
Thanks for your reply to my first post, although i can’t seem to find the north east drivers thread, even after using the search box.
I’ll be more than happy to transfer the post when i find the correct link.
I really liked your Freeway Scania 142 Pic, although my dad didn’t letter this one, he did many other Scania 2 and 3 series that Freeway later bought,
and also the Corbett skip vehicles too.
He did many other north east trucks, notably Siddle Cooks, Gallachers, Gurteens, Johnston of Berwick, Hodgsons, Van Hee, CB Chastney, Fresh Freight, Kent Connection, R A Young, but mostly was based at stanley until his illness in 1983
(had a Stroke), but then worked after that for about 7 years, until he finally stopped working , because of ill health,and the growing popularity of vinyl graphics, which many transport firms were increasing using.
Cheers 
Phil.
hi phil
go to old time lorries and companys on the main index page then click on that and you will see old north east haulage companys their is a lot of photos of all the companys you have mentioned,over 30 pages now, i knew joe and peter corbett used your company, my father has worked for freeways for 37 yr now and i started their in 1984 firstly on the 7.5t skip lorries.you could not beat a nice sign written truck these days most of them are white with stickers on.
regards
mark
Any chance of seeing those pictures a bit bigger, particularly the elddis one?
hi consettbell
are you a elddis driver, or worked for them, i have a few elddis pics which i will be putting on the N.E haulage companys forum at the weekend.
regards mark
Nope I’m only 19, but I’m from consett and grew up seeing elddis trucks all the time, its nice to see the older ones
no probs matey will put some good ones on at the weekend for you.
mark
