Leapers Riccall
Fred Wrights Trucks at Selby & Goole
just the job them mate, the real old timers
Great shame that two old companies have gone, Goole & Selby docks were so busy and probably spoilt by containerisation, RMS and Seawheel rates.
Others gone and forgotten were Beltons, Whitedale, Ringrose and a few others.
Long time since this company were in Selby.
yorkyjoy:
Long time since this company were in Selby.
I remember them when they were running TK Bedfords as my late Mother went for the job as transport manager. This fellow here was in the workshops when he wor a lad. 
Glen Tricket, now of Norman Lewis Tankers fame
Wow…just love the Fodens Yorkyjoy… the Foden gwx265c was that a twostroke■■? I,am certain that came to Richardsons
at Waterhouses in the 70s.I,ll try to find out. there was certainly a gwx26?c.
John
now Dave hope your well i had no idea leepers had so many wagons i only remember a lad called Keith he parked next to my dad on clarence street york
he used to go up to Spillers at Gateshead back down to selby tip and then go next door to ranks for aload of sharps and tip that back in to bocm that was his day.i have a photo of his foden its in the back ground if i remember that wagon got wrote off in gateshead a bus ran straight in to the front of him whilst he was stationary luckily he saw what was about to happen and bailed out
all the best
Eva & Syd Pulleyn
Fred Holman
Norman & Ethel Sykes
Don Peam
Norman Sykes
Don Peam
yorkyjoy:
I wish someone could tag all these chaps, a right bunch of characters I reckon 
yes artic monkey thats my grandad barry is his double .the hogg will catch up with u later .
Fantastic pictures.I remember the Danish Bacon Company coming to our village shop in the 50’s with those Bedfords.
I don’t suppose any of you lads have a picture of a p112 6x2 reg no. A 107 TWC run by Holman’s in the late 80’s. I had this motor brand new at Les Sampson Services running out of Sunderland docks. It was the first new motor I drove, night heater, radio cassette player, proper bunk - sheer luxury!
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night shift bri:
I don’t suppose any of you lads have a picture of a p112 6x2 reg no. A 107 TWC run by Holman’s in the late 80’s. I had this motor brand new at Les Sampson Services running out of Sunderland docks. It was the first new motor I drove, night heater, radio cassette player, proper bunk - sheer luxury!
not got any of 107 mate but i remember them getting it, only ever drove it in the yard but i can remember it never used to like going around corners in the wet, them tag axles were something else. andy richardson mentioned the same motor on here a while back about tryinig to to get through the lights in the middle of selby with it in the rain and nearley went through the abbey railings they bought two from les samson the other was a23roo and there was a24roo running around here aswell did they go bust
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tamworth hogg:
yes artic monkey thats my grandad barry is his double .the hogg will catch up with u later .
ye he does look a lot like barry
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Any more pictures of Hewson Brothers from Howden ? , would be good to see if any of you Guys have some for posting . 
artic monkey:
not got any of 107 mate but i remember them getting it, only ever drove it in the yard but i can remember it never used to like going around corners in the wet, them tag axles were something else. andy richardson mentioned the same motor on here a while back about tryinig to to get through the lights in the middle of selby with it in the rain and nearley went through the abbey railings they bought two from les samson the other was a23roo and there was a24roo running around here aswell did they go bust
Funny you should say that about it not liking to go round corners in the wet, I seem to remember having the same trouble with it. I had a R112 at Van Hee and don’t remember having the same trouble with that. Samson were based at the Royal Albert Dock in London and had a depot at Ipswich and one at Sunderland.They bought a rake of P112’s all numbered A–ROO three were based at Sunderland, the rest at London. They then bought another batch numbered A—TWC. 107 came to Sunderland and 105 went to Ipswich. Samson closed the Ipswich dept about 1986 and 105 came to Sunderland. The Sunderland depot closed about 1987 and all the motors went back to London. Later they changed over to Seddon Atkinsons. I think Samson called it a day in the early 90’s.
Here’s a pic of some of the A__ROO 112’s in the yard at Sunderland. Most of Samson’s work was pulling containers for Westgate Shipping.
Cheers, Bri