maverick72:
anybody remember or have any pics of W.F Daniels from bromsgrove my old man used to drive for them they used to have the marathon and new scania 111 painted in red and white used to pull for corona
Didn’t they have a fleet of union jack ERF’s before they closed in the early 80’s. I seem to remember their yard being near Merry Hill. As for Lloyds of Ludlow, they sold up a year or two back. Their sliderflex steel trailers can be seen being pulled by Multiserv/Faber Prest motors.
Yes,I remember Daniel’s in Merry Hill.Definitely in the very early 90s were still going,and actually re vamped their yard and opened a very good transport type cafe.Shortly afterwards though, they shut up shop.
Sir +:
Yes,I remember Daniel’s in Merry Hill.Definitely in the very early 90s were still going,and actually re vamped their yard and opened a very good transport type cafe.Shortly afterwards though, they shut up shop.
if you go up level street the yard is still there !.strange but true !!
Sorry you got that wrong. Taunton Meat Haulage and their sister company Tone Vale Transport were combined by their owner and the new company was called Langdons of Taunton. and going stonger than ever!!!
SMUDGER:
I worked for McKellar Trucking (as it was known then) in the early Eighties. The transport manager was Danny Bungay, Ian McKellar’s brother in law. I have seen Danny driving around in a Scania Topline a few times in McKellars colours so maybe he is just running the one motor. Nice bunch of guys on this firm. Would always help out even when the going got greasy. Nothing was too much trouble. Not the same game anymore now. Blokes just drive past and leave you to it if your stranded.
Theres a Mckellar running from around purfleet got about half a dozen scanias/fodens on bulk tipping dont know if there is a connection.
I towed one of the fodens out of a ditch in the snow last winter.
I notice Lacey’s from Barking is amongst the list of old companies.I used to work for Alan Lacey back in 1993/94,and ran down to Italy,weekly.Most of his work came from Merzario,and would normally be a single drop,out,and the same back,but sometimes with some groupage,from Melzo,or Vicenza.Although he wasn’t a particularly nice man to work for,the job itself was always pretty interesting,and I quite liked it,but eventually Alan Lacey’s bad attitude got to me,and I walked out.A few driver’s names come to mind,such as Jim,Dave,Jeff,and a few I can’t remember.I used to drive an F10 with the reg D170.Does anyone remember the truck or any of the drivers!As far as I know,neither the haulage or coach business are still going.
Anyone remember Doyles of Basildon or George Hector from Dartford ferry terminal.I worked for both of these in the 90’s,and as far as Hector’s is concerned,it was,shall I say,quite an interesting experience.
Zeppler:
Anyone remember Doyles of Basildon or George Hector from Dartford ferry terminal.I worked for both of these in the 90’s,and as far as Hector’s is concerned,it was,shall I say,quite an interesting experience.
I remember Hector advertising and the talk down in Piraeus that he wouldn’t last 10 minutes, how long were you there?
I always remember a firm from leicester called " Blaby Haulage ". Their livery was identical to Brain Haulage, even down to the red BH on the front of the units…
Wheel Nut
I remember Hector advertising and the talk down in Piraeus that he wouldn’t last 10 minutes, how long were you there?
11 minutes,Joking apart,I was with him for about 6 weeks back in 96.So,I heard recently,George was seen working in a yard near Chelmsford,and apparently he has had a pretty rough time since losing his business,but that’s life.He was pretty well known in Patras and lived over there for a while.I drove the old Iveco turbostar that no one else wanted,because it had a twin splitter,but it was a fair old motor,and never gave me no problems,but his “business” practices were incompatible with me.
jj72:
MARTINTRUX
KELLY FREIGHT
LOWE PADDOCK WOOD
ARTHUR CUTHBERT, NORTHAMPTON
And what about
SWALLOW INTERNATIONAL
FEBLAND EUROPA
Cadwallader`s took over Swallow International, so iam told by an ex
Caddies driver i work with.
Yes, that is correct. I was with them when Cadwalladers took them over.
Swallows had the contract with McCains, taking frozen chips to mainly France but when McCains moved their factory to Holland, that was the beginning of the end for Swallows. I joined them in May’81 as a holiday relief but was kept on. All we did (after the McCain contract finished) was empty out to Holland and load bacon back to the UK. Five trips a fortnight was the norm. Caddies would occasionally throw us the odd export load but the writing was already on the wall and by the end of 81, Caddies took the firm over completely.
jj72:
MARTINTRUX
KELLY FREIGHT
LOWE PADDOCK WOOD
ARTHUR CUTHBERT, NORTHAMPTON
And what about
SWALLOW INTERNATIONAL
FEBLAND EUROPA
Cadwallader`s took over Swallow International, so iam told by an ex
Caddies driver i work with.
Yes, that is correct. I was with them when Cadwalladers took them over.
Swallows had the contract with McCains, taking frozen chips to mainly France but when McCains moved their factory to Holland, that was the beginning of the end for Swallows. I joined them in May’81 as a holiday relief but was kept on. All we did (after the McCain contract finished) was empty out to Holland and load bacon back to the UK. Five trips a fortnight was the norm. Caddies would occasionally throw us the odd export load but the writing was already on the wall and by the end of 81, Caddies took the firm over completely.
You are obviously referring to a McCain’s contract prior to 81,but I am a little puzzled as to how Murfitts got the contract with McCain’s in the 90’s.I did some driving for them in 96 running out to Germany to the Ford factory,then spending the rest of the week backwards and forwards to Zebrugge.I am just curious how they got the contract so long afterwards,did McCain’s open up in the UK again!As you no doubt know,Murfitts stopped the contract years ago.I think Mark Murfitt runs a tyre recycling yard up in littleport,must be more money in old tyres.
maverick72:
anybody remember or have any pics of W.F Daniels from bromsgrove my old man used to drive for them they used to have the marathon and new scania 111 painted in red and white used to pull for corona
Didn’t they have a fleet of union jack ERF’s before they closed in the early 80’s. I seem to remember their yard being near Merry Hill. As for Lloyds of Ludlow, they sold up a year or two back. Their sliderflex steel trailers can be seen being pulled by Multiserv/Faber Prest motors.
truckyboy:
been looking through my book of old companies…here are a few…:
BJ MYERS
AUDNEL FREIGHT
L.E.P.
EUROPEAN FREIGHT BUS
EUROMOVE
WEBSTER MILLER
ALBERT FISHER
P.I.E.
AMG INTERFREIGHT
PARTRICK INTERNATIONAL
CABMONT
ATWELL
FALCON ROADWAYS
FAIRFREIGHT INTERNATIONAL
SEABOURNE EXPRESS
NICHOLLS ENFIELD
BARRY TITTERELL
R.H.TROTTMAN
SHENANDOAH
MURPHYS
MARTINTRUX
BOWLER INTERNATIONAL
KELLY FREIGHT
LACEYS BARKING
WENTMORE HAULAGE
LLOYDS LUDLOW
CADWALLADER
O.H.S.
VISBEEN
FREIGHT FORCE
U.F.O.
HICKS
LOWE PADDOCK WOOD
FERRY FREIGHTING
HARGREAVE
MONDIAL
WHITE TRUX
ROBA
MCKELLA
BERESFORD
DOW FREIGHT
MYERS
SEE IF YOU KNOW SOME OF THESE
I remember doing some agency work for Cabmont in the late 1980s from the Dartford International Ferry Terminal for a couple of weeks pulling Norfolk Line tilts.
It was a real mixed bag, sometimes you had full loads of steelwork that required a full strip out of the tilt, other times you took unit loads to Ford at Dagenham, sat (or slept) there all day and then got sent home without doing a stroke of work.
Also took trailers in there and swapped over, mostly felt like they were completely empty…
Robsons owned by Charlie Robson and used to import beer, as a sideline they ran the Tottenham Hotspurs team coach …Due to the sponsors (Holstein) being one of Charlies biggest customers, for some reason Charlie thought the coach would be untouched when parked up in his yard off Evelyn St Deptford, (Right opposite my house) in the Heart of Millwall FC country
Robsons had some nice liveried trucks, none more so than the limited edition Scania Centurions he bought.
Charlie also had a warehouse off the Old Kent Road in the old Railway marshalling yards, which was full of Corned Beef and exotic beers, Unfortunatly he had to leave there in a hurry as he had forgotten to ask British Railways if they minded him useing their disused warehouse
remember back in early 90s jamaican guy used to drive for them used to see him tipping at banks,s brewery wolverhampton nice scania motor too centurian if i remeber rite?
were have all the years gone?
I used to travel with my mate when I was a kid in his white road boss with a tank for ibis international or Morgan overland trucking in another guise. They bought one of them famous bra marathons as well. They had 3 whites as I remember the other two were cabovers they pulled tilts as well. They were based in alsager stoke on Trent, black and green, never forget my mate taking another driver out for a spin in the road boss and him getting travel sick and spuin down the steps
A company mentioned in the original list on the first post Audnel freight, used to be called Holmes Overseas in the 70s an early 80s, then changed to Audnel freight, owned by Audrey and Neil Holmes, hence Aud-Neil. Used to be green scania 111s and m.a.ns. Used to run out of syston leics’.
Finished the transport about 6yrs ago, and just recently, in the last 2 years sold off the warehousing.
That’s what happens when you play with matches,bottom must have fell out of the tyre business