Oldest Company

UK PROFESSIONAL DRIVERS FORUMS OLD TIME LORRIES, COMPANIES AND DRIVERS (INTERACT
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Just wondered who is the longest established transport company, still trading under the same name as when they started?

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isnt there someone in scotland,shore porters or something,thats goes back to 1800’s or maybe even further.

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Think you could be right, Shore Porters Society, still doing removals apparently
Started in Aberdeen?

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Suedehead:
Think you could be right, Shore Porters Society, still doing removals apparently
Started in Aberdeen?

Still there, since 1498! :laughing:

Fascinating history, see here;

http://www.shoreporters.com/shore-porters-history.php

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you know i didnt want to confirm how stupid i am by saying something like 400 years :slight_smile: reckon we can wrap this question up now? :slight_smile:

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I think it was a motorcycle courier firm.

“you could hear the roar of triumph as Moses crossed the land” :smiley:

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Wheel Nut:
I think it was a motorcycle courier firm.

“you could hear the roar of triumph as Moses crossed the land” :smiley:

God Wheel Nut, you have go me thinking now :confused:

Can anybody remember in the early 70s, a company from up North or the Midlands called J. Lomas or J. Lomax who ran a fleet of red luton vans ?.
I remember seeing them very often going up and down th M1.
Above the cab on the front of the van it was written in large letters,
( " AND THE LORD SAID " ) and then in smaller letters there was I think a quote from the bible ( or was it a joke ). When ever I spotted one of their vans coming towards me , by the time that I had started trying to read the next line it was to late. :cry:
Can anybody shine any devine light on this company. :unamused:

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I once read an article in the financial pages of a daily paper which stated that the Shore Porters Society is the longest continuously trading business in the UK, Thats any buisness, not just transport related.

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I wonder how much night-out money Shore Porters paid their drivers in 1498. I got 10/6d in 1957.

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wessexman:
I wonder how much night-out money Shore Porters paid their drivers in 1498. I got 10/6d in 1957.

As a drivers mate aged 19 in 1957 I only got 7/6d.Must have been working for the wrong firm. :laughing: :laughing:

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But you were only a mate - probably did not drink as much.

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I made up for it the following year.I was promoted to a morris commercial.Pretty impressive eh? :laughing: :laughing:

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So Charlie when You went to work for Jim Rawlings you took a pay cut

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I used to pay him Ian.Or so it seemed.On a good week I used to earn fifty pounds.Mind you a lot of money in1848!! :laughing: :laughing: Have you got my PM?