PAUL GEE's PHOTO COLLECTION (Part 1)

deanb · 31 October 2017 08:07

moomooland:
I was hoping when i first saw this picture that my friend the late Peter Davison was at the wheel may be Chris Gardner will recognise the driver.

Here’s a few shots taken by the late Peter Davison who drove for Bowkers of Blackburn for a while.

Thanks for the pics Paul, maybe your friend was driving the F89 beind the F10 !

deanb · 31 October 2017 08:20

moomooland:
1Originally Harvey Plant of Avonmouth was a national plant hire company.
By the time this picture was taken they had become become ‘Lex Harvey’ with the unit and trailer painted in the familiar Lex Service Group Ltd orange and blue.
The Lex Service Group Ltd once owned the likes of Albany Freight, Bees Transport, Carpet Express and Wilkinson Transport Group Ltd .

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Thanks for the info Paul and pic ! I dont know how you keep track of who took who over !

pete 359:

DEANB:
Tony Morgan’s Mack with low loader.
Hi DEANB,
Excellent images once again.love the Tony Morgan MACK.
regards andrew.

I thought you would like that one Andrew ! Is the Evans & Williams a welsh motor ■■

Chris Webb:
Anyone recognise the Crusader ■■?
The Scammell Crusader is one of Alf Vaughan’s from Worksop,Notts Dean.

Thanks Chris for the name !

gazsa401:
The Scammell Crusader is one of Alf Vaughan’s from Worksop,Notts Dean.

When Alf Vaughn passed away his fleet consisted mainly of skip/roro lorries and with some general haulage lorries
Taylor’s of Mansfield purchased some of his general haulage lorries/trailers along with Maurice Hills

Thanks for the info “gazsa401” You back from holiday !

Bewick:
It looks like that Brady 111 is coupled to an ex Athersmith “short arsed” tandem. Cheers Bewick.

Thanks Dennis for your comment !

deanb · 31 October 2017 08:36

B.J.Water’s Atkinson.

Warners transport ERF

Croda metal treatments F86

Gateway food markets MAN

J Hayne & Son Crusader about to be overtaken by possibly a Montgomery F88

deanb · 31 October 2017 08:47

John keeling & Son’s stunning F10. That has to be one of the best colour schemes we have had in
these photos in my opinion.

Double diamond ERF

Chris will like this one !

Lampeter timber and trading Foden

H.Morgan & Sons DAF

gazsa401 · 31 October 2017 08:53

Thanks for the info “gazsa401” You back from holiday !
Back tomorrow mate [emoji1303]

moomooland · 31 October 2017 09:07

Gateway has its origins in a Bristol-based grocer known as J H Mills which was founded in 1875.
It later developed into a self-service supermarket chain named Gateway Foodmarkets in 1960.
During the early 1970’s Gateway operated primarily in the southwest of England with a few stores elsewhere.
In May 1994 the company changed its name to Somerfield plc who In 1998 took over rival Kwik Save in a £473 million deal.
In March 2009 Somerfield was taken over by the Co-operative Group in a £1.57 billion deal creating the UK’s fifth-largest food retailer with the Somerfield name replaced by the Co-operative brand in a rolling program of store conversions ending in summer 2011.

Gateway FG-001.JPG

Photograph courtesy of Tim Walton

mark_r · 31 October 2017 11:00

The John Keeling Volvo F10 looks like it could have been brand new on that day!.. Not a spek of dirt anywhere, not even on the chassis or wheels.

gazsa401 · 31 October 2017 11:17

moomooland:
2Gateway has its origins in a Bristol-based grocer known as J H Mills which was founded in 1875.
It later developed into a self-service supermarket chain named Gateway Foodmarkets in 1960.
During the early 1970’s Gateway operated primarily in the southwest of England with a few stores elsewhere.
In May 1994 the company changed its name to Somerfield plc who In 1998 took over rival Kwik Save in a £473 million deal.
In March 2009 Somerfield was taken over by the Co-operative Group in a £1.57 billion deal creating the UK’s fifth-largest food retailer with the Somerfield name replaced by the Co-operative brand in a rolling program of store conversions ending in summer 2011.

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Gateway also took over Fine Fare Supermarkets
They ran a large fleet of Orange ERFs and Leyland Buffalos
There’s a day cabbed ERF “C” series which has been restored in Fine Fare colours going round the vintage scene

moomooland · 31 October 2017 11:53

Marcus did a bit about John Keeling on here way back in 2009.
You can go direct to the post by clicking HERE

pete_359 · 31 October 2017 12:00

Hi Dean,
Yes Evans and Williams were from letterston in west Wales.An immaculate much missed fleet.
Regards andrew

smallcoal · 31 October 2017 12:46

hi dean a cople of picsi took in the classroom on the wall as im doing my adr cheers john

gravydavey · 31 October 2017 12:48

Having enjoyed looking at all the photos on your site would it be okay to post the Calor ones onto the Calor Transport page.

240_gardner · 31 October 2017 12:49

DEANB:
Chris will like this one !

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Thanks Dean! I didn’t know that they had Marathons too - to be honest, we on the traffic desks at Pandoro had very little interaction with other parts of the P&O Group, apart from drawing fuel at other Group depots

240_gardner · 31 October 2017 12:56

DEANB:

moomooland:
4I was hoping when i first saw this picture that my friend the late Peter Davison was at the wheel may be Chris Gardner will recognise the driver.

Here’s a few shots taken by the late Peter Davison who drove for Bowkers of Blackburn for a while.

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Thanks for the pics Paul, maybe your friend was driving the F89 beind the F10 !

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Thanks both! (And Paul Gee too, as ever )

I’m afraid I don’t recognise the driver in the F10, but that motor had already gone when I joined the firm in 1982, and maybe the driver had too. However, I can tell that it belongs to the international side of the business, not only by being an F10, but also with the widespread tandem flat (the old castellated frame York) and the horrible, big heavy plastic sheets used by International. By contrast, the F89 has UK (canvas) sheets on his trailer, although it’s probably an international trailer - that would have caused an argument back at the depot, about nabbing each other’s equipment!

Pete joined in 1980 and left, I think, 1987. He had the F10 only briefly when he first joined - normally F10s would be used only by the international fleet, but this one was coming up for disposal. He followed that with a sleeper-cabbed Borderer for a short while and then settled into the F7 in Paul’s photo.

chris_webb · 31 October 2017 13:57

Chris will like this one !

Coastal Roadways from Pyle,worked out of BP Baglan Bay.Hazchem code looks like 1085 which is Vinyl Bromide,something I know nowt about.Vinyl Acetate is the nearest to it that I loaded out of Baglan.Richard Evans,Albert Evans’ son ran a Marathon with a similar reg number TMC 135S.

frankydobo · 31 October 2017 15:24

Gazsa401 wrote;
Gateway also took over Fine Fare Supermarkets
They ran a large fleet of Orange ERFs and Leyland Buffalos
There’s a day cabbed ERF “C” series which has been restored in Fine Fare colours going round the vintage scene.

This is the ERF mentioned, I took this at Gaydon not long after the restoration. I showed this to my younger Brother he drove for Fine Fare then Gateway from the Hucknall depot, Buffalo’s, ERF’s and Scania’s in Gateway colours. He said he knew the unit and the driver as they came from the same depot (I believe it was the driver who owned and restored it). Fine Fare also had a depot in Washington in the Northeast, my father worked there in the warehouse and a couple of mates drove for them, it was a decent job too at the time, shame when it went belly up. Franky.

gazsa401 · 31 October 2017 15:37

Frankydobo:
Gazsa401 wrote;
Gateway also took over Fine Fare Supermarkets
They ran a large fleet of Orange ERFs and Leyland Buffalos
There’s a day cabbed ERF “C” series which has been restored in Fine Fare colours going round the vintage scene.

This is the ERF mentioned, I took this at Gaydon not long after the restoration. I showed this to my younger Brother he drove for Fine Fare then Gateway from the Hucknall depot, Buffalo’s, ERF’s and Scania’s in Gateway colours. He said he knew the unit and the driver as they came from the same depot (I believe it was the driver who owned and restored it). Fine Fare also had a depot in Washington in the Northeast, my father worked there in the warehouse and a couple of mates drove for them, it was a decent job too at the time, shame when it went belly up. Franky.
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Hiya Franky did you know a driver from Hucknall named John Staton ?

240_gardner · 31 October 2017 15:38

240 Gardner:

DEANB:
Chris will like this one !

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Thanks Dean! I didn’t know that they had Marathons too - to be honest, we on the traffic desks at Pandoro had very little interaction with other parts of the P&O Group, apart from drawing fuel at other Group depots

PS Here’s the first of a batch of 10 Marathons acquired by Pandoro in 1977:

285 DCW 56S by 240 Gardner, on Flickr

It was on that trip out, driven by the company driving instructor that we saw an indicated 78 mph on the M55…

deanb · 31 October 2017 16:55

moomooland:
2Gateway has its origins in a Bristol-based grocer known as J H Mills which was founded in 1875.
It later developed into a self-service supermarket chain named Gateway Foodmarkets in 1960.
During the early 1970’s Gateway operated primarily in the southwest of England with a few stores elsewhere.
In May 1994 the company changed its name to Somerfield plc who In 1998 took over rival Kwik Save in a £473 million deal.
In March 2009 Somerfield was taken over by the Co-operative Group in a £1.57 billion deal creating the UK’s fifth-largest food retailer with the Somerfield name replaced by the Co-operative brand in a rolling program of store conversions ending in summer 2011.

Thanks Paul, i thought when i put that pic on you may know about them ! Nice pics as well !

Mark R:
The John Keeling Volvo F10 looks like it could have been brand new on that day!.. Not a spek of dirt anywhere, not even on the chassis or wheels.

Probably new as you say Mark as Paul liked to take alot of pics the first 2 weks of August,to see the new
regs on the road !

gazsa401:
Gateway also took over Fine Fare Supermarkets
They ran a large fleet of Orange ERFs and Leyland Buffalos
There’s a day cabbed ERF “C” series which has been restored in Fine Fare colours going round the vintage scene

Thanks for the comments “gazsa401”

moomooland:
1Marcus did a bit about John Keeling on here way back in 2009.
You can go direct to the post by clicking

Thanks for that link Paul,i will have a look at that !

pete 359:
Hi Dean,
Yes Evans and Williams were from letterston in west Wales.An immaculate much missed fleet.
Regards andrew

Thought they might have been !

smallcoal:
hi dean a cople of picsi took in the classroom on the wall as im doing my adr cheers john

Thanks for the pics John ! Hope you pass !

gravydavey:
Having enjoyed looking at all the photos on your site would it be okay to post the Calor ones onto the Calor Transport page.

Will PM you “gravydavey”

240 Gardner:

DEANB:
Chris will like this one !

Thanks Dean! I didn’t know that they had Marathons too - to be honest, we on the traffic desks at Pandoro had very little interaction with other parts of the P&O Group, apart from drawing fuel at other Group depots

I think there may be another one floating about of a Marathon.

240 Gardner:
Thanks both! (And Paul Gee too, as ever )

I’m afraid I don’t recognise the driver in the F10, but that motor had already gone when I joined the firm in 1982, and maybe the driver had too. However, I can tell that it belongs to the international side of the business, not only by being an F10, but also with the widespread tandem flat (the old castellated frame York) and the horrible, big heavy plastic sheets used by International. By contrast, the F89 has UK (canvas) sheets on his trailer, although it’s probably an international trailer - that would have caused an argument back at the depot, about nabbing each other’s equipment!

Pete joined in 1980 and left, I think, 1987. He had the F10 only briefly when he first joined - normally F10s would be used only by the international fleet, but this one was coming up for disposal. He followed that with a sleeper-cabbed Borderer for a short while and then settled into the F7 in Paul’s photo.

Thanks for the comments Chris !

Chris Webb:
Chris will like this one !

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Coastal Roadways from Pyle,worked out of BP Baglan Bay.Hazchem code looks like 1085 which is Vinyl Bromide,something I know nowt about.Vinyl Acetate is the nearest to it that I loaded out of Baglan.Richard Evans,Albert Evans’ son ran a Marathon with a similar reg number TMC 135S.

Nice pic Chris !

Frankydobo:
Gazsa401 wrote;
Gateway also took over Fine Fare Supermarkets
They ran a large fleet of Orange ERFs and Leyland Buffalos
There’s a day cabbed ERF “C” series which has been restored in Fine Fare colours going round the vintage scene.

This is the ERF mentioned, I took this at Gaydon not long after the restoration. I showed this to my younger Brother he drove for Fine Fare then Gateway from the Hucknall depot, Buffalo’s, ERF’s and Scania’s in Gateway colours. He said he knew the unit and the driver as they came from the same depot (I believe it was the driver who owned and restored it). Fine Fare also had a depot in Washington in the Northeast, my father worked there in the warehouse and a couple of mates drove for them, it was a decent job too at the time, shame when it went belly up. Franky.
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Thanks for the pic and input Franky !

240 Gardner:

240 Gardner:

DEANB:
Chris will like this one !

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Thanks Dean! I didn’t know that they had Marathons too - to be honest, we on the traffic desks at Pandoro had very little interaction with other parts of the P&O Group, apart from drawing fuel at other Group depots

PS Here’s the first of a batch of 10 Marathons acquired by Pandoro in 1977:

285 DCW 56S by 240 Gardner, on Flickr

It was on that trip out, driven by the company driving instructor that we saw an indicated 78 mph on the M55…