PAUL GEE's PHOTO COLLECTION (Part 1)

[kempston]

coomsey:
From Derby Dean,used to be Akkys mostly. They were sold to Fred Sherwood’s early 90s(?) , His son Alan was running Sherwood’s then n got a large house in its own ground thrown in with the deal. The company I worked for used to do his electrical work n we rewired it before his son moved in
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They used to do work for me when I was at Smiths.

[chris_webb]

Hi Dean,thanks for the Calor and Gilbraith photos.
The Staveley Chemicals Foden is loading at the BTC plant - benzene,toluene and cyclohexane.All their spirit wagons were double shifted 24/7 moving BTC to different sites,a lot to Immingham Storage and places like ICI Fleetwood,ICI Huddersfield,Shell Carrington and cyclohexane to Nypro Flixborough until the explosion there in 1974.I’ve done all those jobs when working for A E Evans and George Bloomer.It was quick loading,5000 galls of product in 20 minutes and you could load and tip in there 24/7.Their drivers were on top money,there was always a waiting list to get on when it was own account work.Then Rhone-Poulenc bought them out and things altered.

[mantronic]

ianto:

DEANB:
Anyone know where Charles Carr are based ? Bit of a miss match on colours between the fridge decals and the colour of the unit.

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Anyone recognise the “tidy” Mercedes ■■

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Tidy Mercedes of DJB Haulage.

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R.T.Keedwell Scania.

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Cant remember if we have had a Cargo Carriers motor on before,anyone know where they are based ■■

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Anyone know where N Virocycle are from ■■

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Anyone know how many motors Gregory’s run as they have been buying up other companies the last few years, so must be a fair size now.

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Bulk Freight Volvo from the Midlands.

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G.J.Price Scania from South Wales.
Think that G J Price were based in Sennybridge halfway between Brecon and Llandovery on the A40 still think they run a Scania 6 wheel tipper Sennybridge is known to a lot of Army service men as there is a camp there for training on the Epynt military ranges just down the road
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The driver lived in Brecon ,and would park up down Canal street ,have not seen that Scania for a couple of years now , MT

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[pete_smith]

Morning Dean,
Cargo Carriers are from Great Bridge West Midlands. I think that was an ex BTS motor

[kempston]

oiltreader:

Chris Webb:
Morning Dean.
Vinatex had two sites,one at Havant and tother in Staveley Chemicals Chesterfield. They made PVC powder from VCM - Vinyl Chloride Monomer which was extremely hazardous.BP and ICI made it and drivers had to go on special courses to learn more about it.Calor Transport carried it out of BP Baglan Bay and Gilbraith Tankers out of ICI Runcorn in specially designed tanks.
Attached a photo of the offloading point at Staveley which was near to where we loaded Benzene,Toluene and Cyclohexane.
Incidentally I applied for a job with Calor Transport,they wanted a driver on nights based at Staveley doing a Worcester changeover with their Briton Ferry driver on that VCM job.Unfortunately I got a letter from them to say that Vinatex were closing their operation so I was not required.I would have had to go on a course as mentioned above.I think from memory that full rigs were to be exchanged at Worcester,not trailer changes,to minimise any risk.It was 1978/79 so I’m a bit hazy.

One like this perhaps Chris. Credit to SCP for the photo.
Oily

Bloke I worked with at Argos used to drive for Gilbraiths, really nice old guy, Bill Wallace, run with him a couple of times and had a really good laugh when we were loading etc, especially when the manager with a Davy crocket haircut at Basingstoke depot was trying to give us a bollocking for driving the wrong way in the yard (due to said manager arranging the yard so it was impossible to go the correct way) he threatened to ban Bill from the site as he told him he was talking ■■■■■■■■ to which Bill replied in a broad Rochdale accent, you can do what ya f*****g like, I retire in a fortnight

[tastrucker]

DEANB:
Anyone know what SCT stands for and where they are from ■■

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QTR Transport MAN.

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FTS Hatswell MAN. Anyone know where they are from ■■

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H.F.Owen from Wales.

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Davie Malcolm seem to come and go fairly quickly i seem to remember ? They operated some shorter fridges with unusal axle configurations.

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S.J.Bargh Scania. Dont remember ever seeing a rough one always look smart with a great colour scheme which is nice to see.

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Carefoot MAN. Article on page 495.

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Shame about the car,but another great colour scheme on the Shirley’s Scania.Article on page 487.

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Have not seen a G&S for a long time,anyone know if they are still going ■■

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Tidy Scania of Marron from Ireland.

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Hello DEAN ,FTS ,Freight Transport Srevices from Deeside Cywd ,now mostly MANs they did at one time hauled a lot out of Shotton paper ,thank you Trevor

[coomsey]

I reckon you’ll like this trio Dean,NMP

[pete_smith]

Hi Dean,
That Daf was new to Paul Capper from Wolverhampton, it was owned by a lad from Chichester in your pic.
The pic of it in Pauls livery is credit to Jason.

[robthedog]

pete smith:
Hi Dean,
That Daf was new to Paul Capper from Wolverhampton, it was owned by a lad from Chichester in your pic.
The pic of it in Pauls livery is credit to Jason.

Well what can you say, apart from he ruined the look of that !!

[kempston]

coomsey:
I reckon you’ll like this trio Dean,NMP
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Cracking photo coomsey, take it they are no longer around or have been swallowed up by a large group. They did a few loads of plastic granules up to Liverpool for me when I was Transport manager at Smiths until they delivered 20 pallets to the wrong address!

[deanb]

robthedog:
“DEANB” Anyone know where Charles Carr are based ? Bit of a miss match on colours between the fridge decals and the colour of the unit.

Charles Carr are from Donegal republic of Ireland

Cheers Rob, never noticed the Irish number plates.

ianto:
“DEANB”

G.J.Price Scania from South Wales.
Think that G J Price were based in Sennybridge halfway between Brecon and Llandovery on the A40 still think they run a Scania 6 wheel tipper Sennybridge is known to a lot of Army service men as there is a camp there for training on the Epynt military ranges just down the road

Thanks for the info Ian. Heres one of there Maggie’s.

Kempston:
Here we go Dean, you are right a very sizeable company.

gregory.co.uk/

Thanks for the link “Kempston” 1900 trailers and a 1000 vehicles. They are larger than i thought.

coomsey:
From Derby Dean,used to be Akkys mostly. They were sold to Fred Sherwood’s early 90s(?) , His son Alan was running Sherwood’s then n got a large house in its own ground thrown in with the deal. The company I worked for used to do his electrical work n we rewired it before his son moved in

Thanks for the details “coomsey” One of Fred Sherwood’s.

Kempston:
“coomsey” From Derby Dean,used to be Akkys mostly. They were sold to Fred Sherwood’s early 90s(?) , His son Alan was running Sherwood’s then n got a large house in its own ground thrown in with the deal. The company I worked for used to do his electrical work n we rewired it before his son moved in

They used to do work for me when I was at Smiths.

Chris Webb:
Hi Dean,thanks for the Calor and Gilbraith photos.
The Staveley Chemicals Foden is loading at the BTC plant - benzene,toluene and cyclohexane.All their spirit wagons were double shifted 24/7 moving BTC to different sites,a lot to Immingham Storage and places like ICI Fleetwood,ICI Huddersfield,Shell Carrington and cyclohexane to Nypro Flixborough until the explosion there in 1974.I’ve done all those jobs when working for A E Evans and George Bloomer.It was quick loading,5000 galls of product in 20 minutes and you could load and tip in there 24/7.Their drivers were on top money,there was always a waiting list to get on when it was own account work.Then Rhone-Poulenc bought them out and things altered.

Thanks for the comments Chris,thats going some loading 5,000 gallons in 20 minutes.

MANTRONIC:
“ianto” “DEANB”

G.J.Price Scania from South Wales.
Think that G J Price were based in Sennybridge halfway between Brecon and Llandovery on the A40 still think they run a Scania 6 wheel tipper Sennybridge is known to a lot of Army service men as there is a camp there for training on the Epynt military ranges just down the road

The driver lived in Brecon ,and would park up down Canal street ,have not seen that Scania for a couple of years now , MT

Cheers MT.

pete smith:
Morning Dean,
Cargo Carriers are from Great Bridge West Midlands. I think that was an ex BTS motor

Cheers Pete.

Kempston:
Bloke I worked with at Argos used to drive for Gilbraiths, really nice old guy, Bill Wallace, run with him a couple of times and had a really good laugh when we were loading etc, especially when the manager with a Davy crocket haircut at Basingstoke depot was trying to give us a bollocking for driving the wrong way in the yard (due to said manager arranging the yard so it was impossible to go the correct way) he threatened to ban Bill from the site as he told him he was talking ■■■■■■■■ to which Bill replied in a broad Rochdale accent, you can do what ya f*****g like, I retire in a fortnight

Thats a cracker “Kempston” Give some people a title or uniform and they go power mad !

tastrucker:
“DEANB”

FTS Hatswell MAN. Anyone know where they are from ■■

Hello DEAN ,FTS ,Freight Transport Srevices from Deeside Cywd ,now mostly MANs they did at one time hauled a lot out of Shotton paper ,thank you Trevor

Thanks Trevor.

coomsey:
I reckon you’ll like this trio Dean,NMP

Lovely “coomsey”

pete smith:
Hi Dean,
That Daf was new to Paul Capper from Wolverhampton, it was owned by a lad from Chichester in your pic.
The pic of it in Pauls livery is credit to Jason.

Thanks for the info and pic Pete. Have to say i thought the red one looked awful.

robthedog:
"pete smith"Hi Dean,
That Daf was new to Paul Capper from Wolverhampton, it was owned by a lad from Chichester in your pic.
The pic of it in Pauls livery is credit to Jason.

Well what can you say, apart from he ruined the look of that !!

Kempston:
“coomsey” I reckon you’ll like this trio Dean,NMP

Cracking photo coomsey, take it they are no longer around or have been swallowed up by a large group. They did a few loads of plastic granules up to Liverpool for me when I was Transport manager at Smiths until they delivered 20 pallets to the wrong address!

[pete_smith]

robthedog:

pete smith:
Hi Dean,
That Daf was new to Paul Capper from Wolverhampton, it was owned by a lad from Chichester in your pic.
The pic of it in Pauls livery is credit to Jason.

Well what can you say, apart from he ruined the look of that !![/quote

Capper bought it back off that lad who ‘customised’ the motor and I can remember him telling me there was something like 60+ orange marker lights fitted to the unit, that chrome grill didn’t stay on it though.

[kempston]

Another regular operator taking rubbish into Shanks from London.

[240_gardner]

DEANB:
Cracking pic of a Gallacher Bros Atkinson. Intresting that the spare wheel is on the front bumper,i wonder why they put it there ? Looking at the pic again it says something like J.Price ■■ on the side of the cab so maybe its working for a company called Gallacher ?

I’ve found two photos of this in full Gallacher livery, taken when probably quite new. I think the reason for the wheel on the front is that it has twin full-sized tanks, and so there’s nowhere for the spare wheel to go. Perhaps in its Gallacher days, a tyre change might be a call-out job, but an owner driver would be managing with courteous, helpful, friendly and efficient self service!

[peggydeckboy]

I remember ACKWORTHS I think from HUDDERSFILED area they all had the spare wheel bolted on the front of the grill on their Big Js they were in a green livery, they carried tractors for DAVID BROWN DONCASTER plus case tractors for dock work export if my memory is correct. DBP. SORRY NO PHOTOS.

[oiltreader]

No move since Wednesday…a couple of Dorset wagons courtesy of SCP.
Oily

[deanb]

240 Gardner:
“DEANB” Cracking pic of a Gallacher Bros Atkinson. Intresting that the spare wheel is on the front bumper,i wonder why they put it there ? Looking at the pic again it says something like J.Price ■■ on the side of the cab so maybe its working for a company called Gallacher ?

I’ve found two photos of this in full Gallacher livery, taken when probably quite new. I think the reason for the wheel on the front is that it has twin full-sized tanks, and so there’s nowhere for the spare wheel to go. Perhaps in its Gallacher days, a tyre change might be a call-out job, but an owner driver would be managing with courteous, helpful, friendly and efficient self service!

Thanks for the info Chris.

peggydeckboy:
I remember ACKWORTHS I think from HUDDERSFILED area they all had the spare wheel bolted on the front of the grill on their Big Js they were in a green livery, they carried tractors for DAVID BROWN DONCASTER plus case tractors for dock work export if my memory is correct. DBP. SORRY NO PHOTOS.

Thanks for the comments “DBP”.

Think this is the same Ackworth.

oiltreader:
No move since Wednesday…a couple of Dorset wagons courtesy of SCP.
Oily

Cheers Oily. Taymix had a few issues and not even sure if they are still operating. H.J.Cole still going strong and there yard is situated in a residential road behind there
house.

[arcdaz]

DEANB:

240 Gardner:
“DEANB” Cracking pic of a Gallacher Bros Atkinson. Intresting that the spare wheel is on the front bumper,i wonder why they put it there ? Looking at the pic again it says something like J.Price ■■ on the side of the cab so maybe its working for a company called Gallacher ?

I’ve found two photos of this in full Gallacher livery, taken when probably quite new. I think the reason for the wheel on the front is that it has twin full-sized tanks, and so there’s nowhere for the spare wheel to go. Perhaps in its Gallacher days, a tyre change might be a call-out job, but an owner driver would be managing with courteous, helpful, friendly and efficient self service!

Thanks for the info Chris.

peggydeckboy:
I remember ACKWORTHS I think from HUDDERSFILED area they all had the spare wheel bolted on the front of the grill on their Big Js they were in a green livery, they carried tractors for DAVID BROWN DONCASTER plus case tractors for dock work export if my memory is correct. DBP. SORRY NO PHOTOS.

Thanks for the comments “DBP”.

Think this is the same Ackworth.

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oiltreader:
No move since Wednesday…a couple of Dorset wagons courtesy of SCP.
Oily

Cheers Oily. Taymix had a few issues and not even sure if they are still operating. H.J.Cole still going strong and there yard is situated in a residential road behind there
house.

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Hi Dean great to see you are back on here again hope to see more good pics back on here again soon Regards Daz

[robthedog]

DEANB:

peggydeckboy:
I remember ACKWORTHS I think from HUDDERSFILED area they all had the spare wheel bolted on the front of the grill on their Big Js they were in a green livery, they carried tractors for DAVID BROWN DONCASTER plus case tractors for dock work export if my memory is correct. DBP. SORRY NO PHOTOS.

Thanks for the comments “DBP”.

Think this is the same Ackworth.

Is that old Windrush in the background

[vwvanman0]

Think the tractor hauliers were James C Ashworth, not Ackworth, there is a sepetate thread on here dedicated to them, they got some tractors on those old trucks.

Steve