Thats spot on,although the turning into may be not quite right , C.Minnaar were alreadt established at Boston earlier but then moved operations to Earith where there was a ready made depot and cold storage facilities. I worked for a bloke called Stan Marshall who took over the running of EFP and had the pick of Minnaar’s work i could be wrong but i dont think there was ever a ‘take over’ as such more like an amalgamation.Stan ran at the time 3Guy Big j with Gardner Engines, 1 Dodge with a V8 Perkins, 1 BMC Mastiff with a perkins V8, 3 4 wheeler Guys with the Leyland 401,1 Dodge 4 wheeler with a Perkins 354,Later they got modern and bought Mercedes 1418s to replace the Guy’s , then replaced these with 3 more 1418 's a year later, Prior to this they ran some BMC 4 and 6 wheel flats and also a sentinel 6 wheeler and a BMC artic.
never did keep any pictures (dammit)
There is as always much more to it that i dont know the details sufficiently well enough to comment,perhaps some one else does ?
Sorry if this is self-indulgent, but here’s my old Steyr.
How about Sellars & Batty of Peterboro,Dow Concrete,Riverside Garage in Market Deeping,anyone remember any of those?
5thwheel:
How about Sellars & Batty of Peterboro,Dow Concrete,Riverside Garage in Market Deeping,anyone remember any of those?[/quote Sellars & Batty were down Fengate, though I think they may have moved. IIRC, Dow Concrete were at Tallington. Did they make long beams? Can’t say I remember Riverside Garage, even though my operating centre was at Market Deeping.
Hi gb1,
Yes Dow carried abnormal size loads of concrete beams etc out of Tallington,Riverside Garage was situated on the left hand side of the Stamford Road,some 50yds after the roundabout,but before you got to the property on the left that used to be a mill,was owned by the Geest[banana’s]family,my mates father used to chaffeur/handyman and lived in accomodation there,we used to take Geest’s Green Racing Bentley and Silver Gullswing Merc for rides around Deeping,those were the days!
Take it easy 
5thwheel:
Hi gb1,Yes Dow carried abnormal size loads of concrete beams etc out of Tallington,Riverside Garage was situated on the left hand side of the Stamford Road,some 50yds after the roundabout,but before you got to the property on the left that used to be a mill,was owned by the Geest[banana’s]family,my mates father used to chaffeur/handyman and lived in accomodation there,we used to take Geest’s Green Racing Bentley and Silver Gullswing Merc for rides around Deeping,those were the days!
Take it easy
Once did a delivery of furniture to the Geest house, back in the days when I worked for Reads of Peterborough. Beautiful place.
I used to operate out of Hereward Freight’s yard before I moved up to Yorkshire.
Just found this in a book.An F7 and Renault at Peterborough Freight Terminal sidings loading molasses from railcars in 1982.I presume it’s on the old New England loco yard north of Peterborough North station.I’m not sure of the name of the tanker company,looks like Orlan Tankers Ltd.Were they Peterborough based?
Think you’ve got the right location Chris. That looks like the Baker-Perkins offices in the distance. I can remember Orlan, but don’t know where they were based.
i remember c minaar, what about r.e.harradine also at earith used to do alot of minaar work had scania 111s and some f88s quite a mixed fleet as i remember! then between st ives and somersham was walter game wholesale fruit and veg, and T.B oliver is another i remember from veg markets they were from benwick
thehood:
i remember c minaar, what about r.e.harradine also at earith used to do alot of minaar work had scania 111s and some f88s quite a mixed fleet as i remember! then between st ives and somersham was walter game wholesale fruit and veg, and T.B oliver is another i remember from veg markets they were from benwick
T B Olivers became part of R W Simpson, don’t know whether they kept the yard on the way out to Pondersbridge though? If LB76 is around he’ll give you a comment on Harradines 
Comment ! i could write a book !!!Would not be printable on here,dont want this to turn into an electrical version of ‘Le Pub’
A few old un’s here from my days with Reads of Peterborough.
Apologies for the small size of the photo’s.
Reads were heavily into removals.
Ford Transcontinental, driven by Graham Wakefield, loaded for the Middle-East.
One of a batch of 6, bought in 1979.
TAV 902S, LHD Ford Transcontinental. It was fitted with a ‘kitchen-pack’, that included fridge, gas-cooker, wash-basin.
LEG 860P, which was driven by Barry Hill, seen on show at the East of England Show, prior to delivery.
Ford A-Series did a lot of Euro-work.
Scania was bought from an O/D, and did several trips to the Middle-East.
Mark R:
These Mercedes 1628s were used mainly on the general haulage side if i remember, as with a mere 280 horses on tap they would be struggling on the really heavy stuff!!
Mark it us the diff,gear box axle ratio which is more importent on Heavy haulage as the Scammell “junior” Contractor had a 250 ■■■■■■■ and was rated at 125 tons GTW and would do about 52mph solo. The ballasted tractor would be approx.26 tons, trailer 30 tons and a 70 ton load would be pulled by a junior on it’s own.So a SK Merc 280 with hub reduction axles would not have to much problem on heavy work.
Couple of Scammells from the Walker fleet.
DAF operated by Taylors of Ailsworth.
Mid-Anglia Transport ran a selection of ERF’s and Fodens.
Papworths ran a very smart fleet of Volvo’s.
Hiya… have any of you Peterborough lads got any Welches lorry photo’s. i was on the Brick job in the 70s and I can remember
Welches having a few lorry’s doing bricks I think they had ERF…Atki…and some Bedford KMs.
Cheers John.
3300John:
Hiya… have any of you Peterborough lads got any Welches lorry photo’s. i was on the Brick job in the 70s and I can remember
Welches having a few lorry’s doing bricks I think they had ERF…Atki…and some Bedford KMs.
Cheers John.
Hows this John Not a very clear picture, but better than nothing!
Trev.
Hiya…trev. Thanks for the pikky in welches colours. This is a photo i found on Scrapbook memories.
This is a colour photo of the same truck… This belongs to a pal of mine and told me it was Welches from new
The colour photo was taken in 2004 by Bill clewes at Astel park rally.Thanks again for the photo.
John
Okay Murfitts were a littleport firm but all the fridges and some roadtrains were based at whittlesey . Heres a pic of mine.
Slightly further afield, how about CS Ellis from South Luffenham? Can’t recall who mentioned Musgroves from Stamford but they are no longer anyway. Didn’t Cyril Bridge get swallowed by Turners? They even had the same colour stripes around the cab.
3300John:
Hiya…trev. Thanks for the pikky in welches colours. This is a photo i found on Scrapbook memories.
This is a colour photo of the same truck… This belongs to a pal of mine and told me it was Welches from new
The colour photo was taken in 2004 by Bill clewes at Astel park rally.Thanks again for the photo.
John
The “puddle jumper” looks a bit vulnrable by the drivers corner!!Bewick.