Goodier the tipper haulier was an old preston company but now gone,although I believe they still rent out trailers.They ran Maroon coloured Seddon Atkinsons in the latter years
alix did about 6 months for john goodier before starting at city but hasnt any pictures of it
alix worked for john goodier before he started for city but hasnt any pics
Nice one bob-lad
Have you anymore Goodier photos
what about irish joe brownlee worked with me at D&A moons ago tommy brindle also worked at p&o
what about bridges boy racers and walter southworths
Nice pic of the Chris Miller Atki, 240 Gardner, but whoever did the sheeting should be hung drawn and given a ford D type.
by the way laybuy Tommy Brindle did a long spell at Caledonian while I was on M/E and I then met up with him again at Pandoro in the eighties. A night out with Tommy was a night out. Remember him taking us into the Juniper Berry in Southampton about 1970 but it seemed really wild then. Cautiously reckless.
Stanfield:
Nice one bob-lad
Have you anymore Goodier photos
A couple more of John Goodier’s motors:
laybuy:
what about irish joe brownlee worked with me at D&A moons ago tommy brindle also worked at p&o
I think I remember Tommy Brindle being unfortunate enough to land one of the Buffaloes
Those Atki photos are superb 240G.
Any idea when the W&J Riding photo was taken? That looks a really early curtain-sider, and I’ve been trying to figure out a rough date for them becoming standard-issue (as opposed to flatbeds).
See your point about the sleeper conversion (mentioned on another thread re Stampers). Did W&J Riding do them in-house or was there a local specialist?
macdangerous:
Those Atki photos are superb 240G.
Any idea when the W&J Riding photo was taken? That looks a really early curtain-sider, and I’ve been trying to figure out a rough date for them becoming standard-issue (as opposed to flatbeds).See your point about the sleeper conversion (mentioned on another thread re Stampers). Did W&J Riding do them in-house or was there a local specialist?
Thanks Mac D - having a bag full of Atkinson factory negatives does help 
I don’t know when the RIding pic was taken, I’m afraid - I believe it’s one of Tom Riding’s own photos. With regard to curtain-siders, the first Boalloy Tautliner was built in 1969 but, from my own experience in general haulage, I would say that they became the more dominant type from around 1985. Heinz, CWS Drinks, Whitbread and Schweppes were certainly still loading flats at that time. It will differ according to the firm and its customers and traffic, of course.
Riding sleepers were an in-house job, done in their own garage. The very first one was built by the coachbuilders, Fowler’s of Leyland (actually a subsidiary of J Fishwick & Sons, the well-known Leyland bus operator), and had an extended roof with beading covering the join. Riding’s reckoned they could do the job better themselves, and actually created a new, one-piece extended roof moulding.
Apparently, the routine was to run the motor in Friday night after work, fit the conversion over the weekend and have it in the paintshop Monday morning, so that it emerged as a newly-painted sleeper after just a week off the road.
They did build them for other operators too - I collected what I’m told was the last one built, a 6x4 Venturer for Pandoro, one Sunday afternoon in 1982. Several of these cabs are in preservation now, including the Pandoro one, although it now sits on an 8-wheeler.
this pic taken outside dept in longridge loaded with tricoetheline ? from ici thornton the front of cad rebuilt after a fight with a horse I seem to think joe masterson was the driver at the time I think this was one of the last b r s motors along with 460 nvt
boblad I think the ERF from pandoro was smashed up but cant be too sure paul morris drove its sister motor
bob-lad:
Well, Bob, if we’re going to have a photo of JRN 37H, then we might as well have one of JRN 38H, eh?
In glorious Technicolour, and showing off that fantastic Northern Ireland Trailers livery:
Both are, of course, Peter Davies photos, and scanned from two of his excellent books
Actually laybuy 576 was Paul’s motor and he brought me and me missus home in his taxi tonight.
Hope all well with you and yours, cheers for now, Mackers
The Atkinson on the swan neck is an ex NITS unit MRN 382K, the last Atki bought by them to their spec.
Taken at Leyland Spring Transport Show, Leyland Commercial Transport Museum sunday 17th May
It was bought by Brian Nelson who used it to haul sawdust to Haltwhistle. It passed into the hands
of David Partington and one more owner before I bought it for restoration last March. Perched on the
rear of the step frame is Mildred my 1945 Thornycroft Sturdy Diesel. Regards Big Al
Any one got pictures of John Ditchfield’s fleet, I drove for John & Judith out of Heinz Kit Green
and beer out of Samlesbury brewery. Never got to take any pictures 
regards Big Al