Wheel Nut:
240 Gardner:
I’ve a vague recollection that this one had been new to T H Brown in Grimsby, although I’m not certain now (30 years later!)
It could have been as it is sporting a Lincolnshire registration number.
I know where that UUE pic was taken.
Pandoro at Fleetwood.
Peter
Peter Wells:
Brill pic. Have you any more?When I 1st sarted to hang around Wrights has a Kid at Midge Hall the MK2s where still being used and I have to put both feet on the dash to trun the dam steering wheel, but i was only 13 then lol.
E901 HHG 2035 EPS power liner, it had the box out and a maual box fitted
Its sister was E927 HHG.
Thats where I worked.
How did you get that photo?
Peter
I got that picture from Glyn Owen, who took it.
Glyn drove E901HHG, along with several other wagons for Wrights including an F88 with a coach diff which could catch pigeons…
I rember Glyn and his son in law.
Gobby owen was his nic name lol.
He was at the side if the gas bottles when the pipe blew of when we lit the cutting touch, that was when we was at Midge Hall.
If you see him ask him about it I am sure he will rember.
But he was there for yrs like me.
Happy days
Peter.
Peter Wells:
Tell you lot who we are missing lol.James Foleys from Preston docks they did all B+I line work and there is still one of there old mercs knocking around L/Pool on box work.
I believe that Foley was either a subsidiary of B&I or at least had some link
And, just to keep it local, the Merc is parked next to one of the Atkis that Foley bought from Pandoro for (on-road) shunting
Peter Wells:
Wheel Nut:
240 Gardner:
I know where that UUE pic was taken.Pandoro at Fleetwood.
Peter
Correct - the white brick wall in the backgriound is the back of Kwiksave. In the background is a brand new, sided trailer bought for carrying bitumen. If I remember correctly, it never turned a wheel in service - there were a few little iddities like that on the trailer fleet that were bought and hardly used.
marky:
I got that picture from Glyn Owen, who took it.
Ah. so that’s where I got it! I did take one or two through the fence, but clearly that wasn’t one of them!
Well known Preston Haulier Ainsworth & Martin who bought out another well known Haulier Alan Atkinson,
Alan now rents out trailers from is Midge Hall Depot ( I had a 65ft trombone off him this week)
My Company has a yard in Red Scar by the M6 junction 31A, just round the corner two more Preston Hauliers Both Ians
Ian Duxbury and Ian Parkinson, I will try and get some pictures this weekend when i pick up the post from Red Scar office.
Ian Duxbury’s father David was well know in the early 70’s as a pioneer on the middle east run. Regards Big Al
Surprised no one mentioned H.Parkinson down at Walton Summit, used to see them a lot at the Whitbread Brewery
at Samlesbury as you patiently waited 9/10 hours to load. They installed a new loading systems that picked up about
20 full pallets of beer at once and dropped them on your deck, only trouble was it was broken down nearly every day.
regards Big Al
240 Gardner:
marky:
I got that picture from Glyn Owen, who took it.Ah. so that’s where I got it! I did take one or two through the fence, but clearly that wasn’t one of them!
Hi Chris sorry a little off thread, I think I recalled to you ref meeting Mike Fountain of Fountain Bros Transport Aylsbury
I had left him my card and last week got a really nice letter from him with some pictures from his fleet including one of
HVD 376N with the 240 Gardner when she was in her hay day, I will send you a copy if you like. I can see why Mike’s friend
thought my ERF had originally belonged to Fountain Transport, my reg is D417 PPP and he owned one with the reg D420 PPP.
Sorry boys back on topic W.R.Robinson of Brock ? still going strong. regards Big Al
Big Al:
Surprised no one mentioned H.Parkinson down at Walton Summit, used to see them a lot at the Whitbread Brewery
at Samlesbury as you patiently waited 9/10 hours to load. They installed a new loading systems that picked up about
20 full pallets of beer at once and dropped them on your deck, only trouble was it was broken down nearly every day.
regards Big Al
i remember that well big al. i was 16 when i got took on by naylors of leyland as a second mate. use to spend many an hour waiting for the mass loader to load you. i now work in the brewery (inbev now) did 8yrs in the warehouse and now work nights working for the primary fleet. trunking.
still see parkys in there and there is still a few from long ago that go in there. heres my contribution. my first proper donkey 
Big Al:
240 Gardner:
marky:
I got that picture from Glyn Owen, who took it.Ah. so that’s where I got it! I did take one or two through the fence, but clearly that wasn’t one of them!
Hi Chris sorry a little off thread, I think I recalled to you ref meeting Mike Fountain of Fountain Bros Transport Aylsbury
I had left him my card and last week got a really nice letter from him with some pictures from his fleet including one of
HVD 376N with the 240 Gardner when she was in her hay day, I will send you a copy if you like.
Hello Al
Yes, thanks, I’d certainly like to see that pic (or any others of Atkis!), thanks very much. I’m at Chris [at] HaulageAnswers.co.uk
thanks
Chris
Ok Guys, If you want to play this game of Preston transport compenys
Who rembers Glyn Owen Transport? come on lol, I would be gob smaked if somone had a pic, but I have one.
I am going to ask Big Al to post some pics of the Bedford TM that he run, sadly I dont have a pic of the Seddon 401 he also had that his son in law was driving for Glyn.
Peter
Big Al:
Well known Preston Haulier Ainsworth & Martin who bought out another well known Haulier Alan Atkinson,
Alan now rents out trailers from is Midge Hall Depot ( I had a 65ft trombone off him this week)
I think that the whole history of Atkinson/A&M is a bit more complicated than that, Al: the original company was R.Atkinson & Sons, and I think that they dated back to something like about 1919. When I first knew them in the late 1970s, there was the R Atkinson company, and then along came Atkinson Trailer Hire, Longton Haulage and Ainsworth & Martin. Each company seemed to be owned by different combinations of the directors of R Atkinson but working from different phones in the same office - all very confusing!
Anyway, here are some older motors from the Atkinson fleet, and the first shows a glimpse of an early Ditchfield Atki (ex-Pandoro Borderer HCW 130N), in the days when they, too, operated from Crossley House, Penwortham. In fact, it might perhaps have been Ditchfield & Kitchen in those days.
R Atkinson also maintained the vehicles of the Ribble Valley Road Haulage Training Group, also based at Crossley House. Later, they acquired the vehicles and contract-hired them back to Ribble Valley.
Here’s an old Preston company,Edmundsons.They’ve been present in the Isle of Man for years.
And a couple taken in the IOM.
laybuy:
which reminds me what about titchener & brown blackpool clarendon scott road services park road motors keanys bull nosed scammell
I remember Scotts running from Bold Street in Preston - long since gone. Am I right in thinking that they ended up with some B Series with Jennings sleepers?
Well, I thought they’d gone until I saw this ex-Bowker F12 parked up in Oswaldtwistle in the mid-90s. I presume it’s some member of the Scott family, but apparently it was an O/D operation.
harry_gill:
hiya,
No’one has metioned Blamires of Preston, came to grief many moons ago got a start there when working for Killingbeck’s but changed my mind about the job after talking to a driver who was quite well informed about some of the problems they was having, i think shovelling a bit too much weight on, was something to do with it, Al do you remember them?? ran octopus’s i think.
thanks harry long retired.
Blamires were before my time Harry, but my HGV instructor had worked for them as his first driving job in the late 50s, after he’d left the Merchant Navy. Something of a baptism of fire, I understand!
Big Al:
Surprised no one mentioned H.Parkinson down at Walton Summit, used to see them a lot at the Whitbread Brewery
at Samlesbury as you patiently waited 9/10 hours to load. They installed a new loading systems that picked up about
20 full pallets of beer at once and dropped them on your deck, only trouble was it was broken down nearly every day.
regards Big Al
Parkinson used to be in the old Pickford’s yard in Chorley Road, Walton-le-Dale - has he moved? Originally they came from Cleveleys, and then set up in Winery Lane next door to Atkinson. I beloeve that the PIckford’s yard was owned by Hankin’s prior to nationalisation.
They where in Walton Le Dale near the old atkinson factory for many yrs, but moved to
Pickfords old yard in Walton Le Dale and they are still there.
Dam I cant find a pic of Glyn owens Bedford Tm.
Peter
Ribble Valley Road Haulage Training Group.
That the place I did my Class one, but there had just one veiw line on the fleet the rest where bedford Tms
Peter
