trucker.blackpool:
trucker.blackpool:
An oldie fro m the Riding fleet, late 70’s
Is that not how a proper haulage fleet hould be run and how a yard should luck, or am I just old fashioned
If you don’t mind me asking, where did you get that picture from??
I hope big Al can come to the party about Cannings being on Leyland Lane and Coaltons.
Brill i have beet you 240 lol
Regards
Peter
Peter Wells:
Brill i have beet you 240 lolRegards
Peter
Ah, age before beauty 
240 Gardner:
Peter Wells:
I hope big Al can come to the party about Cannings being on Leyland Lane and Coaltons.Ah, age before beauty
Thank you Chris for the kind description, I am an OAP with a bus pass but
fortunately still have the HGV Class 1 or what ever they call it now adays. Peter I will always defer to Chris’s knowledge
on all things to do with Preston Hauliers and their lorries being an interloper from over the big hill doing missionary work
in the Red Rose County. The only thing I can add ref J.Canning is gleaned from an article in the Leyland Historical Society
web page on Golden Hill Lane. John Fishwick (now better known as a bus company) founded a haulage company in 1908
and their first lorry was a Steamer built in Leyland by the Lancashire Steam Motor Company. The road haulage side of
John Fishwick’s business (10 lorries) was sold to J.Canning & Sons Ltd in 1952 and according to the article they ran out of
a yard on Tuer Street Golden Hill Lane. regards Big Al
Big Al:
240 Gardner:
Peter Wells:
Ah, age before beautyThank you Chris for the kind description, I am an OAP with a bus pass but
fortunately still have the HGV Class 1 or what ever they call it now adays.
Sorry Al, I meant Peter!
Now Tuer Street - is that where Fishwick run from now? And perhaps you know about another Fishwick subsidiary, the coachbuilding firm of Fowler? They built lorry cabs on the 50s (W. H. Bowker had some Fowler-cabbed Guy Invincibles), bus bodies for Fishwick in the early 1970s (including one rather ungainly-looking double-decker) and also the prototype for Riding’s Atkinson sleeper conversions.
Guys well 240 and Big Al.
I am thinking about leaveing this site.
Its make me feel very old 
43 yrs young in October this yr.
That aside, this is bringing me so many happy time form being a child and going to work when off school with me Father.
Keep it up but I would like to see more of D&As and some of J cannings.
If you cant find Cannings I know James Canning so I will contact him and see what he has.
Peter
Guys.
What about Mardens form Globe mill Midge Hall?
Peter
Peter Wells:
Guys well 240 and Big Al.Keep it up but I would like to see more of D&As and some of J cannings.
Peter
There a few of Canning’s at northwesttrucks.fotopic.net
marky:
trucker.blackpool:
trucker.blackpool:
An oldie fro m the Riding fleet, late 70’s
Is that not how a proper haulage fleet hould be run and how a yard should luck, or am I just old fashioned
If you don’t mind me asking, where did you get that picture from??
Hiya,
I can go back to the late 60s as a former Riding’s driver and woa betide anyone who parked a non atki in a atki line-up can still hear the wrath of old Jem ringing in my ears, I had a Leyland.
thanks harry long retired.
hiya,
Thanks 240 was beginning to think i’d dream’nt the job offer from Blamires way back in the mid 60s, just glad you found someone else who’d heard of them I do believe they was a bit notorious there was a mention in the headlight about them and the problems they was having, I remember i was offered quite a chunk more money than I was getting at Robbie Killingbeck’s and the money there was the national average.
thanks harry long retired.
Peter Wells:
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
You are quite right Peter. Its on the left side of what is now Stena Line’s shipping yard as you head up towards the boat. (i.e. the truck is facing away from the berth).
P & O’s office large block can be seen over it. They gave it up after some 40+ years just 11 months ago. I have walked along by that grey brick wall many times.
Driveroneuk:
You are quite right Peter. Its on the left side of what is now Stena Line’s shipping yard as you head up towards the boat. (i.e. the truck is facing away from the berth).
P & O’s office large block can be seen over it. They gave it up after some 40+ years just 11 months ago. I have walked along by that grey brick wall many times.
Yes, that’s the office block, with the customs bay in front of it where they used to turn out a trailer or two. (And I did that walk on many occasions during the 6 years that I worked there, and not a hi-viz jacket to be seen!) The office block was new, I think, for the Pandoro operation, which started in 1975. As it grew, various departments were moved out to fresh offices in Copse Road. Strange to think of such a large and busy organisation all fizzling out.
thats a load of span board ready to roll to south molton north devon bob &nick wright were two great guys i knew nick when i did a spell at f burns then run by D&A before moving to P&O where we took many similar loads
240 Gardner:
laybuy:
which reminds me what about titchener & brown blackpool clarendon scott road services park road motors keanys bull nosed scammellI 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.
chris eccles drove that motor for many years i believe it was his uncles firm and now chris lives out in cape town
harry_gill:
marky:
trucker.blackpool:
trucker.blackpool:
An oldie fro m the Riding fleet, late 70’s
Is that not how a proper haulage fleet hould be run and how a yard should luck, or am I just old fashioned
If you don’t mind me asking, where did you get that picture from??
Hiya,
I can go back to the late 60s as a former Riding’s driver and woa betide anyone who parked a non atki in a atki line-up can still hear the wrath of old Jem ringing in my ears, I had a Leyland.
thanks harry long retired.
my late brother used to take all saturday afternoon to park that lot up atkis at one side leylands on the other
I was told (by Tom Riding) that the line-up in the picture wasn’t always done, but when it did it was done on a Saturday afternoon after any to-ing & fro-ing had stopped.
I have a copy of the same photo, along with others taken on the same day showing the two lineups separately - all of which came from Tom’s archives - hence my question (still not answered) as to the origins of the picture as posted on here.
hiya,
There was a story about old man Riding going from the yard to Atkinson Motors on his pushbike to collect a new motor, the story also said he had his tea can on the handlebars, anybody else heard this story??, i often saw him riding his bike i believe he used it to go back and forth to his home.
thanks harry long retired.
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)
And the Mutter Transport that dropped on my mat yesterday tells me that Ainsworth & Martin has gone into administration
240 Gardner:
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)And the Mutter Transport that dropped on my mat yesterday tells me that Ainsworth & Martin has gone into administration
Chris,
That is sad if that has happend, Poss yet another Prston firm gone
Peter
240 Gardner:
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)And the Mutter Transport that dropped on my mat yesterday tells me that Ainsworth & Martin has gone into administration
Thanks for info Chris I did not know that, West Berkshire well informed. I have just moved back into my Preston Office today
and would have been ringing them up for transport next week. regards Big Al
