hiya,
Good on yer Bewick, don’t let the barstewards grind you down.
thanks harry long retired.
Bewick,R.T.I.T.B. takes me back to 1973 when I done my class one training at their place at the Willowholme Industrial Estate Carlisle.The vehicle I passed my test in after the 5 days training was a Dodge K500 with a perkins V8 5 speed eaton box and two speed axle.Great for learning on as the vision was superb.I now find 37 years later DVLA is sending me for a heart scan to see if i’m fit enough to keep that very same licence.I havn’t used it in earnest for years but i’d still like to keep it.
The mechanic:
Bewick,R.T.I.T.B. takes me back to 1973 when I done my class one training at their place at the Willowholme Industrial Estate Carlisle.The vehicle I passed my test in after the 5 days training was a Dodge K500 with a perkins V8 5 speed eaton box and two speed axle.Great for learning on as the vision was superb.I now find 37 years later DVLA is sending me for a heart scan to see if i’m fit enough to keep that very same licence.I havn’t used it in earnest for years but i’d still like to keep it.
Aye Robert I don’t think it would’ve taken you long to pass !! Don’t mention heart scans I had one when I took bad 10 years ago and that was my H.G.V. down the Pan !! Cheers Dennis.
I know these medicals are a real pain I had one last year which cost me £100 I was not going to bother as I do not drive for a living anymore but my ol girl said you have it all these years why let it go so I did and was ok but on the positive if there was something not right with your heart or another health issuen you may never find it out until it was to late so i suppose every 5 yrs is not to bad good luck with your scan
my dad used to work for N.I.T.S when on preston docks then went on to work for A&K Sutcliffes down south meadow lane in Preston does anyone remember Cliff Gaskell he also worked for R&J Blackburn then onto Park Road Motors then George Collinson before passing away R.I.P.
I remember simon fawcett i worked for him for a bit doin nights on P&O
Peter Wells:
Merry Xmas all.So next.
Who rembers Fawcett transtort then? that will be Simon Fawcett.
Mr 240 give me your input please and Mr Big Al.
Cheers
240 Gardner:
Peter Wells:
MR 240 and Big Al,What about Aurther Pooly?
Peter
New one on me, Peter!
he ran cattle trucks many moons ago
This is a fantastic photo
Agreed - a very nice picture of a quiet Saturday afternoon in Longridge…
marky:
Agreed - a very nice picture of a quiet Saturday afternoon in Longridge…
Yes,what a great photo.Did Ridings carry those plastic pellets for ICI out of Wilton or was that Cannings?
They both did Chris
marky:
They both did Chris
Thanks for that Mark,I wasn’t sure.Cannings were known as “Elizabethan Tankers” I think,those tankers looked impressive in the 70s.
tankerian:
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)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.
240 Gardner, having worked for Atkinsons many moons ago i remember the drivers of the the listed vehicles as on XED 982K a lad called Keith Atkinson from Kirkham, and on OCK338K Ken Chambers from around the Preston Area.
Keith Atkinson of Great Plumpton, Kirkham near Preston Lancashire
DAF 2800
I am told he took over from his dad in operating vehicles, but i dont know many other details except,
I remember as a kid (late 70’s early 80’s) that they use to work for a lot for Nelson Gardner (animal feed merchants) and ran a mixed rigid/artic fleet of about 4 motors, that I think included a bulker/blower.
The yard/farm they operated out of is now BIG POSH HOUSES, as so many former haulage sites are.
has anybody got any photos of whitfire of farington from the 60s n 70s they had 1 artic a leyland comet bill walmesley drove it then they got one of the first scania 80s in the north west he was proud as punch i used to cart baled shavings out of there on my old seddon ive still kept in touch with the garage foreman les
BIBS:
has anybody got any photos of whitfire of farington from the 60s n 70s they had 1 artic a leyland comet bill walmesley drove it then they got one of the first scania 80s in the north west he was proud as punch i used to cart baled shavings out of there on my old seddon ive still kept in touch with the garage foreman les
I remember them, but no photos, sadly
So guys.
Dose anyone rember Stuart Taylor?
Anyone going to the transport fest in Leyland this weekend?
Peter
Peter Wells:
So guys.Dose anyone rember Stuart Taylor?
Anyone going to the transport fest in Leyland this weekend?
Peter
Stuart Taylor, did he not have the fancy painted trucks and fridges from Ribchester or Clitheroe
T.B
Stuart Taylor International were based in Mellor near Blackburn (the yard is actually across the road from the back gate at BAe Systems, Samlesbury)
When things went awry, Clarendon Haulage moved into the STI premises from their place in Ribchester - they’re still there to this day.
Montgomery Transport
This operator while having their main operation based in Northern Ireland has had a depot with a large fleet based at Walton Summit Preston since the 1970’s
The photo’s were taken at the weekend when the fleet at Preston was a mix or ERF C series (Gardner 300 and Rolls 290),ERF E14, Scania 82 & 112, Volvo FL10 and Mercedes. I think it was around 1988
A Visit to Crossley House Penwortham in 1983
R Atkinson 400 Seddon Atkinson
Selection of fleet
RTITB Atkinson
