Re Febland Europa

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Stumbled across this site last night 06.08.2009
My wife and I both worked for Febland in Blackpool.
We now live in Brisbane Australia. Elaine and Tim Pulman
Yes we are stil married.
Great pictures, the young lad with no shirt is Wayne Richardson, his Dad Gary drove the F88-290, KLV11R, he sure loved that truck. That’s until he got his 1st Scania 141, 'BDB359T", sick I know but I remember all the rego no’s.
Captain Birdseye was John Wall, he is in the Guiness book of records, had the oldest Guinea Pigs in the world.
And I though he ended up in Caravan park that foggy night not a Council yard
The guy in the picture in front of the Scanai 141 ‘XNA922S’ is a guy called John McVey, he did weekly trips to Novara and back.
The greeny gold Scania 141 'UNC933S" was a one off, ordered at B and W Motors in Manchester by a company that went bust, Tony F took a shine to it and bought it, they stuck a sign on it “sold to the man with the floppy hat”
It had a very high diff in it was good for France and Italy but ran out of breath on UK motorways at 60MPH.
We remember Pierangela and Marinella, we are still in touch with Marienalla.
Fanatastic photos, I have a pile locked away somewhere, I’ll get them out and try and put them on the site,
We worked in The Blackpool office, with Tony, Kevin Johnston and Daniella,
Marinella, Kevin and his wife Cachy are on face book.
Daniella still lives and works in Singapore.
Great days, especialy the day when Arthur Gardner ate every piece of cheese from the cheese platter in the cafe in France.
Keep this page going.

Joyrider

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Stumbled across this site last night 06.08.2009
My wife and I both worked for Febland in Blackpool.
We now live in Brisbane Australia. Elaine and Tim Pulman
Yes we are stil married.
Great pictures, the young lad with no shirt is Wayne Richardson, his Dad Gary drove the F88-290, KLV11R, he sure loved that truck. That’s until he got his 1st Scania 141, 'BDB359T", sick I know but I remember all the rego no’s.
Captain Birdseye was John Wall, he is in the Guiness book of records, had the oldest Guinea Pigs in the world.
And I though he ended up in Caravan park that foggy night not a Council yard
The guy in the picture in front of the Scanai 141 ‘XNA922S’ is a guy called John McVey, he did weekly trips to Novara and back.
The greeny gold Scania 141 'UNC933S" was a one off, ordered at B and W Motors in Manchester by a company that went bust, Tony F took a shine to it and bought it, they stuck a sign on it “sold to the man with the floppy hat”
It had a very high diff in it was good for France and Italy but ran out of breath on UK motorways at 60MPH.
We remember Pierangela and Marinella, we are still in touch with Marienalla.
Fanatastic photos, I have a pile locked away somewhere, I’ll get them out and try and put them on the site,
We worked in The Blackpool office, with Tony, Kevin Johnston and Daniella,
Marinella, Kevin and his wife Cachy are on face book.
Daniella still lives and works in Singapore.
Great days, especialy the day when Arthur Gardner ate every piece of cheese from the cheese platter in the cafe in France.
Keep this page going.

Joyrider
Stumbled across this site last night 06.08.2009
My wife and I both worked for Febland in Blackpool.
We now live in Brisbane Australia. Elaine and Tim Pulman
Yes we are stil married.
Great pictures, the young lad with no shirt is Wayne Richardson, his Dad Gary drove the F88-290, KLV11R, he sure loved that truck. That’s until he got his 1st Scania 141, 'BDB359T", sick I know but I remember all the rego no’s.
Captain Birdseye was John Wall, he is in the Guiness book of records, had the oldest Guinea Pigs in the world.
And I though he ended up in Caravan park that foggy night not a Council yard
The guy in the picture in front of the Scanai 141 ‘XNA922S’ is a guy called John McVey, he did weekly trips to Novara and back.
The greeny gold Scania 141 'UNC933S" was a one off, ordered at B and W Motors in Manchester by a company that went bust, Tony F took a shine to it and bought it, they stuck a sign on it “sold to the man with the floppy hat”
It had a very high diff in it was good for France and Italy but ran out of breath on UK motorways at 60MPH.
We remember Pierangela and Marinella, we are still in touch with Marienalla.
Fanatastic photos, I have a pile locked away somewhere, I’ll get them out and try and put them on the site,
We worked in The Blackpool office, with Tony, Kevin Johnston and Daniella,
Marinella, Kevin and his wife Cachy are on face book.
Daniella still lives and works in Singapore.
Great days, especialy the day when Arthur Gardner ate every piece of cheese from the cheese platter in the cafe in France.
Keep this page going.

Joyrider

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Hi joyrider, welcome to the site.
Some of John Mcvey’s photo’s of his days with Febland can be found by following this link.
davemackie.jalbum.net/John%20McVey/index.html
Dave.

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Hello Tim Pullman how are you and Elaine long time no see yes it is me Wayne hope you are both well. We are still running trucks in Fleetwood and Byron Grimshaw is still with us everyone is good. Yes it was John Mcvey in the pictures he is very well, still see Ian Staples and Barbra they are still in Blackpool. Let me know your email and i will send some pictures of trucks now great to here from you and Elaine we often wonder how you are doing .

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Hello there Wayne!!
What a suprise, best regards to you and Gary and all your families, still trucking eh? I think when we last had contact you had just got married! Pass on our regards to Byron and the Staples, how weird after all this time, they were good days though when you look back. I remmeber your Dad getting his new Scania, then moaning the day we had it signwritten, and Byron with his new F12. I have photos somewhere, I’ll try and find then out, they’ll be in abox in the garage.
The site I found was a real suprise the other day, never imagined I would stumble across it.
We found Marinella the other day [she used to work in the Novara office] and Kevin and Cachy live in Barcelona. They are all on face book.
We live in Brisbane Queensland. We have been here since 1991, I now work for a big transport company called TOLL, we have hundreds of truck and trailers and refrigerated containers, I am the Equipment Manager.

my email is tim_pulman@toll.com.au

elaine is elainepulman@bigpond.com

Send some photos through and I’ll send some back and we’ll keep this contact going, we run a lot of Kenworths and Macks but Scania, Volvo, Daf and MAN are becoming more popular, we run trailers in a B double configuration and road trains.
A lot of the freight we move goes by refrigerated container on rail, as the distances are so great.

Hope to hear from you soon by e-mail, if not I’ll check back ontheis site.

10-4 rubber duck, or was it plastic chicken…

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glenman:
in PREMIERS photo album does anyone know what the blackwater int unit is on the first page,assume its american?

that was a ford the tarrants bought them in the us when they were doing coast to coast removels in the states and brought one back to ireland and 9 fridges all loaded they landed in le harve and were loaded for paris with glass. would any body have any pictures blackwater transports trucks [dafs,scanias,mercs,transcons]

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Hi Tim if you look at scrapbook memories page on i think 2 and 10 are clips from the commercial motor of scania 141 RWW 601 W and the first 142 WUA 121 X. It was probably you who put them in the mag when you were transport manager.

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Wayne check out the link below

transportphotos.com/road/photo/VS00523

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Wayne
You talk about a 'scrap book page", cannot see that from here, how do you access that
Yes I remember those two regos, Ivor Whittall got RWW new and that 1st 142 went to the Folkestone driver, big tall bloke cannot remenmer his name, there apperas to be two sites for Febland, the one below has all the picture as well but little commenatry , I’ll stick with this one,

viewtopic.php?p=281576entary,

Must find the photos out and have ago at pasting some in.

Regards
Tim

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You guys talking about this place by any chance? :smiley: (1986)

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Yep thats the place

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Premier asked me to put these 2 clippings from the scrapbook because his mate couldnt find them. :laughing:

Cheers Bubbs. :wink:

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So who would this be then? (I took the pic)

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Driveroneuk

Hi is it one of those mechanical men the Italians put out at roadworks ? :laughing: :laughing: :laughing:

Does anyone remember the name of the Italian driver at Novara depot who owned the Ferrari 308 ? Had some good evenings with him at Eddie & Enza’s at the end of Via Bovio.
Regards MaggieD

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Well I recognise the livery as it is the same as that on the F88 290 that belonged to Arther Gardener but if that’s him in the picture he must have been part way through a ■■■ change and not wearing a training bra

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Hello everyone. It is really great to see pictures of he old Febland fleet. I worked there for about four years in the early eighties. One thing I will say, is that you did not have to be ‘as mad as a box of frogs’ to work there, its just a coincidence that everyone was.

I worked with Tim and Elaine, Kevin Johnston, Tony Febland and Vee Chiappe. After nearly thirty years I still recall my time with the company with fondness, there were some great stories and characters, Garry and Wayne Richardson, Roy Winward, Arthur Gardner, Peter Wade, Peter Howitt, Ivor Whittall, Ian Mayer, Dave Dennett, John Parkinson, Glin Gilgrass, Tommy Mongan, John Wall, Tery Dixon and not forgetting Byron Grimshaw. I recall some of the subbies, I think there was Nick Massey, and someone called Nigel, possibly McKinley?

The one thing I will always remember were he trucks, always well specced and up to the job, mainly Volvos and Sacanias. I have often wandered what happened to the fleet after Febland Europa closed in 1986. I was told that 6 of the units went to AIT (Anglo Italian Transport) which was part of the Alleleys empire. These were: RWW 601W a 141, WUA 121X and EWR 205Y, 142s, RFV 968X, a F10, WBV 847Y and A635 HWM, F12s.

As for the rest of the fleet I have no idea, at the time of disposal consisted of 3 x 141s BDB 357T , BDB 358T ,BDB 359T and B868 ABO a 142. B93 WCK and B76 BRN, 112s. Do any still survive today?

I have some photos to post, however, I am Struggling to paste them at the moment, any ideas?

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Few more pics from June 1986

(though to be fair, Arthur wasn’t pulling for TF on this particular trip. Would it be the beginning of the end about then?)

Viareggio beach car park. Must be room for a tractor unit on here somewhere!

Parked in Custom House yard, Rome.

Lets go for a drive in the unit.

French lunch stop

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Hi Driveroneuk yes that is right it was just as Feblands closed down you must have been pulling for Ashworth Preece or Whittles were you.
Arthur Gardiner now has a pub in Earby i think its called the Railway on the main street not seen him for a while, did you pull for Feblands.
The place in Italy Squibb was a Febland job at one time used to load in north Wales deeside,

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PREMIER:
Hi Driveroneuk yes that is right it was just as Feblands closed down you must have been pulling for Ashworth Preece or Whittles were you.
Arthur Gardiner now has a pub in Earby i think its called the Railway on the main street not seen him for a while, did you pull for Feblands.
The place in Italy Squibb was a Febland job at one time used to load in north Wales deeside,

Whittles.

Arthur’s pub is called The Station Hotel.

I didn’t pull for TF (I wasn’t driving in those days… sadly) but am a long time friend of Arthurs.

I’ve PM’d you with more detail.

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quote=“trucker.blackpool”]Hello everyone. It is really great to see pictures of he old Febland fleet. I worked there for about four years in the early eighties. One thing I will say, is that you did not have to be ‘as mad as a box of frogs’ to work there, its just a coincidence that everyone was.

I worked with Tim and Elaine, Kevin Johnston, Tony Febland and Vee Chiappe. After nearly thirty years I still recall my time with the company with fondness, there were some great stories and characters, Garry and Wayne Richardson, Roy Winward, Arthur Gardner, Peter Wade, Peter Howitt, Ivor Whittall, Ian Mayer, Dave Dennett, John Parkinson, Glin Gilgrass, Tommy Mongan, John Wall, Tery Dixon and not forgetting Byron Grimshaw. I recall some of the subbies, I think there was Nick Massey, and someone called Nigel, possibly McKinley?

The one thing I will always remember were he trucks, always well specced and up to the job, mainly Volvos and Sacanias. I have often wandered what happened to the fleet after Febland Europa closed in 1986. I was told that 6 of the units went to AIT (Anglo Italian Transport) which was part of the Alleleys empire. These were: RWW 601W a 141, WUA 121X and EWR 205Y, 142s, RFV 968X, a F10, WBV 847Y and A635 HWM, F12s.

As for the rest of the fleet I have no idea, at the time of disposal consisted of 3 x 141s BDB 357T , BDB 358T ,BDB 359T and B868 ABO a 142. B93 WCK and B76 BRN, 112s. Do any still survive today?

I have some photos to post, however, I am Struggling to paste them at the moment, any ideas?
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trucker.blackpool

You are quite right Anglo Italian Transport did take those vehicles and ran them for a couple of years. However, AIT folded very quickly and became Allelys International Transport and operated the trucks (most of the V8 Scanias ended up blowing their engines and were ditched by Allelys very quickly). They kept the Volvos and 112’s for a while even though they were DAF people. They eventually sold the two 112’s - B76 BRN & B768 MBJ - to us, MJM Freight Services, and we kept them until 1995/96 when we part ex’d them for the MAN’s we ordered. I believe they went for export. Very reliable machines and real flyers, albeit a bit tatty. Here’s a picture of B76 BRN on one of it’s earlier trips before being painted in our blue/white colour scheme.