Reed Transport part of the Reed Paper Group which had mills and depots nationwide.
The company had its own in house transport division which was a very large concern on its own,as well as using hundreds of subcontractors.
Did part of it become Reed Corrugated Cases?
One or two here from Bob Hobbs collection @ transportphotos.com
Me.Paul.101:
Did part of it become Reed Corrugated Cases?
yes Reed Corrugated Cases was a large part of the Reed Paper Group,the RCC vehicles ran in a darkish navy blue colour.
whatever happend to the reed group ?
lawrence2765:
Me.Paul.101:
Did part of it become Reed Corrugated Cases?yes Reed Corrugated Cases was a large part of the Reed Paper Group,the RCC vehicles ran in a darkish navy blue colour.
One here i found on the web.
hi Lawrence,look on facebook on link given on this thread by trucking times gone by. some interesting pics of reed transport on there. regards jack.
pulled backloads out of two reeds depots late eighties.aylesford where i picked up e few pallets of paper sacks which i delivered to several farms in cheshire,and there was thatcham,where i picked up cut to size paper for printing companies.always good clean work 
There was a Reed Corrugated at Lydbrook, Glos. It’s about 5 miles from me and it was always busy making cardboard boxes and the like…They had blue trucks, I’ll have a look and see if I got any that I can put on here…
I can remember Lydbrook depot they had mercedes trucks .Reeds also had a base at histon near cambridge i think they ran day cab leylands there ,but went on to run erfs ,then i believe the name changed to sca packaging…
One of the web
New to Reed Transport, here is ERF E14 D300PKL in the colours of SCA in 2004, by then a shunter at Larkfield. The green of Reeds is showing through in places, and it has picked up a badge from an E10 along the way.
I was a Traffic Operator at Reed Transport Aylesford from January 1973 until December 1981. Happy Days. 
The operation was split into 2 fleets. The “Green Fleet” mainly delivered reels of newsprint to the printing houses or kraft paper to various mills and manufacturers and returned with waste paper from merchants throughout the UK or imported woodpulp from the docks. The “Blue Fleet” mostly delivered cardboard cartons for RCC (Reed Corrugated Containers) and pitch pipes for Key Terrain.
bradfordlad9999:
whatever happend to the reed group ?
The paper manufacturing part of the business was bought-out by SCA, a large Scandinavian packaging company who were then later bought by D S Smith Packaging in 2012 for £1.4 bn.
The remainder of Reed International Limited now exists as Reed Elsevier who are mainly involved in specialist and in-house publishing.
reed paper ran a few mills in darwen lancs for many years.the mills had their own power stations for electricity and steam if I remember rightly.their trucks were a common sight around east lancs which had lots of paper mills at one time but now all gone.another sad industrial demise. 
Goose Green, Wigan, just off of the A49 by junction 24 of the M6, was the main depot for the North West and there were a couple of artics based in Darwen too. We used to run 5 trunks a night 5 nights a week with between Aylesford and Wigan. They met at Bob’s at Dunchurch. The vehicles went through and the drivers changed-over. The vehicles had different coloured sweet wrappers in the marker-lights so that each one could be recognised at night.
this is what they had at lydbrook back in the 70’s. contract vehicle from edwards transport lydbrook. pic thanks to andy dobson (in the cab)
Does anyone remember a driver called Lenny Andrews he worked for Reads in Alyesford in 70’s 80’s Cheers ■■■■ Matthew