Geez a long time past. I have been trying to get a hold of Remploy drivers and staff for years, did get a reply from Tom Burns , 6 years after I posted in an Oldham site, but never heard from him again. So looking to hear from, Jim Welsby, Dennis Clegg, Jim Walsh, John Fleming, then there was Linda, who worked in the canteen, between 1967 and 1974, and any other of the guys, who worked there in those times. I lived in Scotland, and would come down weekly, to pick up, deliveries for the west of Scotland. Here is hoping, this time, I might hear from some of the people. I now live in Ontario, Canada, a friend of mine, over here, gave me the addie, for this site.
Thanks All.
haggis12 have sent you an email and also updated all the dead links in the posts above. 
moomooland:
haggis12 have sent you an email and also updated all the dead links in the posts above.
I got it, moo., BIG THANKS, for the reply, yep, brings back memories for sure. I hope Tom, is doing ok. I thank you, for getting back to me, and refreshing all this stuff, just great, and APPRECIATED.
I delivered glass to a few Remploys a few years back , i think 1 was at Radcliffe 1 at Hartlepool and 1 in South Wales at Porth .
moomooland:
haggis12 have sent you an email and also updated all the dead links in the posts above.
I have replied to your e mails, hoping they got through to you, or do I do the mails, via, truckNet?? Not by hitting the reply button, to you mail/? Just wondering about that/? I Thank you for all of the information, Appreciated, moo.,
moomooland:
0Best transport manager i ever had was Remploy’s Tommy Burns pictured on the left along with driver Dennis Clegg and the late Jimmy Walsh.
Hi Paul,Johnny phoned me tonight he got colon cancer ,I sent him that pic he wants to know when Jimmy died cheers John
I used to do a nice local job for Ray Holden, ready erected card boxes from Remploy at Radcliffe to HM Stationery Office at Chadderton. Two loads a day (well a morning really) with an elderly Ergo. cab Leyland Super Comet box van.
My mum was the secretary to the distribution manager for Remploy when Tommy Burns came off the road to be the TM, he was partly the reason I went into the transport industry in 1970 when I left school aged 16. I started in the traffic office for Thomas Harrison Haulage off Stanley Rd; Chadderton in June 70 and Tommy gave me The Transport Manager’s Handbook, the FTA’s yearly handbook and a character reference to help me into employment, never looked back 
great fella.
Regards
Dave Penn;
moomooland:
1Supervisor Albert Edwards, in the white coat, looks on as porters unload bureau’s which were manufactured at Remploy’s Brynamman and Pentre factories in South Wales.Bureau’s such as these were an item of furniture which was quite popular back in the day.
0Roy Howard (left} and Alan Devine are pictured here on one of the four floors of Borough Mill warehouse which was used to store all types of furniture that was manufactured at various Remploy factories throughout the country.
Hi Paul the brynamman factory is still there with the remploy on it ,they don’t make them like that anymore proper workmanship hope you are keeping well cheers John
Remploy brynamman now up for sale
Wasn’t there a factory/depot on the industrial estate at Newton Aycliffe or am I mistaken? I seem to remember it was next door to a company called Block and Anderson.
One of remploy excel curtainsider box by cross hands ,wm north had the remploy contract he had the ford cargos and leylands
Johnny had this brand new e360tth ,Jones never changed the livery on his trucks
moomooland:
smallcoal:
Johnny had this brand new e360tth ,Jones never changed the livery on his trucksRemember Jones coming up to Oldham with loads of new furniture from Remploy factories IN South Wales then loading back mulit-drop furniture for South Wales.
All the Jones drives used to park up overnight on the lorry park in Oldham next to Granelli’s cafe.
All came from neath,Swansea ,Merthyr ,brynamman,the Rhondda valleys ,I always found the remploy workers never moaned just got on with it
Hi Paul I recall Jones had a remploy ford in his fleet a green one he bought of them how you keeping I don’t think Johnny got much time left I phoned him the other day it was like he didn’t want to talk his voice was low I let you know if I get more info cheers John
Hello Paul, Pleased to see the Remploy Pictures. From 1995 until 2012, my main source of work was from
the “Military and Police Equipment” division of Remploy Textiles, later to be called Remploy Frontline.
At the start, it meant changing from Curtainsiders to Boxvans with tail lifts, sleeper cabs and double
fuel tanks. Of the 123 factories within Remploy, we delivered to about 35 of them on a regular basis
from Aberdeen and Dundee up north, and Penzance and Redruth down south. I went to some rather
interesting places, particularly on Salisbury Plain, of which I am still not allowed to talk about.
The photos are one of my 17 ton GVW Mercedes Benz vans at the rear of Remploy, Huddersfield.
The Leyland Daf 45 10 ton GVW is on the A62 near Marsden, en route from Remploy at Bardsley
to Huddersfield, and a non HGV M.A.N. parked at the depot. Regards, Ray Smyth
moomooland:
0 This Remploy Ford Thames Trader 6D luton van Reg No 796 CLP is pictured here when brand new in 1961 during a photo shoot at St James Park in London.Based at Remploy’s distribution depot, at Borough Mill on Nield Street in Oldham, it was driven regularly by the late Jack Leggett who would collect full loads of electric fires, manufactured at a number of Remploy factories which were then distributed nationwide from the Oldham depot.
nothing to do with Remploy,but,was a company called Squaregrip in the vicinity, i took coiled wire there from Lackenby Steelworks in the mid 60s,and Neild Street seems to ring a bell??
Hi Paul, I found this Remploy picture on another thread here on Trucknet,
I expect that you have seen it before. The 2nd picture is of one of many
carrier bags that I carried when I did the Military Exhibition work for Remploy.
Senior Military Personnel and civilian Government Delegates from all around
the world would use the bags to carry away the freebies and goodies that were
usually on offer at the exhibitions. Most of the exhibitions were in this country,
but occasionally I had to go into Europe, Brussels, Dublin, etc. Regards, Ray.
Ray Smyth:
Hi Paul, I found this Remploy picture on another thread here on Trucknet,
I expect that you have seen it before. The 2nd picture is of one of many
carrier bags that I carried when I did the Military Exhibition work for Remploy.
Senior Military Personnel and civilian Government Delegates from all around
the world would use the bags to carry away the freebies and goodies that were
usually on offer at the exhibitions. Most of the exhibitions were in this country,
but occasionally I had to go into Europe, Brussels, Paris, Dublin, etc. Regards, Ray.
Hi Ray ,that was dai McLean who drove it it is pictured by port talbot hospital cheers John