hello larry .how are you ,in answer to your question ,yes they did have a warehouse depot at pity me ,i think it was glendennings old place, and they then moved to portobello ind est, in birtley which was a foden dealership and workshop i think at the time davey tilson worked there,after he left waughs transport
just started posting on this site and didnt realise i new so many drivers were on here .ie yourself and your nigel also dave robson frank dobson alec geordie newton ,all lads i worked and got to know while at both sunderland and blyth depots of fergies ,good times i will always remember .still see one ore two drivers now and again as they attend our training center to do ADR or CPC ,DCPC courses and i sometimes get down to J R ADAMS or Fergies to do trainig on site and see one or more familliar faces ,
some really good threads on hear its gonna take along time to catch up .keep it up cheers…
paul
paul ward:
hello larry .how are you ,in answer to your question ,yes they did have a warehouse depot at pity me ,i think it was glendennings old place, and they then moved to portobello ind est, in birtley which was a foden dealership and workshop i think at the time davey tilson worked there,after he left waughs transport
just started posting on this site and didnt realise i new so many drivers were on here .ie yourself and your nigel also dave robson frank dobson alec geordie newton ,all lads i worked and got to know while at both sunderland and blyth depots of fergies ,good times i will always remember .still see one ore two drivers now and again as they attend our training center to do ADR or CPC ,DCPC courses and i sometimes get down to J R ADAMS or Fergies to do trainig on site and see one or more familliar faces ,
some really good threads on hear its gonna take along time to catch up .keep it up cheers…
paul
Welcome to this great thread Paul, & Im sure you will catch up on a lot of your old pals, Regards Larry.
robert1952:
Back in 1989, United Glass assembled a motley fleet of time-expired old ‘gentlemen’ from the Robsons fleet in a temporary depot in Sittingbourne, Kent; to run out of Queenborough glassworks delivering new bottles round the home-counties. In any other sphere these would have probably been used as shunters. Never mind, I spend that summer variously driving Border Valour (DAF DKSE), Border Olympic (ERF B-series), Border Brutus (ERF B-series), and Border Isis(Scania 112). 90% of the time, I was on the B-series ERFs (Olympic and Brutus). They had Rolls-Royce 265 engines, which by then were a bit noisy, sluggish and smelly, but they both had perfectly-installed 9-speed Fuller 'boxes which made up for everything - bliss! Sometimes I had to do change-overs at Robson’s Flitwick depot. First the ERFs…Robert543210
Robert,
Did Robsons use bottle sheets at any time? We at SoM used bottle sheets which were very heavy in use,but worked very securely in practice.
David
5thwheel:
robert1952:
Back in 1989, United Glass assembled a motley fleet of time-expired old ‘gentlemen’ from the Robsons fleet in a temporary depot in Sittingbourne, Kent; to run out of Queenborough glassworks delivering new bottles round the home-counties. In any other sphere these would have probably been used as shunters. Never mind, I spend that summer variously driving Border Valour (DAF DKSE), Border Olympic (ERF B-series), Border Brutus (ERF B-series), and Border Isis(Scania 112). 90% of the time, I was on the B-series ERFs (Olympic and Brutus). They had Rolls-Royce 265 engines, which by then were a bit noisy, sluggish and smelly, but they both had perfectly-installed 9-speed Fuller 'boxes which made up for everything - bliss! Sometimes I had to do change-overs at Robson’s Flitwick depot. First the ERFs…Robert543210
Robert,
Did Robsons use bottle sheets at any time? We at SoM used bottle sheets which were very heavy in use,but worked very securely in practice.
David
I don’t know! I’ve never heard of bottle sheets. I remember them being heavy though. I used to place a couple of pallets next to the trailer so that I could heave them aboard when empty. They were also very secure so maybe they were the bottle sheets you speak of. We used to load out of United Glass in Queenborough on the Isle of Sheppey. I remember sheeting a particularly high load in Queenborough and the wind got under the sheet and I very nearly took off like Sindbad on his magic carpet - scary moment! Robert 
any of you lads remember border king & border panther, I drove those at united glass Castleford for a few months 
memories, I used to pick up trailers from all over loaded with carnation,nestle, bottles, remember that lay by near biggleswade, you couldn’t leave loaded trailers in lay bys now 
I hope I don’t open up a can of worms regarding the sheeting of the load!
lawrence2765:
0One of stans famous Daf day cabbed artics,Border Citadel MAO 568W.
I hope I don’t open up a can of worms regarding the sheeting of the load!
This shot should have been placed on the “sheeting and roping” thread in order to receive well crafted comments 
Bewick.
Lawrence Dunbar:
Would I be correct in saying that Robsons had a depot warehouse faciltey at Pity Me Co Durham, An old friend of mine drove for them for quite some time before he retired, Marshall Eglin, He worked for Salkelds, S.C,Cook Gurteens , Then Robsons, He lived at Castleside & still does as far as I know, Regards Larry.
, hi larry , with regards to robsons depot at pitty me , durham , i ya reet , wasnt glenndings yard tho , close but not close , it was actually an operating base only from the eldis / gkn pallet depot round the back … the place was full of pot holes , a bleedin nightmare when you took a load of timber or bottles back en route scary yet happy days , learned quick i did , and wouldnt ov had it any other way , i got made redundant in 1990 at the birtley depot , then i got my eyes opened well and truly , ended up at fergies , a story in itself , still get nightmares now about the mercs they had , reved like hell and acheived nowt . ones i had wa bleedin useless . gannin get 20 ton of reels from south harbour for carphilly its loaded !!! bollox neva eva happened. ended up sheetin trailers in me sleep , now many moons later i miss it badly , just done me cpc just in case … im waaaaiiiiiting , all the best john , i marshall did work at robsons , nice fella , helped me a lot he did … cheers pal and thanx for the memories
hodgeturbo:
RBT
Is the Foden parked on Aspatria car park? Anybody know who drove it was it a guy called Lee, can’t remember his surname.
That Volvo 86 behind looks like Colin Bateman’s.
robroy:
hodgeturbo:
RBTIs the Foden parked on Aspatria car park? Anybody know who drove it was it a guy called Lee, can’t remember his surname.
That Volvo 86 behind looks like Colin Bateman’s.
Hi “Robroy” ,
I thought the same as you about the Volvo F 86.
However , on closer inspection , the pictured Volvo bears the name Solway ........ . Colins had the name Happy Wanderer. Also , Colins Volvo had the later-style plastic front grille.
Hope this helps,…but who had a Volvo F 86 with the name prefix Solway ?
Cheers , cattle wagon man.
cattle wagon man:
robroy:
hodgeturbo:
RBTIs the Foden parked on Aspatria car park? Anybody know who drove it was it a guy called Lee, can’t remember his surname.
That Volvo 86 behind looks like Colin Bateman’s.Hi “Robroy” ,
I thought the same as you about the Volvo F 86.However , on closer inspection , the pictured Volvo bears the name
Solway ......... Colins had the nameHappy Wanderer. Also , Colins Volvo had the later-style plastic front grille.Hope this helps,…but who had a Volvo F 86 with the name prefix
Solway?Cheers , cattle wagon man.
I thought it was aspatria car prk
hodgeturbo:
cattle wagon man:
robroy:
hodgeturbo:
RBTIs the Foden parked on Aspatria car park? Anybody know who drove it was it a guy called Lee, can’t remember his surname.
That Volvo 86 behind looks like Colin Bateman’s.Hi “Robroy” ,
I thought the same as you about the Volvo F 86.However , on closer inspection , the pictured Volvo bears the name
Solway ......... Colins had the nameHappy Wanderer. Also , Colins Volvo had the later-style plastic front grille.Hope this helps,…but who had a Volvo F 86 with the name prefix
Solway?Cheers , cattle wagon man.
I thought it was aspatria car prk
IIRC,Hodgsons of Carlisle,s motors all had Solway ■■? On them /, ? Regards Larry.
robroy:
hodgeturbo:
RBTIs the Foden parked on Aspatria car park? Anybody know who drove it was it a guy called Lee, can’t remember his surname.
That Volvo 86 behind looks like Colin Bateman’s.
it was lee parker he moved onto onward transport
little ha ba:
robroy:
hodgeturbo:
RBTIs the Foden parked on Aspatria car park? Anybody know who drove it was it a guy called Lee, can’t remember his surname.
That Volvo 86 behind looks like Colin Bateman’s.it was lee parker he moved onto onward transport
Yeh, that,s the guy, Cheers.
Colin Carruthers had a dark blue 86 rigid as far as I remember , don’t know if it had Solway on it though.