it’s a small world dennis , when i was at f r somerset we delivered paper ex tilbury and portbury to bowaters and kruger at disley and also brass and copper waste from flowflex, plumbers fittings factory to rochdale and finished powder back to ferodo . it’s a wonder we never tripped over one another ! cheers , dave
i found the problem pete , i’ve just had an updated hardrive fitted and it seems to have a predictive text feature , it keeps autocorrecting my posts unless i override it manually . bloody technology ! looks like it’s two tools working at cross purposes ,cheers , dave
rigsby:
i found the problem pete , i’ve just had an updated hardrive fitted and it seems to have a predictive text feature , it keeps autocorrecting my posts unless i override it manually . bloody technology ! looks like it’s two tools working at cross purposes ,cheers , dave
Predictive? Autocorrecting? That’s posh grammer for Buxton Dave, cant you get a keyboard that accepts local dialect? 
I know that there are times that this whole setup of mine has come close to getting launched through the window, just glad that wagons weren’t this complicated in the ‘Old Days’ or I would have been out of a job! 
Pete.
If I remember rightly, you had to go miles out of your way to get to the mill at Disley ,off the A6 because of a low bridge.
disley mill was a horrible place to get to . we took paper in and loaded plastic drums out of harcostar . all the way round through new mills , down strines road and a tight left onto the lane that became single track , up round the hairpin , turn left under a 14 foot bridge and up to the mill . all that because the council refused permission for bowaters to build a short access road directly on to the a6 , they said it would be too dangerous . i think they were hoping bowaters would close the mill , but it’s still there . cheers , dave
rigsby:
disley mill was a horrible place to get to . we took paper in and loaded plastic drums out of harcostar . all the way round through new mills , down strines road and a tight left onto the lane that became single track , up round the hairpin , turn left under a 14 foot bridge and up to the mill . all that because the council refused permission for bowaters to build a short access road directly on to the a6 , they said it would be too dangerous . i think they were hoping bowaters would close the mill , but it’s still there . cheers , dave
Done all that rigsby,i worked for snaylams of bolton in the 70s and we used to load empty fibre drums for all over the uk out of harcostar[bowaters i think it was then].In the 80s i worked for sheldons[bury]and we took waste paper and pulp into disley mill,what a grind getting round that h/pin bend with 20 ton on a real pain.
regards dave.
it got a bit easier later on dave , the kruger mill burnt down and when they were fetching the steelwork in for the rebuild one got stuck on the hairpin and they had to get a jcb in to widen the road to get him round . it gave an extra 6ft to swing the unit round . cheers , dave
rigsby:
it got a bit easier later on dave , the kruger mill burnt down and when they were fetching the steelwork in for the rebuild one got stuck on the hairpin and they had to get a jcb in to widen the road to get him round . it gave an extra 6ft to swing the unit round . cheers , dave
Cheers for the info dave,im off road now ret.so it wont bother me but good to know for others who go.Why they dont knock that bridge down i dont know,its not been used for god knows how long.
regards dave
Went into Disley mill just before I retired, about two years ago. It was the first time I had been there (lucky me!) and I had to ask for directions. Couldn’t believe that places like that still existed.
Normal sort of drop for a Buxton lad, I suppose. Us Macc lads like it a bit easier!
i don’t know about easier round macc , sutton sidings was a pig of a place in its day . couldn’t turn right into the gate or the trailer locked on the unit chassis , and the forkie had to lift the trailer round to get out the other end . cheers , dave
Then when you got out you had to struggle round all the muck shifters 8 wheelers abandoned everywhere while they were in the Cafe (how I miss those days NOT)
That must have been well before I had even heard of Macc!
I’ll have a wander around Sutton one day this week & see if I can find any signs of industry near the railway.
moomooland:
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Theres a sight for sore eyes,one of D & D’s Trader 6 wheelers loaded to the “Gunnels”,used to see them rolling through Kendal in very early 60’s with the same kind of loads on,Jute I think they carried and I heard that the G’uvnor was a woman,don’t know how true this was ? Cheers Bewick.
Aye Bewick D&D carried jute the mainstay of Dundee industry in those days, yes these Trader six wheelers were a common sight coming down the A6. Yes the company was run by a woman known as Minty.
Cheers Leyland 600
Leyland600:
Aye Bewick D&D carried jute the mainstay of Dundee industry in those days, yes these Trader six wheelers were a common sight coming down the A6. Yes the company was run by a woman known as Minty.
Cheers Leyland 600
Thanks for that “gen” L600,I’ve just noticed that the Trader in the shot was “C” reg so it must have been one of the last ones,I wonder who did the third axle conversion ? Primrose,York or maybe “Boyes” ( not Father Alex though 
) cheers Bewick.
Hi Folks , I remember D and D trader six wheeler delivering into Courtaulds, Greenfield factory. One night a driver couldn’t get tipped and would have to have slept in the cab all night. It was winter time. There was a little pub nearby called The Royal Oak, which my father used to drink in regularly and one night got speaking to the driver and told him he wasn’t sleeping in his cab but to come home with him. Unbeknown to I called in my Dad’s house the following morning And found this strange man with a big bushy beard sleeping on the settee.I sneaked upstairs to my Dad to ask him what was going on, to which he replied Get the kettle on and get some bacon and eggs going for him.I think he had a better nights sleep than he would have in the cab over the bonnet. Cheers Barry
b.waddy:
Hi Folks , I remember D and D trader six wheeler delivering into Courtaulds, Greenfield factory. One night a driver couldn’t get tipped and would have to have slept in the cab all night. It was winter time. There was a little pub nearby called The Royal Oak, which my father used to drink in regularly and one night got speaking to the driver and told him he wasn’t sleeping in his cab but to come home with him. Unbeknown to I called in my Dad’s house the following morning And found this strange man with a big bushy beard sleeping on the settee.I sneaked upstairs to my Dad to ask him what was going on, to which he replied Get the kettle on and get some bacon and eggs going for him.I think he had a better nights sleep than he would have in the cab over the bonnet. Cheers Barry
I bet at first you thought you was in the wrong house Bazzer 
Cheers Dennis.
Cant believe that the last post on this subject was Aug 2013.Heres a couple of long gone companies to bring it back to page one.
