Happy New Year to all who have contributed to this thread.I look forward to seeing more from you this year. Wishing you good health and wealth for 2016 from Me.
Heres where it all started the first ever ferry arrival for Truckline at Poole on the 30th June 1973 .The ferry was the Poole Antelope !
Another ferry was added within a year called the Kersinel but cant find any pictures of that one ,dont know if anyone has any ■■ This maybe a picture of it,not sure ■■
The original Cotentin.
The Coutances brand new in 1978 and the ship on the right hand side was called the Vechstroom, that had been chartered by Truckline as the Coutances was three months late on delivery.
The Purbeck sister of the Coutances ,both were built around 1977 /78 and entered serviced in 1978 and were
both stretched in 1986.
Nice advert for the Coutances and Purbeck.
DEANB:
Heres where it all started the first ever ferry arrival for Truckline at Poole on the 30th June 1973 .The ferry was the Poole Antelope !7
6Another ferry was added within a year called the Kersinel but cant find any pictures of that one ,dont know if anyone has any ■■ This maybe a picture of it,not sure ■■
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The original Cotentin.
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The Coutances brand new in 1978 and the ship on the right hand side was called the Vechstroom, that had been chartered by Truckline as the Coutances was three months late on delivery.
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2The Purbeck sister of the Coutances ,both were built around 1977 /78 and entered serviced in 1978 and were
both stretched in 1986.1
Nice advert for the Coutances and Purbeck.
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Well done once again Dean you have come up with the goods,great old pictures.
Cliff luxton:
Happy New year Geoff and everyone on here.
Happy New Year to you Cliff another great pic from the past.
DEANB:
Another one of the Poole Antelope.0
Thats a good pic of her Dean where ever did you find that one.Cheers mate
gazzer:
Very doubtful New Milton Timber FORD was shipping out but in the right place! 1974/5.
Gazzer ,yours and Geoffs pics could have been taken on the same day ! Sunseeker now occupy pretty much the
whole left hand side of the road as you come down to the docks.
Found this picture from 1975 of a Truckline ferry called Dorset ? Never heard of that it before,but
operated between 1975 to 1978.
Ummm DEANB: they are both my photos!! There is also a photo at the same spot I took last year when waiting to tip on the grain quay, 40 years apart…alongside the Sunseeker sheds.
gazzer:
Very doubtful New Milton Timber FORD was shipping out but in the right place! 1974/5.
Hi “gazzer” you must have spent some time at the entrance to Poole docks years ago.I found that pic of the Volvo somewhere on here and now you have posted the New Milton Ford in the same place.I hope you dont mind as I was looking for something to add to the thread.Regards Geoff
Hi Dean the Dorset was running the same time as the old Contentin the barman on the Dorset was a man called Roy.
Cliff luxton:
Hi Dean the Dorset was running the same time as the old Contentin the barman on the Dorset was a man called Roy.
Cliff didn’t the Dorset end up in Scotland somewhere running to the islands.? I am sure someone will tell us.Cheers mate
Cliff luxton:
Hi Dean the Dorset was running the same time as the old Contentin the barman on the Dorset was a man called Roy.
Thanks Cliff/ Geoff its strange was looking through an old truck magazine and found a long distance diary
that also mentions the Dorset.
How many drivers over the years missed a boat due to the lifting bridge !! In the summer have known it to
be up for an hour whilst all the boats go through.
Not the sight you want to see whan running late for the boat.
No prob Geoff, I started shipping out of Poole when I was 17 with the Pigeon Transporter as a “mate”. I was an apprentice mechanic and my tutor was the driver. I also shipped out of Pompey the first year when TT switched from Southampton too. Camera never too far away. Averanches, Niort, Nantes and Pau were the main venues we visited.
gazzer:
No prob Geoff, I started shipping out of Poole when I was 17 with the Pigeon Transporter as a “mate”. I was an apprentice mechanic and my tutor was the driver. I also shipped out of Pompey the first year when TT switched from Southampton too. Camera never too far away. Averanches, Niort, Nantes and Pau were the main venues we visited.
Hi gazzer I remember the pigeon lorries crossing at Poole years ago it must have been a good way for you to get the driving bug aswell as seeing a fair bit of France.I bet the pigeons were home a long time before you got back.I too used to ship out of Southampton when I first started doing continental for E.F.Phillips and sons.Unfortunately I never used to take a camera with me so any pics you can add to the thread will be welcome.Cheers Geoff
Remember Arfer Bessant when he pulled trailers along side me and Batemans, Eddie Huntley and his nipper and loads more for Hocfun out of Southampton, never liked being overtake up a hill which I did one day. He went home and had that old ■■■■■■■ opened up to stop it happening again. He offered me a cold drink one day as he had a full size fridge on the chassis of that transcon and remember it were that cold it stuck to my hand, another Mary Hopkin moment. cheers Buzzer.