Retired Old ■■■■:
As an example of the sort of luck that used to befall me, the only time I got to haul animal parts seemed to be on boiling hot summer days when it took about three hours to load. I often wished my sense of smell could be turned “on” & “off”!
hiya,
Be a canny number for me as well as having no “common sense” after I
chucked smoking many moons ago I lost both sense of taste and sense
of smell, the sense of taste did quite quickly return but never the sense
of smell, should have had the smell deficiency when delivering bagged-
handball animal bits to Prosper De Mulder’s at their Doncaster plant when
subbying for Northern Ireland Trailers when on for Killingbecks in the 60s.
thanks harry, long retired.
Retired Old ■■■■:
As an example of the sort of luck that used to befall me, the only time I got to haul animal parts seemed to be on boiling hot summer days when it took about three hours to load. I often wished my sense of smell could be turned “on” & “off”!
hiya,
Be a canny number for me as well as having no “common sense” after I
chucked smoking many moons ago I lost both sense of taste and sense
of smell, the sense of taste did quite quickly return but never the sense
of smell, should have had the smell deficiency when delivering bagged-
handball animal bits to Prosper De Mulder’s at their Doncaster plant when
subbying for Northern Ireland Trailers when on for Killingbecks in the 60s.
thanks harry, long retired.
Prosper De Mulder Doncaster and FMC Stoke Bardolph near Nottingham were regular drops for A E Evans,with a light petroleum sprit. The worst place was a firm called Granox on West Bank dock Estate Widnes,what a dump plus a bloody awful stink,far worse than the other two.
Retired Old ■■■■:
As an example of the sort of luck that used to befall me, the only time I got to haul animal parts seemed to be on boiling hot summer days when it took about three hours to load. I often wished my sense of smell could be turned “on” & “off”!
hiya,
Be a canny number for me as well as having no “common sense” after I
chucked smoking many moons ago I lost both sense of taste and sense
of smell, the sense of taste did quite quickly return but never the sense
of smell, should have had the smell deficiency when delivering bagged-
handball animal bits to Prosper De Mulder’s at their Doncaster plant when
subbying for Northern Ireland Trailers when on for Killingbecks in the 60s.
thanks harry, long retired.
Prosper De Mulder Doncaster and FMC Stoke Bardolph near Nottingham were regular drops for A E Evans,with a light petroleum sprit. The worst place was a firm called Granox on West Bank dock Estate Widnes,what a dump plus a bloody awful stink,far worse than the other two.
Granox is still kicking out that stink Chris, was loading at a place next door to it last week .
kingswinford kit:
Hi Saviem , maybe its John Pointon who has picked up his work now ? regards Keith
As it happens it is mostly Pointons you see on the ‘guts’ trailers down here nowadays, you used to see PDM around but not recently (unless they’re running white unmarked Actroses now?). Must be bloody awful work - hope it pays well. A friend of mine drives for a firm from Cross Hands way (they’ve featured on this thread a few times but I’d better not name them - it’s NOT NR’s tho ) and he’d occasionally pull a guts trailer out of an abattoir in that area for them. He reckoned one of these had a small hole in the sheet. An unlucky BMW cabrio owner regretted pulling up next to him at the lights one sunny day - as he stopped the sludgy liquidy bits and bobs sloshed forwards and a jet of it spat out of the sheet of the trailer into the open car. Or so he tells me
Hi chaps, Dave has some John Pointon pics on his thread , regards Keith
hi all,
cheers oily,thanks mate! here’s an old shot of a filling station up the valleys courtesy of david thomas on facebook .i bet mechanic77 know’s where this is,it’s in his area.
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gah1950:
hello all,
was nick carters garage around the blaina area ?.
I believe that garage is where there is now a petrol station next to the ATS garage on top of Beaufort hill up the road from Brynmawr Graham.
Now, my nan used to live in a house next to ATS and I can vaguely remember the pertrol station being called Austin wheelers? who I also seem to recall having a place near Blaina/Bourneville. This is stretching my memory back over 30 years to being taken to visit my nan and travelling up from Blackwood on the old [pre any by-passes at Tredegar,Ebbw vale or Abertillary whichever route we were taking].
I can recall passing the yards of H Morgans at Cwm , Stephens at Tredegar and Cyril Williams I think it was?, blue and white Dafs next to a house on hill up from Brynmawr.
Neil.
hello neil,
you are correct about nick carters garage,it was exactly where ATS is now at the top of beaufort hill,you just jogged my memory.Austin Wheeler was just down the road from the blaina inn,They were Austin/Morris dealers.
graham.
) and he’d occasionally pull a guts trailer out of an abattoir in that area for them. He reckoned one of these had a small hole in the sheet. An unlucky BMW cabrio owner regretted pulling up next to him at the lights one sunny day - as he stopped the sludgy liquidy bits and bobs sloshed forwards and a jet of it spat out of the sheet of the trailer into the open car. Or so he tells me 
.i bet mechanic77 know’s where this is,it’s in his area.
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