Hi Coop, It was thirty years come Christmas this year since I left, had my papers and buggered off, started there just before my 17th, as no doubt you remember my 18th!! Actually, I tell a lie, thinking about it, I was sacked come this Christmas thirty years ago, took them to tribunal, won my job back within two months, and then until the end of apprenticeship, which will be this time next year, boy I was popular when I went back! 
vanman99:
Hi Coop, It was thirty years come Christmas this year since I left, had my papers and buggered off, started there just before my 17th, as no doubt you remember my 18th!! Actually, I tell a lie, thinking about it, I was sacked come this Christmas thirty years ago, took them to tribunal, won my job back within two months, and then until the end of apprenticeship, which will be this time next year, boy I was popular when I went back!
Hi vanman I worked for Raymondās in 94 Iām trying to picture if I know you I drove e143 a volvo Wendy house cheers john
smallcoal:
vanman99:
Hi Coop, It was thirty years come Christmas this year since I left, had my papers and buggered off, started there just before my 17th, as no doubt you remember my 18th!! Actually, I tell a lie, thinking about it, I was sacked come this Christmas thirty years ago, took them to tribunal, won my job back within two months, and then until the end of apprenticeship, which will be this time next year, boy I was popular when I went back!Hi vanman I worked for Raymondās in 94 Iām trying to picture if I know you I drove e143 a volvo Wendy house cheers john
Hi John, I doubt it very much you would know me, as I said earlier, I was from there by the middle of 1986, passed my class one and was tramping the UK & Europe for seven years with various companies, based all over, grass is always greenerā¦ not. At the end of 1992 I started my own and now run seven vans, employing six, doing all the UK and Europe, there isnāt much we havenāt carried or an EU country we havenāt been too. If I could work the attachment I would attach a photo of my first van, you would probably recognise it from the logo. Simon.
scooter1:
back to more raymonds pics, hope aint boring u allā¦
I DROVE PTX 220F BRAND NEW IN 1968 BRINGS BACK MEMORYS IT WAS MY TRUCK FOR 2 YEARS GWYN EDMUNDS
Hi all,canāt let this page slip off page 1 ,hope Andrew puts some good pics on here of his merc in the truck show
Hello Gwyn,that Atki picture brings back memories,I remember when you and Peter Treharne had the pair of them new.I was driving a tin-cab AEC with Glyn Morgan,36 mph flat out and sick as a parrot when you used to sail past me.
Glad to know there`s still a few of us REALLY old ones still knocking about.
Best Wishes, Mike Cockel
Hi telekon Steve that is one nice model mate rowly will love that one ,who ever built that is a credit
Thanks small coal, my mates building it forme, heās got to do the trailer yet,this one is going to have a sheeted load on, he even puts the hitches in the ropes 
,I just havenāt got the patients for all that fiddley stuff Iām afraid the hammer would be out and I think a certain Mr John Rees (JR). Will also be very interested in it
Yes I would love it cracking Job that they were a well turned out fleet I remember Norman brown rip lovely bloke getting do
Ne for speeding down bath bank in his 88 probely out of cog 85 I think somebody will correct me if Iām wrong went like the wind good old days regards rowly
smallcoal:
Hi telekon Steve that is one nice model mate rowly will love that one
WHY are the air tanks the wrong way round 
Lance Biscomb:
smallcoal:
Hi telekon Steve that is one nice model mate rowly will love that oneWHY are the air tanks the wrong way round
Not that weāre picky or anything Lance!
My memory says Glyn S John. Was that another company?
John
Iāll tell him, if he doesnāt know already. The F88 kit is hard to get hold of so he has used an F10 kit and put the cab on off a another model he had. Heās at to shorten the chassis and alsortsbut itāll be right. And if you think thatās picky donāt ever do anything cuz Iām a right picky bar steward
No John glyn s John glyn John . Liners
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No John glyn John glyn s John dykes condo leiners were all the same people regards rowly
Changed in 74 if me memory serves me right after the own Edgar John passed, thereās snippets of info in this photo book Iāve done for former employees
