truckerash:
euromat:
great stuff ash, i like the calvers one too, i recognise the yard its in!!! up until very recently they were still running a day cabbed volvo f10 on local work, i wonder what happened to itWell wot are you messing about at Mat■■?
Get out there and get some piccys of the old girl before she goes
i have been meaning to for several years mate!! i will see what i can do mate!
anyway, keep them pictures coming ash!!!
One of the more obscure hauliers Bradshaw & Wright from Sudbury
Does anyone know of a Fairbrothers Transport from I’m sure Suffolk.
They only had a couple of trucks I think but were running for a long time.
I know the colours were white with red and blue stripes in a typical
American style pattern. I have run with them many years ago and remember
one of the drivers very well a chap called Les, who ended up on car transporters in the UK.
Tir
You dont mean Fairweather,used to ship out Poole every Sunday ,Les worked for them ,until he had heart trouble ,but I bumped into him in Kings Lynn when I was loading at Dow Chemicals and he was driving a car transporter.
TIR
I have given this a bit more thought, Keith who lives in Poole drove for them also,but I think Fairweather packed up and the Transport Manager started on his own and Keith and Les worked for him until he had the heart trouble, I met Les in Bordeaux in one of the restaurants on the quays by the U boat pens and he was doing a holiday job (he was still on the transporters ) with his old firm
TIR Original:
Does anyone know of a Fairbrothers Transport from I’m sure Suffolk.
They only had a couple of trucks I think but were running for a long time.
I know the colours were white with red and blue stripes in a typical
American style pattern
TIR: You are spot on regarding the colours, but they were from Gt Yarmouth, thats NORFOLK and we cant put Norfolk pics on a Suffolk thread can we… I mean the rivalry is bad enough with the Norwich and Ipswich football fans. We dont want to start a truckin rivalry…do we? 
( I’ll dig out a Fairweather pic anyway for you)
Ash,that Archer’s 112 was my old motor,though I suspect it was taken after I’d left.Can you remember where and when it was taken,got any more■■?
truckerash:
TIR Original:
we cant put Norfolk pics on a Suffolk thread can we… quote]
its already happened mate!!! (transam were diss based, which is norfolk!!!)
euromat:
truckerash:
TIR Original:
we cant put Norfolk pics on a Suffolk thread can we… quote]
its already happened mate!!! (transam were diss based, which is norfolk!!!)
Well at least they’re now Suffolk based, and they had Suffolk painted on the doors and the one in the pic had a Suffolk reg number!
Euromat, why did they claim to be from Suffolk in the old days when they were based in Diss?
chorcheela:
euromat:
truckerash:
TIR Original:
we cant put Norfolk pics on a Suffolk thread can we… quote]
its already happened mate!!! (transam were diss based, which is norfolk!!!)
Well at least they’re now Suffolk based, and they had Suffolk painted on the doors and the one in the pic had a Suffolk reg number!
Euromat, why did they claim to be from Suffolk in the old days when they were based in Diss?
i had not noticed that!!! no idea why they had suffolk, perhaps mark who owns it lives in suffolk (i think he does), and from what im told about the old signwriter, it all depended how much he had drank in the pub at lunch as to what got put on the trucks and trailers (some if you look carefully you will see the angle of the writing!!!)
B.J and C Carberry from Stanton ( you can see their yard as you go thru the village, next to the BP garage, my dad worked there from 1989 for a few years. At the time they were going all over Europe, something which they dont do now
the first motor he was given was this 95 430, i actually met him when he pulled into a services in Germany for the night, he’d just picked this bus up from Germany and was on his way back to deliver it to Lowestoft transport museum
143 450 tag axle (it has since been converted to a rigid 6x2)
pic taken in Sweden on way to Stockholm
on way to Stockholm
on way back from Stockholm
loaded Maidstone for delivery to Amsterdam
ditto
loaded an RAF camp in South Wales to tip RAF camp in Anglessey
loaded Paper Mill Lane near Ipswich
loaded near Strasbourg for delivery to Watford
ditto
on way to Marseilles to drop trailers for shipping to Tunisia for an army exercise, re-feulling trucks picked up from RAF Lakenheath
ditto
a regular job, load Motherwell to tip Austria
loded in Germany for Lancaster
ditto
loaded Class in Saxham near Bury St Edmunds for delivery to Bern,
Switzerland
Budapest Hungary, loading with an old truck i used to drive parked in front,
loaded Rotterdam, tipping Spain
loading Stanton Suffolk for Barcelona
ditto
ditto
en route to Fraserburgh
loaded Holland, tipping Warrington
delivering part of a chimney to a glass factory in Ireland
at Fishguard on way to Ireland
Berlin with another Carberry truck
tipping in Oslo
great pictures kindle, i have a pic of the 3 series of it as a rigid somewhere, some interesting loads and motors there
Thanks Kerbut and Truckerash for the info on Faiweather (not Fairbrother) as I wrongly stated. Yes Les a smashing chap, really used to get on with him well. He actually phoned me in our office to inform me that that one of our trucks had turned over in Pamplona and stayed with the driver until the ambulance took him to hospital. The driver unfortunately died but nice to know he had someone with him. Some time later I again spoke to Les who then told me he had gone over to transporters.
Kindle, great pictures again. Brian Carberry used to drive for Loadwells years ago, back in the late 70’s/early 80’s, before he went out on his own. He used to be really into CB radio when I was younger and i remember buying a few bits off him at the time. He must have started up on his own in the mid 80’s I guess? Because he used to live at Tostock before moving to Stanton, I remember the Parish Council getting upset when he sometimes parked his immaculate Loadwell F7 on his drive!!!
PS Brian’s website has some good pictures on it, including some of that 3 series:
Out of interest, which factory was that in Stanton? Looks like liquid containers of some sort? I used to work at Redlands for a while when they made roof tiles up at Sheperds Grove, can’t remember what was up there apart from the mushroom factory![/url]
Good website that, didnt know it existed1 Not sure where the stillages were loaded in Stanton, i just got hold of all the photos and asked my dad where they were taken, he surprised me by telling me where they were taken where the load was picked up and where it was going, those pics go back to 1989, hes got a better memory than me! I will ask him at the weekend where in Stanton he loaded.
R Perry and Sons, originally from Botesdale, but after selling the yard to a housing developer for a couple of million moved to Stanton.
My first artic, it was 2 years old when i got it, and after a lot of fussing by me to have it resprayed cos it was a bit scabby, the boss gave in and did it 
Then in 1995 i was given the choice of a FH Globetrotter (they hadnt been out long, id only seen 2 or 3 when i got offered one) or a V8 Scania Topline, i decided to have this
I know Gothenbourg isnt in Suffolk, but when i worked for a firm there, Perrys yard is where it spent its time off,
a nd h haulage is andy harbottle, lovingly referred to as andy half throttle!!
kindle530:
on way to Marseilles to drop trailers for shipping to Tunisia for an army exercise, re-feulling trucks picked up from RAF Lakenheath
was that the job in 1998 - just as all the trailers (and a few units) had shipped on the friday teatime, I got a call from the yanks to say they’d changed their mind and now wanted all the gear back in suffolk quick sticks? 
I’ll have to ask about that jj.
kindle530:
I’ll have to ask about that jj.
fairly sure it was - i know there were some of brian’s motors on it, working for NW, some nice photos by the way