There’s always something that just sits right about a 8-wheeler 
Hi Chris , i had the same thing at Marchons Whitehaven ,pulled on the bridge with a 8 wheel ERF the chappie said reg no i said XED 204 he was tapping his desk and said yes i looked at him well he said A B ,told him that was it he took off his peaked cap looled out the window shook hi head ,then said go on then ,just a bit of usless info ,Yours Barry
Funny that my dad worked for Ancliffs,Carmens and S&R
Has anyone got any pics of any BOC Sed-Atki Strato day cab tractors, they had a fleet of them the same as we did on Air Products but ours were all sleeper-cabs. I took some pics of theirs when I was out-based out of BOC Fawley all lined up looking smart, but sadly have mis-laid them over the years 
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R Rankin & Sons, anyone know what he’d have been carrying or who for?
I remember Rankins did some work out of Velva Liquids South Shields and they also ran crude tar into Dorman Long/BSC Chemicals at Port Clarence,Teeside. The motors were double shifted,the tar came out of the BSC coking plants like Consett,Hartlepool,Redcar,South Bank,Cleveland and a privately owned one called Randolph not far off the A1.I’m sure they did ICI work out of Billingham and Wilton as well.
I think it’s a pet spirit tank in the photo,although A E Evans had one similar for tar work,a one-potter, equipped with a cargo pump as opposed to a compressor.
Some nice photos there Chris,got any more?
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R Rankin & Sons, anyone know what he’d have been carrying or who for?I remember Rankins did some work out of Velva Liquids South Shields and they also ran crude tar into Dorman Long/BSC Chemicals at Port Clarence,Teeside. The motors were double shifted,the tar came out of the BSC coking plants like Consett,Hartlepool,Redcar,South Bank,Cleveland and a privately owned one called Randolph not far off the A1.I’m sure they did ICI work out of Billingham and Wilton as well.
I think it’s a pet spirit tank in the photo,although A E Evans had one similar for tar work,a one-potter, equipped with a cargo pump as opposed to a compressor.
Some nice photos there Chris,got any more?
Hi Chris, thought you would have some info on them, cheers! I got a couple of days off so gona have a rummage through the loft & the stacks of Truck mags etc I got to see what I can find . I keep them up there so “The Dark Side” can’t throw any out ‘by mistake’ 
she keeps on about a loft ladder but I won’t get 1 cos as it is she can’t get up there so she has no idea what I got stashed away 
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R Rankin & Sons, anyone know what he’d have been carrying or who for?I remember Rankins did some work out of Velva Liquids South Shields and they also ran crude tar into Dorman Long/BSC Chemicals at Port Clarence,Teeside. The motors were double shifted,the tar came out of the BSC coking plants like Consett,Hartlepool,Redcar,South Bank,Cleveland and a privately owned one called Randolph not far off the A1.I’m sure they did ICI work out of Billingham and Wilton as well.
I think it’s a pet spirit tank in the photo,although A E Evans had one similar for tar work,a one-potter, equipped with a cargo pump as opposed to a compressor.
Some nice photos there Chris,got any more?Hi Chris, thought you would have some info on them, cheers! I got a couple of days off so gona have a rummage through the loft & the stacks of Truck mags etc I got to see what I can find
Aye,don’t let her get up there or everything will go missing Chris.
I forgot to mention that Rankins eventually became Cleveland Tankers I think,there will be somebody on here to confirm that.
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R Rankin & Sons, anyone know what he’d have been carrying or who for?I remember Rankins did some work out of Velva Liquids South Shields and they also ran crude tar into Dorman Long/BSC Chemicals at Port Clarence,Teeside. The motors were double shifted,the tar came out of the BSC coking plants like Consett,Hartlepool,Redcar,South Bank,Cleveland and a privately owned one called Randolph not far off the A1.I’m sure they did ICI work out of Billingham and Wilton as well.
I think it’s a pet spirit tank in the photo,although A E Evans had one similar for tar work,a one-potter, equipped with a cargo pump as opposed to a compressor.
Some nice photos there Chris,got any more?Hi Chris, thought you would have some info on them, cheers! I got a couple of days off so gona have a rummage through the loft & the stacks of Truck mags etc I got to see what I can find
Aye,don’t let her get up there or everything will go missing Chris.
I forgot to mention that Rankins eventually became Cleveland Tankers I think,there will be somebody on here to confirm that.
true.Vic.
Re.Boake and Roberts,I found this on Google and thought it might help to find out the product they carried.Hope it is of some help.Regards,900x20. gracesguide.co.uk/A._Boake,_Roberts_and_Co 
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Re.Boake and Roberts,I found this on Google and thought it might help to find out the product they carried.Hope it is of some help.Regards,900x20. gracesguide.co.uk/A._Boake,_Roberts_and_Co
Hi 900X20, didn’t think of that, thanks. I think it adds to a photo if you know what a wagon was carrying & where it went etc.
Regards Chris
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Re.Boake and Roberts,I found this on Google and thought it might help to find out the product they carried.Hope it is of some help.Regards,900x20. gracesguide.co.uk/A._Boake,_Roberts_and_CoHi 900X20, didn’t think of that, thanks. I think it adds to a photo if you know what a wagon was carrying & where it went etc.
Regards Chris
I remember that company when it was Bush,Boake and Allen. We had a regular job out of their Rainham site,taking “Turpinella” to their place in Widnes,think it was Tan House Lane,close to Fiddlers Ferry power station.Because it was so greasy and stunk to high heaven we used to reload crude benzene on top to kill the smell and get rid of the grease,out of BSC Shotton for either Llanwern or Scunthorpe.
Hoyer, the German logistics group have bought De Rijke of Holland and will take on all the depots and drivers. This only affects the liquids division.
HOYER is taking on all 240 employees of De Rijke at its five European offices: Göteborg in Sweden, Preston Brook in the UK, Moerdijk in the Netherlands, Le Havre in France and Piacenza in Italy. The deal also brings with it 1,500 tanker containers, 130 tractors and 300 tanker trailers and chassis.
Spotted these in Cape Town about six months ago and I thought that the name Marineslops was an Afrikaner company, I have only just realised that they were probably emptying out the bilge tanks on the ships. 
Regards Steve.
Another British manufacturer bites the dust - Clayton’s are in the hands of the recievers, next few weeks will see if it gets an investor/buyer and stays in business or disappears completely !
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Spotted these in Cape Town about six months ago and I thought that the name Marineslops was an Afrikaner company, I have only just realised that they were probably emptying out the bilge tanks on the ships.
Regards Steve.
Do you think there is a vague possibility that tank has been rolled at some time in its life! 