Hello All
This is my first time of potsting on this thread heres a couple of pics i dug out i will put some more on when i get time.
HERES ONE OF BULWARK ATKINSON. Im not a hundread percent sure but i think it was running milk out of there Chippenham depot.
This is one of my favourite pics of a ERF CP38-320 model
Regards R-Jacko
Hi Steve “mushroomman” I remember JET at Penistone becoming MURCO and CONOCO for the gas as I had a mate who worked for Sheaf Fuels Stevenson Road in Sheffield which was part of The Sykes Group Shaws Fuels etc. who went to work there this was in the early 80s and some of the JET garages changed to MURCO but you were never sure who owned what in those days. 
Malc “wheelnut” that pub on the Port Clarence Road I had many a night there it was a place where you put your overalls on to go in and parked on the spare ground across the way but it was very convenient for when you were loading at Seal Sands and my stomach never rejected the Chinese probably cause of the ale lining ha ha. Do you remember the “Sadlers” tanker that sprang a leak on the weighbridge at Rhone Hass it was the waste which went down to Pitsea in Essex and it was such potent stuff it had eaten through a stainless steel tank they were lucky that it happened before the lad had set off other wise the brown stuff would have really hit the fan we used to do the odd load of it on spot hire and at Pitsea they used to take your tank to tip it with an ex MOD Scammell 6x6 somewhere were you could not see at a remote part of the tip. The waste was Flammable,Toxic and corrosive and you needed full safety suit on.
cheers Johnnie
PS I am sure it was Sadlers but it could have been Stillers or Rankins as it was in the late 70s and brain is frazzled a bit now.
sammyopisite:
Hi Steve “mushroomman” I remember JET at Penistone becoming MURCO and CONOCO for the gas as I had a mate who worked for Sheaf Fuels Stevenson Road in Sheffield which was part of The Sykes Group Shaws Fuels etc. who went to work there this was in the early 80s and some of the JET garages changed to MURCO but you were never sure who owned what in those days.Malc “wheelnut” that pub on the Port Clarence Road I had many a night there it was a place where you put your overalls on to go in and parked on the spare ground across the way but it was very convenient for when you were loading at Seal Sands and my stomach never rejected the Chinese probably cause of the ale lining ha ha. Do you remember the “Sadlers” tanker that sprang a leak on the weighbridge at Rhone Hass it was the waste which went down to Pitsea in Essex and it was such potent stuff it had eaten through a stainless steel tank they were lucky that it happened before the lad had set off other wise the brown stuff would have really hit the fan we used to do the odd load of it on spot hire and at Pitsea they used to take your tank to tip it with an ex MOD Scammell 6x6 somewhere were you could not see at a remote part of the tip. The waste was Flammable,Toxic and corrosive and you needed full safety suit on.
cheers JohnniePS I am sure it was Sadlers but it could have been Stillers or Rankins as it was in the late 70s and brain is frazzled a bit now.
Could have been Rankins, all their tanks looked like they leaked anyway 
I never did that job but used to load Methyl Methacrylate Monomer from Rohm and Haas and often take boiler oil in there. Is it still going or did BASF or Ineos take it on?
Hi Sammyopisite
It wasn’t Sadlers they didnt do any work of that kind they were mainly running ammonium nitrate during the 70/80s.This was the time they bought out J L Townson Tankers + they had quite a few on petrol deliveries to there own garages.
Most prob as wheel nut says it may have been Rankins.
JOHN
Hi Malc and John you will be correct what I can recall it was before august 77 as I had A Crusader with a very heavy vacuum tank and I was sent in to pump it off but they had done it when I got there and just loaded the stuff from their storage tank. I got a F88 in August 77 and I know I had the Scammell when I did it with the heavy tank as I always had a 2 potter with the Volvo. 
cheers Johnnie
Did anyone on here ever go into the chemical place right at the end of the road at Port Clarence just before you went for the Transporter Bridge.It was originally Dorman Long Chemicals then BSC Chemicals.They refined - or tried to refine - crude benzene and crude tar from the local BSC coking plants and made pitch which was loaded onto ships.What a shi***ole it was 
.A.E.Evans Sheffield drivers used to go up there and work while the local drivers were on holiday and Rankins ran the crude tar in whilst Evans did the benzene.I went there several times and never got a load of toluene out as there was so much water in it,and the place was literally falling to bits.I remember that road well from Haverton Hill to Port Clarence and I went in that boozer a couple of times with our local drivers.It closed in the late 70s IIRC and some of the drivers went onto Freighthire.There was a commercial garage down there somewhere and did repairs and servicing on our AECs but I can’t remember the name.It was only recently that I read somewhere on here that there was a weight limit on that road to Seal Sands from P.C.
Sammie,I remember that tip at Pitsea as you passed it before you turned right off the A13 into Benfleet and then Canvey Island.Manchester Tankers were regulars into there with allsorts of crap 
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And Malc,I’m almost certain that there was a notice up in the driver’s room at Saltend requesting drivers not to use the A19 between Thirsk and York.This would have been in the early 70s.There was incidentally another one - probably ICI - asking tanker drivers not to use the A58 from Wetherby into Leeds as it was upsetting some locals.A weight limit was eventually slapped on it and you had to use the A64 into Leeds.Maybe Steve “Mushrooman” will remember as he was on the nitrobenzene job from Huddersfield to Teesside when on for Hanson.
Chris Webb:
There was a commercial garage down there somewhere and did repairs and servicing on our AECs but I can’t remember the name.It was only recently that I read somewhere on here that there was a weight limit on that road to Seal Sands from P.C.
I think it ended up as North East DAF Trucks and probably Thompson Renault nowadays.
Its now called North East Truck & Van they are based at Cowpen Bewley Rd Haverton Hill.Started trading in 1969 and became DAF agents in 73,now Iveco.
JOHN
Three more here of ARROW BULK.photos purchased from ARTiculationPix.
I was asked to put the name across pictures because people are copying them and selling them on unfortunately
JOHN
hiya john heres a one you will know & one you wont,this scammell was driven by grandad my dad reckons it was taken about 1962 doing a black oil delivery this was before roger was brought into the business it was run by his mother then,this was when they only had 3 motors this one & 2 four wheel rigids bmcs,the cabs were a greeny grey colour with red mud guards & red wheels,they used to park in walter pooles yard in waterhead mrs townson was a business friend of walter pooles,my dad says it wasn"t the usual gardner engine it was a meadows.
the second pic is of my dads motor pulling off the wash in the livery of q8 when they did petrol deliverys for them out of cadishead.
Hi Justin…(Sad Stiller) where have you been hiding that one mate.The Q8 i remember no problem.Have you seen the ones on my site lately.Do you mind if I take a copy.
JOHN
Stanfield:
Hi Justin…(Sad Stiller) where have you been hiding that one mate.The Q8 i remember no problem.Have you seen the ones on my site lately.Do you mind if I take a copy.
JOHN
hiya john no problem mate i"ve just put a pick up on the northwest truck site thread of 1 of walter pooles from waterhead my dad mated on if thats any good to you aswel
Correct Wheelnut and Sammy, the place that I was thinking of near Phillips Petroleum was Port Clarence, I don’t know if it was twinned with Beirut or not but I do remember seeing all those caravans and Transit vans and thinking maybe it’s the Caravan Club of Great Britain’s jamboree 
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After attempting a go at Diesel Dave’s just for fun quiz on page 7 of this thread, it made me realise just how important doing a two year refresher course was twenty years ago as the regulations always seem to be changing and I wonder if Sammy Opposite and Jack Graham also did their Haz Chem course at L.P.G. in Batley which I.I.R.C. was next door to A1 Transport ( LEEDS ) yard ?.
I hope that Alan Walker from L.P.G. is still around 
, did he ever learn to play snooker properly as he certainly had enough practice and he often told his class ( if ever he thought that somebody was about to nod off ) how he just managed to pot the black the night before. This comment used to start a two minute discussion and after getting the full attention of all the class he would then continue with his lecture.
Alan scarred me for life after telling me and the rest of the class the story of the Four Minute Man . Even today whenever I have a sore throat I can’t gargle with T.C.P. without checking the Phenol content on the bottle, well after hearing about that poor fella you don’t want to take any chances with chemicals do you 
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I vaguely remember a sorry story that occurred in the late 80’s/ early 90’s which I have a feeling that somebody on here might also remember.
A tanker driver who was doing a routine run, I.I.R.C. somewhere up towards The North East never made his delivery and so the customer contacted his company, as he was a long serving driver his company knew straight away that something was wrong. They contacted the police who allegedly checked all the lay-bys on the A1/A19 and said that there was no sign of that companies tanker anywhere in the area. After about two days the daughter of the driver persuaded her boyfriend to take her for a drive up the A1 stopping at every lay-by until they found him. They did eventually find him after he had died of a heart attack in his cab, the police said that they had seen the tanker two days before but thought that it was another one from the same company 
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And here is another one of John Harrisons Distillers photos .
Regards Steve.
mushroomman:
I hope that Alan Walker from L.P.G. is still around
Alan scarred me for life after telling me and the rest of the class the story of the Four Minute ManRegards Steve.
Alan was a true gentleman, I too hope he is enjoying retirement. Smashing bloke.
His trick for keeping drivers awake was also by using Japanese style ammonia attacks through the window
I miss driving past Bolsover with the distinct smell of coal tar and Phenol, and as for it’s antiseptic qualities not many drivers had a day off work with a snivelling cold or flu. We carried an awful lot of Phenol and Cresol and I still love the smell.
Wheel Nut:
mushroomman:
I hope that Alan Walker from L.P.G. is still around
Alan scarred me for life after telling me and the rest of the class the story of the Four Minute ManRegards Steve.
Alan was a true gentleman, I too hope he is enjoying retirement. Smashing bloke.
His trick for keeping drivers awake was also by using Japanese style ammonia attacks through the window
I miss driving past Bolsover with the distinct smell of coal tar and Phenol, and as for it’s antiseptic qualities not many drivers had a day off work with a snivelling cold or flu. We carried an awful lot of Phenol and Cresol and I still love the smell.
[/quote]Spot on Malc, Alan was a top bloke
Thats just remided me, I once worked with a driver and his dad used to work in the Gas Works in the ealy fifties. Frank told me that one day when he had a bad cold his dad took him to his works on his day off and hung young Frank over the pit where they were burning coke and told him to take some deep breathes. Apparently it cleared Franks bad cold
Hi Malc when the hazchem card was first introduced there was only ICI doing the courses at Billingham and I think Runcorn they were 3 day residential and then Smith &Robinson had a place at Rothwell and one of the instructors was Alan Walker and they also did the health and Safety courses there as well some specialist ones and being a shop steward I did everything that I could as I was the same and found them very enlightening as well. The day you had the fire brigaded round to demonstrate how to extinguish the tray of water with petrol on was always good showing the advantages of the different types of extinguisher I am assuming it would be the same Alan walker who was at Smith & Robinson’s. I have heard recently that a lad who was a fitter at Sykes and then went owner driving on tanks is at L.P.G. now doing that job.
Steve, we had 2 lads from Barnsley who were on the tar job full time and when they were off I used to cop for it with living in Sheffield as it was out of Orgreave on Kilnhirst Rotherham and the lads who worked on the plant used to say that they never suffered from colds with the fumes and I never thought the smell was bad but your boots got knackered up quick on that job.
cheers Johnnie
sammyopisite:
Hi Malc when the hazchem card was first introduced there was only ICI doing the courses at Billingham and I think Runcorn they were 3 day residential and then Smith &Robinson had a place at Rothwell and one of the instructors was Alan Walker and they also did the health and Safety courses there as well some specialist ones and being a shop steward I did everything that I could as I was the same and found them very enlightening as well. The day you had the fire brigaded round to demonstrate how to extinguish the tray of water with petrol on was always good showing the advantages of the different types of extinguisher I am assuming it would be the same Alan walker who was at Smith & Robinson’s. I have heard recently that a lad who was a fitter at Sykes and then went owner driving on tanks is at L.P.G. now doing that job.Steve, we had 2 lads from Barnsley who were on the tar job full time and when they were off I used to cop for it with living in Sheffield as it was out of Orgreave on Kilnhirst Rotherham and the lads who worked on the plant used to say that they never suffered from colds with the fumes and I never thought the smell was bad but your boots got knackered up quick on that job.
cheers Johnnie
I imagine it was the same Alan Walker but I only remember him at LPG. I only did my off road class three training in S & R Rothwell with United Carriers. I seem to remember that Alan was one of a committee who came up with Hazchem along with ICI in Runcorn and Huddersfield and others in the fuel industry. The professor used to come and create some bangs in the classroom, the Birkenshaw fire officer put the fires out, and St Johns brought a blow up doll for the drivers to perform on.
A chap called Bill Dobson was the main trainer at S&R during the 70s/80s.
JOHN
Alan Walker was instructing in 1994.I took my second ADR at Chesterfield and Alan was in charge What a great feller,the petrol and watter demo was great.I took my first ADR at Teesside Tech College in 1977 or 78 but I can’t remember the name of the instructor.
sammyopisite:
but your boots got knackered up quick on that job.
cheers Johnnie
Aye but you were two inches taller when you finished yer shift