I had just been made redundant at Smith & Robinson Urmston. A job came up at Northwest Water, Stretford Effluent treatment plant Bradley lane. The money was ok. Paid TIME & TURD? After 40 hours.
Pitter Donkey engine. Vacuum and Blow. The pump was very powerful. The unit was a Leyland Marathon.
Here’s one I got from Transportphotos .com Wheelnut should remember these I would think.
JOHN
Stanfield:
Here’s one I got from Transportphotos .com Wheelnut should remember these I would think.
JOHN
Hi John I worked for Bill 89-90 but it was only a few weeks as I was made redundant at Magnet Southern in the November and finished there Saturday and started for Bill on the Monday but he told me if he did not get the Anglia Oil contract renewed there would be a few to go but it got me over Christmas and I was based at Retford with Bill and 2 more lads Keith and Arnie who had wendy houses’s I had a 3300 DAF but it was either a “C” or “B” reg the thing I recall is I was up at Morley for a night service when the plane came down at Lockerbie and I decided to stop up there as it around 6 when I got in so went to the pub with another driver and it was on the news when went in.I only decided to stop as I wanted to be away sharp in the morning as I only lived 35 miles down the road and I had considered thumbing it but it was a bad night so I thought it would be easier to stop up there. It was Friday January 13th when he made about 10 redundant and as I pulled into the yard I new as there was a row of tanks at the bottom of the yard and the units were all parked up the side and Bill came out himself as I pulled onto the pumps to fuel up to tell me that he would have to finish us.
cheers Johnnie
sammyopisite:
Stanfield:
Here’s one I got from Transportphotos .com Wheelnut should remember these I would think.
JOHNHi John I worked for Bill 89-90 but it was only a few weeks as I was made redundant at Magnet Southern in the November and finished there Saturday and started for Bill on the Monday but he told me if he did not get the Anglia Oil contract renewed there would be a few to go but it got me over Christmas and I was based at Retford with Bill and 2 more lads Keith and Arnie who had wendy houses’s I had a 3300 DAF but it was either a “C” or “B” reg the thing I recall is I was up at Morley for a night service when the plane came down at Lockerbie and I decided to stop up there as it around 6 when I got in so went to the pub with another driver and it was on the news when went in.I only decided to stop as I wanted to be away sharp in the morning as I only lived 35 miles down the road and I had considered thumbing it but it was a bad night so I thought it would be easier to stop up there. It was Friday January 13th when he made about 10 redundant and as I pulled into the yard I new as there was a row of tanks at the bottom of the yard and the units were all parked up the side and Bill came out himself as I pulled onto the pumps to fuel up to tell me that he would have to finish us.
cheers Johnnie
Thanks for the photo John, that was one of the early ones on a T registration and before the Tankfreight tieup.
As mere drivers we always asked why Bill and Roger could not work with, instead of against each other, as we all had the same work ethics and could have probably prevented the Liverpool Mafia getting a foothold in Hull. At the time Pattersons were busy with Cargill and Chambers and Fargus while the Anglia Oils work was shared unequally between “Lucy Yeoward Abbey,” Brennan and Woodbrow.
Johnnie, that cannot have been long before Bill died iirc 
I just had to “borrow” one of Bubblemans pics for this thread.
Locks of Headcorn with an old (blue) White Road Commander 
Notice the size of that firescreen
Wheel Nut:
I just had to “borrow” one of Bubblemans pics for this thread.
Locks of Headcorn with an old (blue) White Road Commander
They are still going as I saw one of theirs last week and still a nice paint job on the units.
sammyopisite:
Wheel Nut:
I just had to “borrow” one of Bubblemans pics for this thread.
Locks of Headcorn with an old (blue) White Road Commander
They are still going as I saw one of theirs last week and still a nice paint job on the units.
Looks like only MAN now though.
One of LOCKS Scania here courtesy of transportphotos.com/road/photo/VS01264
and also one of W Brennans DAF 95 transportphotos.com/road/photo/JLC00022-3
JOHN
Three photos here which Chris Webb hopefully should remember.
A E Evans Leyland Buffalo transportphotos.com/road/photoJSC00135-09
A E Evans 2 Leyland Buffalo’s under the loading point. transportphotos.com/road/photo/JSC00135-03
A E Evans AEC Mandator on Tower Bridge .transportphotos.com/road/photo/VS01384
JOHN
Thanks for those John.Evans had just started buying new motors around 1976,Marathons and Buffalos.Before then the tackle was all secondhand,all AEC and still running MK3s in 1971 and MK5s as late as 1973.
This was taken in their Barking depot…
…and this one a few years later.
…and another of SRF 301G at Barking.
Another oldie here.Leyland Comet belonging to Synthite.
transportphotos.com/road/photo/HU06017
John Foreman 2500 DAF.
transportphotos.com/road/photo/CZC00058-06
Gilbraith Tankers of Accrington Foden
transportphotos.com/road/photo/JLC00221-13
Imperial Tankers Seddon Atkinson Strato.
transportphotos.com/road/photo/JLC00202-04
Imperial & Gilbraith are now part of the Hargreaves Group after both being taken over in the last couple of years or so.
JOHN
A few Isotank photos from the North east
Sniffy:
A few Isotank photos from the North east
The old F10 in the washbay was Geoff Freemans from Brough before Isotank bought them out.
One or two more
Hanson transportphotos.com/road/photo/jlc00077-1
Suttons of St Helens transportphotos.com/road/photo/jlc00170-1
Tankfreight transportphotos.com/road/photo/jlc00207-03
Freighthire transportphotos.com/road/photo/jlc00208-11
Hays Chemicals transportphotos.com/road/photo/jlc00226-01
Couple of Tankers
Ray
Anyone got any pictures of Hydrogen Supplies from Manchester? They were a common sight when they dropped the torpedo trailers at customer sites and took the empties trailers away, most sites have a storage tank now and are filled by tankers.
They were supposed to weigh the same loaded or empty and drivers were paid like millionaires
Wheel nut - Can’t find any Hydrogen supplies but presume you mean the same set-up as air products, now run by Winkies
Sniffy:
Wheel nut - Can’t find any Hydrogen supplies but presume you mean the same set-up as air products, now run by Winkies
They will do but Hydrogen Supplies were all red and they ran F10 Volvos. I always hankered after a job and tried to get outbased in Hull with them for the edible oil refinery market.
Air Products had a base at Sandbach. Hydrogen Supplies had a depot at Trafford Park Manchester. I know they were both competing for work within the edible oil refiners. The oil is heated up and the Hydrogen is purged through, the longer this process goes on the harder the chocolate is. Otherwise it stays liquid form as Chip oil!
kevmorrow:
Hi Ray
Ray
I worked for Smiths of Eccles 1960s; they had a contract with Distillers CO2 at Pollard Street Manchester. I had driven Bedford TKs delivering Cylinders. The tankers were Distillers own vehicles and their own drivers. I was on loan to distillers for a few weeks. Marvellous job.
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