I’ve never done tank work, but some others I’ve done packages from are:
Ellis Jones (European Colours) at Heaton Mersey and somewhere else near Stockport
Degussa at Clayton M/Cr - made mainly one particular blue dye, what DID they used to be called?
Holliday Dyes at Huddersfield and their subsidiary James ■■? on Leeds Road in Huddersfield
Albright & Wilson at Widnes, or was it Runcorn?
Thomas Swan at Crookhall near Consett
Union Camp Chemicals at Bedlington
Come on, whose memory is better than mine (wouldn’t take much!)
jj72:
I’ve never done tank work, but some others I’ve done packages from are:
Ellis Jones (European Colours) at Heaton Mersey and somewhere else near Stockport
Degussa at Clayton M/Cr - made mainly one particular blue dye, what DID they used to be called?
Manchester Oxides. (MANOX)
Holliday Dyes at Huddersfield and their subsidiary James ■■? on Leeds Road in Huddersfield
Albright & Wilson at Widnes & Whitehaven. (Marchon)
Thomas Swan at Crookhall near Consett
Union Camp Chemicals at Bedlington & Chester Le Street. (Pilkington Tankers) Green MAN
Come on, whose memory is better than mine (wouldn’t take much!)
The BLUE reminds me of Reckitts on Stoneferry where they made “Reckitts Blue”, the fine powder that went in washing powder to make things white, never understood how that worked because the bloody bags and anything near them were stained forever
jj72:
I’ve never done tank work, but some others I’ve done packages from are:
Ellis Jones (European Colours) at Heaton Mersey and somewhere else near Stockport
Degussa at Clayton M/Cr - made mainly one particular blue dye, what DID they used to be called?
Holliday Dyes at Huddersfield and their subsidiary James ■■? on Leeds Road in Huddersfield
Come on, whose memory is better than mine (wouldn’t take much!)
Not mine Andy but I shall have a go .
Was Ellis Jones (European Colours) on the corner of I.I.R.C. St Mary’s Way in Stockport and the entrance was up a small side street. It seems that they had quite a few spills in there as I can remember on a few occasions the yard would be full of Brilliant Yellow, Dayglo Orange and Bright Lime Green. Lovely to look at but a pain if you got some on your shoes and you had to wash your tyres before leaving the premises.
Don’t know about Degussa at Clayton but tipped and loaded at Clayton Aniline a few times in the 80’s/90’s. Would the blue dye that were thinking of be Indigo ? although I was always under the impression that the only people who made Indigo was I.C.I. at Ellesmere Port ( what a hole that was whenever it rained ) . Even in the summer if you got a couple of grains on you and then you started sweting you came out in blue streaks. I was told that there was an Indigo plant in India and America but I don’t know how true that was. One of the waste products from making Indigo was Caustic Soda which we used to remove in a tipper which was under “The Chute” 24/7 every day of the year. From Ellesmere Port we had to take the Caustic Soda to Widnes or if it was a bad batch we used to take it to the I.C.I. tip at the end of Lower Quarry Road just off Leeds Road in Huddersfield overlooking the M62 at Junction 25, I think that there is a golf course near there now.
Could it of been James Halstead Dyes on Leeds Road that you were thinking of ?.
And thanks John , it’s good to know that Tennants are still going on Hazlebottom Road but I find it so sad to hear that I.C.I. Blackley have finished .
Hi Chris, yes it was Al Read he was a Right Monkey I have just done a search and I found this, click on HEAR SAMPLE, I hope that it works.
jj72:
I’ve never done tank work, but some others I’ve done packages from are:
Ellis Jones (European Colours) at Heaton Mersey and somewhere else near Stockport
Degussa at Clayton M/Cr - made mainly one particular blue dye, what DID they used to be called?
Holliday Dyes at Huddersfield and their subsidiary James ■■? on Leeds Road in Huddersfield
Albright & Wilson at Widnes, or was it Runcorn?
Thomas Swan at Crookhall near Consett
Union Camp Chemicals at Bedlington
Come on, whose memory is better than mine (wouldn’t take much!)
JJ,Albright and Wilson were at West Bank Dock Estate Widnes.They had a place at Rainham Essex and of course the one at Whitehaven and I think also at Oldbury?
Stanfield:
Hi sammyopisite.
Would that be Grovener Chemicals you are thinking of at Slaithewaite/Linthwaite.that went up on the 24th May 2010.
JOHN
It could be John but the brain is rotting away and it does not register at the miniute I recall it sat down from the A62 on the right on a small industrial estate.
cheers Johnnie
Once you had been, you wouldn’t forget it, past the row of houses to the weighbridge, was there a canal or small stream to cross by bridge?
I think it was also known as Pennine Chemicals - I was sent to pick up a load of Cresylic Acid, which I understood to be lethal, and they loaded it by forklifting 45 gallon drums up on top of the tank and pouring it in. Two lads in their early twenties were doing this wearing jeans and teeshirts and the only gloves they had were the type you get in a filling station on the diesel pump. I was unable to watch this, so I retreated to the canteen until they’d finished!
Ouch me brain’s hurting keeping up with all the crap I posted! Yes Steve I remember Ellis Jones loading you through the side at the bottom of a sidestreet, can’t remember any spills though myself
I think you’re right with Clayton Aniline (like lots of chemical firms since the mid 80s they went through many name changes as they were swapped between big international firms). I do clearly remember though that the cats they had around the factory were even bloody blue
Have now discovered it was James Robinson at Leeds Road, which was part of Holliday Chemical Holdings
Didn’t know about an A&W site darn Sarth, but Chris is right with Oldbury, and of course Marchon at Workington
We used to carry one particular tanning colour for Yorkshire Chemicals at Leeds, and I once had a 25 litre drum burst, the Rentco tilt’s floor and chassis went through about a half dozen colour changes when it got wet, and hung around for weeks, although it was non-haz (back then anyway!)
Stanfield:
Hi sammyopisite.
Would that be Grovener Chemicals you are thinking of at Slaithewaite/Linthwaite.that went up on the 24th May 2010.
JOHN
It could be John but the brain is rotting away and it does not register at the miniute I recall it sat down from the A62 on the right on a small industrial estate.
cheers Johnnie
Once you had been, you wouldn’t forget it, past the row of houses to the weighbridge, was there a canal or small stream to cross by bridge?
I think it was also known as Pennine Chemicals - I was sent to pick up a load of Cresylic Acid, which I understood to be lethal, and they loaded it by forklifting 45 gallon drums up on top of the tank and pouring it in. Two lads in their early twenties were doing this wearing jeans and teeshirts and the only gloves they had were the type you get in a filling station on the diesel pump. I was unable to watch this, so I retreated to the canteen until they’d finished!
Steve I think that is the name I was trying to recall as it does sound familiar
jj72 I can recall Halliday’s Dyes they used to have a ERF day cab probably an “A” series with a tipping trailer run to Germany most weeks in the 70s probably carrying drums as it was low sides for a tipper and sheeted with a custom sheet I think it was Hansons transport on contract but may be wrong as usual.
cheers Johnnie
Stanfield:
I think I may have put this one on before somewhere Chris0JOHN
You have John,but it’s still a great photo.I’ve spent some hours in that place at Whitehaven.I think their place at Oldbury was a phosphoric acid plant but I’m not sure if the transport was contracted out.Their place at Rainham was on the marshes and just up the road was a haulier called Range Transport I think.
Stanfield:
I think I may have put this one on before somewhere Chris0JOHN
You have John,but it’s still a great photo.I’ve spent some hours in that place at Whitehaven.I think their place at Oldbury was a phosphoric acid plant but I’m not sure if the transport was contracted out.Their place at Rainham was on the marshes and just up the road was a haulier called Range Transport I think.
Chris was it Oldbury where you had to go to the medical room to or something to have your teeth checked as if you had any broken teeth they did not let you on the Phosphoric acid plant to load as it could harm your health if it got into broken teeth. The fumes used to make you cough a bit as well.
Stanfield:
I think I may have put this one on before somewhere Chris0JOHN
You have John,but it’s still a great photo.I’ve spent some hours in that place at Whitehaven.I think their place at Oldbury was a phosphoric acid plant but I’m not sure if the transport was contracted out.Their place at Rainham was on the marshes and just up the road was a haulier called Range Transport I think.
Chris was it Oldbury where you had to go to the medical room to or something to have your teeth checked as if you had any broken teeth they did not let you on the Phosphoric acid plant to load as it could harm your health if it got into broken teeth. The fumes used to make you cough a bit as well.
I never went in their Oldbury plant Sammie,I went in the place next door called British Industrial Plastics (BIP) with styrene.Those phosphoric acid tanks were a small diameter so it must have been a heavy product.The only place I ever went in and had to have a check up was Staveley Chemicals,a blood test as we carried a lot of benzene.
Where’s this place,anybody know? I thought it might be Seal Sands Storage or whatever it was called.There was a load of tank farms in that area,ICI North Tees was another IIRC.Not been up there for nearly twenty years.
It’s a Freighthire ERF on the bridge and a Bulkhaul ERF on the left.
Chris Webb:
Where’s this place,anybody know? I thought it might be Seal Sands Storage or whatever it was called.There was a load of tank farms in that area,ICI North Tees was another IIRC.Not been up there for nearly twenty years.
It’s a Freighthire ERF on the bridge and a Bulkhaul ERF on the left.
Chris. I would say that is (CFC) Cargo Fleet Chemicals on Pine Street, Cargo Fleet. It may be called Univar nowadays
Hi Chris, I don’t think that it is Tees Storage at Seal Sands as I can’t remember seeing those high voltage power lines so close to the storage tanks and I thought that the weighbridge was one way for going in and one side for going out.
But I could be wrong again .
I mentioned on Andy’s post if it could of been James Halstead on Leeds Road that he was thinking of, I was bit out there as come to think of it James Halsteads place was in Radcliffe near Bury and they made floor coverings. They used to make Lino or if you were posh you called it Vinalay I can remember seeing tankers going in there but I can’t remember who’s they were.
Now that Andy has mentioned Holliday wasn’t it L.B. or J.B. Holliday .
Chris Webb:
Where’s this place,anybody know? I thought it might be Seal Sands Storage or whatever it was called.There was a load of tank farms in that area,ICI North Tees was another IIRC.Not been up there for nearly twenty years.
It’s a Freighthire ERF on the bridge and a Bulkhaul ERF on the left.
Chris. I would say that is (CFC) Cargo Fleet Chemicals on Pine Street, Cargo Fleet. It may be called Univar nowadays
I thought about that place Malc.I went in a couple of times with some crap from Ulverston but I didn’t think it was as big a place as that.And Steve I don’t recall those power lines either at Tees Storage plus as you say their was an in and out weighbridge.
Looks like you get a cigar Malc, I’ll keep it for you when you come for the TT
hya Chris,thats seal sands defo used to deliver there 20yrs ago into storage with Vynyl Chloride from I.C.I at Runcorn,a very busy place all the time.Cheers Ted.
toxic gas man:
hya Chris,thats seal sands defo used to deliver there 20yrs ago into storage with Vynyl Chloride from I.C.I at Runcorn,a very busy place all the time.Cheers Ted.
Thanks for that Ted,I thought it might have been but wasn’t sure.
That vinyl chloride was dodgy stuff,I never carried it myself but I remember Calor Transport tipping it at Vinatex in the Staveley Chemicals complex,from BP Baglan Bay and also Gilbraiths? from ICI Runcorn.
Hya Chris that Vinatex job was a good un for us,they had 8 loads every day and 8 at night in the 70s and 80s.they were taken over by Norsk Hydro in early 90s i think,i retired in 90,probrobly finished now .remember in the mid 70s there was an article in the press about V.C how it was cancer causing and made you impotent,the lads at Vinatex tried it on for comppy but it didnt work,then one of our drivers caused a bit of a stink by sticking a poster in the canteen at Vinatex saying that if they were having trouble with their wives give us a shout and we will get a minibus and come over to help you out.That didnt go down very well at all,there was quite a ,stink our manager had to send a letter of apology to them,but it soon blew over,i was carrying the stuff for 21 years no harm as yet.Cheers TED.
toxic gas man:
Hya Chris that Vinatex job was a good un for us,they had 8 loads every day and 8 at night in the 70s and 80s.they were taken over by Norsk Hydro in early 90s i think,i retired in 90,probrobly finished now .remember in the mid 70s there was an article in the press about V.C how it was cancer causing and made you impotent,the lads at Vinatex tried it on for comppy but it didnt work,then one of our drivers caused a bit of a stink by sticking a poster in the canteen at Vinatex saying that if they were having trouble with their wives give us a shout and we will get a minibus and come over to help you out.That didnt go down very well at all,there was quite a ,stink our manager had to send a letter of apology to them,but it soon blew over,i was carrying the stuff for 21 years no harm as yet.Cheers TED.
I came off tanks in 1979 Ted and not long after that Vinatex closed down.I went back on tanks for a few months in 1994 and did a lot of work out of Staveley,days and nights.There’s hardly anything left there now.It didn’t do the place any good when they had that fire at the BTC plant (can’t remember the year),the locals were not amused so it was only a matter of time before they closed it.It was called Rhone-Poulenc when I went back in 1994.
I haven’t got a Vinatex vehicle photo but here’s one of the VC discharge area…
And one of a Staveley Chemicals Atkinson Borderer…
I remember that there were a hell of a lot of safety meetings at Vinatex and I recall the cancer scares with the product.
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, it’s good to know that Tennants are still going on Hazlebottom Road but I find it so sad to hear that I.C.I. Blackley have finished 
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I can remember seeing tankers going in there but I can’t remember who’s they were.
