revman:
012some of my tanker pics this was agency job i only did a couple of times greenline oil foden dischargeing at bury just off m66 (i think it was cuprinol)somebody will know (come on chris)-alan bsc single axle at parkgate electical oil tanker then beer tanker out of leeds-alam
ye thats it tetrysyl bury cheers john-alan
revman:
012some of my tanker pics this was agency job i only did a couple of times greenline oil foden dischargeing at bury just off m66 (i think it was cuprinol)somebody will know (come on chris)-alan bsc single axle at parkgate electical oil tanker then beer tanker out of leeds-alam
ye thats it tetrysyl bury cheers john-alan
E.S.T. are the concert truck company and last heard had moved from silvertown depot to newer premises.
Try this for a long shot, Hanson Transport from Huddersfield and Heywood and the pioneering tanker fleet. In association with Newco and Butterfields manufacturers.
Drivers such as Cyril Kelly, Norman,"back to gilbraiths,"Ward. Bob “ferret” Bedford, etc.
Good working days in late 70s and 80s, sadly changed as ICI became Zeneca etc.
Any ex employees out there?
mike denny:
E.S.T. are the concert truck company and last heard had moved from silvertown depot to newer premises.Try this for a long shot, Hanson Transport from Huddersfield and Heywood and the pioneering tanker fleet. In association with Newco and Butterfields manufacturers.
Drivers such as Cyril Kelly, Norman,"back to gilbraiths,"Ward. Bob “ferret” Bedford, etc.
Good working days in late 70s and 80s, sadly changed as ICI became Zeneca etc.
Any ex employees out there?
Try Steve “mushroomman”,lives in Queensland Oz,he comes on here.He drove for Hanson out of Leeds Road Huddersfield on the 24/7 nitrobenzene job to Wilton.
I’ve tipped tons of benzene in ICI/Zeneca Huddersfield,night and day.
Another Volvo belonging to Nynas.PO58KXY.with LAG tank,fleet No 81.
So Nynas don’t just do heavy oils and tar/bitumen products then? Do they run pet spirits and chemicals as well.
mike denny:
E.S.T. are the concert truck company and last heard had moved from silvertown depot to newer premises.Try this for a long shot, Hanson Transport from Huddersfield and Heywood and the pioneering tanker fleet. In association with Newco and Butterfields manufacturers.
Drivers such as Cyril Kelly, Norman,"back to gilbraiths,"Ward. Bob “ferret” Bedford, etc.
Good working days in late 70s and 80s, sadly changed as ICI became Zeneca etc.
Any ex employees out there?
Hi Mike, welcome to the Trucknet site, it’s great to know that you are still around 
, it must be twenty five years since we used to plod up and down places like Malham Tarn, Jacobs Ladder and Grassmere with a few sandwiches and a couple of tins of Boddingtons in our backpacks 
happy days eh . There can’t be that many drivers or fitters who have walked from Rivington Pike and over Winter Hill looking down at the M61 or walked over the M62 near the top of Windy Hill following the old Roman Road. We must of spent hours on those old pack horse routes on the Pennines in all kinds of weather using an Ordinance Survey map and a compass and it was surprising how many of those trails led us to a pub 
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Craig phoned me last week from Perth W.A. where he is now a fleet engineer for a tanker company, (as he was your apprentice no daubt he will be a bloody good one) I will ask him if he can send me a couple of tanker photos to put on here. Sadly his Uncle Cyril passed away about six years ago with cancer, he was a terrific old feller who had the respect of everybody who ever met him.
You will know Mike, did Hanson have a couple of tankers on the Castrol contract at one time ?, I can only remember going into Castrol in Hyde with a forty foot flat to load forty five gallon drums for Ellesmere Port (although I seem to think that they could of been fifty gallon drums ) and I remember seeing a red Phillips Petroleum tanker in the yard at Heywood on a couple of occasions and the B.P. contract at Hull seems to ring a distant bell.
If you look on page three of this thread you will see a photo of E470 JCX which was given to me by John Harrison who is well into his seventies now and some times looks in on this site. I am sure that you would of had your hands dirty on a few occasions working on E470 and here is another one that you might remember jump starting on a cold and frosty morning 
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Regards Steve, oh and Christine says hello 
I wonder if Chris or John Stansfield can remember the name of that chemical company near Mossley that exploded in the I.I.R.C. late 80’s or early 90’s was it Carrbrook Chemicals , five years later and the ground was still badly contaminated.
Hi Steve and Mike.
Sorry lads but I never did any drops in Mossley and I came off tanks in 1979,but didn’t Dow Chemicals have a plant there at one time?
Do you reckon this ERF is ex Hanson,G230 DCX ? I had one similar,D802 PHD both with the twin-splitter.I worked for George Bloomer for a while in 1994 and D802 PHD was 8 years old then,but what a top motor it was. 
Hi Steve
Was the company you remember called Calprina (used to be The Calico Printing Company) based in Carrbrook nr Mossley,I remember that going up because my sister lived just around the corner from it.There are new detached houses on the site now.
Hiya Steve,
The Chemical Company was called Chemstar and it happened early 80s possible 81.
Ray
I remember Geoff. I used to go to school with two of his sons, Mark and Clive. Geoff passed away a few years ago. Two of his sons Trevor and Mark did follow in his foot steps. Both used to work for Symphony in Leeds. Been out of touch with them now, so not sure what they are upto.
BIGGEE:
do you remember mi old mate on the left geoff wilkinson,was a great fella
flishflunk:
Hiya Steve,
The Chemical Company was called Chemstar and it happened early 80s possible 81.Ray
Hi Ray .You are correct, thats the company,and it was 6th sept 1981 when it happened and a driver who was making a delivery lost his life.I always remember it as J H Gartside & co which became CPA in later life during the 5os/60s a bleaching company.
Hi Chris, I loaded once at a Dow Chemical place and I seem to think that it was somewhere in East Anglia . Those two Bloomers lorries were both Huddersfield registrations as I drove C791 MHD and E472 JCX and both were E.R.F.'s .
Hi John and Ray it was Chemstar that I was thinking of and my old workmate Harry Walshaw always referred to it as Gartsides and pointed out to me where the contaminated ground was and that was in 1987. A friend of mine who used to be a fireman and lived in Mossley at the time told me that he remembered seeing rocket type fireworks shooting hundreds of feet into the night sky and then realised that they were exploding forty five gallon drums.
Now I know the name of the place I have been able to do a Google and this came up :
carrbrookvillage.users.btopenwor … owbury.htm
Not wishing to stray off The Tanker Thread I mentioned about carrying fifty gallon drums were these common in the chemical trade or is it just that I can’t remember seeing them very often ?.
Do you remember those glass Carboys that were packed in straw in a wire basket which I think contained I.I.R.C. Sulphuric Acid 
did anybody ever drop one and I presume that they still use those “Ali Baba’s”.
Regards Steve.
mushroomman:
Hi Chris, I loaded once at a Dow Chemical place and I seem to think that it was somewhere in East AngliaHi John and Ray it was Chemstar that I was thinking of and my old workmate Harry Walshaw always referred to it as Gartsides and pointed out to me where the contaminated ground was and that was in 1987. A friend of mine who used to be a fireman and lived in Mossley at the time told me that he remembered seeing rocket type fireworks shooting hundreds of feet into the night sky and then realised that they were exploding forty five gallon drums.
Now I know the name of the place I have been able to do a Google and this came up :
carrbrookvillage.users.btopenwor … owbury.htm
Not wishing to stray off The Tanker Thread I mentioned about carrying fifty gallon drums were these common in the chemical trade or is it just that I can’t remember seeing them very often ?.
Do you remember those glass Carboys that were packed in straw in a wire basket which I think contained I.I.R.C. Sulphuric AcidRegards Steve.
Hi Steve.The Dow place in East Anglia would more than likely have been in Kings Lynn,I used to take styrene in there from Baglan Bay.
I don’t recall 50 gallon drums either,they were always 75 gallon when I loaded 'em or filled 'em out of the tank.Monsanto at Ruabon springs to mind - 5000 gall benzene into 75 gall drums. 
I remember the glass carboys as well and there was a little place in North Lancs that used to take 500 gall of toluene every year that still used them.It might have been in Nelson or Colne but I’m not sure.
Stanfield:
Another Volvo belonging to Nynas.PO58KXY.with LAG tank,fleet No 81.
Making delivery of oil to Sunlight @ Mossley tameside today 19/1/11.
Hi Folks,
Nynas PN 03GKP unloading tar Halton East nr Skipton.
Cheers Malc.
Gridley51:
Chris Webb:
Their tanks are shipped to the Isle of Man John,presumably with bitumen.What’s the history of Nynas,did they take another tanker company over?Nynas have a refinery in Dundee.It was Briggs Amasco before Nynas took it over.I`m not sure if the tankers are theirs or Harry Lawsons.He used to run everything out of there.
Hi Folks
Harry Lawson unloading tar Halton East nr Skipton
Cheers Malc.
Another Nynas photo, copyright to Bigcheese on the Wirral
Hello gents
this guy looking for a bit of help, stan walton ex suttons driver based in teeside, a project him and his collegues working on.
regards
mark
brits tipping at P&G at amiens
