Can anybody remember a chemical company in the Bolton area called PATCO in the eighties. I can’t remember if they were on Smiths Road or Raikes Lane that was just off the A666 near Moses Gate Station. They had a Leyland Roadtrain tanker with a light blue livery, the drivers name was David and they were eventually taken over by I.C.I.
Regards Steve.
the flying foden:
brits tipping at P&G at amiens
Did we load Lubrizol Le Havre or BASF Ludwigshafen for Amiens.Can’t remember(Was on for BRT,later Samat)
welshphil:
the flying foden:
brits tipping at P&G at amiens
Did we load Lubrizol Le Havre or BASF Ludwigshafen for Amiens.Can’t remember(Was on for BRT,later Samat)
I remember doing a few load from Albright & Wilson at Whitehaven to Amiens & maybe once from BASF Ludwigshafen
Hi you lot
What about Harold Wood, Yiddle Davis, Monkton Motors, Pointer, Townson(Roger), Sadler (Larry Gilsennan) Fred Chappel, Consolidated Bulk Liquids(CBL) and the best of all Tanker companies Smith and Robinson (Rothwell) where I worked for 3 years and started as the youngest driver at 23, left came back for another 13 years and left as Training Officer to set up the first Department of Transport directly approved Hazfreight Training Centre.
Great years, fantastic people and memories. I stopped driving HGV’s in 1974 and my last job was 14 tons of linseed oil Rothwell to Leith (Saturday morning) left Rothwel at 3.0am and arrived Leith at 7.0am, tipped and back empty arrived Rothwell at 1.30pm. ERF ■■■■■■■ artic. try and do that today!
best regards to everyone
Alan Walker
alanwalker:
Hi you lot
What about Harold Wood, Yiddle Davis, Monkton Motors, Pointer, Townson(Roger), Sadler (Larry Gilsennan) Fred Chappel, Consolidated Bulk Liquids(CBL) and the best of all Tanker companies Smith and Robinson (Rothwell) where I worked for 3 years and started as the youngest driver at 23, left came back for another 13 years and left as Training Officer to set up the first Department of Transport directly approved Hazfreight Training Centre.
Great years, fantastic people and memories. I stopped driving HGV’s in 1974 and my last job was 14 tons of linseed oil Rothwell to Leith (Saturday morning) left Rothwel at 3.0am and arrived Leith at 7.0am, tipped and back empty arrived Rothwell at 1.30pm. ERF ■■■■■■■ artic. try and do that today!
best regards to everyone
Alan Walker
Where was this motor based - I don’t think I ever saw it on the road?
Hi Alan
Worked for Roger & Alan Townson from 1976 until 1980 until they sold out to Sadlers,worked at Oldham 1st in the workshops & then went to Morecambe depot as workshop foreman from 77 until it closed in 86 then returned to Oldham depot working alongside of Larry Gilsenan as Traffic/Quality Manager until 2000 when Stiller got involved,stayed with him until 2002 and then finnished.Still see Larry now and again,he lives about a mile away from me,he is now semi retired and doing a small driving job (helps pay for a pint or two).Been on a couple of your courses myself along with LG and the drivers .Nice to hear from you,if you look through this and other threads about tankers you will find a few photos of the Townson & Sadler motors.Here’s a couple for you.
Cheers for now JOHN.
alanwalker:
Hi you lot
What about Harold Wood, Yiddle Davis, Monkton Motors, Pointer, Townson(Roger), Sadler (Larry Gilsennan) Fred Chappel, Consolidated Bulk Liquids(CBL) and the best of all Tanker companies Smith and Robinson (Rothwell) where I worked for 3 years and started as the youngest driver at 23, left came back for another 13 years and left as Training Officer to set up the first Department of Transport directly approved Hazfreight Training Centre.
Great years, fantastic people and memories. I stopped driving HGV’s in 1974 and my last job was 14 tons of linseed oil Rothwell to Leith (Saturday morning) left Rothwel at 3.0am and arrived Leith at 7.0am, tipped and back empty arrived Rothwell at 1.30pm. ERF ■■■■■■■ artic. try and do that today!
best regards to everyone
Alan Walker
Hello Alan.
To follow on from John Stanfields post. I worked for Roger (Townson) from 1982 until about 1989 both as a driver and transport manager. apart from you as the LPG hazchem / hazfreight trainer, Roger was the best teacher anyone could have. If Roger had survived his heart attack. I am sure we would have still been very close. I am meeting his daughter for the TT racing this year, not seen her for several years although I have posted several pictures of her dads lorries in other threads.
One thing to thank you for is the way you delivered your training, very informative, very thorough and always amusing. I think I sat through 5 full tanker sessions with you over 25 years. That bloody blow up doll was almost the death of me with having asthma 
malc step:
Hi Folks,Cheers Malc.
Do you remember the driver that had a serious accident in one of the Samas motors, luckiest man alive when looking at the damaged cab!
freddyboy:
Leathers Chemicals Scammell my old Dad used to work there years ago sadly he passed away recently.
Theres a V8 Mandator thats been painted up in Leathers Chemicals colours complete with a trailer i dont know if it`s their original vehicle but Leathers certainly had 1 i knew the driver.It was parked in Arthur Greens yard at Steeton for a while
ramone:
freddyboy:
Leathers Chemicals Scammell my old Dad used to work there years ago sadly he passed away recently.There
s a V8 Mandator thats been painted up in Leathers Chemicals colours complete with a trailer i dont know if it`s their original vehicle but Leathers certainly had 1 i knew the driver.It was parked in Arthur Greens yard at Steeton for a while
Heres a picture of a Leathers AEC Mandator its not very good quality, but I dont think this one was a V8 (i do though remember riding in it when I was a Kid)
Wheel Nut:
malc step:
Hi Folks,Cheers Malc.
Do you remember the driver that had a serious accident in one of the Samas motors, luckiest man alive when looking at the damaged cab!
BRT used to sub a bit of work from them.Remember running Spain with one of their drivers aka"Mr Sheen",he polished and vacuumed his cab every time we stopped before we brewed up then afterwards.He watched me change a front wheel then changed his Tshirt!!!We used to load olive oil from Tortosa.
I met a SAMAS driver on the ferry one time who had been a Leeds city bus driver same time as me,his wife was a conductor at same time: but as I age my memory for names shrinks,fell asleep in the rugby club,woke up wondering what all these people were doing in my bedroom!!!
freddyboy:
Leathers Chemicals Scammell my old Dad used to work there years ago sadly he passed away recently.
Seem to remember that the middle tyre on their tri-axle trailers was slightly larger size
alanwalker:
Hi you lot
What about Harold Wood, Yiddle Davis, Monkton Motors, Pointer, Townson(Roger), Sadler (Larry Gilsennan) Fred Chappel, Consolidated Bulk Liquids(CBL) and the best of all Tanker companies Smith and Robinson (Rothwell) where I worked for 3 years and started as the youngest driver at 23, left came back for another 13 years and left as Training Officer to set up the first Department of Transport directly approved Hazfreight Training Centre.
Great years, fantastic people and memories. I stopped driving HGV’s in 1974 and my last job was 14 tons of linseed oil Rothwell to Leith (Saturday morning) left Rothwel at 3.0am and arrived Leith at 7.0am, tipped and back empty arrived Rothwell at 1.30pm. ERF ■■■■■■■ artic. try and do that today!
best regards to everyone
Alan Walker
I sat my HazPack with you maybe 20 years ago Alan, still sticks in the mind how well presented the course was! Glad to hear you’re still around and doing well 
freddyboy:
Leathers Chemicals Scammell my old Dad used to work there years ago sadly he passed away recently.
Hi Freddy, One of Leathers Chemical drivers (Phil Keep) He started work for Humko part of Kraft foods (In foto) after having 6 months in hospital due to an acid spill. Facial and chest! Phil died in the early 90s. I worked out of Trafford Park Manchester. I also worked for Smith and Robinsons Urmston, for a short while in the early 70,s then again 1980s.
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I sat my HazPack with you maybe 20 years ago Alan, still sticks in the mind how well presented the course was! Glad to hear you’re still around and doing well
Hi jj28 I had been on a few Hazchem then ADR courses with Alan Walker. He asked us to collect our hazchem certificates out of a small room filled with ammonia at Rothwell then had taken our photographs. My eyes were watering and I looked like the missing link! I remember the early days Smith and Robinson had a resident mad Professor showing us experiments. He had a small Calor gas bottle blowing up a reinforced balloon. Next to it he had a Bunsen burner, as the balloon filled up with gas it got closer to the Bunsen burner. I stayed awake for the rest of the course, the polystyrene roof tiles dropped after the explosion.
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Stanfield:
Is this the one you remember.10
Those were Leathers Colours
