After the Renaults we got these. Real workhorses
Photo by Peter Davies in July’s C&VC magazine.Suttons must be one of the oldest tanker companies around these days.
Lovely looking Strato!
Well Boss…!
adr:
Lovely looking Strato!
Dave Shaw is/was a lovely bloke, that shot was taken in North Sea Ferries shed on King George Dock in Hull
adr:
Bailee Freight.
That looks suspiciously like Dave Mastermans F10.
Dave was at many Hull companies including Tower Express, Akester and latterly Neill and Brown after giving up as an O/D in the early 90’s
240 Gardner:
Wheel Nut:
P&O Roadtankers and P&O Tankmasters were sold off as were H&S in Holland. P&O Containers (OCL) became P&O Nedlloyd became Maersk. P&O European Transport became Wincanton PLC and Pandoro became P&O FerrymastersPandoro & Ferrymasters were sister companies, but there were lots of in-house political angles arising from the merger of Northern Ireland Trailers and Ferrymasters (Ireland) to form Pandoro. In the end, Pandoro became, effectively Ferrymasters Ireland again, I think. In earlier years, ex-N.I.T. people held senior positions above ex-FMI people, and so on.
P&O Roadways (made up from an amalgamation of Containerbases, North Western Roadways, West Midland Roadways, Coastal Roadways, Eastern Roadways International and Henry Smither, ended up as Roadways Container Logistics, passing to P&O Nedlloyd when that company was formed.
POETS (P&O European Transport Services) included P&O Distribution (including the old Butlers Warehousing) and P&O Roadtanks (made up from Thomas Allen, A S Jones, John Forman, James Hemphill), not to mention the continental interests - POETS as a whole passed to Wincanton. The P&O group had previously owned Bovis Homes, Arndale, Pandair Freight & Anglo Overseas too! It was one hell of an outfit, but Ferrymasters is the only bit remaining under the P&O banner, along with Ferries & Ports, and now owned by DP World of Dubai.
H&S were sold before P&O changed from Olympic blue to the darker shade used by RCL until recently, and they still run today in the old P&O livery. They can be seen on the A303 most days.
I have often wondered what happened to Pandoro, used to see their trailers all the time all over Ireland.
Slab Murphy:
I have often wondered what happened to Pandoro, used to see their trailers all the time all over Ireland.
I worked for Pandoro from 1976 to 1982. It had been formed in 1975 from the merger between Northern Ireland Trailers and Ferrymasters (Ireland). It was a substantial outfit: around 1978 it was operating about 180 tractors and 2200 trailers, with a big, new, purpose-built workshop in Fleetwood (42,000 sq.ft., from memory, complete with paint shop), about 100,000 sq.ft. of warehousing at Yeadon, and depots in Fleetwood, Stoke, South Bank, Yeadon, Frampton Cotterell and Canning Town. Not to mention 2 ships, and which gradually grew to 4 with various charters along the way.
Depots also came and went at South Mimms, Preston Dock, Liverpool and Kitt Green, and let’s not forget the Irish depots in Larne, Belfast and Dublin too.
And yet, from all that, I believe it’s all gone now - I believe that Stena operate the ferry services but, as far as I’m aware, all of the old Pandoro haulage operations have disappeared without trace. There are a number of surviving Pandoro lorries (I have one) and some from the earlier N.I.T. fleet, but none are preserved in the original liveries.
High & low cab Scannies, were the different size cabs & power ordered for a reason? Cos 38 tons didn’t come in until 1983 if I remember right, so it couldn’t have been for the weight.
This is a nice dinky little wagon, obviously built for a reason, I wonder what it carried?
Built by Clayton’s for A.S, Jones at Bromborough to carry shortening, tipping and heated tank. not sure of the company it was first contracted to - maybe Peerless but Wheel Nut know some of the history
Sniffy:
Built by Clayton’s for A.S, Jones at Bromborough to carry shortening, tipping and heated tank. not sure of the company it was first contracted to - maybe Peerless but Wheel Nut know some of the history
It may have been used on the unichema contract, (prices) that was P&O.
Sniffy:
Built by Clayton’s for A.S, Jones at Bromborough to carry shortening, tipping and heated tank. not sure of the company it was first contracted to - maybe Peerless but Wheel Nut know some of the history
Peerless Refining were almost opposite the BP station on Dunnings Bridge Road, it has all gone now, but there was a problem as the land was contaminated. I cannot find any photos of the place, but have spent hours on the point or trying to sleep in the refinery.
Thanks Sniffy, they certainly look like shortening tanks but didn’t Peerless Refining run 8 wheelers? Maybe A S Jones had these to do the smaller bakers and catering companies.
I found your DAF artic shortening tank again. 
Steptoe, you have just brought awful memories of tipping cold Prifrac in Unichema Bromborough. I only knew it as Prices when I was in their reasonably priced club
Sorry Wheelnut not intentional, but most tanker drivers have awful memories of tipping cold Prifrac in Unichema Bromborough, and even worse memories of trying to get loaded there. I havnt been to Unichema for years now but I belive its all gone, cheap canteen and club aswell.
Wheelnut is correct
I used to work for Humko (KRAFT FOODS) Trafford Park. Acatos and Hutcheson, had taken over we were kept on,the plant was called Centrol Edible Oils, Then Trafford Edible Oils, . At the same time they had taken over many others including Peerless refining Dunning Bridge Road Bootle. AS Jones had the contract for Peerless, these tanks were based there and carried shortening. I think the tanks were fitted with screw pumps as the product was thick. They had a few artic tanks as well for carrying mainly Palm Fish and ■■■■ seed oil. I remember many of the drivers by face, Big Harry but only Brian Smith comes to mind.
steptoe:
Sorry Wheelnut not intentional, but most tanker drivers have awful memories of tipping cold Prifrac in Unichema Bromborough, and even worse memories of trying to get loaded there. I havnt been to Unichema for years now but I belive its all gone, cheap canteen and club aswell.
It was ok if you were tipping tallow, those huge pumps were brilliant, another good job was a customer collect of hardened palm acid oil, you could load yourself and no samples.
Kev there was also Brittania Lard / PL Transtore who ran out of Peerless, although they could have just been storing products for Peerless, it always seemed a strange location for a refinery with no waterway links 