Lonewolf Yorks:
I vaguely remember loading groupage down that way, somewhere off the old A13. Wasn’t Dagenham though, was further out, somewhere near the Circus Tavern.
Hullo Chris,
That’s it mate, on the A12 just before the westbound slip road onto the M25, up a cart track, round a large right hand bend and then down to the Farm. A bit of a squeeze to get into sometimes, but OK. Turn right and park by the wall of the house, strip out the nearside of the trailer and you were ready. Ron the boss was OK but his Son Clive was a bit of a ■■■■■■.
Cheers, Archie.
Archie Paice:
Hullo Ross,
Where was their place in Dagenham then ? When I did work for them, about the same time as you mention, we always used to always tip or load a Fox’s Farm. Do you not remember Shove it on Ron with the forklift ?
Cheers, Archie.
Hi Archie, asking me to remember stuff like that is stretching it a bit I’m certain it was at the Rainham end of Dagenham (could have been Rainham) on the same side of the A13 as the Ford factory, a very old, dark, untidy place, we’d often tip a few pallets there on the way back from Colmar as well. I seem to remember it was hard to back onto the bays for all the old cars waiting to go for export parked all over the place.
great blog ash it good to see old pics and listen to peoples memories of the good old days when the job was worth doing and here names of people who could get the job done, dave chaimberlin, john howard, joe oniel, karl lawrenson, tony gibbons and alan sanders to name a few 2 of these names have been mentioned on the m/e blog but all other than alan did m/e or commie block karl tried it didnt like it and cocentrated on spain and italy, alan did spain, joe loved germany but went anywere that payed, john didnt care were he went and, dave and tony well they couldent get enough of the m/e only 2 of these guys are drivin thats karl and alan are both are 65+ anyone on here no of these guys all are from manchester and again top blog ash
mckellers was in the old ensign bus yard which is now scantrucks before that in rainham as for ferry freighting sure the office was in dagenham and think they parked up in rainham ronny evans(RIP) was on there
ferry freighting were based in the old vicarige in dagenham village next door to the cross keys pub and old dagenham church.they had a yard at averley and all the groupage was collated to fox"s, foulkes farm,foulkes lane upminster,off a127 on the left just befor m25
europleb:
ferry freighting were based in the old vicarige in dagenham village next door to the cross keys pub and old dagenham church.they had a yard at averley and all the groupage was collated to fox"s, foulkes farm,foulkes lane upminster,off a127 on the left just befor m25
Hullo “europleb”,
Absolutely spot on mate, it was on the A127, in my earlier bit I said the A12. You will obviously remember Ron the Father, drove a Forklift like it was a Dumper Truck, hence the Nickname, Shove it on Ron, and Clive the Son then. By the way I have completely forgotten, what was the Pub right next door to the Office, the old Vicarage. Where we all used to go and do the business with Jimmy. ***** SORRY I’VE JUST READ YOUR POST AGAIN. I MUST BE BLIND ****
Cheers, Archie.
Billy Moore loved working for F/F. I can see why now since their HQ is next door to a pub. He said,’ The wages are £100 per week & all you can drink.’ He reckoned he was quids in!!
harry:
Billy Moore loved working for F/F. I can see why now since their HQ is next door to a pub. He said,’ The wages are £100 per week & all you can drink.’ He reckoned he was quids in!!
Hullo Harry,
Billy Moore ( R.I.P), What a fantastic bloke to run or work with. As you say he was quids in eh? Could’nt he put it away, but without getting nasty with it, mind you he could if needed settle a Row. After all he was big enough was’nt he. The others on there were good as well, Stuart Booth and Ronnie Evans plus of course Jimmy Mcauliffe in the Office. A good outfit that was.
Cheers, Archie.
Can anyone remember Ferry Freightings man in Milan, his name was Graham but I can’t think of his surname, what a great guy to work with, I used to load back for them out of Italy if I was returning from Greece on the ferry. A call from Piraeus to let him know I was on my way and time of arrival and a load telex would be waiting in the ferry companies office in Italy. If I was tipping near Dagenham drop into the office, write out an invoice and a kite would be written out there and then, not many forwarding firms you could say that about in the eighties.
harry:
Billy Moore loved working for F/F. I can see why now since their HQ is next door to a pub. He said,’ The wages are £100 per week & all you can drink.’ He reckoned he was quids in!!
Hullo Harry,
Billy Moore ( R.I.P), What a fantastic bloke to run or work with. As you say he was quids in eh? Could’nt he put it away, but without getting nasty with it, mind you he could if needed settle a Row. After all he was big enough was’nt he. The others on there were good as well, Stuart Booth and Ronnie Evans plus of course Jimmy Mcauliffe in the Office. A good outfit that was.
Cheers, Archie.
Bill had a way with words. He once told me he ran with these two new youngsters on TIR. ’ They stopped at every caff. They got rat assed every night & slept til 10 in the morning…I was impressed!!’
harry:
Bill had a way with words. He once told me he ran with these two new youngsters on TIR. ’ They stopped at every caff. They got rat assed every night & slept til 10 in the morning…I was impressed!!’
Hullo Harry,
I was always well impressed with Bill. He was a man of many different facets, he often used to tell you things when we stopped for a meal in the evenings, his stories were always really interesting and he was a really inteligent man. he was a Cornishman who went into the Army at a young age, he was in a Guards Regiment although I don’t remember which one. He was one of the first men to travel to the Middle East, he once showed me a piece of paper that he always carried with him amongst a lot of other bits and bobs, it was all hand written in Arabic and had a stamp on it. I was at the Iranian Border in 1967 Christmas Day he said. I do know that he was a very early pioneer because one day when I was in the offices in Verona completing paperwork I got talking to a huge either Danish or Swedish bloke, when he knew I was on for Ferry Freighting he asked me did I know Billy, he said he knew him in those early days, he said we used to sit having cay with the Customs in those times, paperwork was a pleasure, tell Billy Motte ? or Moppe ? was asking for him. Bill said that Christmas I was with one of the Managers of Sammy Williams and we were taking a ■■■■■ Chopper, as he called it to Tehran. He worked for Sammy Williams for quite a long time and wound up going with this Sewage Liquidising Unit all over the place, a lot of the time he said was spent in Russia with it, apparently with an accompanied by a guard all the time. I also know he was quite a while with OHS. But he used to impress me most when he had a bottle of his favourite Vechia Romania, a whole bottle of the stuff.
Cheers, Archie.
I only met Bill on the early Italian run days & mostly on overnight stops in the French Alps - great days…make that nights!!
This new page set-up is worse than the morning after?Maybe its because it is the morning after?
Bit of nostalgia for you,Archie - I’ve just been attacked by a mozzie here{ +30C in the night } Its a special Valentine one with fangs like a vampire! Gonna give up drink, gonna give up women - the times I’ve said that but I’m still carrying the flag for Bill & all the rest of the old uns.
heres 1 for some of you lads from london way who used to be regular to barcelona inthe mid late 80s enyone remember a guy called spanish kenny he lived in castadefelles in an appartment on the right before the coast road towards sitges he used to have 111 scania and used to say he couldnt go back to london he used to get his trailers in calais
I’m certain it was at the Rainham end of Dagenham (could have been Rainham) on the same side of the A13 as the Ford factory, a very old, dark, untidy place, we’d often tip a few pallets there on the way back from Colmar as well. I seem to remember it was hard to back onto the bays for all the old cars waiting to go for export parked all over the place.
Someone will pay a handsome price for that…
we talking 000’s mate? 
Got one still on the original backing paper sitting here
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