no you arent Harry,can you recall the name of the manager when they were on Thornaby Airfield,circa 1990s,
The guy had a"brother"a Harry Shields, who was transport manager at a Middlesbrough steel stockholder Harrison & Whitfield,but for whatever reason they hated the sight of each other.
Id been for an interview with WJs when they had Leyland Badgers i believe at South Bank in the late 60s, the guy said ill write with a starting date,never heard a thing?
Anyway some 20 odd years later,working for Shell i took aload of derv to Thornaby and this guy(the manager)came out,checked the dips,and said,you were supposed to start work for me on such and such a date,and i said,im still waiting for confirmation!! Happy Days!!
harry_gill:
hiya,
Can anyone tell me the location of the Riding’s Teesside depot in use in the
60s and beyond Frank Ferguson was the manager I’ve tried searching on the
Google maps site but I can’t remember the name of the road so no luck.
thanks harry, long retired.
Hi Harry,
Riding’s original Teesside depot, on Middlesbrough Road South Bank, can be seen on the left just before the parked cars.
Bill Lambert former H.G.V driver at W.J.Ridings for over 40yrs, passed away 30/12/14. R.I.P.
Jakdaw:
Bill Lambert former H.G.V driver at W.J.Ridings for over 40yrs, passed away 30/12/14. R.I.P.
Tom Riding attended Bills funeral and tells me that there were so many people in attendance that many had to stand outside.
Hi,I remember back in the 70s or 80s Riding"s had a small depot in Penrith,i knew a chap who drove on day shift for them,Brian Frith,last i herd he was driving a Milk Tanker in Penrith,Anyone know him!!
Norman croad,Torquay.
Seddon Atkinson 401 Series 4x2 tractor unit Reg No B800 YFR Fleet No 75 ‘Great Western’, powered by a Gardner 8LXCT 300 bhp engine, is pictured here coupled to a forty foot tri-axle flat platform trailer delivering the last 4 bags of cement to a ship berthed in Tees dock.
This was part of an order for 20,000 tons from Castle Cement at Clitheroe which went to the Ascension Islands to build a runway after the Falklands war.
moomooland:
0Seddon Atkinson 401 Series 4x2 tractor unit Reg No B800 YFR Fleet No 75 ‘Great Western’, powered by a Gardner 8LXCT 300 bhp engine, is pictured here coupled to a forty foot tri-axle flat platform trailer delivering the last 4 bags of cement to a ship berthed in Tees dock.This was part of an order for 20,000 tons from Castle Cement at Clitheroe which went to the Ascension Islands to build a runway after the Falklands war.
Now that is a very interesting post “mml”, it equals 800 loads so I wonder how many a day were delivered ? 100 maybe ? and did WJR deliver the whole shipment ? That sure is a rapid traffic flow in one direction and do you know what----- I bet Mr Tom reloaded every motor back to Lancashire ! 
Very interesting all the same . Cheers Bewick.
Bewick:
Now that is a very interesting post “mml”, it equals 800 loads so I wonder how many a day were delivered ? 100 maybe ? and did WJR deliver the whole shipment ? That sure is a rapid traffic flow in one direction and do you know what----- I bet Mr Tom reloaded every motor back to Lancashire !
They were doing 8 loads a day out of Castle Cement which equated to 200 tons a day 1000 tons a week and was completed in around 20 weeks and as you say not one trailer returned empty as the Lancashire traffic off Teesside was phenomenal at that time.
Hi i was reading about this company. I am from ireland. Would this company ran to ireland to a plastics factory in a town called clara in the midlands. Going by the pictures it was then. Late 80s early 90s if not before.
mwillis:
Hi i was reading about this company. I am from ireland. Would this company ran to ireland to a plastics factory in a town called clara in the midlands. Going by the pictures it was then. Late 80s early 90s if not before.
Yes they did run to a couple of destinations in the South in the days when they would wait up to three hours to cross the border at Newry.
One was a regular tanker job out of Runcorn to Clara which took three days to complete via the ‘spring busting’ potholed roads in those pre EU days.
The other destination they ran to was Balbriggan just up the coast from Dublin.
Regards Paul.
Just found some w j Riding pics ,FEO51V ,DWN483V ,and what looks like COL628V ? Pulling a bainbridge silencers curtainsider .
Punchy Dan:
Just found some w j Riding pics ,FEO51V ,DWN483V ,and what looks like COL628V ? Pulling a bainbridge silencers curtainsider .
Hi Dan, They used to have a factory at the south end of Blackpool, Ridings seemed to command all the traffic out of there, We used to deliver wrapping paper to a firm nearby, Plus we used to reload there too, Back to Newcastle, This was in the early 80s, Regards Larry.
Riding’s had quite a number of tractor units and trailers assigned to the Timax/Bainbridge exhaust systems contract that ran out of the Timax factory at Squires Gate Blackpool and Glasson Dock near Lancaster, many of which were double shifted.Punchy Dan:
Just found some w j Riding pics ,FEO51V ,DWN483V ,and what looks like COL628V ? Pulling a bainbridge silencers curtainsider .
COL628V ? is fleet number 14 , DWN483V is 53.
Punchy Dan:
COL628V ? is fleet number 14 , DWN483V is 53.
Seddon Atkinson 400 Series 4x2 tractor unit Reg No COL 628V Fleet No 14 ‘Iron Duke’ was powered by a ■■■■■■■ E290 engine.
It was originally a day cab which was registered new to the Dunlop Company on the 13th of August 1979 who used it as a mobile test outfit to gain experience with their Maxaret anti jack knife braking system.
When bought by W.J. Riding it was sent over to Geoff Yates of Preston who successfully converted it into a full blown sleeper cab.
Seddon Atkinson 400 Series 4x2 tractor unit Reg No DWN 483V Fleet No 53 ‘Robert the Bruce’ was one the four tractor unit’s that were purchased second hand from Entress Transport of Swansea.
Powered by a ■■■■■■■ E290 engine in line with a Fuller 9 speed gearbox and Rockwell axle DWN 483V was first registered on the 2nd of June 1980 and cost £21,750.
Purchased by Riding’s in March 1982, at a cost of £13,000, it was sold on a number of years later to Abrams of Ormskirk for £3,000.
I often wish I could remember the names of the lads I became friendly with during my years with Allison,s Dundee there were several W&J Ridings among them … one big curly headed lad drove an F88 I often used got lumbered at the Newton le willows depot shunting the night trunk and changed over in Preston (Great dance hall the Mecca ) and running up and down the 74 and 6 we all used to know each other … not like the mad rush today ■■?
and who were the mob out of Warrington seemed to have most of the levers work ■■?
moomooland:
mwillis:
Hi i was reading about this company. I am from ireland. Would this company ran to ireland to a plastics factory in a town called clara in the midlands. Going by the pictures it was then. Late 80s early 90s if not before.
Yes they did run to a couple of destinations in the South in the days when they would wait up to three hours to cross the border at Newry.ŕ
One was a regular tanker job out of Runcorn to Clara which took three days to complete via the ‘spring busting’ potholed roads in those pre EU days.
The other destination they ran to was Balbriggan just up the coast from Dublin.
Regards Paul.[/quote
Thank for the reply… remember them well.
Associated plastics was factory… it also gone now…
So are most of the potholes lol…
Also remember company called ancliff i think… they came aswell after wj riding…