hiya joer580,most of the scanias had gone or were going when i was there.i was on the little 7.5 t renult for years but it was mainly long distance,lucky if i got home once a week
hi eggman, think i saw the renault, was a scania before that on the egg run. dad drove a few smart motors for mantons, was a shame to see there demise. dad and others used to be away for weeks, 1 guy on european was reguarly gone for 4 weeks at a time, then back for 1 weekend!! some pics of dads old wagons attachd. loved the old k reg 3 series with the lamps, still a huge favorite of mine
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joer580:
hi eggman, think i saw the renault, was a scania before that on the egg run. dad drove a few smart motors for mantons, was a shame to see there demise. dad and others used to be away for weeks, 1 guy on european was reguarly gone for 4 weeks at a time, then back for 1 weekend!! some pics of dads old wagons attachd. loved the old k reg 3 series with the lamps, still a huge favorite of mine
Two nice photos Joer and I remember that K414 reg motor used to come into Maltby around 1995/5 time. I will have shunted most of Manton’s trailers as well.
Chris Webb:
joer580:
hi eggman, think i saw the renault, was a scania before that on the egg run. dad drove a few smart motors for mantons, was a shame to see there demise. dad and others used to be away for weeks, 1 guy on european was reguarly gone for 4 weeks at a time, then back for 1 weekend!! some pics of dads old wagons attachd. loved the old k reg 3 series with the lamps, still a huge favorite of mineTwo nice photos Joer and I remember that K414 reg motor used to come into Maltby around 1995/5 time. I will have shunted most of Manton’s trailers as well.
Is it just the transport that has gone? Is the egg plant still running as I used to bring liquid egg into kettlesing, lovely job, once you got the shells out of the foot valve 
Wheel Nut:
Chris Webb:
joer580:
hi eggman, think i saw the renault, was a scania before that on the egg run. dad drove a few smart motors for mantons, was a shame to see there demise. dad and others used to be away for weeks, 1 guy on european was reguarly gone for 4 weeks at a time, then back for 1 weekend!! some pics of dads old wagons attachd. loved the old k reg 3 series with the lamps, still a huge favorite of mineTwo nice photos Joer and I remember that K414 reg motor used to come into Maltby around 1995/5 time. I will have shunted most of Manton’s trailers as well.
Is it just the transport that has gone? Is the egg plant still running as I used to bring liquid egg into kettlesing, lovely job, once you got the shells out of the foot valve
Hi Wheelnut,
Egg plant still running always looks busy as you drive past ,dont know
about transport every vehicle seen there is white but so are most nowadays
so they could just be delivering/collecting.
Cheers Malc.
some photos from when dad was driving for reg jefferies when the company was at its peak. the old f12 was just bout ready for retiring and was put on shunt duties shortly after this picture was taken
i have seen some manton motors about cf dafs not been up that way for a bit though 
ramone:
bowser:
jj72:
ramone:
bowser:
its a bit of a long shot but do any of you remember a chap called billy potter ?not that long a shot - WW Potter he traded as, it helps the memory that my sister was best mates at school with his daughter, but i never had anything to do with him myself
he was a good mate of an acquaintance of mine, who told me that he had had a breakdown many years ago and was never well after that? my best mate at school also had a cousin who went o/d after working for WWP, colin spencer was his name but again i never knew him directly
just reading that, it sounds more like the deep south of america than west yorkshire - can you hear the banjos, boy?
he had some on steel in the late 90s steve waterhouse run his motors from there i think i used to live across the field and see them going out in a morning
the O/D’s motor , it was’nt a roadtrain was it ■■
Colin Spencer was in the same yard as Billy Potter they were at Mandale Mills off Beacon Road Bradford.Colin had a few new Sanias on continental work
jj72:
Brian Yeardley, Hull*
Brittania, Hull*
BB (Barry) Read, Bridlington
Holdsworth’s, Halifax
GC (Gordon) Morley, Bradford
J G Osborne, Rotherham
Ellerpak, Rotherham
Sharpefreight, Selby
Plowman Borthers, York
Reg Jeffries, Otley
- since allowed back into the fold after 30+ years in exile as “humberside”
add a few one man bands and other firms not mentioned jj
jpl used to park his 2 scannys outside the geoge and dragon in gt horton
mick jack
tony hunt
billy jackson
richard waper
watkinsons
cullingworth commercials
snowdens
stuart darnborough food tankers x2
patefields
colemans
can you remember any of them jj
Sorry mate only just saw your post - all of em apart from Mr Hunt and Mr Waper, although that’s probably just my memory!
Reason I looked up the thread, found an old photo of a black Iveco pulling one of Chris Brearley’s stepframes, with the name Dayastro and a Wakefield or Dewsbury number - anyone got any info who it was and if still about please?
remy:
How about a small family haulage firm, ‘Jack Smith’ from Thorpe Arch near Wetherby. Had half-a-dozen artics and nearly all who worked there was a relative except me, not much money but plenty of laughs.
I remember them.Used to see them in British Gypsum at Sherburn In Elmet.Were they all small volvos?
lilbow73:
remy:
How about a small family haulage firm, ‘Jack Smith’ from Thorpe Arch near Wetherby. Had half-a-dozen artics and nearly all who worked there was a relative except me, not much money but plenty of laughs.I remember them.Used to see them in British Gypsum at Sherburn In Elmet.Were they all small volvos?
I remember Jack Smith’s motors,red livery and always looked tidy.Another from around that way was a firm called Revis,green motors,maybe from Collingham on the A58.
dreva:
jj72:
Brian Yeardley, Hull*
Brittania, Hull*
BB (Barry) Read, Bridlington
Holdsworth’s, Halifax
GC (Gordon) Morley, Bradford
J G Osborne, Rotherham
Ellerpak, Rotherham
Sharpefreight, Selby
Plowman Borthers, York
Reg Jeffries, Otley
- since allowed back into the fold after 30+ years in exile as “humberside”
add a few one man bands and other firms not mentioned jj
jpl used to park his 2 scannys outside the geoge and dragon in gt horton
mick jack
tony hunt
billy jackson
richard waper
watkinsons
cullingworth commercials
snowdens
stuart darnborough food tankers x2
patefields
colemans
can you remember any of them jj
does anyone remember Arthur Brent & Son from Oxenhope - they ran AEC’s on wool haulage.
Hi Dreva, regarding "Stuart Darnborough " food tankers did he run as D&B or B&D tankers and his partner was from Bury area another small firm was Terry stocks from Brighouse who ran a few tankers and a good mate
Cheers Johnnie
YAK Transport was that run by a bloke called Ken Hanson ran out of a small yard on the A650 at Morley
shytot you are a star i thought i was going mad,if only there was pictures HERES HOPING
SHYTOT:
YAK Transport was that run by a bloke called Ken Hanson ran out of a small yard on the A650 at Morley
That would be just up the road from Bill Brennans yard
somebody must have pictures of yak trucks 
sammyopisite:
Hi Dreva, regarding "Stuart Darnborough " food tankers did he run as D&B or B&D tankers and his partner was from Bury area another small firm was Terry stocks from Brighouse who ran a few tankers and a good mate
Cheers Johnnie
Stuart Darnborough. That is a blast from the past Didn’t Elvis (Lewis & Bertschi) drive for him for a while?
somebody must have pictures of yak trucks
did they have more than one?
sadly this was in the days before digi cams so not many bothered to take pics of trucks. I took a few but over the years they ave got lost or damaged etc.
I can’t find any of Panalpina trucks, even though they had a very smart livery, mind you they weren’t often stood long enough to catch.
Would have liked one of TKH477R, a big 'enery that I had for a few years or even GVH 224S when they tried out the chipperfield circus livery!