The Yorkshireman:
I’ve just managed,thanks to some help from forum members, to post some pictures on the Transport Photo Forum/ Tanker pictures you might be interested in.Hiya Yorkshireman I’ve got this photo was it your lorry. If you look on the bonnet it says one of six.
This picture was taken at Llandudno festival 09 she looks prity cool.
john
lee hawke:
DOES anyone remember R J Masters in barnsley
Hi Lee, I drove for RJ Masters for quite a few years,I started there when it was Thomas Masters Ltd in the early sixties on a 3 ton Ford Custom Cab.Then when I reached 21, I abandoned ship to go on the big stuff and European work. Then in the mid 80s I returned. The firm was then R+J Masters, which was Robin and John Masters. They did UK and Euro haulage and storage. Mainly chemicals. Then there was a split in the early 90s and Robin went solo. As RJM Distribution Same sort of work . I was on the European side, Groupage out to wherever Then chemicals back from mainly Germany. In the early 2000s A firm caller TAP Freight bought them out , lock stock, after a steady start they seem to have really developed, Tth original Thomas Masters ltd is still going and in the Masters family of furniture removers ,but Robin and John from the RJ Masters are out of it now. John has died and Robin is retired and enjoying his life, no doubt as the oldest ■■■■■■■ in town, as he always was…Mick Watson 
isnt the bonneted volvo the one that Gees of Wakefield used to have painted in there colours Barry used to drive it on the road runs for them
moncktonmick:
mick you ave pm.
Hi 3300John, No it’s not my old Truck, nice pic though. Mine was “R” reg, the one in your pic “S” I lost mine when I went on holiday and the relief driver knacked the gear box up. It was well past it’s sell bye date from the point of view of S&R. They had told me if anything expensive went wrong they wouldn’t be able to justify cost of repairing it. It had done a few miles too, they only kept it so long because they knew I liked it and it kept going. My wife used to grumble “You think more of that truck than you do of me” I told her “Well I don’t have as much trouble from the truck” I was told one of our five N10’s ended up in Volvo’s museum as the highest recorded mileage for a truck ever, don’t know if it’s true or if it’s still there though. One was written off on the A1 at Ferrybridge, I picked the trailer up. He ran into the back of something at 20mph according to the driver when he was telling the copper. 
The radiator was under the windscreen and the gearbox underneath the cab. Dammed good advert for Volvo safety though, I opened the cab door and apart from the steering wheel being bent it was all intact. Don’t know what happened to the other two.
moncktonmick:
lee hawke:
DOES anyone remember R J Masters in barnsleyHi Lee, I drove for RJ Masters for quite a few years,I started there when it was Thomas Masters Ltd in the early sixties on a 3 ton Ford Custom Cab.Then when I reached 21, I abandoned ship to go on the big stuff and European work. Then in the mid 80s I returned. The firm was then R+J Masters, which was Robin and John Masters. They did UK and Euro haulage and storage. Mainly chemicals. Then there was a split in the early 90s and Robin went solo. As RJM Distribution Same sort of work . I was on the European side, Groupage out to wherever Then chemicals back from mainly Germany. In the early 2000s A firm caller TAP Freight bought them out , lock stock, after a steady start they seem to have really developed, Tth original Thomas Masters ltd is still going and in the Masters family of furniture removers ,but Robin and John from the RJ Masters are out of it now. John has died and Robin is retired and enjoying his life, no doubt as the oldest ■■■■■■■ in town, as he always was…Mick Watson
i used to work in the garage for robin 95 to 98 upon passing my hgv at 21 then tap took over and it went downhill overnight
i left and drove for alan lodge tankers the daf 95 in the picture i remember them new
Speaking of tankers, wasn’t there a tanker firm called Sykes that hauled tar ? Driver i knew (Bill Morris) at Moores went to work there, he drove a Scammel Crusader and was doing a steady run up to somewhere in the north west, can’t remmember exactly where though 
Charles
remy:
Speaking of tankers, wasn’t there a tanker firm called Sykes that hauled tar ? Driver i knew (Bill Morris) at Moores went to work there, he drove a Scammel Crusader and was doing a steady run up to somewhere in the north west, can’t remmember exactly where thoughCharles
There was Charles,they were from Huddersfield.My mate sammyoposite on here will tell you all about them when he wakes up Your mate wasn’t running to LTD at Preston or further up to Workington or Whitehaven was he?
Chris Webb:
remy:
Speaking of tankers, wasn’t there a tanker firm called Sykes that hauled tar ? Driver i knew (Bill Morris) at Moores went to work there, he drove a Scammel Crusader and was doing a steady run up to somewhere in the north west, can’t remmember exactly where thoughCharles
There was Charles,they were from Huddersfield.My mate sammyoposite on here will tell you all about them when he wakes up
Thanks Chris, i think he must have gone to Workington or Whithaven because i remember seeing him up on the M6 when i was comeing down from Carlisle. It’s times like this i wish i’d kept in touch with people. 
Charles
remy:
Speaking of tankers, wasn’t there a tanker firm called Sykes that hauled tar ? Driver i knew (Bill Morris) at Moores went to work there, he drove a Scammel Crusader and was doing a steady run up to somewhere in the north west, can’t remmember exactly where thoughCharles
Hi remy when I started at “Sykes” Bill Morris or (Wetherby Bill ) was there and he then went to “Patterson’s” the tar job would have been Lowca to Scunthorpe he did a bit over the water when at “Sykes” and Bill didn’t do steady anything it must be 30 years since I last saw him so I have no information on his whereabouts these days.
cheers Johnnie
sammyopisite:
remy:
Speaking of tankers, wasn’t there a tanker firm called Sykes that hauled tar ? Driver i knew (Bill Morris) at Moores went to work there, he drove a Scammel Crusader and was doing a steady run up to somewhere in the north west, can’t remmember exactly where thoughCharles
Hi remy when I started at “Sykes” Bill Morris or (Wetherby Bill ) was there and he then went to “Patterson’s” the tar job would have been Lowca to Scunthorpe he did a bit over the water when at “Sykes” and Bill didn’t do steady anything it must be 30 years since I last saw him so I have no information on his whereabouts these days.
cheers Johnnie
Thanks for the info Johnnie, Bill was a bit of a character, no telling what he’s up to now, thanks.
Charles
If memory serves me right,There were two tanker companies operated by the same parent company in Huddersfield, Sykes and Shaws. Shaws used to run coal tippers and fuel oil from a depot in Milnsbridge. They later opened a larger tanker depot at Shelley just off the Huddersfield/Penistone road and diversified into general tanker business. Being a local lad,(well it is a few years back ) I knew one or two of the drivers, including a couple from school-days.
The Yorkshireman:
If memory serves me right,There were two tanker companies operated by the same parent company in Huddersfield, Sykes and Shaws. Shaws used to run coal tippers and fuel oil from a depot in Milnsbridge. They later opened a larger tanker depot at Shelley just off the Huddersfield/Penistone road and diversified into general tanker business. Being a local lad,(well it is a few years back
Hi Yorkshireman your memory is fine both of them were owned by the Sykes family the tanker depot was at Shepley on the A636 at the junction with the A629 there was one or two ex Smith and Robinsons drivers there when I was there in the 70s and 80s and most of the oil tankers were based in Leeds at Hunslet all though they had around 15 depots they were all on fuel oils and only had two out based GP tankers one at Newbridge Edinburgh and one at Immingham .
Hi Sammy, I live down the road from Shepley. I used to go to school with Cabby Bray but I have no idea what happened to him. Black Bob was on Wyatts for a while. I have a terrible memory for names so I’m struggling to recall any others, sorry. John.
sammyopisite:
The Yorkshireman:
If memory serves me right,There were two tanker companies operated by the same parent company in Huddersfield, Sykes and Shaws. Shaws used to run coal tippers and fuel oil from a depot in Milnsbridge. They later opened a larger tanker depot at Shelley just off the Huddersfield/Penistone road and diversified into general tanker business. Being a local lad,(well it is a few years backHi Yorkshireman your memory is fine both of them were owned by the Sykes family the tanker depot was at Shepley on the A636 at the junction with the A629 there was one or two ex Smith and Robinsons drivers there when I was there in the 70s and 80s and most of the oil tankers were based in Leeds at Hunslet all though they had around 15 depots they were all on fuel oils and only had two out based GP tankers one at Newbridge Edinburgh and one at Immingham .
Johnny,didn’t Sykes have some motors near Hepworths place at Hazlehead between Flouch and Summer Wine country?
hiya,
Worked at Bayfords at Hunslet pretty sure that in my time S&R was just down the lane from our yard we did fuel oil and there was tippers on coal as well, my job was mainly polished water to Blackburn Meadows Sheffield but changed trailers and picked a load of cherry up from time to time, Bayfords were good to work for payed over the odds.
thanks harry long retired.
harry_gill:
hiya,
Worked at Bayfords at Hunslet pretty sure that in my time S&R was just down the lane from our yard we did fuel oil and there was tippers on coal as well, my job was mainly polished water to Blackburn Meadows Sheffield but changed trailers and picked a load of cherry up from time to time, Bayfords were good to work for payed over the odds.
thanks harry long retired.
Hi Harry,Bayfords used to run out of Immingham area as well in the 90s,probably out of Petrofina or Conoco.One of their motors passed me on the M180 one night and when I flashed him in he never winked his back lights so I wound my 3-axled Fodden with 280 RR up and blew him off the road - it weren’t you were it .
hiya,
Chris if it was about 1972 and during the night it may well have been me, i went to immingham occasionally for a fill of “cherry” to go out on dayshift there was only two nightmen in those days and if it was me i would probably have been asleep, there was no Immingham motors in my time, but i was a proper driver and always acknowledged when not snoozeing, so a belated sorry.
thanks harry long retired.
The Yorkshireman:
Hi Sammy, I live down the road from Shepley. I used to go to school with Cabby Bray but I have no idea what happened to him. Black Bob was on Wyatts for a while. I have a terrible memory for names so I’m struggling to recall any others, sorry. John.
Hi John Goeff (cabby) Bray was a good lad I ran with him a lot he was into caravaning ran a landrover and I lost touch with most of them after a while as it was about 85 when I finished there John Powell (rip) was also ex S&R and Terry Stocks was on Wyatts another good lad he got pi**ed one christmas and ended up with permed hair I also worked for Bill 89/90 I worked from retford at his house and a small yard there ,he had four wagons there including his own as bill did not like the office side of the job.
Cheers Johnnie