Hi Chris
Yes i worked for quite a few of them it was a time when you could come out of one job streight into another driving job
Those were the
good old days when you broke down some lorries would stop and help you not like today they just drive past
I worked for Joe Emmins 1958/59 Robert Earl 1959/60
bedfordmanotype:
Hi Chris
Yes i worked for quite a few of them it was a time when you could come out of one job streight into another driving job
Those were the
good old days when you broke down some lorries would stop and help you not like today they just drive past
I worked for Joe Emmins 1958/59 Robert Earl 1959/60
A bit before my time on the road.I knew some Earl’s drivers in the late 60s and 70s when I worked for Prestons and A.E. Evans,and a Emmens driver who had a Bedford 4-wheeler when they worked out of Sheffield Haulage and Storage and SPT.
Chris
Chris Webb:
bedfordmanotype:
Hi Chris
Yes i worked for quite a few of them it was a time when you could come out of one job streight into another driving job
Those were the
good old days when you broke down some lorries would stop and help you not like today they just drive past
I worked for Joe Emmins 1958/59 Robert Earl 1959/60A bit before my time on the road.I knew some Earl’s drivers in the late 60s and 70s when I worked for Prestons and A.E. Evans,and a Emmens driver who had a Bedford 4-wheeler when they worked out of Sheffield Haulage and Storage and SPT.
Chris
Were Earls the firm with the green AECs still going in the 80s i remember going past a yard at Darnall with a few battered mandators in looked like a scrapyard?
Robert Earl was on Greenland Road Darnall Ramone so they would more than likely be the ones you saw.I can’t remember when they pulled the pin though,maybe late 80s.
Yep thems the ones i`m thinking of,iirc they were up at the top of a hill behind the bus garage i think ive seen some photos on webshots of them
When i worked for Robert Earl there yard was at the bottom of Shepcote lane where G.S.F car spares is when it was a single carriageway and there was only one set of traffic lights and across Greenland road where Cutts paper people are that was Earls garage i drove a s/type bedford on coal haulage it was in Those Black colours
Lonewolf Yorks:
Bit of a long shot, looking for photos of Donkins cattlewagons of York and Malton.
You will probably remember Jack Remmer from Pickering here comes on front there goes on back.
I’m looking for photos of any of Walkers of Wakefield’s wagons. I remember seeing their Bedford TK boxvans with drawbar trailers in the seventies, but can’t remember for certain what colour they were. I seem to think they were yellow with green wheels, bumpers and mudguards, but I might be wrong, I’ve got the memory of a goldfish these days. Any help would be appreciated. I’m also after a copy of Charlie Walker’s book on Yorkshire hauliers, if anybody has a copy they’d be willing to sell…
lorryman:
has anyone got any photos or info on the following transport firms in & around Bradford of Smith Parkinson Cole, Obanks, P&M, JCowgill Skipton. plus anything on the wool transport. Does anybody know what colour was Hull & Glasgow carriers Seddon 8 wheeler
i have photos of jg fielder haulage erf loaded with wool / gb hindle. maudsley .hen wagon & drag loaded with wool / henry longs fleet photo & longs 4 wheeler driven by my dad in early40s i also have a lot of photos of wrecked wagons in saudi regards truckman39
leeming39:
lorryman:
has anyone got any photos or info on the following transport firms in & around Bradford of Smith Parkinson Cole, Obanks, P&M, JCowgill Skipton. plus anything on the wool transport. Does anybody know what colour was Hull & Glasgow carriers Seddon 8 wheeleri have photos of jg fielder haulage erf loaded with wool / gb hindle. maudsley .hen wagon & drag loaded with wool / henry longs fleet photo & longs 4 wheeler driven by my dad in early40s i also have a lot of photos of wrecked wagons in saudi regards truckman39
Hi leemings39 welcome to the site and now get them photos on 
and you will end up spending hours on here as it gets addictive 
cheers Johnnie
lorryman wrote:
has anyone got any photos or info on the following transport firms in & around Bradford of Smith Parkinson Cole, Obanks, P&M, JCowgill Skipton. plus anything on the wool transport. Does anybody know what colour was Hull & Glasgow carriers Seddon 8 wheeler
No pics but I spent a lot of time underneath Obanks and SPC motors ! , and R Dennison’s fleet, also Arnold Lavers old Fodens/Albions/■■ 140’s
Also, when Peter Sutcliffe had the Transconti , I had the only other one in Bradford area. (but I didn’t carry a hammer!)
leeming39:
lorryman:
has anyone got any photos or info on the following transport firms in & around Bradford of Smith Parkinson Cole, Obanks, P&M, JCowgill Skipton. plus anything on the wool transport. Does anybody know what colour was Hull & Glasgow carriers Seddon 8 wheeleri have photos of jg fielder haulage erf loaded with wool / gb hindle. maudsley .hen wagon & drag loaded with wool / henry longs fleet photo & longs 4 wheeler driven by my dad in early40s i also have a lot of photos of wrecked wagons in saudi regards truckman39
Any chance you could post the Henry Longs photos my dad worked for them in the 50`s through to the early 70s with a short break when he got caught on a fiddled night out
No pics but I spent a lot of time underneath Obanks and SPC motors ! , and R Dennison’s fleet, also Arnold Lavers old Fodens/Albions/[zb] 140’s
I’ll try and avoid the auto censor 
fodens/Albions/ BMC F F K 140
hi bedfordmanotype when you worked for henry mathews did you drive tippers out of butlers quarry stainton,if i have got the correct firm they had dark blue lorries a lot of leylands if my memory serves me right.have you any photos to post please.
One of Syds out of a book Alan get that F12 on here
cheers Johnnie
This is a another Rotherham firm Osbourne’s 
sammyopisite:
This is a another Rotherham firm Osbourn’s
Thought it was spelt Osborne but anyroad it doesn’t matter,see me after class Pickford driver. 
Anon
Chris Webb:
sammyopisite:
This is a another Rotherham firm Osbourn’sThought it was spelt Osborne but anyroad it doesn’t matter,see me after class Pickford driver.
Anon
Tha reight an I’ll have Duncan on me back as well
cheers Johnnie
sammyopisite:
Chris Webb:
sammyopisite:
This is a another Rotherham firm Osbourn’sThought it was spelt Osborne but anyroad it doesn’t matter,see me after class Pickford driver.
Anon
Tha reight an I’ll have Duncan on me back as well
cheers Johnnie
Were they on Ginhouse Lane near Laportes and Isaac and Israel Walkers?
Chris Webb:
Were they on Ginhouse Lane near Laportes and Isaac and Israel Walkers?
yep, Effingham Mills it was called - did some work with them early 90s, Ronnie was a bit of a rogue but nice chap and ran a decent fleet and operation