harry_gill:
hiya ,
doe’s anyone remember Bayfords they where stabled at hunslet i drove a tanker for them early in the 70s they also did tipper work coal ,i used to bring fuel oil for them on nightshift for delivery to their filling stations also carried polished water from power station to power station delivery point was always Blackburn Meadows alongside the M1 their underground supply having run dry and tap water had too many metallic floaters in it so not pure enough to flush the boilers ,all good things come to an end one of the best paying jobs i ever had , brand new scammell straight from a motor show had to wear dark glasses , never seen so much chrome and glitz .
thans harry long retired .
I remember Bayfords Harry when I worked for A.E.Evans.They did a lot out of Immingham Storage in the past back to the Leeds area.
hartley:
hi all does anybody remember d sharp and son from barnsley my dad used to drive for them in the 80s
sharpys,now them lads did’nt run by the rules,i remember when they got a new fleet of sed-atki 400 s & the dafs,i think they would’ve been the 2800s smart looking fleet in the 70s-80s.
Hi Harry, I dont know where Bayfords are now based, but they’re definately still going, as one of their tankers was delivering diesel to our depot in Yeadon this afternoon.
Jerry
Chris Webb:
harry_gill:
hiya ,
doe’s anyone remember Bayfords they where stabled at hunslet i drove a tanker for them early in the 70s they also did tipper work coal ,i used to bring fuel oil for them on nightshift for delivery to their filling stations also carried polished water from power station to power station delivery point was always Blackburn Meadows alongside the M1 their underground supply having run dry and tap water had too many metallic floaters in it so not pure enough to flush the boilers ,all good things come to an end one of the best paying jobs i ever had , brand new scammell straight from a motor show had to wear dark glasses , never seen so much chrome and glitz .
thans harry long retired .
I remember Bayfords Harry when I worked for A.E.Evans.They did a lot out of Immingham Storage in the past back to the Leeds area.
I’ve been trying to remember an other company in the Ackworth group and it came to me today. It was Thomas Hoptons. They were members of the
Transport Association and used to fuel up at the Caledonian Depot at Abington where Iworked after leaving school in 1966.
The mechanic:
Does anyone remember Readfearns Glass from Barnsley.They used to stay at my mother in laws digs just north of Abington.
i used to live just up the road from redfearns glass in the 70s-90s & if you walked round the outskirts of the factory im sure it was about 3 miles.
I remember Redfearn National Glass from years ago,back into the 70s.I’m not sure if they ran their own transport originally but in the early 80s BRS ran the job with Scania 111s. They ran tankers on nights from - was it Monk Bretton,Barnsley - over Woodhead to collect silica sand I suppose from Cheshire.I was on for MFS at the time on regular nights and they used to come past me empty,cab “leet” on and a quick wave and gone.They had a dark blue livery and a Redfearn logo on the cab. The glass works was huge like you say.
Anybody got a photo of them?
bumper:
this was another yorkshire glass comany rockware glass think their factory was around the doncaster area, bumper
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Bumper,that’s a great photo.
I think Rockware Glass were down Wheatley Hall Road Doncaster,near a power station maybe,somebody will know on here .I also think that a Liverpool haulier called William Rainford ran a lot of sand in there from the Southport area.They had drivers based in Donny I think.)
hiya ,
thanks guys for for the info about bayfords , that makes two firms (the others bowkers) still in existance out of over a dozen i worked for over the years i was in the industry , doubt if there’s any of my old work mates punching their gear about if there is welcome to the the coffin dodgers club we are all as old as tea .
thanks harry long retired .
road-ranger:
my first pic is the only none atki pic i have. my dad used to drive for them back in the day. i have scanned the pics so a hope they are ok.
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The second pic taken at northumbian metal industies which a relation of mine used to work there building alloy bodies.it also belonged to R Hanson & son.+ when my father was in the scrap game he used to get all the trucks + trailers that came into their that were written off.)
164480:
The second pic taken at northumbian metal industies which a relation of mine used to work there building alloy bodies.it also belonged to R Hanson & son.+ when my father was in the scrap game he used to get all the trucks + trailers that came into their that were written off.
i am trying to post another pic. am sure that the body was made there. dad says he remembers the first 8 wheeler commnig in the yard, and they were all sayin who would have it, then it went. a few weeks later my dad went and picked it up from northumbian metals and had it for some years. he never took a pic. shame realy. all try addin some more.
the second pic shows some different bodys. were they made at northumbian metals? the atki is the best truck on this pic. it had the passenger seat out of one of the fodens for the drivers bad back.
road-ranger:
my first pic is the only none atki pic i have. my dad used to drive for them back in the day. i have scanned the pics so a hope they are ok.
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hi road ranger, like the photo of that bedford drove one fitted with perkins r6 it used to surge like hell when in first gear,caused all sort of problem when loaded with livestock, or milk urns, more so when lids were not tight fit, thanks for the memorys bumper,)
hartley:
hi all does anybody remember d sharp and son from barnsley my dad used to drive for them in the 80s
sharpys,now them lads did’nt run by the rules,i remember when they got a new fleet of sed-atki 400 s & the dafs,i think they would’ve been the 2800s smart looking fleet in the 70s-80s.
hi 164480 do you also remember j cuts from barnsley down road from sharpys
road-ranger:
my first pic is the only none atki pic i have. my dad used to drive for them back in the day. i have scanned the pics so a hope they are ok.
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Peppers in Leeds had some tippers just like that Bedford, they were owned by Hargreaves back in the 60’s. I was an apprentice fitter then and it was fun (for me anyway) when we went out on a breakdown, usualy a half-shaft broken.
Great photos, thanks to all who posted them.
hartley:
hi all does anybody remember d sharp and son from barnsley my dad used to drive for them in the 80s
sharpys,now them lads did’nt run by the rules,i remember when they got a new fleet of sed-atki 400 s & the dafs,i think they would’ve been the 2800s smart looking fleet in the 70s-80s.
hi 164480 do you also remember j cuts from barnsley down road from sharpys
hi their hartley, cutts are still on the go the do a lot of tanker work taking sand to glass factories.
Nice photo of the Fearns Borderer,their depot was at Dodworth.They did a lot of work for Staveley Chemicals and Hickson and Welch Castleford and I knew some of their drivers in the 70s,can’t remember their names though. Nice to hear J Cutts is still going on the sand job.I remember Sharps,Tom Roberts and who was it worked for the Barnsley Canister Co.? Colin Vaines was at “The Walk” Birdwell and there was somebody from Platts Common whose name escapes me,somebody will know. Plenty more from that part of Yorks,just recalling the names is the problem .
Chris. Rockware glass in Doncaster was off wheatley hall road, but is now called Ardagh Glass. Norbert / Salvesens are the main contractor with Malcolms and a couple of others doing the transport distribution. There is also the glass works in Knottingley which could have been Redfearns originally.
Fearns of Dodworth were in Hickson and Welsh and in Lambsons. They were probably morphed into DHL
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