Hi any one remember the two tone 8 wheeler erf,s with 3 deck williams boxes from a few years back used to see them going into st asaph sure they were from yorkshire
lovely greenwoods f12, and very tidy ■■■■ of longthornes of hebdon
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Hi any one remember the two tone 8 wheeler erf,s with 3 deck williams boxes from a few years back used to see them going into st asaph sure they were from yorkshire
Hi They would belong to Norman Gates. He was a sheep buyer, he bought for the wholesale butchers. He had a place by the A59 at Billington, between Clitheroe and Blackburn.
Regards Dalesman
Norman Gates was another one who came into us with LAD Dodge then AEC Mercury. I think his next one was an ERF 6 legger before the 8 wheelers.
Happy New Year folks,
Thanks for the photos JoeR580.
Joe Lloyd (Huddersfield) - DAF 3300 ATI.
Cheers.
Simon
I have just seen this new thread and I would like to contribute. I am new to computers but my interests in livestock haulage go back almost 50 years to first travelling in the cab with my father during school hollidays
Although Sedbergh was in the neck-end of Yorkshire there are other livestock hauliers I can add to the list. Here are a few for starters…
Raymond Burrow & Sons Dent
George Ellis Dent
E Harper Sedbergh taken over by Edgar Walker
J R & P A Harrison Sedbergh took over Coward Bros as stated by Bewick
To the North Yorksire…
Jack Metcalfe Askrigg
R Guy Muker
Les Brown Leyburn
S Cottingham West Witton
I hope these names bring back some menories.
Regards
Roy Mackereth ( cattle wagon man )
can anyone remember seeing a jefferies of otley tractor unit puling a cattle trailer?? im sure they had one at one stage, it may have been a silver foden?? information / pictures really apreciated.
also there is 2 black volvos pulling fred greenwood trailers at the moment, does anyone have anything on these?? im sure one of them is an ex thorburn international tractor, as i beleive it has TTS at the end of a private reg plate, which is what throrburns all had in there day. thanks
Hello JoeR580,
Here’s one photo, I’ll post some more when I have more time.
Fred Greenwood & Son - Volvo FH16 Globetrotter XL 6x2.
Kind regards
Simon
excellent simon, thanks very much!!
a shot of a very popular truck taken before the fitting of some extras, most noticeably the chrome bumper and the bull bar. sometimes it can be intresting to see trucks before certain changes were made.
wot about ken lane from retford and ed brown ploughman bros
cattle wagon man:
I have just seen this new thread and I would like to contribute. I am new to computers but my interests in livestock haulage go back almost 50 years to first travelling in the cab with my father during school hollidays
Although Sedbergh was in the neck-end of Yorkshire there are other livestock hauliers I can add to the list. Here are a few for starters…Raymond Burrow & Sons Dent
George Ellis Dent
E Harper Sedbergh taken over by Edgar Walker
J R & P A Harrison Sedbergh took over Coward Bros as stated by Bewick
To the North Yorksire…
Jack Metcalfe Askrigg
R Guy Muker
Les Brown Leyburn
S Cottingham West WittonI hope these names bring back some menories.
Regards
Roy Mackereth ( cattle wagon man )
boden you forgot ken lane of retford
boden:
I was a regular visitor to West and North Yorks cattle markets in my school hols in the late 60’s and after leaving school for a while into the 70’s so here goes:Billy Robinson Castleford
Tom Watson Sawley Did work for Woodheads and whose Retriever later went to Stanley Greenwood
Dobsons Bedale area possibly Barneston
Smiths Bedale (think)
Pickersgills Ripon
Jeff Morrow Silsden
Robison Bros Halifax
John Robinson Halifax[later driving for Stanley Greenwood]
Jimmy Robinson Bradford (Ex Ashworths driver and later for Stanley Greenwood]
Saxtons Elland/Stainland
Grasby Hull
Ron Holgate Stamford Bridge (think)
Brownbridge Pontefract
Bells Thirsk
Plowman Bros York
Ogdens Keighley [think]
Livsley [?] Northallerton
I cant think of any others or can but they had no name on the side so I dont know who they were/are. The ones I spoke to were always a decent and friendly bunch though. W.Swiers from Easingwold were meat wholesalers and I was looking round their Leyland Octupus which had a 30’ box, and was parked unlocked on the loading dock at Northallerton and my long gone Dad said jump in the drivers seat these lads wont mind.It was driven by a bloke called Maurice who the following year used the key from that to unlock our AEC when we were locked out{my fault }at Wetherby. As far as I know only Ripon and Bingley and one of the two at Northallerton [held on alternate Tuesdays] ,have’nt been redeveloped from the one’s I visited.
Happy to stand corrected on any of this of course
Hya folks heres one or two for the more mature men F Holman (Camblesforth Ltd ) Jack Brownbridge Whitley Bridge W Holey Selby area J Petinger Monk Fryston (think he was owner driver with an albion chieftain ) all used to visit selby cattle market when it was in the middle of town . A couple of drivers names may ring a bell or two , Tom Holman Graham Ranby but as i said we are talking 19 50s early 60s . Any old anaraks out there can ask old relatives . Leave it with you let old grey matter tickover and see if anyone comes up with anything .
Blimey Ken Lane From Retford they used to do all my fathers work back in the 80s what a firm & bunch of blokes has any one got any pics of their motors anywhere would love to see them spent hours riding back to Norwich with them whilst bunking off school!!!
Lovely photos coming through, I hope there’s more to come.
BB
The original Moo Mover was on a Mack F700 of H H WILLEAMS of Gloucester in the 1970s.
Truck Traveller:
Hello folks,D & H Peel & Son - Volvo FL6 (Moo Mover).
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Kind regardsSimon
Some more from Thirsk 29-08-06, first day at the new market. First is Bells but who’s the others?
