I should come clean and say that I am not a driver - but our company Adam Lythgoe Ltd is 100 years old this year and, for many years, we operated lime quarries and fertiliser plants, moving products to famers all over the country and utilising owner drivers, contract lime spreaders and even coastal ships to do this.
We never actually owned our own vehicles, although most of those that we did use, we helped finance - provided the vehicles were painted in our liveries.
In our peak year, we moved almost 700,000 tonnes of lime and, if you met a dust cloud on your travels, the chances were that it was our lime causing it!
In the very early years, we moved the horse manure out of Manchester by barge, supplying farmers along the canal routes.
Anyway a visiting haulier mentioned Truck.net and said that our name had been included on the forum.
I’m very proud of our family business and have, in my office, several photos which I hope might be of interest to some of the older generation of truck drivers who may have worked with us over the years.
I hope that you find them of interest — and don’t mind me posting on this thread.
In the very early seventies, I worked at our Widnes Plant and will have loaded some of your then vehicles. I also worked as Warehouse Manager for Flockvale Distribution at Risley for a couple of years on the Hoover Contract and then another couple of years at Candy Domestic Appliances as Logistics Manager at Bromborough, so may have met a few of you.
Here at Widnes, we have David Lythgoe Ltd, a chemical storage and handling operation and so some of you will no doubt visit from time to time. My eldest son James is the Logistics Manager here, aided by Archie & Baxter (his two labradoodles).
So, although we don’t haul ourselves, we will work with some of you.
Cheers and have a Great Christmas / New Year.
David