I know nothing of Seddon lorries but I do know a little about T J Poupart and especially their Southampton depot. When I worked for Mitchell & Robertson, fruit hauliers from Staplehurst we would have one of our lorries delivering to them most nights of the week often driven by one of our drivers by the name of ‘Long John’. John reckoned he’d done the trip so often his lorry knew its own way. However, coming home in the early hours on one trip his lorry got lost in Cranbrook and ended up in someones front garden. I passed by a few hours later and the lorry was still there but no sign of John. I reckoned he’d gone home to bed as he didn’t live far away.
