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Leicester's Bygone's

Remember when going scotch (if from the south), or going down to the smoke (if from the north), was long distance?
When Middle East work was readily available?.
When driving a 111 or F89 meant you were truly the king of the road?
Recall those companies long gone, where every day was an adventure?

What ever happened to those drivers you spent hours with.. where did they go? and recollect on those characters in the industry sadly no longer with us.
This forum is for us all to indulge in a little nostalgia and remember with rose coloured glasses how much better it was in the olden days

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Leicester's Bygone's

Postby gunnerheskey » Wed Feb 03, 2010 10:19 pm

I hope these jog a few memories .
Graham Martins Transport
AML Transport
Blaby Haulage
Transwind Transport
NT Motors Narborough Transport
Hercock and Simpson
Marshall Bros of wigston
Brookes Pies of wigston
Court Bros
Draycotts
Lapworth Removals
Span-Furn,
AM Walkers of cosby
Pickfords Heavy Haulage
Eastern BRS of blaby
Hamblins Haulage (pointers)
Just to name but a few. I'm sure there are a lot more but the old head hurts for now
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Re: Leicester's Bygone's

Postby 240 Gardner » Fri Feb 05, 2010 10:14 am

From the Atkinson Vehicles archives:

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Postby 240 Gardner » Fri Feb 05, 2010 10:17 am

And another: Kiwi Transport of Ibstock. The owner was from NZ and he returned there, taking his Atki with him.

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Re: Leicester's Bygone's

Postby gunnerheskey » Sat Feb 06, 2010 12:02 pm

Some great pictures there "240".
I can just about remember Ma Walkers in thier smart green livery, just before they changed to orange and brown with the introduction of the F7s and F10s, although i think the F10s were based at a depot in derby on powder tankers.
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Re: Leicester's Bygone's

Postby trux » Sun Feb 07, 2010 3:46 pm

gunnerheskey,
, ask "Ted " about the old Leicester firms ,
he may have short legs but he has a long memory . :lol:
He may even recall one he was at :D
now i know that was a while ago...
infact, i think steam was just about to be replaced by the diesels. :lol: :lol:
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Re: Leicester's Bygone's

Postby 3300John » Sun Feb 07, 2010 9:27 pm

gunnerheskey wrote:Some great pictures there "240".
I can just about remember Ma Walkers in thier smart green livery, just before they changed to orange and brown with the introduction of the F7s and F10s, although i think the F10s were based at a depot in derby on powder tankers.

I think when AM Walkers moved into Derby did the join up with Midland storage some how I had two mates that drove for them Bob Slaney(atki DRA34J)
And Wally had a F88 both on tankwork.
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Re: Leicester's Bygone's

Postby gunnerheskey » Mon Feb 08, 2010 12:50 pm

trux wrote:gunnerheskey,
, ask "Ted " about the old Leicester firms ,
he may have short legs but he has a long memory . :lol:
He may even recall one he was at :D
now i know that was a while ago...
infact, i think steam was just about to be replaced by the diesels. :lol: :lol:


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Re: Leicester's Bygone's

Postby TNT Overniter » Thu Mar 25, 2010 9:46 pm

My Dad worked for A M Walker,(Alice Martha Walker)if i remember rightly.He was based at Stoney Stanton,pipeworks under the name of John Ellis and sons,and they delivered concrete sewer pipes.She used to send him 6 bottles of spirits,and some tobacco at xmas.He used to drive a wooden cabbed atki,and then a foden,then an AEC Marshal when Redland took over the pipeworks,prior to Calor Gas now having the site.A.M.Walkers had some half decent trucks years ago,they even had the early Carlsberg contract before being bought out by the TDG Group,i believe.Thanks for the pictures.
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Re: Leicester's Bygone's

Postby gunnerheskey » Sun Mar 28, 2010 7:07 pm

Some good info there TNT,
Here's a few more to dwell on
Braunstone Haulage
Silks Transport
Coles transport - gt glen
John Simmonds - rothley
Garners Transport - coalville
C A Green - coalville
Butlers - coalville
Enderby Transport/Lish transport
Frank smith - desford
M J Lewis - swepstone
Horace Webster/Richard Webster
Alexandra Stone
Pickarby - Arrivehaul
Bexton and Smith - coalville
That should get a few more minds ticking over for a wee while....... :mrgreen:
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Re: Leicester's Bygone's

Postby robinswh » Thu Apr 15, 2010 5:35 pm

parkin and jones coalville/palletts nailstone/T.W.Glover ravenstone/tallis and cresswell donington le heath/emmersons belton/whitmore and hickin whitwick/bancroft and powers coalville/fletchers ibstock/Boams whitwick/.Beeneys Coalville......these were operators from north west leicestershire all gone except emmersons I think
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Re: Leicester's Bygone's

Postby Chris Webb » Thu Apr 15, 2010 6:49 pm

I hope this thread includes Leicestershire,not just Leicester. :) When I was a young 'un in the late 40s and early 50s I used to stay with my auntie in Diseworth and there were two bus companies that ran through the village both running Bedford OBs,Whieldons was one,I think they were from Hathern and the other was Lester Bros from Long Whatton.I know Whieldons ran lorries but not sure about Lester Bros.Another firm I remember was Harlows from Loughborough,I think they were timber merchants and their place was on the A6 north of the town not far from Duples coach place.I'm sure they were into haulage as well in later years.
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Re: Leicester's Bygone's

Postby 3300John » Thu Apr 15, 2010 7:26 pm

Hiya no one seems to have mentioned John Moore from Ashby he had some fair tackle F10s and Transcons
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Re: Leicester's Bygone's

Postby gunnerheskey » Mon Apr 19, 2010 5:59 pm

Chris Webb wrote:I hope this thread includes Leicestershire,not just Leicester. :) When I was a young 'un in the late 40s and early 50s I used to stay with my auntie in Diseworth and there were two bus companies that ran through the village both running Bedford OBs,Whieldons was one,I think they were from Hathern and the other was Lester Bros from Long Whatton.I know Whieldons ran lorries but not sure about Lester Bros.Another firm I remember was Harlows from Loughborough,I think they were timber merchants and their place was on the A6 north of the town not far from Duples coach place.I'm sure they were into haulage as well in later years.

Hi Chris... of course it includes leicestershire...
Harlows of long whatton are still going strong, still timber merchants and still running an impressive fleet of daf cfs, artis and rigids,
Another firm i remember from hathern was Goodacre's, i don't think they're running anymore, smart livery beige with 2 blue stripes, they used to run about 2 or 3 artics.......
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Re: Leicester's Bygone's

Postby gunnerheskey » Mon Apr 19, 2010 6:04 pm

3300John wrote:Hiya no one seems to have mentioned John Moore from Ashby he had some fair tackle F10s and Transcons
John


I remember Moores from ashby's dark green F10s on tipping and bricks....
Andrews Haulage are in their old yard in ashby now, and there is still a scania in Moores old colours still flying around.
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Re: Leicester's Bygone's

Postby robinswh » Mon Apr 19, 2010 6:21 pm

Re Moores transport in the 60 s they had a lot of leyland comets artics....at this time artics were nt very common....they were green I think.Last time I was in england I met a chap who used to drive one of those big blue british shoe corporation bedford TK s he did shop deliveries in the london area.He said his lorry was a flying machine possible geared like a coach.
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Re: Leicester's Bygone's

Postby gunnerheskey » Mon Apr 19, 2010 6:45 pm

robinswh wrote:Re Moores transport in the 60 s they had a lot of leyland comets artics....at this time artics were nt very common....they were green I think.Last time I was in england I met a chap who used to drive one of those big blue british shoe corporation bedford TK s he did shop deliveries in the london area.He said his lorry was a flying machine possible geared like a coach.


Hi robinswh,
I remember the blue BSC TKs, then they went on to the brown colour scheme with the hush puppies on... :)
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Re: Leicester's Bygone's

Postby Dillon144 » Wed Jun 16, 2010 9:28 am

Moores of ashby worked on the waste on the A J Bull contract they had some good lads and some bloody good tackel,
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Re: Leicester's Bygone's

Postby tonyhogi » Sat Jun 19, 2010 8:10 pm

Hi all , question for you Leicester boys :?: :?:
Did A. M . Walker's do some work for Carlsberg in Northampton in the 70s, as i've vague memories of their orange F88s loading in the brewery around that time or am i thinking of someone else :? :?
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Re: Leicester's Bygone's

Postby rich12 » Sat Jun 19, 2010 8:40 pm

what about wainwrights from ashby,who are still going, always had green erfs/sed aks on stone mainly out of breedon,moores yard has houses built on it now andrews who took moores over now run from the old measham pit site.who can remember orpwards from donisthorpe who ran a very tidy fleet of light blue foden tippers on coalwork,i think foden used to use them to test some of the new models.
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Re: Leicester's Bygone's

Postby longpod » Sat Jun 19, 2010 11:15 pm

I can remember orpwoods always had fodens with gardners in well into the late 80,s they were on coal and coke,there was also c.h.walkers green and white fodens.
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Postby robinswh » Sun Jun 20, 2010 6:28 am

anyone remember LS haulage from donisthorpe?ran a fleet of bedford Tk tippers in the sixties.
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Re: Leicester's Bygone's

Postby Beetie » Sun Jun 27, 2010 10:19 pm

Bees transport from hinckley? Anyone remember?! Pics?!
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Postby boris » Sun Jun 27, 2010 10:49 pm

Beetie wrote:Bees transport from hinckley? Anyone remember?! Pics?!

"Beetie" click here http://www.trucknetuk.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=26272&p=631007&hilit=bees#p631007
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Re: Leicester's Bygone's

Postby gunnerheskey » Mon Jun 28, 2010 2:37 pm

tonyhogi wrote:Hi all , question for you Leicester boys :?: :?:
Did A. M . Walker's do some work for Carlsberg in Northampton in the 70s, as i've vague memories of their orange F88s loading in the brewery around that time or am i thinking of someone else :? :?

Hi Tonyhogi, (iirc) my grandad had a mate on am walkers in the 70s and i remember them pulling carlesberg tankers with their orange f88s then their f10s...... They also did some powder tank work out of derby as well
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Postby gunnerheskey » Mon Jun 28, 2010 2:51 pm

Beetie wrote:Bees transport from hinckley? Anyone remember?! Pics?!

I remember Bees transport very well, a company i used to work for in the wharehouse before i got my class 1 used to have a collection everyday from bees, the driver was an oldish chap quite tall, skinny, big moustache and always wore a flat cap and we used to call him the major.... I've not long moved to a village not too far from hinkley and in the stable yard behind my house is an old Bees transport body, i'll get some pics an try an figure out how to put them on..... :)
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Postby tonyhogi » Mon Jun 28, 2010 10:04 pm

Hi Tonyhogi, (iirc) my grandad had a mate on am walkers in the 70s and i remember them pulling carlesberg tankers with their orange f88s then their f10s...... They also did some powder tank work out of derby as well
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Thanks Gunnerheskey for clearing that one up :wink: Heres a pic of the tanks they used to have
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Has anyone any pics of Walkers Volvo's :?:
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Re: Leicester's Bygone's

Postby phantom » Tue Jun 29, 2010 8:36 am

A few more to think about
Pinnacle International Freight
K R Turners
Murphys
P M Rucks
R F Brookes
Neil Bros
Pickarby's
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Postby Stanfield » Tue Jun 29, 2010 10:15 am

Does this one count or is it to old.
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Postby gunnerheskey » Tue Jun 29, 2010 1:26 pm

tonyhogi wrote:
Hi Tonyhogi, (iirc) my grandad had a mate on am walkers in the 70s and i remember them pulling carlesberg tankers with their orange f88s then their f10s...... They also did some powder tank work out of derby as well

Thanks Gunnerheskey for clearing that one up :wink: Heres a pic of the tanks they used to have
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Has anyone any pics of Walkers Volvo's :?:[/quote]
Superb picture is that tony... I remember after the buffallo's carlsberg getting about 30 or so brand new Daf 2500s reg no MAM 323X and so on. As for the AM Walker volvo's in orange i know a friend of a friend and i'm working on it... :)
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Postby gunnerheskey » Tue Jun 29, 2010 1:29 pm

Stanfield wrote:Does this one count or is it to old.
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Great picture stanfield, yeah of course it counts. The more the merrier as they say .
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