OssieD:
When I first knew Chris, was back in the late 60’s when he was European transport manager for J B Woodcocks out of Beckton, I was working for W & M Woods subbing for Woodcocks my regular run was groupage to Lyon, reload Swiss for UK, he was a descent bloke to work with, when Wood’s was setting up It’s unaccompanied trailer service called “Trailer 70”we both shared some trailer Ideas at the time such as the wheel guards around the back axles copied from J B Woodcocks, caused more problems than it solved the Idea being to stop people nicking trailer wheels.
Ossie
Just as an aside, Jess B. Woodcock (Shipping) Limited was sold to W. H. Bowker, and the ex-Woodcock tilts ran for their whole lives with the Woodcock fleet numbers because of the Carnets.
I had JBW12037 from Bowker from many years - see the JBW number on the headboard:
I sold it to Rowly Ward (rward on here), who has done a fantastic restoration job on it.