gerbil sb152:
Hi all Tom Parker dairy’s was on the Gosport road at cam’s alders. I drove the artic in about 1976 for about 6 months. They had a depot in Gosport, farm’s all around Hampshire the guy that drove the tanker for a few year’s was Arther Bedford. I did a trip to Gosprt at 5am then back to the dairy and do two drop’s one in Fernhurst and one in Midhurst would alternate the delivers to load empty’s back. the truck was AEC mandator with a 30ft trailer.it took a bit of shunting all the yard’s were small and no power steering. Good old day’s.
In the 1960’s it was all run from Charity Farm on the left about halfway between Wickham and Fareham on the A32,Tom bought nearly all his vehicles from what was then Stringers,later to become Wadham-Stringer as he was great friends with Fred Stringer who lived in Wickham. Stringers were Austin dealers Tom Parker ran all the different models from Mini’s to the FFK truck range, around the mid 60’s Stringers became AEC dealers under Princes in Southampton,it was run from Twyford Avenue in Portsmouth,so then Tom Parker started buying AEC’s. Harvey will remember Barry Pudney who was in the parts dept. at Princes,he came to work at Stringers briefly as his knowledge of AEC parts was extensive, he returned to Princes after about 12 months.
Regards
Richard