coomsey:
Spardo:
coomsey:
0You might know this gal Spardo !Not personally, it looks like K&M, I wasn’t on tippers there, but powder tankers. But I did have a tank on that model and, as I have said before, a nice cosy driving position.
Then I went onto artics but, thankfully, with a hopper tank. I was always nervous of artic tippers after my time at Bulkliners where they had several fall over, but a tanker would have been a bit different, normally on level ground and not having to move while discharging. Also less likely to have stuff stuck up the top to unbalance them.
How many motors did they run Spardo? I ran out of Bolsover,Linby n Blidworth n used to see them regularly but that’s no clue to size of the fleet. Cheers Coomsey
Ps, you must man up with the artic tipper thing !!
Not sure but a good couple of dozen or so. I joined when they were still in the old railway goods yard just behind a row of houses between Bulwell and Hucknall. The houses came after the shunting yard, which would have been very noisy, but before the arrival of K & M, didn’t stop them getting the lorries kicked out though, up to where I think they still are at Hucknall aerodrome.
A bit of useless info for you, I think that K & M stood for Keetch and Middleton and I often wonder if there was a family connection With Keetch’s haulage at Stapleford. I never worked for them but the rather large manager there later became manager at Dixon’s of Derby, where I did work for a time. Yes, on artic tippers 
, but I won’t be doing it anymore. 
Blimey, this is getting a bit like Comedy Connections. 