boardo96:
Hi Dean. Sorry I hadn’t replied before, thanks for posting the John Derrick and Otterton Mill article,
read it this morning whilst tipping a load but had a few snags and didn’t get chance to post.
I’ve not read about it before but I’m sure I’ve seen a similar photo of the Scammell, I can’t be certain but it may of been on the Devon Hauliers thread, I’ll take a look when I get chance see if it’s the same one.
Your right, I only live 10 minutes away from Otterton but I don’t know much about the mill or Mr Derrick but I do recognise his name from reading a different piece on the Scammell and I knew a man that drove one of them for him and had spoken of John Derrick.
No doubt you will remember T&T Transport from Exeter, well one of the partners Tony Hansford worked and drove one of the Handymans several years before going into business with Mr Tom Broom.
My father used to do a lot of the maintenance for T&T so I knew Tony and drivers, done a bit of driving for him when one of them had some time off for a hernia opp but when the driver came back to work I didn’t think he’d need me anymore but Tony put me working with Pete and showed me the ropes on the grain and raw material feed work they did for Bocm Paul’s. Tony done me a lot of good getting me involved with them and I owe him big time as when he retired his boys didn’t want to carry on with the business so he got me well in the door with Bocm and I’ve been working for them for nearly 20 years now, Pete stayed on with me till he retired and still comes in now a day or so a week.
So forgive me for going off the track a bit of Otterton mill but I can relate to the photo of the Scammell in other ways. RIP Tony and thanks Dean.
Hi, boardo. Just wondered if you remember a chap- think he was a one-man-band- who went by the name of Otter Valley Transport, maybe 1970s? I used to load with him quite regularly out of Exmouth dock, frequently doing a local load before loading for somewhere in the midlands. Cheers.