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OLD LIVESTOCK HAULIERS SHROPSHIRE

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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Re: OLD LIVESTOCK HAULIERS SHROPSHIRE

Postby 143topline » Thu Mar 18, 2010 10:07 pm

hi pebbles andrew
the aec would have been parrys from bayston hill, haven;t got a wagon and drag of theirs but will see what i can come up with.
i have found a colour pic of the ex stuarts F12 but it is blue/ red with the spoiler removed. brittons also had a grey F88 and a white DAF2800
i have a pic of an F7 EIGHT WHEELER OF A E STUART
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Re: OLD LIVESTOCK HAULIERS SHROPSHIRE

Postby GrooveRider2006 » Thu Mar 18, 2010 11:02 pm

Hi 143topline
Did you manage to find the pictures of the trucks that were run by JT Padbury as yet?
Thanks
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Re: OLD LIVESTOCK HAULIERS SHROPSHIRE

Postby caddy1 » Fri Mar 19, 2010 8:15 am

143topline wrote:hi pebbles andrew
the aec would have been parrys from bayston hill, haven;t got a wagon and drag of theirs but will see what i can come up with.
i have found a colour pic of the ex stuarts F12 but it is blue/ red with the spoiler removed. brittons also had a grey F88 and a white DAF2800
i have a pic of an F7 EIGHT WHEELER OF A E STUART

Hi my brother had aec wagon and drag at parrys was a twin steer had been a unit be good if any photos around cheers ian
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Re: OLD LIVESTOCK HAULIERS SHROPSHIRE

Postby mercman123 » Fri Mar 19, 2010 12:35 pm

Does any one remember Parrys from Bayston Hill by Shrewsbury ? They did a lots of livestock plus any thing they could get there hands on .
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Re: OLD LIVESTOCK HAULIERS SHROPSHIRE

Postby caddy1 » Sat Mar 20, 2010 10:06 am

mercman123 wrote:Does any one remember Parrys from Bayston Hill by Shrewsbury ? They did a lots of livestock plus any thing they could get there hands on .

Hi yes my brother paul cad worked there for few years started on d series then twin steer aec and drag then aec unit and ended up on sa 400 they were on containers a lot also had tippers cheers ian
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Re: OLD LIVESTOCK HAULIERS SHROPSHIRE

Postby jonmea » Sat Mar 20, 2010 2:28 pm

143topline wrote:Image
andrew you will recognise this one
struggling to remember where i took it, either at 3 coun. really think it was 3 countiesties or royal welsh


great pic dad bought that from Roy Edwards Knighton trucks in 1994 and has still got it now.
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Re: OLD LIVESTOCK HAULIERS SHROPSHIRE

Postby andrew brick » Sat Mar 20, 2010 8:22 pm

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pair of livestock volvos,about 1987.
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Re: OLD LIVESTOCK HAULIERS SHROPSHIRE

Postby atkidave » Sat Mar 20, 2010 8:38 pm

hi andrew, when did you finish brick bros? & do u have a photo of the 3 series you drove for deakins?
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Re: OLD LIVESTOCK HAULIERS SHROPSHIRE

Postby andrew brick » Sat Mar 20, 2010 9:35 pm

atkidave wrote:hi andrew, when did you finish brick bros? & do u have a photo of the 3 series you drove for deakins?

Hi Dave, well, closed most of it in 1997/98,I kept one lorry on contract to H.P.Bulmer in Hereford,driven by Mike Golder, sold 2 the last new bulk trailers
(a Wisbeach and a Wilcox 55c.yarders) and I went to Steve Deakins, starting off his haulage buisness and holding the operators licence and C.P.C, and driving a 380 Topliner Streamliner 6x2. I left Steve in 1999 ,to go & work for H.P.Bulmer,due to better wages, driving one of their lorries, I also did some work for Pentons and Wincanton on the fridges at times. Mike left me in 2000,so I went back to driving my own F10, changing it for a FH12 420 (which I had chipped to a 460 due to poor fuel consumption) on contract to H.P.Bulmer, mostly on Scotch work.This lorry was stolen the old Roberts yard in September 2001, and I went back to driving for H.P.Bulmers, although mostly on long night runs (Kent and Leeds) and although I have always liked early starts, I found working nights and trying to sleep during the day hard,so when I was offered the fuel job driving a six wheeler at Presteigne I took it.This was a good driving job on local deliveries, although I missed the distance work, and I have always prefered to drive a artic. I did quite a bit of continental work,driving for Transam and StageTruck on the Rock & Roll which helped keep my hand in, but all this has stopped since my back collapsed in Feb. last year. I had a large spinal op last November, and although I have been told that I shouldnt drive trucks for another 9 months, I am now well on the mend, and missing truck driving badly, with a bit of luck (and after the OK from my surgeon) I might be able to do some continental touring work by late summer.
Unfortunatly I havnt any photos of the 113 that I drove for Steve Deakins, always working to hard to take any!!!
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Re: OLD LIVESTOCK HAULIERS SHROPSHIRE

Postby andrew brick » Sat Mar 20, 2010 10:07 pm

caddy1 wrote:
mercman123 wrote:Does any one remember Parrys from Bayston Hill by Shrewsbury ? They did a lots of livestock plus any thing they could get there hands on .

Hi yes my brother paul cad worked there for few years started on d series then twin steer aec and drag then aec unit and ended up on sa 400 they were on containers a lot also had tippers cheers ian

Hi, yes I remember Parrys well, a good well respected firm, although I wouldnt like to guess the full loaded weight of their livestock artics, used to run four deckers bolted onto low loader trailers, well heavy even when empty.
regards Andrew.
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Re: OLD LIVESTOCK HAULIERS SHROPSHIRE

Postby ianto » Sun Mar 21, 2010 9:48 pm

did parrys do a lot of livestock work to and from ireland and they had a larage near goodwick fishguard and were they one of the first to have slop tanks built into theier livestock trailers ?
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Re: OLD LIVESTOCK HAULIERS SHROPSHIRE

Postby 143topline » Wed Mar 24, 2010 3:22 pm

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aec mammoth major with 4 deck thornes livestock body. photo taken at shrewsbury market early 1960's
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Re: OLD LIVESTOCK HAULIERS SHROPSHIRE

Postby 143topline » Wed Mar 24, 2010 3:25 pm

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aec mustang of m j parry waiting to unload at barretts and baird harvills hawthorn , west bromwich
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Re: OLD LIVESTOCK HAULIERS SHROPSHIRE

Postby andrew brick » Wed Mar 24, 2010 5:44 pm

143topline wrote:Image
aec mustang of m j parry waiting to unload at barretts and baird harvills hawthorn , west bromwich

Hi, spent a good part of my life waiting to get unloaded there,used to be a bit of a sod to reverse up the old alleyway esp. with an artic !!
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Re: OLD LIVESTOCK HAULIERS SHROPSHIRE

Postby andrew brick » Wed Mar 24, 2010 5:48 pm

andrew brick wrote:
143topline wrote:Image
aec mustang of m j parry waiting to unload at barretts and baird harvills hawthorn , west bromwich

Hi, spent a good part of my life waiting to get unloaded there,used to be a bit of a sod to reverse up the old alleyway esp. with an artic !!
regards Andrew.

ps. does anybody else remember having to go to Barretts & Baird farm out by Telford when West Brom was full ?
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Re: OLD LIVESTOCK HAULIERS SHROPSHIRE

Postby 143topline » Wed Mar 24, 2010 8:44 pm

hi andrew, well i never knew b&b had a farm. was jack trow in charge of the lairage when you used to go there. he used to drive for jukes had many a ride in bedford VVJ 644 back to birmingham all those years ago
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Re: OLD LIVESTOCK HAULIERS SHROPSHIRE

Postby andrew brick » Wed Mar 24, 2010 9:09 pm

143topline wrote:hi andrew, well i never knew b&b had a farm. was jack trow in charge of the lairage when you used to go there. he used to drive for jukes had many a ride in bedford VVJ 644 back to birmingham all those years ago

Hi, there used to be an old boy used to be quite a small chap if I remember, and he had a young lad working with him, but I dont know if he worked for Jukes, always used to be a busy place, and we usually had another trip to do afterwards, either a Baxters at Northampton or North Devon Meats, although it wasnt unkown to go to Severn Oaks,in kent or Jaspers,Launcenston,so didnt hang about, trying to remember exactly where their farm was,somewhere between Weston and Telford, always used to moan about having to go there after waiting ages to tip in West brom.Had one real bad night at Barretts, unloading at the new yard when it got raided by the animal rights people,the security locked the gates,but unfortunatlly when the thugs were allready in, talk about closing the stable door when the horse had bolted.The police riot squad then turned up and hell let loose. :x :x
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Re: OLD LIVESTOCK HAULIERS SHROPSHIRE

Postby Pebbles 74 » Sun Mar 28, 2010 9:18 pm

Evening all,

I've finally got hold of some of my Uncle's photo's including, A.E Stuart / Gerald Britton's F12 BFJ960T when new & working, an AEC Mandator(?) wagon & drag which is believed to be ex Parry's Bayston Hill, a couple of HH Williams Macks & Scanias, plus several good ones of Stuarts other lorries. Also some of my Dad's vehicles.

Hope scan & post them tomorrow.

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Re: OLD LIVESTOCK HAULIERS SHROPSHIRE

Postby Pebbles 74 » Mon Mar 29, 2010 7:31 pm

143topline wrote:hi pebbles andrew
the aec would have been parrys from bayston hill, haven;t got a wagon and drag of theirs but will see what i can come up with.
i have found a colour pic of the ex stuarts F12 but it is blue/ red with the spoiler removed. brittons also had a grey F88 and a white DAF2800
i have a pic of an F7 EIGHT WHEELER OF A E STUART


Hi 143topline,

I've just noticed this message, apologies for not replying before. It would be great to see these pics when you have a moment.

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Re: OLD LIVESTOCK HAULIERS SHROPSHIRE

Postby Pebbles 74 » Mon Mar 29, 2010 8:00 pm

So here are some of my Uncle Martins photographs with a Shropshire connection:

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This is BFJ960T when brand new, subsequently owned by Gerald Britton.

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A couple of working shots.


These next ones are of an AEC wagon & drag that was bought second hand from an operator from Shrewsbury, registration CNT163N. My Uncle thinks it came from 'Perrys' but I think he might mean Parrys of Bayston Hill, not been able to confirm that yet though....

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This is the original colour scheme.

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Now in Stuarts Transport colours.

It would be grreat to know more about this lorry if anybody remembers her.

I've got several more AE Stuart / Livestock transport photos which I'm going to put in there own thread.

Hope you like these,

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Re: OLD LIVESTOCK HAULIERS SHROPSHIRE

Postby caddy1 » Tue Mar 30, 2010 7:32 am

Hi thats parrys aec looks like charlie"s my brother had the twin steer got small photo of that going try and blow it up cheers ian
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Re: OLD LIVESTOCK HAULIERS SHROPSHIRE

Postby caddy1 » Tue Mar 30, 2010 7:38 am

hi that HH williams were they from tewksbury area as my bro paul was on about company called williams smart fleet he remembers them in shrewsbury market with scania 111 with double decks when all parrys had aec cheers ian
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Re: OLD LIVESTOCK HAULIERS SHROPSHIRE

Postby Pebbles 74 » Tue Mar 30, 2010 9:40 am

caddy1 wrote:hi that HH williams were they from tewksbury area as my bro paul was on about company called williams smart fleet he remembers them in shrewsbury market with scania 111 with double decks when all parrys had aec cheers ian


Hello caddy1,

HH Williams were from Moreton Vallence on the A38 near Stroud. I've posted some of my Uncle's photos of them in the following thread:-

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Re: OLD LIVESTOCK HAULIERS SHROPSHIRE

Postby legion » Tue Mar 30, 2010 7:40 pm

143topline wrote:Image
aec mustang of m j parry waiting to unload at barretts and baird harvills hawthorn , west bromwich
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Re: OLD LIVESTOCK HAULIERS SHROPSHIRE

Postby watty1 » Tue Apr 06, 2010 5:55 pm

hi ive recently joined the forum and was very interested in these posts my father run livestock lorries just over the border in wales but with a shropshire address.
there are a few livestock hauliers in this area that come to mind they are
JW Watson Bronington Whitchurch (my father)
Stocktons of whitchurch
Frank Edwards of Loppington
Dulsons of Whixall
Sid Downes Bagley Ellesmere

Does anyone remember any of these?
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Postby 143topline » Tue Apr 06, 2010 6:18 pm

watty1 wrote:hi ive recently joined the forum and was very interested in these posts my father run livestock lorries just over the border in wales but with a shropshire address.
there are a few livestock hauliers in this area that come to mind as they are
JW Watson Bronington Whitchurch (my father)
Stocktons of whitchurch
Frank Edwards of Loppington
Dulsons of Whixall
Sid Downes Bagley Ellesmere

Does anyone remember any of these?

hi wattie
the only one i can recall is possibly frank edwards, did he run a thorneycroft?
i have a photo taken at shrewsbury with a line up of three lorries. the one is a thorneycroft with FE on the front.
north shropshire was not really my area
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Re: OLD LIVESTOCK HAULIERS SHROPSHIRE

Postby dessert driver » Tue Apr 06, 2010 8:27 pm

Hi boys
Welcome watti 1, I remember all of those here's another one--Eddy Morgan from Bronington.

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Re: OLD LIVESTOCK HAULIERS SHROPSHIRE

Postby Dave the Renegade » Tue Apr 06, 2010 8:34 pm

Hi Keith,
Do you remember C E Jones of Crickmerry near Market Drayton :?:
Sorry I forgot you are talking about livestock hauliers,will have to wipe my eyeballs. :lol:
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Postby dessert driver » Tue Apr 06, 2010 8:51 pm

Hi boys
Dave sorry that does not ring any bells.Did they do general haulage then. I know where Crickmerry is, are they still going :?:

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Re: OLD LIVESTOCK HAULIERS SHROPSHIRE

Postby dessert driver » Wed Apr 07, 2010 7:49 pm

Hi boys
I know it's strictly not Shropshire but just north of Whitchurch over the boarder into Cheshire there was a firm called Devenports from Aston. They run quite a few trucks at one time then ended up with a red F10 6x2 and drag with one son(Brian) driving and another son(Jack) as mate.About 20 years ago Brian had health problems and lost his HGV. I went to drive it for them for a couple of years with Jack still as mate until they packed up in about 1992.Jack RIP died a couple of years later.We used to do all the local markets and deliver to loads of slaughter houses as well as doing all the big shows.Anyone that says livestock is easy has not done it,It was all early starts collecting for the markets, hang about all day at the markets then late nights delivering to the slaughter houses.Plus they ether would not get on or would not get off :) :)Harry you would have liked that motor a proper drag and with the tag up on the truck easy to shunt :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:Unfoturnetly like most of my rides I don't have any photos,has anyone else :?: :?:

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