Anyone remember TIP Trailer Rentals. When I worked at Archbolds Freightage at Morley Leeds they rented the bottom yard and we did the servicing and repairs . It was quite a big fleet at Morley , a lot of tilts and boxes. I think they moved up Whitehall road later.
I remember seeing them on the road way back in time, I think they had a depot in Carrington near Manchester - may be mistaken with the trailer hire company!
TIP took a lot of smaller rental companies over, that’s how TIP Tanker Rental started
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They are still going , a hard company to deal with
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I remember in 1977 plus when setting up a Trans Arabia in Jeddah their were loads of TIP trailers just dumped in the desert - on one occasion I took all the numbers and when home on leave phone someone in the company that I knew - they weren’t interested!! All the trailers were on hire and being paid for!? So not an issue. So when I was back in Jeddah and had an issue with some truck stuck in a salt flat - we cut the headboards off about and used them as decking to retrieve our equipment - the trailers were slowly stripped of wheels, axles and brakes etc etc
Wincanton rented a few fridge trailers out of their Knottingley depot.
And Insituform had a Volvo F6 tanker on Isle of Man until recently,for drain cleaning work.
Kenb:
I remember in 1977 plus when setting up a Trans Arabia in Jeddah their were loads of TIP trailers just dumped in the desert - on one occasion I took all the numbers and when home on leave phone someone in the company that I knew - they weren’t interested!! All the trailers were on hire and being paid for!? So not an issue. So when I was back in Jeddah and had an issue with some truck stuck in a salt flat - we cut the headboards off about and used them as decking to retrieve our equipment - the trailers were slowly stripped of wheels, axles and brakes etc etc
In 1977 I met an owner driver in the Mocamp in Ankara who had converted his trailer for recovering abandoned rental trailers. He had a Hiab behind his cab and stripped the sides and tilt, removed the wheels and stacked them head to toe with the wheels and structures on a frame underslung and in the gaps.He also carried cutting equipment, a No No nowadays.
Return load guaranteed! A phone call or Telex to the rental company reciting the I.D. usually made it worth his effort. Jim.
I remember the transport manager there, way back, he used to come to work in a RR…his name was David North, worked for Bill Potter in SOWERBY BRIDGE Too.
I was the first salesman TIP Trailer Rentals employed when they first started in UK in 1969. They were already operating from Rotterdam and had a few UK customers and it was a case of "The right business at the right time ! " with Rentco as the main competitor. We rented trailers out without having a depot at first and then opened in West Thurrock, Essex and within about 3 years had 750 trailers on the road with early customers being Astran, MartinTrux, Browns Transport, G.L.Baker, OCL and ACT container lines etc etc. The first trailers were either Dutch spec or even Strick trailers from United States where the parent company was, then large orders were given to UK companies to build. As far as abandoned trailers was concerned, that came later in mid '70’s to '80s with the Middle East oil boom with so many companies being under financed and not able to deal with the setbacks and hazards encountered but I was doing my own thing from mid 70’s, even though TIP was a super company to work for at that time.