West Hallam Ram:
I have done more miles in reverse, comes to mind !!!
Hi keith, getting closer to your holiday mate 
I was at the vets with my dog jasper last friday and bumped into billy parky! He looked well, said he was 75, bloody hell it’s scary how time goes by 
Can you remember that other ACT driver you used to talk to, his first name was tony ? stocky guy with lots of gold and a tan if i remember right! Cheers paul 
collycoltas:
Hi keith, getting closer to your holiday mate
Billy Parky eh ? Does he still go over to the Wild West for his Holidays, I wonder. All that Country Music and all that. A grand Lad was Billy, if you see him again give him kind regards from me and my lad, Nick.
hi ramone
what a grand photo of the 8 wheeler & dolly,i never worked for a one but I painted a hell of new 4 wheeler aec and some 8 wheelers when a one were down jack lane,at that time I worked for reg walters (what a man he was)
regards
sm1
keith 2:
Jack Graham:
keith 2:
Archie Paice:
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Mark R:
Ive also found a photo of an A One F12, reg no DHD 366Y has the name Alec on the front.Hi Mark,any chance of posting that photo on here,thanks keith
Would that be Alec McKinnon ? A big bloke, a real nice bloke. If I remember he lived just down Gelherd Rd about a quarter of a mile towards the city, opposite another site of A1.
Hi Archie,yes you are right,Alec I think got this truck from chris marshell when he left,Jack may tell us,keith
There is only one Alec Kinnon, yes he is a big guy great to be with, getting older, cant drink as much as he used to, and guess what, he’s driving for!!, dare I say it!!!no I cant but they have a trucking program on TV, so it’s up to you to guess.
But he’s still a great guy to be with,!!!:-JackHi Jack,Alec is now retired ,I do not think there are any ex a one drivers left there now,keith
Hi Keith!, may-be your right not many went to work for them, but we cant hold it against them cos work’s work and we have to feed our families any way we can, but I doubt any ex A1 drivers are left there now, and thanks for telling me Alec Kinnon had retired I thought he hadnt long to go after the last reunion when he told me the same, it makes me wonder how many drivers would have carried on working after retirement age, I know I would!, had we all still been at A1, (but not with Magee), I stared going down hill when I stopped working and know I could have done another 5 years, but it’s too late now to be looking back, there was’nt a big turn round of drivers in the 25 years I was there, I remember Russell telling me that why have drivers learning at A1 and taking it to another firm when they can use it at A1, it makes sence and shows why it was a good firm to work for. :-Jack 
collycoltas:
Hi keith, getting closer to your holiday mate
Hi Paul,busy on here today,tony collins was the drivers name,he was the one who picked me up when i did a bit in prison 
snowman1:
hi ramone
what a grand photo of the 8 wheeler & dolly,i never worked for a one but I painted a hell of new 4 wheeler aec and some 8 wheelers when a one were down jack lane,at that time I worked for reg walters (what a man he was)
regards
sm1
Hi Snowman,reg hard as nails,worked with him for 10 year at a one,would give you a smack round the head if you did owt wrong,you remembered not to do that again,keith
hi keith
I worked for reg when he was down hunslet near a1 yard,he drove is own tipper with jack on the huge ox bow opencast site on what is now pontyfract lane.he then moved to lowfields rd and opened the first total petrol site in leeds and we started to paint all jacks new aec and there was plenty of them,at that time jack had moved into is big bunglow opposite briggs café most people would have nice lawns and roses not jack the garden was full and I mean full off new aec mercurys.i allways remember one of is old sayings pile it up theirs no tax on the sky.
regards
sm1
ramone:
An old A One mm8
my dad jack ellener drove that from new his trailer mate was john austin , joe spieght got it after my dad
snowman1:
hi keith
I worked for reg when he was down hunslet near a1 yard,he drove is own tipper with jack on the huge ox bow opencast site on what is now pontyfract lane.he then moved to lowfields rd and opened the first total petrol site in leeds and we started to paint all jacks new aec and there was plenty of them,at that time jack had moved into is big bunglow opposite briggs café most people would have nice lawns and roses not jack the garden was full and I mean full off new aec mercurys.i allways remember one of is old sayings pile it up theirs no tax on the sky.
regards
sm1
Hi,if you look at page 7 on here you will see the old tipper on that job,my dad did the same job with jack…jimmy Wilkinson and brian wilkinson can you remember them,keith
Hi Guy’s, I have no access to my emails, cant remember my password, so will have to start all over again, so any-one who sent an email with-in the past 2 weeks wont be getting a reply, it’s been off for over 2 weks now, but will be setting up a new email address soon and will put it on this page. :-Jack Graham 
When I was a kid, maybe 7 years old or so, we used to play in A One’s yard in Birstall on a weekend. I remember trailers lined up, some with tauts on, some loaded and some flat beds. We used to jump up all over them trailers. We never touched the units though, our dad’s were all drivers and we knew we should never climb on a unit.
We would have many an afternoon laid on the back of an A One flat trailer, bag of cola cubes, 3 gobstoppers and play marbles.
you see, this was around 1980 time and there was no CCTV or security guards.
happy days
LeeJ:
When I was a kid, maybe 7 years old or so, we used to play in A One’s yard in Birstall on a weekend. I remember trailers lined up, some with tauts on, some loaded and some flat beds. We used to jump up all over them trailers. We never touched the units though, our dad’s were all drivers and we knew we should never climb on a unit.We would have many an afternoon laid on the back of an A One flat trailer, bag of cola cubes, 3 gobstoppers and play marbles.
you see, this was around 1980 time and there was no CCTV or security guards.
happy days
They were happy days for A1 driver’s too, and your right there was no CCTV because the world had’nt become paranoid then, but there was security, it was called the night watchman in those days, but he probobly wouldnt have seen you playing in the yard, he’d more than likely been having a kip somewhere instead of in his shed, or may-be he was trapped in the shed on the top trailor park asleep.
:- Jack. 
Hi Jack,found this on NA3T site,have you seen it?
Chris.
Chris Webb:
Hi Jack,found this on NA3T site,have you seen it?
Chris.
Looks a bit before my time at A1, I went there from Chapmans in 1974/5 but it looks like it was used for carrying RSJ’s from Dunlop & Rankin, I remember A1 had the contract before JG Fielder/Chamans took it on, there’s another picture on page 56 in this site loaded with RSJ’s. :-Jack
Chris Webb:
Hi Jack,found this on NA3T site,have you seen it?
Chris.
Hi Chris,these were my dads days,he did from 1944 to 1974,keith
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Well done Bradford lad ,some cracking pics that I have not seen 
keith
keith 2:
Well done Bradford lad ,some cracking pics that I have not seen
no probs keith
I seem to remember a.one having a Styer attic , did they buy it or was it a lease /demonstrator , was it the same driver or did they swap it around the drivers ? K2 will know .