stuart u ave a poor memory u ave 4got kenny cockson alec kinnon billy murry richard heywood the late jim capel
mick smith, poor miick the only time he came home on a fiddle the word was he got off the bus and was knocked over and was and died later in hospital,
denisglover:
stuart u ave a poor memory u ave 4got kenny cockson alec kinnon billy murry richard heywood the late jim capel
mick smith, poor miick the only time he came home on a fiddle the word was he got off the bus and was knocked over and was and died later in hospital,
i remember Richard Haywood ,i got his last moter when he left K133TJX,with been the speed limiter fitter i soon opened this baby up but not fully due to too much temptation under the right foot 
jj72:
a couple more i seem to have suddenly remembered from mid/late 80s off DLS;■■? parkinson - ginger haired lad maybe late 30s, always a bit wound up, I remember a mate christening him ‘coiled spring’
trevor ■■? - thick set lad with a 'tash, had been a para (no, he actually had
) and served in the falklands i.i.r.c
anybody place either of them?
the coiled spring would have been ian scuillik 
but a smashing guy,the para would have been trevor nussey in one of jacks stories and photo above
DRY GINGER:
YES I REMEMBER JACK ELLIS. I USED TO HAVE TO DELIVER HIS PAYPACKET TO HIS WIFE, IF HE WAS AWAY. THE OTHER NAME WAS RALPH GREER. THEY BOTH DID WORK FOR ACT WITH A 1 ALL THE TIME. HARD WORK, OPENING AND CLOSING THOSE 20FT CONTAINER DOORS!!! THEY BOTH HAD F7’S I HAD AN F86 THEN LATER ON F10 AND LATER THE FLYING MERC 1632. THOSEWERE THEDAYS WHEN YOU COULD BRING YOUR UNIT HOME, NO PROBS. STUART S (DRY GINGER) CB NAME.
hi Stuart,hope you are keeping well,the flying merc ,i think the first driver to get this truck was Denis baker a black haired guy
DRY GINGER:
YES I REMEMBER JACK ELLIS. I USED TO HAVE TO DELIVER HIS PAYPACKET TO HIS WIFE, IF HE WAS AWAY. THE OTHER NAME WAS RALPH GREER. THEY BOTH DID WORK FOR ACT WITH A 1 ALL THE TIME. HARD WORK, OPENING AND CLOSING THOSE 20FT CONTAINER DOORS!!! THEY BOTH HAD F7’S I HAD AN F86 THEN LATER ON F10 AND LATER THE FLYING MERC 1632. THOSEWERE THEDAYS WHEN YOU COULD BRING YOUR UNIT HOME, NO PROBS. STUART S (DRY GINGER) CB NAME.
I do remember them coming home from time to time with the trailers on! Unfortunatly jack passed away a few yars ago. He used to go drinking at thornhill briggs club in Brighouse and would see him sometimes, Going in the truck with him made me want to be a driver!
anyone remember Tony Daynes and Kevin Bedford from A1 Bradford ?
i know kevin bedford,worked at wilsons transport,bradford till they finshed.think he did a bit of freelance driving but think hes got back trouble.i also know his brother graham bedford ,he drove for A1 and various other bradford firms.might see graham tomorrow for a pint.
keith 2:
one day i walking up the yard with a driver called Alan,can not tell you his surname,i was only 17 and russell hutching was walking down,the driver said morning Russel but he just looked the other way,Alan then said morning c…t then he just looked at us,Alan’s reply was yes you heard that one,i could have died
yeah afew said he wouldnt say morning he said morning to me when i nearly dropped a pallet of lager on him
keith 2:
jj72:
a couple more i seem to have suddenly remembered from mid/late 80s off DLS;■■? parkinson - ginger haired lad maybe late 30s, always a bit wound up, I remember a mate christening him ‘coiled spring’
trevor ■■? - thick set lad with a 'tash, had been a para (no, he actually had
anybody place either of them?
the coiled spring would have been ian scuillik
Ian Scollic was Peter’s younger brother, yes he was a bit highly strung, I dont remember him saying anything about being in the paras, and I did run with him quite often, I dont remember Trevor Nussey saying anything about being in the paras also, but he was an ex police man from the Leeds force, He did tell me that he got a commendation for saving a woman’s life somewhere in Leeds, she had fallen in the river and he went in in the freezing water and dragged her out. the driver who was in the paras was Dave Smith, he was a great guy to run with, but he had to have new hip joints put in because of the damage done jumping out of the aircraft.
:- Jack
ramone:
anyone remember Tony Daynes and Kevin Bedford from A1 Bradford ?
Yep Tony & Granville Daynes worked for Chapmans. Thanks Dennis for the extra info on Mick, was told hed been knocked down on his first fiddle home but had assumed hed been getting out of a truck. 
great stories but need more photos
Jack Graham:
keith 2:
jj72:
a couple more i seem to have suddenly remembered from mid/late 80s off DLS;■■? parkinson - ginger haired lad maybe late 30s, always a bit wound up, I remember a mate christening him ‘coiled spring’
trevor ■■? - thick set lad with a 'tash, had been a para (no, he actually had
anybody place either of them?
the coiled spring would have been ian scuillik
Ian Scollic was Peter’s younger brother, yes he was a bit highly strung, I dont remember him saying anything about being in the paras, and I did run with him quite often, I dont remember Trevor Nussey saying anything about being in the paras also, but he was an ex police man from the Leeds force, He did tell me that he got a commendation for saving a woman’s life somewhere in Leeds, she had fallen in the river and he went in in the freezing water and dragged her out. the driver who was in the paras was Dave Smith, he was a great guy to run with, but he had to have new hip joints put in because of the damage done jumping out of the aircraft.
sorry jack i thought trevor was the para…not too bad to be told off for once 
…just learning how to do the smiles
keith 2:
jj72:
a couple more i seem to have suddenly remembered from mid/late 80s off DLS;■■? parkinson - ginger haired lad maybe late 30s, always a bit wound up, I remember a mate christening him ‘coiled spring’
trevor ■■? - thick set lad with a 'tash, had been a para (no, he actually had
anybody place either of them?
the coiled spring would have been ian scuillik
thanks K2, i had trevor nunn in my mind for some reason, but I think he’s some sort of theatre director you also inadvertantly answered my question about richard heywood, who i knew before he went on for DLS
i was once sent to the garden center by JMR and collect a load of fern trees for his garden, i took the tyre fitters van and collected them,all nice and green but on the way back to his house i took the m/way as a young lad it was foot to the max.when i got a mile from his house i pulled over to check them,oh my god 2/3 of them were bald,the bloody green ferns had blown off,as a young lad thinks yes i will put all ones in the middle to the outside.when he came outside to help me un/load em;he just looked at them and said these are not very good are they,well thats wot they give me jack…no fiver tip this time
keith 2:
i was once sent to the garden center by JMR and collect a load of fern trees for his garden, i took the tyre fitters van and collected them,all nice and green but on the way back to his house i took the m/way as a young lad it was foot to the max.when i got a mile from his house i pulled over to check them,oh my god 2/3 of them were bald,the bloody green ferns had blown off,as a young lad thinks yes i will put all ones in the middle to the outside.when he came outside to help me un/load em;he just looked at them and said these are not very good are they,well thats wot they give me jack…no fiver tip this time
Was JMRs house across the road from Morleys cafe ?. I pulled into Gildersome and there was 3 Middlesbourgh motors parked there. Asked them what was happening they said nothing in the half hour theyd been there they’d just been ignored. I said follow me and off we went to Morleys for some breakfast. Im sure I saw JMR on a ride on mower as I pulled onto Morleys. Anyway we hadnt been in the queue more than a couple of mins when JMR appeared. I dont pay you to stand about here says he, We were being ignored at the office so we have come for something to eat while we wait, says I, and If you go to the front and put in our order well be out sooner. At that he walks to the front and tells the fellow behind the counter to give us each a breakfast to hurry us up and to send the bill across to him. As he left he told us not to take longer than was needed as the office was probably trying to contact him to tell him we`d vanished.
ddrbsn:
keith 2:
i was once sent to the garden center by JMR and collect a load of fern trees for his garden, i took the tyre fitters van and collected them,all nice and green but on the way back to his house i took the m/way as a young lad it was foot to the max.when i got a mile from his house i pulled over to check them,oh my god 2/3 of them were bald,the bloody green ferns had blown off,as a young lad thinks yes i will put all ones in the middle to the outside.when he came outside to help me un/load em;he just looked at them and said these are not very good are they,well thats wot they give me jack…no fiver tip this timeWas JMR
s house across the road from Morleys cafe ?. I pulled into Gildersome and there was 3 Middlesbourgh motors parked there. Asked them what was happening they said nothing in the half hour theyd been there they’d just been ignored. I said follow me and off we went to Morleys for some breakfast. Im sure I saw JMR on a ride on mower as I pulled onto Morleys. Anyway we hadnt been in the queue more than a couple of mins when JMR appeared. I dont pay you to stand about here says he, We were being ignored at the office so we have come for something to eat while we wait, says I, and If you go to the front and put in our order well be out sooner. At that he walks to the front and tells the fellow behind the counter to give us each a breakfast to hurry us up and to send the bill across to him. As he left he told us not to take longer than was needed as the office was probably trying to contact him to tell him we`d vanished.
JMR lives in drighilington nr traffic lights,lower down was briggs cafe which is now gone…talking of middlesbrough motors the only 6 legger f10 or f12 a saw was sent up there on a steel job .i think it was a A reg but was stolen from up there and was not very old
keith 2:
ddrbsn:
keith 2:
i was once sent to the garden center by JMR and collect a load of fern trees for his garden, i took the tyre fitters van and collected them,all nice and green but on the way back to his house i took the m/way as a young lad it was foot to the max.when i got a mile from his house i pulled over to check them,oh my god 2/3 of them were bald,the bloody green ferns had blown off,as a young lad thinks yes i will put all ones in the middle to the outside.when he came outside to help me un/load em;he just looked at them and said these are not very good are they,well thats wot they give me jack…no fiver tip this timeWas JMR
s house across the road from Morleys cafe ?. I pulled into Gildersome and there was 3 Middlesbourgh motors parked there. Asked them what was happening they said nothing in the half hour theyd been there they’d just been ignored. I said follow me and off we went to Morleys for some breakfast. Im sure I saw JMR on a ride on mower as I pulled onto Morleys. Anyway we hadnt been in the queue more than a couple of mins when JMR appeared. I dont pay you to stand about here says he, We were being ignored at the office so we have come for something to eat while we wait, says I, and If you go to the front and put in our order well be out sooner. At that he walks to the front and tells the fellow behind the counter to give us each a breakfast to hurry us up and to send the bill across to him. As he left he told us not to take longer than was needed as the office was probably trying to contact him to tell him we`d vanished.JMR lives in drighilington nr traffic lights,lower down was briggs cafe which is now gone…talking of middlesbrough motors the only 6 legger f10 or f12 a saw was sent up there on a steel job .i think it was a A reg but was stolen from up there and was not very old
Yes I was thinking off Briggs cafe dont know where I got Morleys from.......theres another brain cell gone. .
Dont remember a 6 legger up there, when I transferred to M/bro they only had Mandators and a couple of Buffalos, I arrived with a F86 and Frank Craven( I think ) the manager told me to park it up and strip my gear as he had an old mandator for me. I told him JMR had said I was to keep my motor when I arrived there so walked passed him to his office and phoned Leeds and asked for Jack. Frank started ranting on about he was in charge there and not JMR, he decided who drove what and either do as told or be sacked. As he was telling me this JMR could hear it all, so I handed him the phone and told him Jack wanted a word with him and Id be outside washing my motor when he was finished. When he came out he was quiet sheepish so we didn`t get off to a great start.
hiya,
Sorry i’ve trespassed onto your hallowed turf not being an Aoner, but a Mandator for an F86 i’d have snatched the keys off him and be gone before he could change his mind, i rated the F86 alongside the Scania 80 both “crap” and have been lumbered with both during a long and varied career, and i bet Chris Webb would have beaten me into the Mandator seat.
thanks harry long retired
I"m sure i have a photo of WUG 267S somewhere, this must have been one of the last Volvo F88s to enter service with A One.
Mark R:
I"m sure i have a photo of WUG 267S somewhere, this must have been one of the last Volvo F88s to enter service with A One.
Hi Mark, 262 and 263s were the last on the continent,now that you have put that reg its ringing bells,we had hand full of 88s went on contact for elida gibbs and was painted blue with a white stripe round the middle of the cab,if you find the phote as is painted red it must have been after the contract ended and was repainted.remember them having sort of blue wind deflectors on the side just above the headlights. 