BuzzardBoy:
Big Leggy:
BuzzardBoy:
Ted Dunston has been on Abbey Tanks quite while now i believe hasnt he, IIRC its since he left RPL about 5 years ago.
The only 2 companies from Bedford i can think of are Rogers, and AER Inskip, who have sold out to someone who’s name escapes me…
I’m trying to work out when I was with Ted in Morrisons warehouse & I think it was March - April time 5yrs ago & he was working for a company supplying traction only to Morrisons !! Someone help me out with the name of the company !!
Steve Rogers
Sorry I couldn’t be more specific but if I talk to any of the Buzzard boys I’ll ask for more details !!
Big Leggy:
BuzzardBoy:
Big Leggy:
BuzzardBoy:
Ted Dunston has been on Abbey Tanks quite while now i believe hasnt he, IIRC its since he left RPL about 5 years ago.
The only 2 companies from Bedford i can think of are Rogers, and AER Inskip, who have sold out to someone who’s name escapes me…
I’m trying to work out when I was with Ted in Morrisons warehouse & I think it was March - April time 5yrs ago & he was working for a company supplying traction only to Morrisons !! Someone help me out with the name of the company !!
Steve Rogers
Sorry I couldn’t be more specific but if I talk to any of the Buzzard boys I’ll ask for more details !!
Thats about the time we were on RPL, And we did supply Traction to Morrisons and Tesco around that time too…
Ted had an XF, it would have been X20 or X30 RPL…
Buzzard Boy
No it wasn’t R.P.L. as I know a lot of the drivers on there – it was definitely a company from Bedford [or over that way – Olney ■■] !!
There was a lot of outsiders supplying traction only to Morrisons then at the Northampton Warehouse just off M1 [I’m told they’ve moved] – N.D. from Leighton Buzzard, Canute, Butts + many more !! Funnily enough I only lost my telephone book of numbers [actually a wallet full of scraps of paper] recently & Ted’s number was amongst them !!
Big Leggy:
Buzzard Boy
No it wasn’t R.P.L. as I know a lot of the drivers on there – it was definitely a company from Bedford [or over that way – Olney ■■] !!
There was a lot of outsiders supplying traction only to Morrisons then at the Northampton Warehouse just off M1 [I’m told they’ve moved] – N.D. from Leighton Buzzard, Canute, Butts + many more !! Funnily enough I only lost my telephone book of numbers [actually a wallet full of scraps of paper] recently & Ted’s number was amongst them !!
Only one that way i can think of is CJ Haynes from Sherington??
RE. Black Ace
If anybody knew Black Ace i had a call tonight to say he has passed away [apparently heart trouble] I knew him from when he was the fitter at Sid Edwards. He worked at numerous companies ie. ECE,John Osbourne,Peter Field to name a few. [R.I.P]
Little Richard
Ace – sorry to hear that RIP… I knew Ace when I was working with Geoff Reynolds – along with Alf Grey, Bob Chapman, Pat Cooper – that was in the yard behind where Kevin Pools [RIP] transport is now !!
Last time I saw him to talk to I was on A.C.H. and he was a fitter for Fields Transport !! Good bloke !!
littlerichard:
RE. Black Ace
If anybody knew Black Ace i had a call tonight to say he has passed away [apparently heart trouble] I knew him from when he was the fitter at Sid Edwards. He worked at numerous companies ie. ECE,John Osbourne,Peter Field to name a few. [R.I.P]
After posting the message about Ace or Black Ace I started thinking of how long I’d known him [25+yrs ?] & I tried to recall his real name !! Keith – but I cannot recall ever knowing his surname…
Transport [Logistics as it is now known] is a funny “trade” to be in – you know drivers or fitters from all over G.B. or even Europe but actually know very little about them, even their full given name !!
hi i started work in the lieghton area many years ago for pentus browns son john. The company name was trucklink and john ran 3 moters i was lucky enough to get a brand new f10 volvo (b942sac) back then it was the dogs doo dars we pulled tilts out of dover for m a t and ferryline,were i ran with little joe and mr locket(mr r p l ).they were both on for peter roffe with the big 142S and globetrotters doing 5 bridgends from dover a week (pre m25 days ) dont know how they keeped it up.then when browny packed it in in then went to s j edwards for work then spent many happy (and a few sad ) years there .met and know many many drivers who passed through sids gates as little joe said he would give any one a chance,at one time we wre called rpl s training school i left sid for awhile and tryed my luck at a c h’s at aylesbury that was a fantastic job great moters great work(mainly italys and germany)and top money troble was it was a marridge wrecker so went sadley back to sids i recognise most of the names on this thread and have got a lot of names not talked about
Here’s another one for you, although a little further afield…
RS Stringer from Ampthill…(or was it RT Stringer)
I think if i remember rightly TC Trans used to work for him years ago…
BuzzardBoy:
Here’s another one for you, although a little further afield…
RS Stringer from Ampthill…(or was it RT Stringer)
I think if i remember rightly TC Trans used to work for him years ago…
It was indeed RS Stringer, and when I worked for him it was out of Elstow storage depot. no pics unfortunatley, but apart from me and 2 other drivers, everyone was family related one way or another.
Roger paid 20% of what the wagon earned, however, if you done the same job for 3 weeks the wage was differnet every week 
when questioned about it, suprisingly the lowest rate was the correct one.
tc trans:
BuzzardBoy:
Here’s another one for you, although a little further afield…
RS Stringer from Ampthill…(or was it RT Stringer)
I think if i remember rightly TC Trans used to work for him years ago…
It was indeed RS Stringer, and when I worked for him it was out of Elstow storage depot. no pics unfortunatley, but apart from me and 2 other drivers, everyone was family related one way or another.
Roger paid 20% of what the wagon earned, however, if you done the same job for 3 weeks the wage was differnet every week when questioned about it, suprisingly the lowest rate was the correct one.
Was you on the Brewliner job TC? I did some subbying for him when he was at Elstow 
And I know what you mean about the earnings…It was the same for the subbies 
Here’s some pics when they were in Ampthill.
And this one is courtesy of ‘Bubbleman’
I mostly worked on the biffa contract Slough to Brogboro, then when he bought his yellow bulker with the greedy boards I carted the sand down to Gerrards cross and rubbish back up, used to do the brewliner job every year coming up to xmas, they used to do their nuts in Isleworth when the trailers come back covered in brick dust.
Also found out that when they sealed the front clips on the trailer, if the buckle was slightly looser than the rest you could get in and sort out your own xmas drink too 
I then done a few trips to Sweden for him, and found that I lost money compared to what I could earn on the rubbish, so refused to go again.
I used to know a couple of his subbies, Terry Fossey was one, a really great bloke who I still occasionally see on the motorways, and a guy who’s name escapes me, but he bought a new foden 3300 or something similar, buggered if i can get his name though.
Great pics.
tc trans:
I then done a few trips to Sweden for him, and found that I lost money compared to what I could earn on the rubbish, so refused to go again.I used to know a couple of his subbies, Terry Fossey was one, a really great bloke who I still occasionally see on the motorways, and a guy who’s name escapes me, but he bought a new foden 3300 or something similar, buggered if i can get his name though. Great pics.
I think the guy with the Foden was none other than Phil ‘Bongo’ Summerfield…Bit the dust quite a few years ago, the last time I saw him he was looking rather shady in a blacked out range rover at Junction 9 truckstop 
I still see Terry now and again, Did you know Brian, that drove the 142 in Bubblemans picture TC? I remember he used to do Sweden and Swiss quite a lot, sadly he died about 5 or 6 years ago, he was a great bloke, used to work for Phillips European in Flitwick back in the 70’s.
nice one, Phil Summerfield, thats the name, a complete raving nut at the best of times, had some great laughs with him.
I knew brian, he was a nice guy, sorry to hear the news.
What a ■■■■ small world it can suddenly turn out to be, I drove a scania 112 reg B252 XOO, and then rog bought an A reg 4x2 142 to pull the bulker. Money was no object if it was for the trucks, I used to have to pull into roadking at watford quite often and fill the cab with coach wheel trims, and quite a few of his fleet had the top spots above the cab, ideal across sweden in the winter too.
Yes he was a raving lunatic you must remember Ginger Bob, he used to work for T Payne from London then he moved to Milton Keynes and went to RS as a manager but ended up driving one of the Biffa wagons, I saw him a few months ago in MK shopping, he had’nt changed much just the ginger had turned silver 
lemonmouth:
Yes he was a raving lunatic you must remember Ginger Bob, he used to work for T Payne from London then he moved to Milton Keynes and went to RS as a manager but ended up driving one of the Biffa wagons, I saw him a few months ago in MK shopping, he had’nt changed much just the ginger had turned silver
well we must know each other then, I was there at the same time as Bob Gladwell, and Barry Lynne who also came to RS from T Payne, after a brief spell in australia, which resulted in him living in his cab at the layby in marston moretaine.
Last time I saw Bob he was just about to finish with spectrum in MK which used to be Burtons, I think he saw his time out there.
I was the gobby one with really long hair and they used to call me Bob saying I looked like bob geldoff… apparently.grrrrr, and at that point in time I felt I was able to rule the world… well didn’t we all.
I enjoyed my time at Stringer’s, and I would struggle to find reasons to knock Roger, he was in fact quite a fair boss, any idea what he does these days?
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well we must know each other then, I was there at the same time as Bob Gladwell, and Barry Lynne who also came to RS from T Payne, after a brief spell in australia, which resulted in him living in his cab at the layby in marston moretaine.
Last time I saw Bob he was just about to finish with spectrum in MK which used to be Burtons, I think he saw his time out there.
I was the gobby one with really long hair and they used to call me Bob saying I looked like bob geldoff… apparently.grrrrr, and at that point in time I felt I was able to rule the world… well didn’t we all.
I enjoyed my time at Stringer’s, and I would struggle to find reasons to knock Roger, he was in fact quite a fair boss, any idea what he does these days?
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I used to know most of RS’s drivers, there was another lad with long hair and wore cowboy boots, Phil Chamberlain■■? seems to ring a bell, I saw Roger about 2 weeks ago, he was running a 4 series Scania up to last Xmas then sold up when he had to go into hospital for an op on his leg. been looking for a picture of B252XOO, I thought I’d got one , I’ll keep looking, if not maybe Bubbleman or Truckerash might have one
I can remember Bob and Barry working for T Payne on the Coke at Northfield.A bloke called Jim was their boss had an
office on the A5.Proper days 20 white pallets 20 ton and allowed to load on a flat and sheet up good old days!!! what you say T.C !!!
Re.Black Ace
Big Leggy
If my memory serves me correct Black Ace surname was Harcoss or Harcuss [not to sure about the spelling] he was a welshman originally. If anybody out there knows different with the surname please post it.
The Boys Own:
I can remember Bob and Barry working for T Payne on the Coke at Northfield.A bloke called Jim was their boss had an
office on the A5.Proper days 20 white pallets 20 ton and allowed to load on a flat and sheet up good old days!!! what you say T.C !!!
Jim Absolom was his name, and at that time I worked at Cokes, which is how I first knew them, good ole days indeed.