The new Turbo Stars that were running from Bedford were a company called INTERGLOBE, a guy called Joe (you’re right Big Leggy he was Italian) and done for smuggling, he started as an O/D with a Gold/Bronze 2800 DAF parking in S. Johns yard at weekends, and would have been late 70s early 80s when he started.
HI WHEN I STARTED FOR DAWSONFREIGHT IN 1970 I TOOK MY HGV TEST IN A COMMER ARTIC I PASSED AND STAYED AT DAWSON FREIGHT TILL 1991 I REMEMBER NAMES OF THE NAMES IN PREVIOUS MESSAGESTHERE WAS OVER 20 HAULEDGE COMPANYS IN LEIGHTON BUZZARD IFF YOU DID NOT LIKE A FIRM YOU COULD PACK UP FRIDAY START MONDAY SOMEWHERE ELSE FOR A SMALL TOWN SO MANY COMPANYS GOOD OLD DAYS NOW RETIRED IN SPAIN STILL HAVE A APPARTMENT IN BLETCHLEY JOHN WISSON
Chicobuttons, as you worked for Dawsons, did a guy call ■■■■ Adams work there, I seem to remember he was from Buckingham, he worked with me at Banbury Building , Coventry in 1970 and I’m sure he said he was going to Dawsons when he left.
The new Turbo Stars that were running from Bedford were a company called INTERGLOBE, a guy called Joe (you’re right Big Leggy he was Italian) and done for smuggling, he started as an O/D with a Gold/Bronze 2800 DAF parking in S. Johns yard at weekends, and would have been late 70s early 80s when he started.
HI WHEN I STARTED FOR DAWSONFREIGHT IN 1970 I TOOK MY HGV TEST IN A COMMER ARTIC I PASSED AND STAYED AT DAWSON FREIGHT TILL 1991 I REMEMBER NAMES OF THE NAMES IN PREVIOUS MESSAGESTHERE WAS OVER 20 HAULEDGE COMPANYS IN LEIGHTON BUZZARD IFF YOU DID NOT LIKE A FIRM YOU COULD PACK UP FRIDAY START MONDAY SOMEWHERE ELSE FOR A SMALL TOWN SO MANY COMPANYS GOOD OLD DAYS NOW RETIRED IN SPAIN STILL HAVE A APPARTMENT IN BLETCHLEY JOHN WISSON
Chicobuttons, as you worked for Dawsons, did a guy call ■■■■ Adams work there, I seem to remember he was from Buckingham, he worked with me at Banbury Building , Coventry in 1970 and I’m sure he said he was going to Dawsons when he left.
Just found this site, what a lot of memories in these treads. I drove for Sidney J Edwards in the eighties and again for a while in the nighties. lost contact with a lot of drivers from the area as I moved away. Sid was a good friend of mine and last see him a couple of years ago .I was gutted to hear about Blondie Wright he was a good mate and spent many a good night up the pub in Erith. I remember one time me and Blondie were stuck at Unimills for 3 days most of the time we were in the pub. Friday nights or Sat lunchtimes we would be in the Falcon along with Bob Wells. Tony Bandy was there at the same time I was I knew him well as we were at school togeather as was Fred Hawkins. Leighton Buzzard was a big haulage town years ago another small company which only had a couple of lorries based at stewkley I can sort of remember was chappells, they had brown colored moters. I’m also sad to hear Woody’s past away I remember him from my days With Sid. some one mentioned someone in the office for Sid called Tony, If I remember rightly his name was Tony Paradine.
Does anyone know the haulage company from lennoxtown in Scotland. Think they were called j.w. Cuthbert and son. They had three drivers in the late seventies till early eighties. I think the drivers were called jack Billy jim. They drove an old erf and a old Atkinson and a guy. Then I think they got a foden. Also the haulage company Trevor of Warrington they had blue volvos. Are they still on the road. Which haulage company ran out of seaforth in Liverpool haulin acl containers with acl brockelbank on there wagons. I. M sure it was all six legger dafs they had. All White wagons way acl brockelbank written on it. Barkers or harper rings a bell. (burscough) I think that’s where they were based. Remember stayin at there depot one nite in early nineties.
I worked for Able Carriers in the 70,s and then when they were bought out by Eric Edwards in about 1978 (ECE) I worked for them.
There was a great deal of hauliers in Leighton Buzzard at that time probably the main hub for the UK.
I also worked for nearly 2 years for the firm mentioned in Bedford with the Turbo stars that was Interglobe transport,
we had the first 420 V8 iveco,s in Europe and travelled any where that required refrigerated goods. The owner an Italian by the name of Guisseppe (Joe )Di Gennaro was convicted for drug smuggling and recieved 12years but I was long gone by then.
Joe went on to start up the international side for Turners of Soham but he fiddled them out of £300,000 or so the story goes.
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Does anyone know the haulage company from lennoxtown in Scotland. Think they were called j.w. Cuthbert and son. They had three drivers in the late seventies till early eighties. I think the drivers were called jack Billy jim. They drove an old erf and a old Atkinson and a guy. Then I think they got a foden. Also the haulage company Trevor of Warrington they had blue volvos. Are they still on the road. Which haulage company ran out of seaforth in Liverpool haulin acl containers with acl brockelbank on there wagons. I. M sure it was all six legger dafs they had. All White wagons way acl brockelbank written on it. Barkers or harper rings a bell. (burscough) I think that’s where they were based. Remember stayin at there depot one nite in early nineties.
H.R. Trevor of Warrington,yes I remember them they ran F88s and the owner died suddenly and the firm was put up for sale.Malc Woodhouse snr. and I went to look at it one Sunday with a view to buying it "lockstock"as a going concern but IIRC "all was not as it seemed"and we didn’t take matters any further.I can’t re-call what eventually happened to the firm.Bewick.
