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stravaiger:
georgeking:
Was Thistle Transport Services anything to do with this John Hodson?Now George there’s a dusting of cobwebs if ever
Didn’t they have their office
at the old Golden Fleece on the A6 just off j42 ?..jim
I rather think they did.
stravaiger:
Who would this be coming north on the old A74 in 1971. Just seeing the type
again reminds me of team who ran one in conjunction with their clearance
house activities.Jim ? and Benny ? who operated out of baillieston,Meadow Transport.
They hauled round bar from Meadow Works in Motherwell.Not saying it was theirs of course,just reminds me of them.
I’d hazard a guess at that Scammell and say Key Warehousing from Hull.The livery looks like theirs.
Stravaiger:
Who would this be coming north on the old A74 in 1971.
Well, if it had been green I would have said Ilkeston Haulage. We had our own groove on that road Jim. 
Northbound with plasterboard and other ‘exports’ and southbound with whisky out of Dumbarton Bond (mainly).
Rarely slept because if we did try to stretch out across the gate change it wasn’t long before the old bill move us on - they didn’t want a stack of whisky parked up on their patch.
The McKelvie Fodens rolled back the years too. There was a much told story of a McKelvie wagon pulled up behind an Ilkeston Scammell at penrith lights for several changes. Finally he climbed down from the cab and opened the Ilkeston’s door to find the driver slumped fast asleep over the wheel. A slap round the face and a run back to his own cab in time to catch the next green as the Ilkeston driver moved on, wondering what had happened. 
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hiya ,
has anyone mentioned ffyfes of forres got a backload off them many moons ago , thanks harry long retired .
stravaiger:
Well, if it had been green I would have said Ilkeston HaulageIkeston Haulage? Well well. T A members? I think I’m right in saying David it
was to this very outfit in 1973 I set out for from the cafe down in Spondon with
one of D M Smiths 4 wheelers with rare gearbox problems. Off I went in a low
gear and stayed in low gear for how far? 9 miles or so ? The early morning
commuters were well pleased to see me, each giving a friendly blast as they
passed and some sort of local custom with their hands.Never seen the likes
of that before
Having arrived at Ilkeston the fitters announced that it would take a wee bit
longer than first anticipated ( 2 days in fact ) owing to spare parts etc and the
fact we had to off-load so they could cut an access on the floor to the gearbox.
Spondon cafe, that would be the place that used to be a pub I think, long reverted or changed to something else now. It came back into my mind the other day when I watched a report about Brian Clough’s son Nigel becoming the manager of Derby and remembered eating in that establishment when the news came through that Cloughie’s Derby County had won the League. You can imagine the celebrations.
Ilkeston Haulage was actually at the old Cossall pit and I guess the residents who so welcomed you would be the local Cossall villagers. We never took that route dropping down a hill to take a double switchback over a wooden canal bridge. This required slowing to a crawl and one early morning my mate Dennis found it blocked by a Ford Zephyr and 4 balaclavered types with pickaxe handles. It was well known that those high, square, sheeted loads were whisky but unfortunately for them this one was plasterboard.
They discovered this when, unable to pull Dennis from the cab to put their driver in (he was of ample girth and well jammed behind the wheel ), they slashed the sheets instead before taking off at high speed not best pleased.
All were convicted later, including the ‘replacement’ driver who had been identified as an ex Ilkeston driver not only by his voice but in a short ‘don’t tell him Pike’ exchange when Dennis addressed him by name.
The DB Marshall vehicles (fridges) were run by Douglas Millar Transport. Douglas was married to one of the Marshall’s sisters.
going back to your quest last year for armadale hauliers… there are sibbalds. there was les brodie… and to top it off the miserable old duffer i worked for "david oliphant haulage… he was based in between the two brick works
oh and there was robertson across the back , he used to run to austria in a ■■■■■■■ powered man!!!.
any of you lads on here cast your minds back to the early sixties late fifties,and remember a company from north of the boarder called CLAYBENS used to run fawn coloured long nosed mercs,down to london, thy were a refigeration company used to do a lot into smithfield meat market,also used to see them in the london docks a lot when thy were open. anyone got any pics,bev, 
bev wyatt:
:lol: any of you lads on here cast your minds back to the early sixties late fifties,and remember a company from north of the boarder called CLAYBENS used to run fawn coloured long nosed mercs,down to london, thy were a refigeration company used to do a lot into smithfield meat market,also used to see them in the london docks a lot when thy were open. anyone got any pics,bev,
Salvesen Blairgowrie / Aberdeen bought them out.
I will add some that i have
hiya ,
does anyone remember deans of darwen drove his first artic he bought it just because i had a class 1 and was wasted driving a four wheeler i hadn’t driven rigids for a long time and loved it and he went and spoiled it nice motor though, thanks harry long retired.
could that be a young bruce mackie at the wheel of the claben merc?
Anyone Remember another few from Motherwell & Wishaw
Wass Nertherton
P & S freight Nertherton then Motherwell
Kerr Bros transport Motherwell
John Jardine Waterloo
what about air road and water in glasgow
Superb thread guys.
Interesting hearing about J&R Wright based in Maryhill with blue wagons. They were in Rutherglen for a long time at the start of the container boom, with a traditional green and red livery. Had a really mixed fleet (including an Argyle) but lots of F86s when they first came out. They were one of the first to take advantage of all the new container work, and they must have made a fortune. Had a sister company called A&J Clark who did much the same.
Stamper’s were just up the road from them, and they went from being a steel haulier to boxes - Merzario and Panalpina 30 footers and lots of work for Ellerman. Lots of work for MAT Transport too, and eventually MAT based a couple of wagons at their depot in Quay Rd.
A few to remember:
SPD (speedy prompt deliveries) - big orange Scammels. Based in Renfrew (?)
Wilkinsons Transport (Johnstone?) - red and cream AECs
Jubilee Transport Wishaw - Blue Big Js
Connals - swallowed up by Highland Haulage, but they had a big fleet of their own based in Maryhill
Who were the outfit whop named all their wagons after birds - Swan, Swallow etc. ERFs if I think?
Oh, and I just remembered Twentieth Century Transport at Finnieston for backloads.