geoffthecrowtaylor:
Archie no Hardmans drove for us or hard men either ,drivers were me our Tony Dave Mason RIP Dave Ireland Brian Shepherd John Tilson RIP Pete Hollick Tony Boden . Mason and Ireland had previously worked for Aylsbury and Pegler and then later for Gem Transport who had a yard in Gorton Manchester they did a lot of work for Manchester Liners on containers. Ronnie Scott the owner was an Irishman and lived in Macclesfield. When times got hard the whole fleet went overland to Saudi and did internals .His newest truck was a Scania 111 all the rest Fodens including an S80 .Tilson and Boden for Eric Hunwick Shepherd for Transcontinental Freight at Heywood and Hollick finished up after us at Dow Freight. Keep on trucking mate regards Crow
Brian shepherd went on to work for Golden West Foods (Heywood) and finally hung up his boots at age 68 working for Top Freight Bury. For the last 6 yrs Brian has lived on the costa blanca near torrevieja.
Hi Paul, welcome to Trucknet. Can you ask your dad if he has got any old photos that you can stick on here. This is not him in this photo is it which was taken on Don Street, Middleton.
geoffthecrowtaylor:
Archie no Hardmans drove for us or hard men either ,drivers were me our Tony Dave Mason RIP Dave Ireland Brian Shepherd John Tilson RIP Pete Hollick Tony Boden . Mason and Ireland had previously worked for Aylsbury and Pegler and then later for Gem Transport who had a yard in Gorton Manchester they did a lot of work for Manchester Liners on containers. Ronnie Scott the owner was an Irishman and lived in Macclesfield. When times got hard the whole fleet went overland to Saudi and did internals .His newest truck was a Scania 111 all the rest Fodens including an S80 .Tilson and Boden for Eric Hunwick Shepherd for Transcontinental Freight at Heywood and Hollick finished up after us at Dow Freight. Keep on trucking mate regards Crow
Brian shepherd went on to work for Golden West Foods (Heywood) and finally hung up his boots at age 68 working for Top Freight Bury. For the last 6 yrs Brian has lived on the costa blanca near torrevieja.
Hi Paul, welcome to Trucknet. Can you ask your dad if he has got any old photos that you can stick on here. This is not him in this photo is it which
P.S. Your Granddad wasnât called Billy was he.
Hi I think thats my dad in the passenger seat, he had 'XTC 65L after a driver called des who came from blackpool. He then got new a left â â â â â â F88 reg ONF 543R the last motor he drove for Transcon was a F89 reg UNF 497S until the company closed down. UNF was then bought by metro freight and Brian then worked there for a while. Is it Billy Aspin your thinking of ? If so no not my grandad lol. Billy was a sub contractor for transconâŚ
Yeah thats one of my favorit lorrys all time! It would be great to se as a model
Look great With the bull bar and thouse big tanks!
We didnt have many of them old Dafs hereâŚ
geoffthecrowtaylor:
Archie no Hardmans drove for us or hard men either ,drivers were me our Tony Dave Mason RIP Dave Ireland Brian Shepherd John Tilson RIP Pete Hollick Tony Boden . Mason and Ireland had previously worked for Aylsbury and Pegler and then later for Gem Transport who had a yard in Gorton Manchester they did a lot of work for Manchester Liners on containers. Ronnie Scott the owner was an Irishman and lived in Macclesfield. When times got hard the whole fleet went overland to Saudi and did internals .His newest truck was a Scania 111 all the rest Fodens including an S80 .Tilson and Boden for Eric Hunwick Shepherd for Transcontinental Freight at Heywood and Hollick finished up after us at Dow Freight. Keep on trucking mate regards Crow
Brian shepherd went on to work for Golden West Foods (Heywood) and finally hung up his boots at age 68 working for Top Freight Bury. For the last 6 yrs Brian has lived on the costa blanca near torrevieja.
Hi Paul, welcome to Trucknet. Can you ask your dad if he has got any old photos that you can stick on here. This is not him in this photo is it which
P.S. Your Granddad wasnât called Billy was he.
Hi I think thats my dad in the passenger seat, he had 'XTC 65L after a driver called des who came from blackpool. He then got new a left â â â â â â F88 reg ONF 543R the last motor he drove for Transcon was a F89 reg UNF 497S until the company closed down. UNF was then bought by metro freight and Brian then worked there for a while. Is it Billy Aspin your thinking of ? If so no not my grandad lol. Billy was a sub contractor for transconâŚ
I have 3 photos of transcontinental freight will scan them and put on soon
You are a dab hand at this photo enhancing. Nice job!
Thanks
Johnny
Not the J Sutherland?
John Sutherland is Lord Northcliffe Professor Emeritus of Modern English Literature at UCL (âemeritusâ being Latin for âscrapheapâ and âNorthcliffeâ journalistic
Can you ask your dad if he has got any old photos that you can stick on here. This is not him in this photo is it which was taken on Don Street, Middleton.
