Bedfordshire hauliers past & current

[kempston]

At stewartby they used these or a more modern version in the end, they had 2 trains a day out of London,

[steevo]

Kempston:
A few of Harvey’s from Sandy, they did pack up and their yard was sold off and built on but I believe they started up again under a slightly different name.

Keith Harvey retired and folded the business in April 2001, and indeed there are now houses there. His brother and nephew had a couple of the motors and started as R+D Harvey. After a while WS Merrill from Gransden also finished and RandD took on some of their work and drivers and also joined a pallet network. Also had a bit of warehousing work. After a few years this all finished, think there is just one plain white unit now with a liveried trailer driven by Doug Harvey.

[kempston]

Steevo:

Kempston:
A few of Harvey’s from Sandy, they did pack up and their yard was sold off and built on but I believe they started up again under a slightly different name.

Keith Harvey retired and folded the business in April 2001, and indeed there are now houses there. His brother and nephew had a couple of the motors and started as R+D Harvey. After a while WS Merrill from Gransden also finished and RandD took on some of their work and drivers and also joined a pallet network. Also had a bit of warehousing work. After a few years this all finished, think there is just one plain white unit now with a liveried trailer driven by Doug Harvey.

Thanks for the info Steevo, I see Maritime have set up a yard now just off the Sandy roundabout on the A1.

[deanb]

Vauxhall Bedford TM.

[kempston]

Don’t know anything whatsoever about this firm I’m afraid. Nmp.

[kempston]

[rich_t]

[kempston]

Couple more here Rich, must admit I had never heard of them until your post, from Flitwick I believe?

[rich_t]

Yeh, from Flitwick.
A nice bunch of lads to work for/with.
I drive the 18t in the left of the pic.

[kempston]

Rich T:
Yeh, from Flitwick.
A nice bunch of lads to work for/with.
I drive the 18t in the left of the pic.

Nice one Rich, sounds like a good job!

[dispatcher]

.sorry wrong site

[kempston]

A few photos of Acorn Transport from Colesden just off the black cat roundabout on the A1.

[coomsey]

NMP

[shunt1986]

Hi, not been on for a while… a bit of grey scale today for my old Scania

[shunt1986]

One from approx 20 years ago… Gatport Airwick waste transfer station I believe… I was once just a young’un with a terrible camera in poor morning light

[shunt1986]

A little tribute to Dad… retired last week after 43 years on the road.
First trip out in 2012 for the mighty 750 Volvo!

[kempston]

From Buzzers collection, I’d forgotten all about this company until the photo appeared so thanks Buzzer.

[erf-ngc-european]

nmp

[kempston]

ERF-NGC-European:
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Great photo, that Volvo would have been the business back then.

[kempston]

Photo kindly uploaded by Buzzer.