pete smith:
A Thorneycroft?
I wouldn’t have fancied going up or down Coombes hill in that loaded with steel tube on solid tyres 
Trev_H:
pete smith:
A Thorneycroft?I wouldn’t have fancied going up or down Coombes hill in that loaded with steel tube on solid tyres
Hi Trev, How about old waterfall lane then?
Yes some good hills round there, Trindle rd. Dudley was another one, the old man always had the trader brewing up going to Round oak.
Trev_H:
Yes some good hills round there, Trindle rd. Dudley was another one, the old man always had the trader brewing up going to Round oak.
Trindle Road was nice with a load of pickled and oil on, going up or down!
Hi Trev, One of Billy Wise’s for you and one of Hadley and Cutts, where they on Parkfields road by Teddy Smiths?
pete smith:
Hi Trev, One of Billy Wise’s for you and one of Hadley and Cutts, where they on Parkfields road by Teddy Smiths?
Cheers Pete, Never see many photo’s of Wise’s and they had quite a fleet at one time.
Hadley & Cutts I remember well, a lot further down Parkfields from E A Smiths, I believe their office still stands next to what was once an Esso filling station where Ron Aitkin started Mainline haulage, I think there was a scrap metal company in their yard ( Smith’s ?), I can remember when it was all fields along there !
Trev_H:
pete smith:
Hi Trev, One of Billy Wise’s for you and one of Hadley and Cutts, where they on Parkfields road by Teddy Smiths?Cheers Pete, Never see many photo’s of Wise’s and they had quite a fleet at one time.
Hadley & Cutts I remember well, a lot further down Parkfields from E A Smiths, I believe their office still stands next to what was once an Esso filling station where Ron Aitkin started Mainline haulage, I think there was a scrap metal company in their yard ( Smith’s ?), I can remember when it was all fields along there !
Joe Smiths scrapyard is behind Machine Mart,E A Smiths was where Gills is now?
pete smith:
Trev_H:
pete smith:
Hi Trev, One of Billy Wise’s for you and one of Hadley and Cutts, where they on Parkfields road by Teddy Smiths?Cheers Pete, Never see many photo’s of Wise’s and they had quite a fleet at one time.
Hadley & Cutts I remember well, a lot further down Parkfields from E A Smiths, I believe their office still stands next to what was once an Esso filling station where Ron Aitkin started Mainline haulage, I think there was a scrap metal company in their yard ( Smith’s ?), I can remember when it was all fields along there !Joe Smiths scrapyard is behind Machine Mart,E A Smiths was where Gills is now?
Correct Pete, the little brick building next to where the houses start was Hadley & Cutts office.
Trev_H:
pete smith:
Trev_H:
pete smith:
Hi Trev, One of Billy Wise’s for you and one of Hadley and Cutts, where they on Parkfields road by Teddy Smiths?Cheers Pete, Never see many photo’s of Wise’s and they had quite a fleet at one time.
Hadley & Cutts I remember well, a lot further down Parkfields from E A Smiths, I believe their office still stands next to what was once an Esso filling station where Ron Aitkin started Mainline haulage, I think there was a scrap metal company in their yard ( Smith’s ?), I can remember when it was all fields along there !Joe Smiths scrapyard is behind Machine Mart,E A Smiths was where Gills is now?
Correct Pete, the little brick building next to where the houses start was Hadley & Cutts office.
Remember my Dad telling me he had been on a coach trip up Southport and he commented on how far the tide was out and some one replied it was because Hadley and Cutts had brought all the sand down to Black Country!
Trev_H:
pete smith:
Hi Trev, One of Billy Wise’s for you and one of Hadley and Cutts, where they on Parkfields road by Teddy Smiths?Cheers Pete, Never see many photo’s of Wise’s and they had quite a fleet at one time.
Hadley & Cutts I remember well, a lot further down Parkfields from E A Smiths, I believe their office still stands next to what was once an Esso filling station where Ron Aitkin started Mainline haulage, I think there was a scrap metal company in their yard ( Smith’s ?), I can remember when it was all fields along there !
I thought there yard was on horsley fields ?
curnock:
Trev_H:
pete smith:
Hi Trev, One of Billy Wise’s for you and one of Hadley and Cutts, where they on Parkfields road by Teddy Smiths?Cheers Pete, Never see many photo’s of Wise’s and they had quite a fleet at one time.
Hadley & Cutts I remember well, a lot further down Parkfields from E A Smiths, I believe their office still stands next to what was once an Esso filling station where Ron Aitkin started Mainline haulage, I think there was a scrap metal company in their yard ( Smith’s ?), I can remember when it was all fields along there !I thought there yard was on horsley fields ?
Yes Curnock, Billy Wise’s was on Horsley fields but Pete was asking where Hadley & Cutts place was on Parkfield rd.
Another one for Trev H, Bilston Carnival is this one of Shelley’s? Cheer’s Pete
pete smith:
Another one for Trev H, Bilston Carnival is this one of Shelley’s? Cheer’s Pete
Yes one of Shelley’s outside one of my watering holes, the United services club 
When I was at Ingles we did Bilston carnival every year, had some good times.
Another one of Billy Wises for you Trev, I can remember this new it was driven by Derek,his nick name was cornflakes and he used to drink in the Harrowby Arms, this would be after Wises moved yards from Mary Ann Street to Lower Horseley Fields,Cheer’s Pete
A poor copy of a picture of one of Herbert C Styles Seddons they were based in Bewdley, Cheer’s Pete ps. Trev H can you remember a lad called Bob Hart from Hill Top Depot, he went on to the BMW? car parts distribution, any way he used to work for Styles’s before he worked at Exel Penkridge.
pete smith:
A poor copy of a picture of one of Herbert C Styles Seddons they were based in Bewdley, Cheer’s Pete ps. Trev H can you remember a lad called Bob Hart from Hill Top Depot, he went on to the BMW? car parts distribution, any way he used to work for Styles’s before he worked at Exel Penkridge.
Hello Pete, yes I knew Bob Hart well, he later worked on an Everest contract with me at West Brom., I used to work all week from Carlisle at the Volvo garage at Kingstown ind estate, Bob used to feed me trailers every night up from West Brom, he retired about 5 years ago and lives in Kingswinford.
Trev_H:
pete smith:
A poor copy of a picture of one of Herbert C Styles Seddons they were based in Bewdley, Cheer’s Pete ps. Trev H can you remember a lad called Bob Hart from Hill Top Depot, he went on to the BMW? car parts distribution, any way he used to work for Styles’s before he worked at Exel Penkridge.Hello Pete, yes I knew Bob Hart well, he later worked on an Everest contract with me at West Brom., I used to work all week from Carlisle at the Volvo garage at Kingstown ind estate, Bob used to feed me trailers every night up from West Brom, he retired about 5 years ago and lives in Kingswinford.
Bob was a good lad, used to do the Irish out of Penkridge for me, I think he liked the run because the 200 benson and hedges he gave me made sure he stayed on that run
Built by Thompson Tanks,Great Bridge Road,Bilston
