Hi Jack I most likely bumped into you as I was at Pickfords HH Sheffield 67 - 75 used to call in for fuel and a sub when up there which was quite often
Hi lads, just a quick pop in to my home, my mate came out from hospital on wednesday, he said what a grand job we had done, looking after his wife, he said could we stop on aleast another week, for he has seen he can not manage, like a fool, I said we will look after them until he can manage, I think I would rather do work for Chris, my first job was on the railway.
hiya,
You’re spot on Jacktherat the OPs 6 was indeed the paperwork to avail the traffic office of the knowledge of the wagon and driver weekly performance it showed the mileage, the fuel obtained, loads carried from where/to,weights of traffic carried the drivers hours worked,any delays had to be noted oh and not forgetting money subbed and from which depot, funny how we always managed to get maximum hours in week in week out.
thanks harry long retired.
Jack
I was with the Douglas Group in Glasgow in the early '70’s and I was in Seafield regular so we must have met then.
Alex
My friend, Robin Masters of Evesham, is organising a Gathering of vintage BRS vehicles at the Lincoln Farm Cafe on July 12th 2010. This follows on from the success of the first gathering held there in 2008 to celebrate the 60th Anniversary of the creation of British Road Services.
As an old BRS (Douglas Group, Glasgow) driver, I hope to be there and maybe meet a lot of you there.
Alex
hiya,
That should be one not to be missed Alexsaville i’ll do my best to get that one in, just hope i’m well enough be there and still able be to navigate to the Lincoln Farm, might need to dig my map out.
thanks harry long retired.
Harry get a satnav, and you will get totally lost, the last time I was at lincoln, I was in a car, and parked near to the football ground, and my car got broken into. Before that was in the 60’s on FMC fetching chickens from Kingerby, in my bullnose type Ford.
hiya,
Norm i always thought you sand wobblers only needed a compass, so long as you was pointing east outwards and west homewards that was it, i’ve actually got a sat=nav but the last time i used it i finished up in a farmyard and had to reverse a car and caravan a quarter of a mile to get back out onto the road.
thanks harry long retired.
Hmm, I always wondered Harry, where you got your S***t stirring abilities from, it was that farm yard ha ha ha.
hiya,
What me a stirrer Norm, i would’nt know where to start, but have been dropped in the fertilizer on more occasions than i care to remember.
thanks harry long retired.
Harry, you are too modest for a ex- red & rust driver, I give way to a older man, that you are the best, with Chris close behind, followed by Keith, then Dave, and a few more, and then shy, modest, little old me, bringing up the rear.
hiya,
I might be the old man of the group but i don’t need the nurseing home treatment just yet, i’m a bit like those old Bristol’s i’ll run forever provided i can keep my batteries charged up.
thanks harry long retired.
Hi Chaps,
Stand ready for action. The natives are getting restless once again. It must be the thought of father christmas,got them all excited. 
Cheers Dave.
hiya,
Not battlestations is it Dave??, we have’nt got old Norm at the moment he’s a bit busy doing his Florence Nightingale impersonation he’ll just have to stand by with his bed pan at the ready, but thankfully i’m as good as two and we have’nt heard from Keith for a while and just hope he has’nt taken the armour off the Scania, our mentor Frenchy has’nt been in evidence much lately just hope everything is OK there, no doubt Chris will be ready with the binoculars on the I.O.M.
thanks harry long retired.
harry_gill:
hiya,
Not battlestations is it Dave??, we have’nt got old Norm at the moment he’s a bit busy doing his Florence Nightingale impersonation he’ll just have to stand by with his bed pan at the ready, but thankfully i’m as good as two and we have’nt heard from Keith for a while and just hope he has’nt taken the armour off the Scania, our mentor Frenchy has’nt been in evidence much lately just hope everything is OK there, no doubt Chris will be ready with the binoculars on the I.O.M.
thanks harry long retired.
When I’ve got Silver River tipped at Ramsey Harry I might come over to Lancaster on her.We’ll get a couple of Bofors guns rigged up on her and a helipad on top of some empty containers.Nowt like being at the ready.
hiya,
Chris as an ex-artilleryman i’ve dragged a few guns behind the old AEC Matador but a bit bigger than the Bofors gun our tackle was 5.5 howitzer’s but you’ll be able to do some damage with a Bofor’s just keep your finger off the trigger when your helicopter is close by they are anti-aircraft guns, but you already knew that.
thanks harry long retired.
Hi Harry & Chris,
Have made enquiries to see if I can go to night classes for Guerrilla warfare. Have spoken to an ex lance corporal from the home guard who has given me some good tips on how to deal with any Bedouin flytippers 
, we have the misfortune to meet up with.
Cheers Dave.
Night classes for guerilla warfare,I like it !
Anyway Dave,I’ve got one of me best men on top of Snaefell keeping lookout for Bedouin flytippers in Snowdonia as we could see it today clear as a bell.No reports as yet 
. I went to Ronaldsway Airport earlier to see if Flybe would lend me a plane for spying missions but they hadn’t got one spare and I would have to wash the bloody windsock in any case,so I told them go forth and multiply.
Lafarge said I could borrow this to launch missiles from Ramsey,so might go for it.
HI Chris,
That looks like a mobile moonshine whiskey maker. You could always make a brew and give it to the flytippers,get them ■■■■■■■■■ worked with the pesky redskins.
Cheers Dave.
hiya,
Bedouin flytippers eh, surely old Norm’s your man for dealing with them fella’s he must have met up with them when playing at sand wobbling, and Keith can surely give you some tips he must have crossed swords with them in his time, as for myself i come across them on a weekly basis actually in my street every wednesday but we call them dustbin men.
thanks harry long retired.