No Robert it was not me, and I know it would not be Harry, I can not stand whisky and Harry would only test it, just to see it was not going bad when on the job delivering it, also the poor old chap can only drink in small amounts, one barrel at a time. 
hiya,
Yes The Mechanic have done lots of whiskey when on for the BRS but never misappropriated a full trailer of the stuff but never had to buy any for a long time had a few “friends” at loading/unloading places but the paperwork was always spot on lets just call it “evaporation en-route”, can’t speak for old Norm though he’s a bit of shady hombre with over the water connections, maybe he borrowed Denby’s rig and shifted the two trailers at the one go.
thanks harry long retired.
hello Mr mechanic…i stopped often at the crawford arms. had your dinner in dining room with table cloths and the bollox. mega place. irish man who has since passed would be in small lorry park and ask you when you were leaving in the morning and park you in appropriatley. his name may have been tom? you had to double park there as it was/is small park. showers were like home, clean, and didnt smell of ■■■■. very good stop that. my uncle jimmy bell lived at brockets brae? lesmahagow. he was a car dealer. did you know him, or maybe buy a wreck from him?
New postby The mechanic » Fri Feb 19, 2010 11:18 pm
Hi yorkshireman,I must be going senile the Tom were talking about was Tom Miller,I left the area in 1984 and just moved back in 2004 so I never knew Tom had worked with S@R.Sadly Tom died 4years ago at the age of sixty.He was working with R Taylor @Sons at Lesmahagow and was changing tyres on his car in the yard.He stopped for a cup of tea and collapsed with a clot to the heart.Two weeks before along with our wives we were at a Burns supper in the village hall and Tom was complaining of a sore leg but he never went to the doctor.Were still friendly with Christine his wife and I do small jobs about the house for her as Tom never let her do anything like that.Tom worked with me at Millars many years ago also Stewart Cameron of Dymen and Patersons of Aberdeen.He was a good driver and worked like a horse.
Hi mechanic, sorry to hear about Tom,as you say a nice guy. Please give my condolences to Christine and her daughter who’s name I’ve forgotten. (It’s my age you know) She was a smashing lass but very shy. When she worked in the cafe for Derek we used to tease her a lot and she was gradually fighting back. We used to keep an eye out for her though to make sure nobody stepped over the line. Please remember me to them and give them my best wishes. John.
Harry how could you, I’m known for being honest Norm among otherthings, stop feeding that Robert the mechanic with bad information, when we used to call into his garage for repairs, they always used to find a bucket to empty the tank of the remains of “Special Brew” or Hof, them lads could sink a few pints, but Robert only assisted me on the way up to Glasgow when the tank was full, so I cannot say whether he had a pint or not, but Jack at Smiths & Madisons later in the late 80’s had a huge amount off of me, instead of going down the drain.
hiya,
Norm it’s little wonder Blackburn depot never sent us into the North Wales Brs depot’s, some of them did a bit of beer in fact a canny lager brewed at Wrexham i’ve done a drop of sampling down that way on occasion, so if i’d ever got near a drop of freebie i doubt i most likely would never have got home, but always had a couple of clean bottles for when parking up at the eye hospital along Sauchihall St Glasgow and used to get a drop of booze off the VP wine guys who used the same digs as me, they was empty of course, but it was funny how there was always the odd drop left in the pipe after they got a clear signature, well somebody had to drink it.
thanks harry long retired.
Know Wrexham brewery well took hundreds of tanker loads to there, they was going to close it down for years, but our lager gave it a extended life for over 10 years, but I was informed it had closed down after I retired, it was very close to the football ground.
hiya,
Did’nt know Wrexham brewery had finished Norm, according to Google they went in 2000, they was the only brewer for a long time in the UK who did lagers and a nice drop it was too, had a few pie and a pint lunches down that way when a lad in the pre breathalyser days.
thanks harry long retired.
Hello chaps
This is a link to an old BRS film from 1987. I’m in the opening bit, driving the drag and then a couple of times later doing the trunk to Bristol.
I know it’s not really old but still mildly interesting. Enjoy. 
A picture of an old BRS tractor and trailer which shows the colours.Thought it might bring back some memories.900X20.
Hi boys
Norman Ingram:
Know Wrexham brewery well took hundreds of tanker loads to there, they was going to close it down for years, but our lager gave it a extended life for over 10 years, but I was informed it had closed down after I retired, it was very close to the football ground.
Harry, Norm, Wrexham brewery as you say has long gone, It’s all been built on, usual shopping parks both sides of the railway.It is cronic around there now especially at weekends. Norm it is obvious the could not manage with out you and when you retired they had to close
Regards Keith
ninja:
Hello chapsThis is a link to an old BRS film from 1987. I’m in the opening bit, driving the drag and then a couple of times later doing the trunk to Bristol.
I know it’s not really old but still mildly interesting. Enjoy.
lets hope Brodshaw & Spacecraft dont see it 
tonyhogi:
lets hope Brodshaw & Spacecraft dont see it
We’ll be in trouble again!
Very good Tony, I enjoyed it, used to see a lot of the Mothercare drivers about.
Norman Ingram:
Very good Tony, I enjoyed it, used to see a lot of the Mothercare drivers about.
Hi Norm , probably a few on there that you knew - Ron Mcade, Roy Lewis, Roy Wisdom were BRS old timers on Mothercare then .
Also did you spot the camping Gaz lorry? never worked on that contract myself but it was supposed to be a right cushy number .( Bit like carlsberg )but a lot less money 
Yes Tony they ring a bell with me, but I am terrible with names until someone gives my memory a jolt, on the Camping Gaz contract, it was a cushy job, I was asked to come off the class one to go on it, and keep the same rate, you was on a five night out every week sometimes more, the money was not alot different to Carlsberg at the beginning, it was only in the early to middle eighties that the money went skyhigh, when I was doing Northern Ireland and bombs and bullets were regular, we got paid 16 hours a day from the time we left the brewery tothe time we returned, so you can see we rushed about terribly■■?, so if we was to leave on a Sunday that= 32 hours & 24 Saturday, everyother day was 16 hours with 5 hours at time & half= 18.5 hours, so when the ferries went on strike or the breweries could not tip us for a couple of days, they told us we were the most civil drivers, never moaned or complained, and they never knew the reason. Tony what angels we were !. On the gaz job when it went slow, we spent half the time in the pub ( Horseshoe) in the villiage of Sywell, no nights out, no overtime, and we was spending money, that is when I volunteered for the Overland job, never did know when they closed down, perhaps someone will tell me who used to go pass there depot at Sywell.
hiya,
Norm that was the beauty of the BRS Norm if you was a top rate driver and did a bit of work on a lower class vehicle you still kept your class one money, once did a spell for a privateer who had a mixed fleet, and i was mainly driving wags and drags he used to adjust the pay packet if you drove a smaller motor he tried it on with me once, i was “gone” as quick as i could get my case out of the passenger seat.
thanks harry long retired.
hi Harry , plus you could call in to any BRS depot & get money with your ops6 or they’d arrange digs for you ,you were never expected to break the law or speed ,got early start money overtime after 40hours time&half first 4 hours on Sat then double time, sundays all double time & bank hols . every brs depot was like a small family run company- not like most of the logistics firms now where your just a “number” 
thats progress
hiya,
You’re spot on tonyhoogi you needed to work for the old red and rust to see fair play as it should be there was no yard favourites if your motor was replaced you got the replacement whether you’d been there ten minutes or ten years, the one mistake they made was not capturing the “C” licences and making it a total h&r operation if they’d done that it would have still been going and no driver’s out of work.
thanks harry long retired.
Stop it you two, you will have me crying in my tea.