Here’s an Abbey Hill Transporter from 1983. Cant remember where I took it but I do remember it being the first triple decker that I had ever seen!!!
Moonraker:
0Here’s an Abbey Hill Transporter from 1983. Cant remember where I took it but I do remember it being the first triple decker that I had ever seen!!!
Carrimore trailer built in Stanley Co Durham
oiltreader:
Getting on a bit and still going.
Oily
That will run for a long time yet Oily, one of Commercial Collection old trailers from Dunstable.
Jazzandy:
Does anyone remember Capel Drivers of Dover who used to handle Toyotas and BMW’s back in the early 70’s?
From 1975 until around 1978 I worked for John Bennett & Sons the Surrey distributor for Toyota
We had 2 Scania transporters working out of Lydden PDI depot or out of Sheerness docks to Lydden for Capel Drivers, their yard was in Deal.
When we had no cars for Bennett’s we used to go all over the UK for Capel. Their transporters where blue, a right mix of tractors & trailers also there was a subby working for them with 2 white Scania 80’s with Hoyner trailers, our Scania’s where blue and orange.
Those where the days, no m25 Dartford tunnel lead nowhere too high for the Blackwall tunnel so it was Tower Bridge to get to the M1 then the A5 from jnc20 to join the M6 at Cannock and still get to Cairnryan in a day. Always remember the Irish drivers coming the other war, 1 flash of the offside indicator to say no cops around. Those where the days
angluman:
Jazzandy:
Does anyone remember Capel Drivers of Dover who used to handle Toyotas and BMW’s back in the early 70’s?
From 1975 until around 1978 I worked for John Bennett & Sons the Surrey distributor for Toyota
We had 2 Scania transporters working out of Lydden PDI depot or out of Sheerness docks to Lydden for Capel Drivers, their yard was in Deal.
When we had no cars for Bennett’s we used to go all over the UK for Capel. Their transporters where blue, a right mix of tractors & trailers also there was a subby working for them with 2 white Scania 80’s with Hoyner trailers, our Scania’s where blue and orange.
Those where the days, no m25 Dartford tunnel lead nowhere too high for the Blackwall tunnel so it was Tower Bridge to get to the M1 then the A5 from jnc20 to join the M6 at Cannock and still get to Cairnryan in a day. Always remember the Irish drivers coming the other war, 1 flash of the offside indicator to say no cops around. Those where the days[/quote
Angluman I spent two weeks transporting Toyotas from Felixstowe into Lyden around 1967 think they may have been some of the first Toyotas into UK, they weren’t in good condition a lot had been damaged some had paint on them think they must have been painting the boat on the way over. We had 4 transporters on the job working for Shepton Mallet car transporters who had 3 transporters on the job, they were a bunch of crooks but that’s another story. We based ourselves in Felixstowe & did one trip per day loading the night before, it was a ful shift the roads weren’t good then.
robert1952:
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Delivered few of these partly completed from Carrimore Co Durham down to the factory in Tottenham when they were on strike. The management strapped bits on I was collecting them at midnight running through the night returning home on the train or plating a new Princess back from Kingsberry.
Jazzandy:
Does anyone remember Capel Drivers of Dover who used to handle Toyotas and BMW’s back in the early 70’s?
Worked as a sub contractor with them from 1975 t0 1978 . Their depot was in Deal and they ran out of Toyota PDI at Lydden on the A2. They had a real mix and match of transporters some I remember as being Leyland Boxers and a Spanish Dodge. We had 2 blue and orange Scania’s owned by the Surrey Toyota distributor, when there was no cars for us we did Toyota’s for Capel all over the UK and often loaded Datzun’s back South
robert1952:
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I drove one of these “D” series for Tolemans out of Hull docks, '78 - '81 Perkins engine I think , it could catch pigeons!
best job ever F&^*$Ed up by Mrs T & the Dockers !
Here’s a name that doesn’t seem to have been covered yet:
N18 TTL Mercedes LN2 by Chris Gardner, on Flickr
N14 TTL by Chris Gardner, on Flickr
K66 OTA Mercedes Benz Actros by Chris Gardner, on Flickr
angluman:
Jazzandy:
Does anyone remember Capel Drivers of Dover who used to handle Toyotas and BMW’s back in the early 70’s?Worked as a sub contractor with them from 1975 t0 1978 . Their depot was in Deal and they ran out of Toyota PDI at Lydden on the A2. They had a real mix and match of transporters some I remember as being Leyland Boxers and a Spanish Dodge. We had 2 blue and orange Scania’s owned by the Surrey Toyota distributor, when there was no cars for us we did Toyota’s for Capel all over the UK and often loaded Datzun’s back South
I worked for Star back in the day. I can remember going into Toyota at Lydden, must have been late 70’s. vague re-collection of driving between containers in the yard but no memory of what we loaded out. We also used to get Peugeots from Silcocks Dover, and what hole that was to get out of in the winter, threading our way through a housing estate to miss a low bridge and a left hand uphill hairpin to regain the old road back toward Lydden.
what was the company CALLED from Carlisle airport in the 60s before ECM…my auld fella s mate davie Maxwell (maxi) drove for them for donkeys years. jimmy