Think it may have done before 
Can remember walking past the old Lex Tillotson workshops on Cheney Manor IE on the way to school(early 70s)
Overnight it seemed to turn into Carpet Express . think there was a tie in between them and Bees?
Stanfield:
http://www.transportphotos.com/road/photos0
JLC00233-04 Scania 113m Carpet Express
Thats the fellas.iirc they were more brown than yellow in the early days.
Geodis would have been Cave Wood?
D series rigids ,then Sed acs .
They had a 112 that trunked x2 to Romsey .
Driver was known as “Wessex Invader” on the Aunty Mary.
Think he died in a car crash on the A420.
Hello Suedehead, I also remember Carpet Express motors being more brown that yellow as they had a depot on the Stakehill Industrial Estate near Middleton in the early seventies and in the late eighties they were on the Pilsworth Industrial Estate just behind Birch Services east bound.
Cheney Manor, that name rings an old bell for me 
back in 1973 I used to deliver to a place on there called Cloverleaf products, probably long gone now 
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Regards Steve.
Were Lancaster Carpets of Denton part of the same outfit?
Seem to remember there lorries were also yellow and brown.
Ray
Wilkinsons parcels at Higham Ferris has some Carpet Express vehicles but after Wilkinsons became Federal Express that part vanished 
they have a scania with all the bits on it
bull bars leather interior the lot was paid for by the driver!!!
the story goes that were the driver was delivering he would rob a local bank 
dont know if thats true but was a good tale when i was a nipper
Pat Hasler:
Wilkinsons parcels at Higham Ferris has some Carpet Express vehicles but after Wilkinsons became Federal Express that part vanished
Hi, Bill here, i worked at wilkinsons for about 15 yrs at the birtley depot, at least it was when i started, they had some carpet work then, After a while wilkies was bought out by lex and became lex wilkinson. It was they that developed carpet express when the carpet work picked up. Carpet express was then kept on as subsidiary of lex wilkinson.Again after a while Federal express bought lex wilkinson out and soon after began disposing of work they did not want, (freight mainly), carpets being part of it, and so carpet express was sold on to other carriers, Did not who until now, Hope this helps
Bill
buzza:
Pat Hasler:
Wilkinsons parcels at Higham Ferris has some Carpet Express vehicles but after Wilkinsons became Federal Express that part vanishedHi, Bill here, i worked at wilkinsons for about 15 yrs at the birtley depot, at least it was when i started, they had some carpet work then, After a while wilkies was bought out by lex and became lex wilkinson. It was they that developed carpet express when the carpet work picked up. Carpet express was then kept on as subsidiary of lex wilkinson.Again after a while Federal express bought lex wilkinson out and soon after began disposing of work they did not want, (freight mainly), carpets being part of it, and so carpet express was sold on to other carriers, Did not who until now, Hope this helps
Bill
hi,united carriers ended up with carpet express, then when geodis bought out carriers,i think carpet express managers bought the company from geodis,i cant remember the new name of the company, but they were based at carriers dept in wellingborough from around 2001untill they closed .then they moved to federal express dept (old atlas express dept} untill fairly recently, i havent seen them about for a little while now,they had a fleet of renault wagon a drags, gray in colour. cheers diesel
hi, just remembered that after geodis sold carpet express, the new name was rylux carpets, i think, 
cheers diesel
mushroomman:
Hello Suedehead, I also remember Carpet Express motors being more brown that yellow as they had a depot on the Stakehill Industrial Estate near Middleton in the early seventies and in the late eighties they were on the Pilsworth Industrial Estate just behind Birch Services east bound.
Cheney Manor, that name rings an old bell for meRegards Steve.
Your right about Cloverleaf being long gone mate.Was their factory on Cm opposite Triumph Internationals place?
Think both firms relocated to Groundwell IE but are niether are about any more.