Carryfast

:open_mouth: blimey carryfast you got a stalker … you,ve done it now… :smiley:

bowser:
:shock: blimey carryfast you got a stalker … you,ve done it now… :smiley:

It’s ok won’t get me I’m part of the union. :laughing:

This has the makings similar to one of those Flu epidemics only this one will be ten times worse and theres no known antidote for the ā€œirritationā€ unless,of course,the mods take the ā€œnuclearā€ option and permantly get rid of the virus!!! Bewick.

carryfast-yeti:
hello folks,new poster here! just wondering if anyone has any memories of Carryfast,who had depots all over the country up until they were taken over by(i believe) UPS.i drove for them at the North Kilworth depot right up to the sad day when it closed in March 1986.

didn’t they have a depot at droitwich and ran a a large fleet of blue daf 95’s :question:

mazz:

carryfast-yeti:
hello folks,new poster here! just wondering if anyone has any memories of Carryfast,who had depots all over the country up until they were taken over by(i believe) UPS.i drove for them at the North Kilworth depot right up to the sad day when it closed in March 1986.

didn’t they have a depot at droitwich and ran a a large fleet of blue daf 95’s :question:

Think Droitwich closed down and moved to Nuneaton before the 95 was even introduced on the market :question: .

mazz:

carryfast-yeti:
hello folks,new poster here! just wondering if anyone has any memories of Carryfast,who had depots all over the country up until they were taken over by(i believe) UPS.i drove for them at the North Kilworth depot right up to the sad day when it closed in March 1986.

didn’t they have a depot at droitwich and ran a a large fleet of blue daf 95’s :question:

yes,there was a depot at Droitwich,when NK shut down we were running Daf 2500’s.

I worked for Carryfast from '85 in North Kilworth then moved to their depot in Nuneaton ( I lived in Nuneaton at that time).

Do you remember Kevin Preston, Steve Clarke, Andy Searguant(spelling) &/or Ian Morrisey ā– ā– 

hello Geoffo.certainly remember Kev Preston,he was ops.manager,still got my reference from him! Steve Clarke rings a bell,but can’t remember the others.do you remember Bob Allen who was foreman at Kilworth? i was talking to him at his home up the road from the depot a couple of years ago.also remember Malc Richardson transport manager and drinking partner!

carryfast-yeti:
hello Geoffo.certainly remember Kev Preston,he was ops.manager,still got my reference from him! Steve Clarke rings a bell,but can’t remember the others.do you remember Bob Allen who was foreman at Kilworth? i was talking to him at his home up the road from the depot a couple of years ago.also remember Malc Richardson transport manager and drinking partner!

yeti what runs were you doing :question: .Nights or days :question: .

Carryfast:

carryfast-yeti:
hello Geoffo.certainly remember Kev Preston,he was ops.manager,still got my reference from him! Steve Clarke rings a bell,but can’t remember the others.do you remember Bob Allen who was foreman at Kilworth? i was talking to him at his home up the road from the depot a couple of years ago.also remember Malc Richardson transport manager and drinking partner!

yeti what runs were you doing :question: .Nights or days :question: .

first 2 years days,then 2 years night trunking to Dewsbury and Feltham,then 2 years back on days.happy days!

carryfast-yeti:

Carryfast:

carryfast-yeti:
hello Geoffo.certainly remember Kev Preston,he was ops.manager,still got my reference from him! Steve Clarke rings a bell,but can’t remember the others.do you remember Bob Allen who was foreman at Kilworth? i was talking to him at his home up the road from the depot a couple of years ago.also remember Malc Richardson transport manager and drinking partner!

yeti what runs were you doing :question: .Nights or days :question: .

first 2 years days,then 2 years night trunking to Dewsbury and Feltham,then 2 years back on days.happy days!

Probably saw the Feltham lot going in the opposite direction to you.Feltham-Dewsbury via Kilworth was hard work with a 2500.Much better when they got the 2800 ATI’s after they saw that a 2800 could do the job better.

Before it was called carryfast i think it was Harrisons of Dewsbury.

Carryfast:

carryfast-yeti:

Carryfast:

carryfast-yeti:
hello Geoffo.certainly remember Kev Preston,he was ops.manager,still got my reference from him! Steve Clarke rings a bell,but can’t remember the others.do you remember Bob Allen who was foreman at Kilworth? i was talking to him at his home up the road from the depot a couple of years ago.also remember Malc Richardson transport manager and drinking partner!

yeti what runs were you doing :question: .Nights or days :question: .

first 2 years days,then 2 years night trunking to Dewsbury and Feltham,then 2 years back on days.happy days!

Probably saw the Feltham lot going in the opposite direction to you.Feltham-Dewsbury via Kilworth was hard work with a 2500.Much better when they got the 2800 ATI’s after they saw that a 2800 could do the job better.

before the Dafs,we were running ERFs and Sed-Atki’s with 180 Gardners,so the 2500s were like Rolls Royces! love to know if my Sed-Atki survived,YRP 64S,presumably cut-up long ago though.

carryfast-yeti:

Carryfast:

carryfast-yeti:

Carryfast:

carryfast-yeti:
hello Geoffo.certainly remember Kev Preston,he was ops.manager,still got my reference from him! Steve Clarke rings a bell,but can’t remember the others.do you remember Bob Allen who was foreman at Kilworth? i was talking to him at his home up the road from the depot a couple of years ago.also remember Malc Richardson transport manager and drinking partner!

yeti what runs were you doing :question: .Nights or days :question: .

first 2 years days,then 2 years night trunking to Dewsbury and Feltham,then 2 years back on days.happy days!

Probably saw the Feltham lot going in the opposite direction to you.Feltham-Dewsbury via Kilworth was hard work with a 2500.Much better when they got the 2800 ATI’s after they saw that a 2800 could do the job better.

before the Dafs,we were running ERFs and Sed-Atki’s with 180 Gardners,so the 2500s were like Rolls Royces! love to know if my Sed-Atki survived,YRP 64S,presumably cut-up long ago though.

Feltham had one of the old Gardner powered ERF’s used as a yard shunter.That was just about all it was good for although the gas axe would have been a better end for it to put it out of it’s misery :laughing: .

carryfast-yeti:
hello folks,new poster here! just wondering if anyone has any memories of Carryfast,who had depots all over the country up until they were taken over by(i believe) UPS.i drove for them at the North Kilworth depot right up to the sad day when it closed in March 1986.

Is this the company you are looking for.
transportphotos.com/road/photo/JS00878-05
Volvo F717 Carryfast Transport.jpg
Volvo F7 HNH348Y taken in 1982

Stanfield:

carryfast-yeti:
hello folks,new poster here! just wondering if anyone has any memories of Carryfast,who had depots all over the country up until they were taken over by(i believe) UPS.i drove for them at the North Kilworth depot right up to the sad day when it closed in March 1986.

Is this the company you are looking for.
transportphotos.com/road/photo/JS00878-050
Volvo F7 HNH348Y taken in 1982

Think it might have been that one which was based at Feltham.

If it is it that one it ended it’s days there with a knackered cooked engine on the M25. :wink:

carryfast-yeti:
before the Dafs,we were running ERFs and Sed-Atki’s with 180 Gardners,so the 2500s were like Rolls Royces! love to know if my Sed-Atki survived,YRP 64S,presumably cut-up long ago though.

Ooh I can see you and your company namesake are going to get on like a house on fire :grimacing:

Light blue touch paper and retire :stuck_out_tongue:

Wheel Nut:

carryfast-yeti:
before the Dafs,we were running ERFs and Sed-Atki’s with 180 Gardners,so the 2500s were like Rolls Royces! love to know if my Sed-Atki survived,YRP 64S,presumably cut-up long ago though.

Ooh I can see you and your company namesake are going to get on like a house on fire :grimacing:

Light blue touch paper and retire :stuck_out_tongue:

It’s more likely that he’ll be another one who’s upset Bewick saying that a 2500 was better than a ERF with a 180 Gardner in it. :open_mouth: :laughing:

But just shows that you had to be very lucky,or doing a lot more miles in a shift than a Gardner powered ERF could manage :wink:,to be given a 2800 and a 2500 did’nt seem like a Rolls to me doing a 400 mile run from Feltham to Dewsbury and back :open_mouth: :laughing: .

And then there was two! Oh ā– ā– ā– ā–  a brick, now he’s got backup.

dr-evil-mini-me.jpg

MrHappy:
And then there was two! Oh [zb] a brick, now he’s got backup.

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I have often wondered what that (zb) looked like! excellent likeness I would imagine!! Cheers Dennis.