CB Handles

origanaly was called the sqeaking greek due to my resemblence to a long haired bearded sqeaky voiced singer Demys Rousos in the 70`s
Shortend to Greek for obvious reasons because by the time you had repeated the first part of the handle you were out of range :laughing: :laughing:

I used to drive for Fashionflow out of their York depot, my motor was a green Seddon Atkinson 401 or “South African” as they were known over the air. I ran between York, Durham, Manchester and Ilkeston on day trunk and my handle was Greenhorn purely because the wagon was green. I used to chat with The Big A from Wards of Durham, Cherry Berry from Cadbury’s at Stockport, Cherikee from Maynells of Catterick, Slippery ■■■■ from the Potter group near Thirsk, Funny Bunny a lady homebase from County Durham, The Pennine Pantry a tea van on the A59 near Skipton, JR from Brittains steel at York, the Steam Machine an owner driver called Pete from Stokesley to name but a very few, happy days! :smiley: :smiley:
regards doublereduction.

Desperate Dan = As i had a huge Desperate Dan on the spoiler of my ERF

  • Mine was “STICKSHIFT” 'cos the Chevy I had at the time had a manual gearbox. My mate’s handle was “CABRAT”, cos he was one!
  • Then there was the bloke who stepped out in front of a fast-moving Transit fitted with a Firestick aerial (remember them?). The driver stood the ■■■■■■ on it’s nose, just missing the bloke by no more than the thickness of a bus ticket - but the Firestick whipped over and caught him straight across his back. After a few days, the guy was still sore - a rash had developed, so he went to the doctor. After a few minutes, the fella asked the doctor what he thought it could be. “That’s the worst case of van aerial disease I’ve ever seen”, said the doctor.
    Keep it shiny side up.

Mine was " Curlytop" I purchased my CB from Peter dodwell, who had a caravan cafe in a layby on the old Wellingborough road out of Northampton, he set world records for eating and drinking, been on telly many times, had my straight hair permed, hence the name, this was in 1974/5, then I let it grow out when on M/E. Frenchy or Whiskymac, I have spoken to you, Wandering Hands & her husband were avid “Elvis” fans, have met both of them. Other lady breakers, French Knickers, Bridge Lady, Dallas, Night Nurse, Butterfly, Baroness, China rose,Electric Lady, Daydreamer, Dawn rose, Ginger nut, The Cairn from kilwinning, Disco doll, Kitten, Kiwi, Moom lady,Seawitch, Sable "Connie from Carisle, Magpie “Sally from Cambles forth near Selby, White Lace Carlisle, Lacy Lady, Chelsea Lady Stranraer, Red HeadRacer Acton, China Girl, Larne & Luton, Skytrain Bodmin, Kestrel Caddington, Dandelion " Christine, Tigress,Toyah, Western Ladt “Bridgewater”, Golden Lady, Golden Earring,Deep Saffron " Surf city” kernow, and I will leave you with Backscratcher (Janey) Carlisle, oh and Bridge girl jn 16 M6, this lot should bring some memories back, I have another, bookful of eyeball cards. :blush: :blush: :blush: :unamused: :unamused: :unamused: :laughing: :laughing: :laughing: :laughing:


Sent a few hundred of these all over the UK and Europe in the late 70’s and early 80’s,started with a cobra 19 GTL,then a Nato 2000,still use a Uniden 200 and a superstar 3900.

Surprisingly enough…

Lonewolf :laughing:

Came from a biker term, a Lonewolf biker was one that preferred to ride alone rather than in a group or club and that was me. When it came to choosing a handle there it was and its been there for 30 years now.

Talking of the lady breakers, years ago I actually met up with one that I’d chatted to in the Dartford area for ages. Lovely voice she had. The reality was somewhat different to say the least :open_mouth: :open_mouth: :imp:

Mine was Wallwalker, Because if I didnt have my glasses on … You guessed it :smiley: :smiley: :smiley:

Hello good buddies you’ve got Overlander on the side…due to a tipper trailer I had. Plus i had a Diahatsu 4x4.
I was driving on the Staffs/Cheshire border all over the UK I think somone else run out of Harwich with the same handle.
John.

Hey Dave, please tell me you do not look like the card, :laughing: :laughing: :laughing: :laughing: , or I would be afraid to meet you on a dark night. :unamused: :unamused: :unamused: :laughing: :laughing: :laughing: :laughing:

Norman Ingram:
Hey Dave, please tell me you do not look like the card, :laughing: :laughing: :laughing: :laughing: , or I would be afraid to meet you on a dark night. :unamused: :unamused: :unamused: :laughing: :laughing: :laughing: :laughing:

Hi Norm,
I look much worse than that,although I have shaved the beard off,my good lady has banned the beard,but if it don’t warm up,it could return. :laughing: :laughing: :laughing:
Cheers Dave.

My handle was “entertainer” as I’d earned a living for some years as a DJ in nightclubs in Liverpool, the problem was that in 1 out of 5 city’s I visited I’d come across another person useing ‘my name’!!!

My ‘screen name’ on here Bigr250; Big (cos I’m not nutritionally challenged) R (my first name is Roscoe) 250 (I race a 250cc Yamaha GP bike at circuits around the UK)

Ross. :sunglasses:

Hay this is the WARLORD signin in!!! I do know that there were two of us at least… :sunglasses: :sunglasses: :sunglasses:

Hiya …did any of you lads come across Red Brandy. She was on home base in Peterborough. She would give directions to 5/6 drivers at a time
around P 'bourough and never seemed to make any mistakes…This would be in the eighties she was top notch…I think she worked in a tea
van on the Corby rd out of Peterborough at one time.
John.

Hi I was “tankmaster” and a few I can recall were “The General and the Hungry Hippo” of the Thermos squadron LPG Falkirk, "whisky Drinker and red rum " Tartan Sammy Anderson’s “prize Fighter” from the north east and now the brains gone dead again cheers

Back in the 70/80s when the CB craze hit the UK I was just a wee lad riding shotgun in a two fat ladies so I had to wait for my Dad (Slippery) to let me have a go, back then I was Slippery Jr, he used to talk quite regularly to a bloke by the handle Kentish Warrior who had a Spaghetti Eater.

Over in the USA I have the CB on all the time, sometimes I’ll strike up a conversation but most of the time it’s just for bear reports, none of the old 10- codes are used anymore, except for 10-4, handles are not really used anymore, it’s all anonymous, but when asked I now go by ‘The Cockney Redneck’ strickly speaking that’s not true, I’m not a cockney (wrong side of the river, or should I say right side :wink: ) but it has a ring to it.

Does anyone remember a police officer on the A74 who was on the CB, He used the handle “silent runner” He came alongside me once or twice in a patrol car between Abington and Beattock to inform me I had “left the landing lights on son” :laughing: :laughing: :laughing:
Scared the cr*p out of me first time but it was better than a ticket !

Yes Trev, I remember him, and they was about six of them, and the had a couple in the stations, one day they said where are you Curlytop, I just said guess, they said we know your near, because you are pushing “9’s” to us, I said I am invisible and gave a chuckle for I was on the A75 between Annan & Dumfries, with my boots on 200watts, I could talk to Dallas near Moffat, and her mum who was near Dalton . Once I was in the mountains and stopped for a break, and I QX a couple of americian truckers on route 66 heading towards Texas and talking about a smokey hideing behind a billboard, I came in on the side, and told them I was in Scotland, but came from my town in England, but they thought I was a limey in USA trying to wind them up, but Charlie Tango 006 was a right honest guy? :unamused: :unamused: :unamused: :unamused: :laughing: :laughing: :laughing: :laughing:

Early days CBer in from the start am rigs then fm had both all the time only pulled once on M62 by foxy from the home office he had 2 patrol cars with him spent 1 1/2 rs stripping my truck on the hard shoulder of M62 boy was he mad when he couldn’t find my am rig & he had to put all the interior of my truck back. supplied & fitted loads of cb rigs for drivers all over, run with many a convoy up & down UK & Europe. Great times with the hole in the wall gang, prestons of potto , bartrums, benton bros
& many more, a few name of hand White Knight, White Spirit, Show Jumper, Potter Pete, Jelly Belly, Dirty Harry,
Wagon Master Armitage Transport, Wagon Master from Thirsk, Stable Girl, Rich ■■■■■, Rising Sun, Fancy Pants, Veno Collapso I could go on forever, But if there is anyone can remember running with me it would be good to here from you. Cheers Mel The Coca Cola Kid EX Fearns Tankers, Lambsons Tankers & Norman Lewis Tankers

PS I remember the smoky at Wetherby having CB i only remember Ginger after i passed him at 85MPH & no i didn’t get a ticket :laughing:

Can anybody remember the name of the pub in Newark where the A1 CB truckers club met

Hi Mel, I remember the old Fearn tankers, I used to talk to the green berets quadron ( Lewis’s) a lot, potto’s, bartrums, and many more, here are a few handles you might have heard on the channels, Floppy chopper, Gay Lord, Naughty Norman, Bendover Ben, Hairy Fairy, Slippery ■■■■, Romping Donkey, Dead legs, Chase me Charlie, and they was three butch truckers who would do gigs for charity and take off " The Three Degree’s" all over the Anglian region, and if my memory holds up, your tanks was a reddisd brown colour.