Hanger 5, was that where they used to load the boxed car parts for export?
Any pics of Freddie Allens? Bayton Rd on the badlands between Coventry & Beduth!
Hey, couple of crackers there mate! 
I worked at Motor Panels for 10 years ('94 to '04) and Freddies did a lot of work for us - we used to have a laugh too.
One of their drivers started from school and learned to drive in an old ERF 4 wheeler nicknamed ‘The Pig.’ I wonder if that was it?
dieseldogsix did you work at olivers windows as a fitter ? cheers mark
Oooooh tears to my eyes time … I was a Jag apprentice 11 years in and 10 at Motor Panels and my grandad 38 years at Canley for The Standard - they lived in Tile Hill Lane opposite the factory and lorries went up and down 24 hours a day carrying bodies in from Liverpool and cars out on transporters. Also a nice pic of Rootes there too - top stuff!
Gardner 120 that erf must be the same one ,can still hear my brother moaning about it even now no power steering …lol. happy days
I remember Freddies had old Albert from ■■■■■■■ - there’d be 6 wagons already in the yard and he’d park up, jump out, turn the air blue and threaten to beat someone up if we kept him waiting! Thing was, back then, I could out run the old sod
foden01.
The commer triple decker brings back memories, I first saw it at the Commercial Show at Earls Court. It was driven by a scots chap Johnnie ?, he ran all the time to Scotland out of Torrington Ave, he had it replaced by an AEC Mandator and the Commer came to Oxford Depot with a 5/6 car trailer. I had it for a week on nights, doing 2 Oxford/Coventrys a night, christ it was slow, low gear diff, 38mph, but boy could it pull, that was in 1968.
oiltreader
oiltreader great pics any more
well thats settled an argument about john prats lorry not being a mandator as i said it was thanks for that
foden 01:
dieseldogsix did you work at olivers windows as a fitter ? cheers mark
No I wasn’t a fitter there but my younger Brother was.
LB76:
well thats settled an argument about john prats lorry not being a mandator as i said it was thanks for that
Your right, it was me that thought it was a Mercury, I was wrong, and I still haven’t found out what Johns upto or even if he’s still with us.
Mind you, thinking about it, I wouldn’t put it past John to steal a badge off a Mandator!!!
Would this have been Mortons very first lorry?. Delivering car bodies to the Morris factory at Cowley, I am guessing it is a Daimler.
Also with my posting about the Progressive Group Carrimore Triple Deck and the Commer unit being replaced with a Mandator and the the driver being Johnny someone, I did not mean Johnny Pratt, I knew him and he never had the triple deck. John Pratt, I remember had a Leyland 400, 5 car, then a six car Mercury like the one in the previous pictures with the bottom well deck, 6 Triumphs up, these were 5 car trailers cut and frabricated in the workshops at Torrington Ave.
Round about 67/68 Progressive workshops moved to Bedworth, quite near to the colliery. Myself and Alan Long had the first Mercurys(ergonomic cabs), 7 car Carrimore. I collected both of them from Bedworth. We ran nights Oxford to Carlisle, 3 trips a week, relief drivers tipping in Scotland, loading Imps from Linwood, at first we ran together, leaving Sunday evening, then alternated, me leaving Sunday night , Alan leaving Monday night. this was for about a year. This was when they started using the trains (MAT), so we were taken off scottish.
oiltreader
thanks for letting me know anyway mate , just keep hoping someone reads this and puts us in the picture
LB76:
thanks for letting me know anyway mate , just keep hoping someone reads this and puts us in the picture
I did ask someone today, but he didn’t know, so I asked him to ask Roger Greenwell ,who used to drive for John on Haniels, if you remember John had some nice motors on Haniel 141’s, 89’s and the like. I’ll keep asking, I just don’t seem to run into the right guys since i came off car delivery.
oiltreader:
Would this have been Mortons very first lorry?. Delivering car bodies to the Morris factory at Cowley, I am guessing it is a Daimler.Also with my posting about the Progressive Group Carrimore Triple Deck and the Commer unit being replaced with a Mandator and the the driver being Johnny someone, I did not mean Johnny Pratt, I knew him and he never had the triple deck. John Pratt, I remember had a Leyland 400, 5 car, then a six car Mercury like the one in the previous pictures with the bottom well deck, 6 Triumphs up, these were 5 car trailers cut and frabricated in the workshops at Torrington Ave.
Round about 67/68 Progressive workshops moved to Bedworth, quite near to the colliery. Myself and Alan Long had the first Mercurys(ergonomic cabs), 7 car Carrimore. I collected both of them from Bedworth. We ran nights Oxford to Carlisle, 3 trips a week, relief drivers tipping in Scotland, loading Imps from Linwood, at first we ran together, leaving Sunday evening, then alternated, me leaving Sunday night , Alan leaving Monday night. this was for about a year. This was when they started using the trains (MAT), so we were taking off scottish.
oiltreader
They also had a depot in Rowley Road for a short while, which later became Sheertrucks depot, if you look at the Mandator with the single axle Hoyner trailer I think that is where that was taken.