allthough crows were taker over by tdg.they still kept the name and logo until they were amalgamated with buckley tankers from warrington.crows started to apply for various contracts under buckley tankers name,but buckleys were almost unknown outside of merseyside thats when it went downhill,very fast.
Tom Lord:
yorkie007:
The Photo is of Ciba-Geigy In the Yard at Greengate, but the main place for Giba-Geigy was tenants Road, Trafford Park, I have my DAD of 79 years old sat with me giving me a history lesson, a few Drivers who was contracted to them from Crows where himself Tommy Lord, Wally Dalton, George Brown, Tony Stockton, cheers Tom Lord (Sat with a Crow Driver Tommy Lord)
I came across these on The Manchester Archives site so I thought that they may be of interest.
B.T.W. Geigy Chemicals had a place on Manchester Old Road, Rhodes, Middleton in the sixties next to The Wilton pub, Crows used to do some work for them back then.
Regards Steve.
i see crow had F7’s doe’s anyone know if the had day cabs as well as sleepers?
Dont know about the F7s but they did run a few other day cabs in their day.
think i may have to use modellers licence then 
wirralpete:
think i may have to use modellers licence then
Looking at their wagons all through the years I can never remember seeing a F7 day cab, by the time they started buying F7s & the like I think they had gone over to a all sleeper fleet hadn’t they?
My Fantasy Crow motor
My second Fantasy Crow motor
yorkie007:
My Fantasy Crow motor
Nowt wrong with a bit of fantasy Yorkie 007, the way Transport is nowadays it beats the crap out of reality 
. Regards Chris
I drove an F700 Mack around Europe for a year or so for Tyldsley Wilkinson on MAT work. It was a nightmare, no lock on it at all, heater was useless, seat bounced all over the place and ■■■■ burned my hand as the screen was so close to the steering wheel, you had a great big bed but needed to be an expert caver to get into it, but hey, it did stand out in the crowd and when she was wound up, now’t would catch it. The truck was all custom painted when we got it with flames all over the front. It had featured in some custom car magazine as the Allentown Cadillac. TW painted it black first before getting the white with blue stripes treatment. I think it ended up with some American 5 ring circus.
oger:
Can’t believe I’ve only just found this site!!! My Dad was Bryan O’Grady and work at Crows until the redundancies.24 and 3/4 yrs!!! he then went on to work for Dawson freight and Samat uk. He would have loved being able to silver surf( or getting me to do it for him! SOUND FAMILIAR? ha!ha!) real blast from the past seeing the photos of the tankers.
Just found this site myself after looking at old pics. I remember your Dad as my father worked with him at greengate, his name was John Froggatt. Also some old names come to mind frank hill,jimmy Collins to name a few.
hi there anybody out there on this forum remember my dad john froggatt
i373.photobucket.com/albums/oo17 … photos.jpe
Can anyone tell me who’s in the photos who’s not named ?please.
Hi Clint
Mr. Reeves is Peter Reeves
The guy with Jeff Braithwaite is Me!! – Dave Bennett
Incidentally Jeffs full name is Jeffery John Dorrington Braithwaite.
Hi all,
Anyone out there can give any reminiscences on or about the MD Peter Reeves? Especially if anyone can remember him from the 50s and early 60s when he was at Barking!
If you don’t want to post, please PM
Many thanks
I know peter reeves lived near southhamton when retired
anyone got a pic of one of their takers? … Scammell … please
Manager:
anyone got a pic of one of their takers? … Scammell … please
Classic & Vintage Commercials have carried some articles about Crow in the last year, with some colour pics
many thanks, I’ll try and contact them