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stravaiger and NZ, regarding the Shap article, and the 3 old-timers shown.Jack Wilson, Fred Tuer, and Jimmy Hayhurst. Top men the 3 of them.
I Don,t know whether or not Jack Wilson, is still alive, if he is he will be in his 90,s. The company has, as far as I know finished trading.
Fred Tuer is still going strong;Although he may have by now hung up his spurs,insofar as driving is concerned. I actually saw him driving a bus on the A66 about 4 years ago, He came out of Bolton,(a small ■■■■■■■■ hamlet) road-end and got a wave and a smile. I think that the company still have one waggon on Gypsum Work, and a couple of buses still running.
Jimmy Hayhurst is sadly no longer with us, having passed away after a long illness, in Dec 2007. RIP Jimmy.
So that,s it. It sort of brings that article up-to-date.
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G’day,
glad you liked the artice,also great to read an update on those old fellas,shame about the fella who has passed away. Your dead right Jim they would have told some great yarns. I found a reply to the artice from a mag a couple of months later.
Talk about dedication to the job.
Cheers Jamie
stravaiger:
NZ Jamie Iv’e re-read and enjoyed that article yet again.removed
Is there a story about the Mk.2 Atki in the background?
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G’day,
I’ve found another reply to the Shap artice,I love the Aberedeen Overdrive bit,I remember reading this as a kid and thought it was a great turn of fraze. In NZ it’s known and this is not the most PC of sayings as Maori Overdrive.
Good effort with the Jungle pics Jim,I’ve not seen any before,bet you could get a good cuppa an a black pudding sarnie in there.
Cheers Jamie
Atkinson Borderer Sleeper cab ■■■■■■■ 220
bedgar047:
Atkinson Borderer Sleeper cab ■■■■■■■ 220
A lorry that has been around - new to Ferrymasters, then Pandoro, then Riding (where it grew the sleeper cab), and then a succession of owners after that. But it looks like a proper working lorry!!
Stravaiger, that Tyson H Burridge motor’s, a proper Dennison, unlike the Dodge on page one, with an Anderson shelter for a cab 
stravaiger:
Sorry 240 I don’t personally have any info. At a wild guess, judging by colour, ex Stampers ?
But everybodys guessed that already.Some big A s for Buycrider.
Most will have seen these of the Jungle, but since it’s a ■■■■■■■■ thread.
Heading North.
Brings us back to this again, sorry. ( just found this one )…jim
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stravaiger:
NZ JAMIE:
G’day,Good effort with the Jungle pics Jim,I’ve not seen any before,bet you could get a good cuppa
an a black pudding sarnie in there.
Cheers JamieJamie, the stories I could tell you about the Jungle, the grub, the cameraderie; the…but in truth they would be second hand rose ones because
I was never inside the place in my puff. Always meant to do so as it remained open awhile having being by-passed by the new M6 in 1970 and although
I was “a driver” at this point it would be around the door with co-op vans and thruppeny bit cabbed 3 tonners. (pre 7.5)
When I did set sail in '72 all the motorway service areas had seperate sections for Transport drivers and th…No!..no I won’t get political.
I’ll bet harry_gill tasted those black pud delights.
Those little clippings you posted are just the ticket
If you hadn’t seen the cafe pics then the chances are you, and others, may like to see a pic of the leyland clock often mentioned in regards to all things
Shap.These pics come from member, Big Al, and you can check out his website posted below.jerry truckartist, Anderson shelters right enough. it did look bombproof.
Brian just discovered where some of the Bewic piccies came from
As a matter of interest we (DM) used to drop off a couple of pallets into one
of Bewics customers in, or near, Kendal on a Sunday on the way down and I can never recall who they were.Carnation/Bibby/corned beef■■? hell, I’m
just playing guessing games now.users.totalise.co.uk/~thetyke/id18.htm
Watts under the snow!
Restored (Ayrshire reggy) A series.
From chalkey on an earlier thread.
This and similar ones earlier from bedgar047
Three guesses: where is that scenes taken?
Forton services n/bound m6
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The M6 had opened by the time I started trucking up that way in the early '70’s,but i did hear from several old boys that the Jungle cafe had been severely damaged on more than one occasion when some one in “Aberdeen Overdrive” failed to make the bend,is this true,or another urban myth?
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All good stuff Jim and who knows,could all be true!
In Sheffield “Aberdeen Overdrive” was known as “silent sixth” or “silent seventh” depending on the box you’d got.
Wasn’t there a haulier from Carlisle called Alberti,ran white Volvos in the 80s?Always thought it was an unusual name for a ■■■■■■■■ haulier.
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All good stuff Jim and who knows,could all be true!
In Sheffield “Aberdeen Overdrive” was known as “silent sixth” or “silent seventh” depending on the box you’d got.Wasn’t there a haulier from Carlisle called Alberti,ran white Volvos in the 80s?Always thought it was an unusual name for a ■■■■■■■■ haulier.
yes there was Chris - S & B Alberti from memory. I used to load them back sometimes - I think it was Sheila Alberti I used to speak to, and she was definitely more ■■■■■■■■■■ than Italy! I think that her husband was actually Italian, although I never spoke to him. I believe they sold out to Keedwell a few years ago.
anyone got a pic of dodge commando we had early 80’s ex murrays longtown reg PRM390R think it was a cattle wagon with murrays
hiya,
yes the jungle never heard of anybody running into it i remember one or two miscueing on the bridge just below, i used shap for a good few years and am very surprised nobody mentioned the eagles nest at the top of the hill, i think in business for a long time, it consisted of a couple of buses backed on to each other i used that one on many occasions.
thanks harry long retired.
Harry, I,m busy trying to find a picture, of Mrs.Huguez,( evacuated from the Channel Islands during the War), bus cafe, in the layby on top of the hill… It appeared in a local paper about a year ago.
Anne, the young lass who used to work in there, lives around the corner from me.She is a GREAT-grandmother now, and I have got her doing a dig in her cupboards. She married one of the lads who dug the road out with his D9, in that bad winter of 62/63.
Dorothy (Dot) Huguez ,(Mrs.H,s daughter)is still alive, (75,ish) I see her most days, I.ll ask her if she has any pics.( If I can get to her front door, coz she,s got a little dog that attacks yer).Watch this space H. 
hiya,
thanks for that info buycrider, i was thinking i’d imagined that one, being very old it was my preference of the shap two but parking was the problem not much of it, i was just surprised that all the posts on here some by older gentlemen than myself, hadn’t mentioned it it was there all the time i tramped the big hill, and it was a proper cup of tea, but fair play to the jungle the grub was OK, mentioned in another post that my mother drove a six wheeler and drag lancaster to carlisle on night trunk all through world war two she drove for the ministry of supply carrying munitions outbound return empty and i remember her telling me during the war years shap never closed whatever the weather seemingly the american forces kept it open so that supplies weren’t stopped from getting through.
thanks harry long retired.