Ste Burrow:
Dennis do you remember Barkers from Lindale? My uncle worked for them for a bit I think they used to knickname them the Adams Family?
Hiya young Mr.B yes I remember the Adams family well you had to see the crappy trailers and rubbish sheets they used to believe it !! I bet they had some wet claims on the Bowater loads ! We were never involved in the same areas they went to which if I remember was Scotland mainly and ,with respect ,we didn’t want any of their drivers either !Anyway keep these nuggets of interest coming and if I can I will always comment as fairly as I can on anything I can remember!! Dennis.
Ste Burrow:
Dennis do you remember Barkers from Lindale? My uncle worked for them for a bit I think they used to knickname them the Adams Family?
Some of the Barkers are still about - just.//./…/
this old crane of their still sits in the woodyard…
From what I remember of Barkers fleet from seeing them from my office window entering and leaving the M.O.T station next door that Buffalo tractor looks like they have got it ready for test !! Bewick.
fryske:
From meeting ones of the Barkers – i see what you mean…
This is actually an Octopus crane – it has been recabbed though.
He told me they only stopped using it when the cab roof panel blew away one windy day…
Now this is a shot of a new K. Fell Scania just into the depot from the paint shop !Fell’s was a decent firm that origionated from Grange - over - Sands and moved to Milnthorpe in 1957 to be closer to their main customer Libby’s.
fryske:
From meeting ones of the Barkers – i see what you mean…
This is actually an Octopus crane – it has been recabbed though.
He told me they only stopped using it when the cab roof panel blew away one windy day…
Now this is a shot of a new K. Fell Scania just into the depot from the paint shop !Fell’s was a decent firm that origionated from Grange - over - Sands!!! and moved to Milnthorpe in 1957 to be closer to their main customer Libby’s.
This is a shot of the same K. Fell 111 lettered and ready to roll !!
yappie:
they had the biggest fleet of scania 143’s in the county dave back in the 90’s A W JENKINSONS had 26 143’s
Hi John,
They took over from JPR from Rhayader at Newbridge On Wye,one of the son’s from JPR is now a TM for them down this way.They had some powerful kit with those 143’s.
Cheers Dave.
yappie:
they had the biggest fleet of scania 143’s in the county dave back in the 90’s A W JENKINSONS had 26 143’s
Hi John,
They took over from JPR from Rhayader at Newbridge On Wye,one of the son’s from JPR is now a TM for them down this way.They had some powerful kit with those 143’s.
Cheers Dave.
they had renaults and a couple of scanias and where blue and yellow if i can remember right
yappie:
they had the biggest fleet of scania 143’s in the county dave back in the 90’s A W JENKINSONS had 26 143’s
Hi John,
They took over from JPR from Rhayader at Newbridge On Wye,one of the son’s from JPR is now a TM for them down this way.They had some powerful kit with those 143’s.
Cheers Dave.
they had renaults and a couple of scanias and where blue and yellow if i can remember right
You got them John,atkidave put several pics on the Welsh Border thread a few weeks back.Sadly the dad got killed at the sawmill in a accident about 12 years ago,they had a very smart fleet of lorries.
Cheers Dave.
Dave the Renegade:
Never took any pics then John,my brother inlaw took quite a few pics of local tippers in the early 90’s,but haven’t got anything else.
Cheers Dave.
Question------ If loads of tissue leaving Barrow had to revert to being shipped on flat platforms how many loads out of 100 would reach Levens bridge and still be fit to continue to another 250 miles? Bewick.
Dave the Renegade:
Never took any pics then John,my brother inlaw took quite a few pics of local tippers in the early 90’s,but haven’t got anything else.
Cheers Dave.
Question------ If loads of tissue leaving Barrow had to revert to being shipped on flat platforms how many loads out of 100 would reach Levens bridge and still be fit to continue to another 250 miles? Bewick.
Dave the Renegade:
Never took any pics then John,my brother inlaw took quite a few pics of local tippers in the early 90’s,but haven’t got anything else.
Cheers Dave.
Question------ If loads of tissue leaving Barrow had to revert to being shipped on flat platforms how many loads out of 100 would reach Levens bridge and still be fit to continue to another 250 miles? Bewick.
and here’s one that made it to Milnthorpe!
And here are 3 that made it to Milnthorpe and are ready to set off for West Thurrock.
hiya,
Excellent bit of art in that last pic Dennis, i could quite happily put my signature on that one, after a lifetime of mainly rope and sheeting i can honestly say i never had one signature for a wet or damaged load or got done for an insecure load so i must have been doing something right.
thanks harry long retired.
harry_gill:
hiya,
Excellent bit of art in that last pic Dennis, i could quite happily put my signature on that one, after a lifetime of mainly rope and sheeting i can honestly say i never had one signature for a wet or damaged load or got done for an insecure load so i must have been doing something right.
thanks harry long retired.
Hiya “H” kind comments! thanks! anyway don’t change the subject how much did you Win/lose on the National then? Back to reality we carried loads like this for 13 years and never got one wet and only had to tranship one that a “short service driver” “shot” at Newby Bridge but we managed to retrieve the situation so it arrived safe and sound at West Thurrock!! Cheers Dennis.
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