georgeking:
Another one for Dennis why did T Brady have vehicles in the livery of Furness Transport? and why did nearly all West ■■■■■■■■ Hauliers have a green livery?
Furness Transport was owned by a chap called Sammy Morgan and he either had 5 or 6 Eight wheelers on “A” licence and his main traffic was out of the shipyard so when he decided to sell his haulage interests he offered them to Athersmith Bros. first but Billy Athersmith was away on his annual cruise to South Africa and back so his two brothers Alf & Harold asked for time until Bill got back a month or so later because they couldn’t take the decision!!! So Sammy went straight round to Jack & Bob and guess what the Brady lads broke his arm off!!! So the firm of Furness Transport joined the Brady group! When I was at Brady’s in the later 60s they were running a few motors liveried Furness and one in particular was a new Mammouth Major tilt cab and it was driven by Ronnie Lomas who had come from Furness Transport to Brady’s.Dennis.
I remember them having a t reg Scania 111 in Furness Transport livery, one other question what was the relationship with Ken Surplis?
The only reason I could offer was “Brady Bravado” because I haven’t a clue what traffic Ken had that would have en-hanced the then Brady operation!! If I am speaking to the Big-Un in the near future I will ask him!! Dennis.
Brady had some Seddon Atkinson that changed their livery to Ken Surplis and they always pulled Brady’s trailers. Do you remember the Brady Orange flatbed trailers they had in the 80’s and in the 90’s they seemed to be always pulling B Swindell trailers.
I bought 8 near new ex Swindell 113s in 1990/1 when they finnished.Dennis.
Bewick:
Cowards garage was at Ingmire Hall just on the Kendal side of Sedbergh and yes theres only Robbie left now and I don’t think he is in the best of health now.Dennis.
there used to be a red low loader parked on the sedbergh to kendal road, the only haulier i know from there is metcalfs from hawes.
Bewick:
Cowards garage was at Ingmire Hall just on the Kendal side of Sedbergh and yes theres only Robbie left now and I don’t think he is in the best of health now.Dennis.
there used to be a red low loader parked on the sedbergh to kendal road, the only haulier i know from there is metcalfs from hawes.
I think Metcalfes depot was in Garsdale on the road from Sedbergh to Hawes George ! Dennis.
Bewick:
Cowards garage was at Ingmire Hall just on the Kendal side of Sedbergh and yes theres only Robbie left now and I don’t think he is in the best of health now.Dennis.
there used to be a red low loader parked on the sedbergh to kendal road, the only haulier i know from there is metcalfs from hawes.
I think Metcalfes depot was in Garsdale on the road from Sedbergh to Hawes George ! Dennis.
This is a shot of yours truly and Don Mcgregor Chief Excecutive of East Lancashire Paper Mill,Radcliffe, when we put the first liveried outfit into service in 1990 shot at the Press release day in front of the Mill.Bewick.
Memories flow back here,i was working for sheldons of bury when you got the contract.Happy days unfortunately the mill has now gone and houses built on it.Many more have gone in the area over the last decade including radcliffe paper mill,trinity little lever,trinity holcombe,and fletchers at stoneclough/greenfield.
regards dave.
dafdave:
Memories flow back here,i was working for sheldons of bury when you got the contract.Happy days unfortunately the mill has now gone and houses built on it.Many more have gone in the area over the last decade including radcliffe paper mill,trinity little lever,trinity holcombe,and fletchers at stoneclough/greenfield.
regards dave.
This is a shot of two of the 44ft trailers we put into East Lancs the chap in the middle was the Mill sales manager and the guy on the outside (right) is Barry Simpson who had been sales Director of Boalloy and when this photo was taken he was sales Director of the trailer builders Grahams of Gildersome Leeds.The chassis were Air suspended Crane Fruehauf.
dafdave:
Memories flow back here,i was working for sheldons of bury when you got the contract.Happy days unfortunately the mill has now gone and houses built on it.Many more have gone in the area over the last decade including radcliffe paper mill,trinity little lever,trinity holcombe,and fletchers at stoneclough/greenfield.
regards dave.
This is a shot of two of the 44ft trailers we put into East Lancs the chap in the middle was the Mill sales manager and the guy on the outside (right) is Barry Simpson who had been sales Director of Boalloy and when this photo was taken he was sales Director of the trailer builders Grahams of Gildersome Leeds.The chassis were Air suspended Crane Fruehauf.
A shot of two Bewick Scanias heading south on the M6 on a Sunday.XHK600X was driven by the late Jim Varney.
dafdave:
Memories flow back here,i was working for sheldons of bury when you got the contract.Happy days unfortunately the mill has now gone and houses built on it.Many more have gone in the area over the last decade including radcliffe paper mill,trinity little lever,trinity holcombe,and fletchers at stoneclough/greenfield.
regards dave.
This is a shot of two of the 44ft trailers we put into East Lancs the chap in the middle was the Mill sales manager and the guy on the outside (right) is Barry Simpson who had been sales Director of Boalloy and when this photo was taken he was sales Director of the trailer builders Grahams of Gildersome Leeds.The chassis were Air suspended Crane Fruehauf.
A shot of two Bewick Scanias heading south on the M6 on a Sunday.XHK600X was driven by the late Jim Varney.
This was the last tractor that went into service lettered K. Fell & Co Ltd in Sept 82’ it came new from Morville Trucks Lutterworth and came to grief not long after starting work as a result of a timing chain faliure and if I remember Grahams re-built the engine under warranty!! We also had a couple of 81s with Brazilian built engines which gave concern but in the event they performed satisfactorily.The Fell Scania 82 brought to an end to the name of Kirkby Fell who had operated from Grange -over -Sands origionally from the 1920s I believe then they were bought out by the Davy family in the late 40s and re-located to Milnthorpe in '57 and were in turn bought out by the Bewick Group in '76.
Bewick:
This was the last tractor that went into service lettered K. Fell & Co Ltd in Sept 82’ it came new from Morville Trucks Lutterworth and came to grief not long after starting work as a result of a timing chain faliure and if I remember Grahams re-built the engine under warranty!! We also had a couple of 81s with Brazilian built engines which gave concern but in the event they performed satisfactorily.The Fell Scania 82 brought to an end to the name of Kirkby Fell who had operated from Grange -over -Sands origionally from the 1920s I believe then they were bought out by the Davy family in the late 40s and re-located to Milnthorpe in '57 and were in turn bought out by the Bewick Group in '76.
Why did you stop using the names McGuffie and Fell?
Bewick:
This was the last tractor that went into service lettered K. Fell & Co Ltd in Sept 82’ it came new from Morville Trucks Lutterworth and came to grief not long after starting work as a result of a timing chain faliure and if I remember Grahams re-built the engine under warranty!! We also had a couple of 81s with Brazilian built engines which gave concern but in the event they performed satisfactorily.The Fell Scania 82 brought to an end to the name of Kirkby Fell who had operated from Grange -over -Sands origionally from the 1920s I believe then they were bought out by the Davy family in the late 40s and re-located to Milnthorpe in '57 and were in turn bought out by the Bewick Group in '76.
Why did you stop using the names McGuffie and Fell?
Around 1982/3 the Mcguffie traffic dried up to Marchon as they started using bulk packaging more(Tankers) as opposed to 45 gallon drums which decimated the Mcguffie buisness and at the same time Fells lost the “K” shoe traffic as a result of their(Ks) takeover by Clarks and their remaining Libby traffic was subordinate to Bewick’s in any case since the takeover in 76’.The Bewick Accountants from Preston advised that the two subsiduary’s should be swept into the main company Bewick Transport Services Ltd.which would reduce the annual formalities ( as well as the auditors costs) so really there was no overall detriment as Bewick Transport had more than enough traffic to carry the remnants of K.Fell & Mcguffie with them at full capacity.But I did wonder why our auditors charges never fell a littlie but continued to grow year on year! Maybe someone out there could enlighten me!!! Bewick.
georgeking:
How many vehicle did you have in each of their liveries?
At the time I re-call it was 4 Mcguffie tractors and approx 10/12 trailers equipped with “Drum Sticks” for the carriage of 236 X 45gal steel drums and the Fell fleet had around 7/8 tractors and 20 trailers but both the Fell and Bewick Equipment was fairly well mixed on a continual basis because of artic flexibility! Bewick.
georgeking:
How many vehicle did you have in each of their liveries?
At the time I re-call it was 4 Mcguffie tractors and approx 10/12 trailers equipped with “Drum Sticks” for the carriage of 236 X 45gal steel drums and the Fell fleet had around 7/8 tractors and 20 trailers but both the Fell and Bewick Equipment was fairly well mixed on a continual basis because of artic flexibility! Bewick.
Mcguffie was the same livery has Bewick and Fell had their own livery, a rather smart and unique one may I add. Were both fleets using Scania’s?
georgeking:
How many vehicle did you have in each of their liveries?
At the time I re-call it was 4 Mcguffie tractors and approx 10/12 trailers equipped with “Drum Sticks” for the carriage of 236 X 45gal steel drums and the Fell fleet had around 7/8 tractors and 20 trailers but both the Fell and Bewick Equipment was fairly well mixed on a continual basis because of artic flexibility! Bewick.
Mcguffie was the same livery has Bewick and Fell had their own livery, a rather smart and unique one may I add. Were both fleets using Scania’s?
McGuffie strangely never had a Scania on the fleet (apart from the time John Mcguffie the origional owner ran an LB76 and a J W Graham supplied '80) I adopted the Bewick colour scheme for the Mcguffie buisness(but for reasons I can’t remember I never put the Bewick name on the Illuminated headboard) as opposed to what the light blue colours of John Mcguffie were.!! As for Fells I liked the colour scheme of County Cream,Brilliant Green and Silver plus I had a soft spot for keeping the old firm going!! We did however letter the Fell headboards BEWICK (white letters on red background).Bewick. The McGuffie fleet ran Atkinson,Guy,ERF & SED/ATK and never really got involved with long distance work mainly concentrating on traffic between W. ■■■■■■■ & Milnthorpe to and from Lancashire, Cheshire,north Wales and the Midlands as well as Bewick night shifts to Daventry and back.Fells were purely long distance operators.Bewick.
georgeking:
How many vehicle did you have in each of their liveries?
At the time I re-call it was 4 Mcguffie tractors and approx 10/12 trailers equipped with “Drum Sticks” for the carriage of 236 X 45gal steel drums and the Fell fleet had around 7/8 tractors and 20 trailers but both the Fell and Bewick Equipment was fairly well mixed on a continual basis because of artic flexibility! Bewick.
Mcguffie was the same livery has Bewick and Fell had their own livery, a rather smart and unique one may I add. Were both fleets using Scania’s?
McGuffie strangely never had a Scania on the fleet (apart from the time John Mcguffie the origional owner ran an LB76 and a J W Graham supplied '80) I adopted the Bewick colour scheme for the Mcguffie buisness(but for reasons I can’t remember I never put the Bewick name on the Illuminated headboard) as opposed to what the light blue colours of John Mcguffie were.!! As for Fells I liked the colour scheme of County Cream,Brilliant Green and Silver plus I had a soft spot for keeping the old firm going!! We did however letter the Fell headboards BEWICK (white letters on red background).Bewick. The McGuffie fleet ran Atkinson,Guy,ERF & SED/ATK and never really got involved with long distance work mainly concentrating on traffic between W. ■■■■■■■ & Milnthorpe to and from Lancashire, Cheshire,north Wales and the Midlands as well as Bewick night shifts to Daventry and back.Fells were purely long distance operators.Bewick.
georgeking:
How many vehicle did you have in each of their liveries?
At the time I re-call it was 4 Mcguffie tractors and approx 10/12 trailers equipped with “Drum Sticks” for the carriage of 236 X 45gal steel drums and the Fell fleet had around 7/8 tractors and 20 trailers but both the Fell and Bewick Equipment was fairly well mixed on a continual basis because of artic flexibility! Bewick.
Mcguffie was the same livery has Bewick and Fell had their own livery, a rather smart and unique one may I add. Were both fleets using Scania’s?
McGuffie strangely never had a Scania on the fleet (apart from the time John Mcguffie the origional owner ran an LB76 and a J W Graham supplied '80) I adopted the Bewick colour scheme for the Mcguffie buisness(but for reasons I can’t remember I never put the Bewick name on the Illuminated headboard) as opposed to what the light blue colours of John Mcguffie were.!! As for Fells I liked the colour scheme of County Cream,Brilliant Green and Silver plus I had a soft spot for keeping the old firm going!! We did however letter the Fell headboards BEWICK (white letters on red background).Bewick. The McGuffie fleet ran Atkinson,Guy,ERF & SED/ATK and never really got involved with long distance work mainly concentrating on traffic between W. ■■■■■■■ & Milnthorpe to and from Lancashire, Cheshire,north Wales and the Midlands as well as Bewick night shifts to Daventry and back.Fells were purely long distance operators.Bewick.
Which other firms did you acquire?
Included in the Fell takeover were the old firms of J.B.Hudson/J.L.Ion and Wearing Bros A licence ghost!! We also bought the road transport fleet of one of our main customers (favourite) Henry Cooke of Beetham Mill .We also took over the transport fleet of J & J Makin Paper makers of Rochdale,Disley & Oakenholt and in 1990 we kicked off our International division with the aquisiton of a little two vehicle firm called Farfreight(the proprietor had origionally worked as a driver for Bewick.
hi, bewick this ones from your neck of the woods, i know nowt about it, it was one of a pile i got given, they were taken by some one who went with his mate in the wagon and took his camera, got some gooduns all period shots, sentinals, an a jensen all taken round kendal, hey i,m glad you went to blackpool, i took 23 ton of sand there i thought they had there own
note the correct address, on the door, nee ■■■■■■■ in them days, an nee logistics
yungnad:
hi, bewick this ones from your neck of the woods, i know nowt about it, it was one of a pile i got given, they were taken by some one who went with his mate in the wagon and took his camera, got some gooduns all period shots, sentinals, an a jensen all taken round kendal, hey i,m glad you went to blackpool, i took 23 ton of sand there i thought they had there own
note the correct address, on the door, nee ■■■■■■■ in them days, an nee logistics
Hiya “yungnad” I know the bloke who has the origional photy of this shot and I was looking at it the other day!!! The shot was taken the filling station at Hale on the A6 and the driver stood near was Eric Balmer(a.k.a.Blossom).Wardley’s were primarily timber merchants but were in haulage as well.The Atki(or was it an ERF?I should know!) was almost new at the time and was loaded with “Westmorland” water worn rockery stone for the south of England.Wardley’s would get the stone out of the woods they worked in round south Westmorland.I knew Blossom in his latter years and if I said he was a “character” I still wouldn’t be doing him justice! he became Wardley’s foreman eventually and I have it on excellent authority that he robbed old man Wardley of £000s until they went out of business! Get the other photos on then!!! Cheers Bewick.
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.
And no ■■■■■■■■ thread (or formerly the Furness part of Lancashire) would be complete without a shot of the finest waggon & trailer driver bar none! The bloke on the left Eric Postlethwaite ( don’t know who the other geezer is on the right !) Eric was a proffessional at his craft although I went on to employ a continuous stream of some of the finest drivers in the UK Eric was always the “Gold Standard” to compare with as he was absolutley “Bloody Magic” at his job!! Bewick.
i wonder who the geezer on the right is, he looks familiar from somewere ha ha
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.
And no ■■■■■■■■ thread (or formerly the Furness part of Lancashire) would be complete without a shot of the finest waggon & trailer driver bar none! The bloke on the left Eric Postlethwaite ( don’t know who the other geezer is on the right !) Eric was a proffessional at his craft although I went on to employ a continuous stream of some of the finest drivers in the UK Eric was always the “Gold Standard” to compare with as he was absolutley “Bloody Magic” at his job!! Bewick.
i wonder who the geezer on the right is, he looks familiar from somewere ha ha
Here you are Stevie B and Mart this shot shows you how well in we were at Bowies during the 70s !!! How many other contractors were allowed to pull Bowies vans!! As long as Possy said it was OK Lamby authourised it and who had been Possy’s favourite trailer mate? Happy days!! Dennis.
XHK600X was driven by the late Jim Varney.
this ones from your neck of the woods, i know nowt about it, it was one of a pile i got given, they were taken by some one who went with his mate in the wagon and took his camera, got some gooduns all period shots, sentinals, an a jensen all taken round kendal, 
hey i,m glad you went to blackpool, i took 23 ton of sand there 
