shakysteve:
altitude:
Don’t know where John is now, the last time I saw him he was in Immingham yeeeeeeeeeeears ago. I think he was on for a Dutch guy then.
John ,Farmer last time i saw him he was on for David Horton plant and as regards to bob Kilby was married to my cousin andpassed away couple of years ago ,and also Rossco the swindon speedway manager drove for Dow around the same time ,one last thing can any of you remember Jackie from the Swindon dept ?
ROSCO was yard boy at swindon ,Dave Butland aka farmer ,has worked for Tescos for 14 years maybe more!!!
Uncle Plug:
shakysteve:
altitude:
Don’t know where John is now, the last time I saw him he was in Immingham yeeeeeeeeeeears ago. I think he was on for a Dutch guy then.
John ,Farmer last time i saw him he was on for David Horton plant and as regards to bob Kilby was married to my cousin andpassed away couple of years ago ,and also Rossco the swindon speedway manager drove for Dow around the same time ,one last thing can any of you remember Jackie from the Swindon dept ?
ROSCO was yard boy at swindon ,Dave Butland aka farmer ,has worked for Tescos for 14 years maybe more!!!
Rosco never drove for DOWS
Hello Sean, it’s good to know that you are still about, 
are Mavis and Derek Robbo still around ? and what is Mrs Dunstons little lad up to nowadays.
Micky at Carissio.
Derek Robbo at The Mocamp.
Sorry Sean, I have just read your post on the Trucking In The Eighties thread. It really is very bad news to hear that Colin Winslow has got cancer, I am sure that everybody who worked with him at Dow sends him their best regards and that he gets well soon.
Keep yer chin up Colin.
Colin.
Regards Steve.
the flying foden:
steve the last time i met Stevie Goulash he had just had a engine failure in Germany and was calling it a day when he returned to the UK . it wasn’t Shirley’s he was on for but can’t for the life me think who he was doing traction work for . the few times i met up with him he came a cross as a decent bloke .
Iv.e seen a couple of hungarian registered trucks with S. Pinter written on the side I often wonder if it was goulash, because I believe he went back to hungary after R&J ripped him off.
sorry to tell you all Colin Winslow passed away 31/11/13 Thursday. he was a great mate and work mate he will be missed RIP COLIN WINSLOW…
DOW FREIGHT SERVICES Thats a name that rings lots of bells .
I was on the spanners at TVS (Allen’s transport ) at the back of GEC on moss rd when Dow started buying M A N trucks TVS (Trafford vehicle services) was a main agent for the truck and we did lots on the dow fleet .
Happy days 
Geoff Allen was one of the best .
Hi all, my dad Ken Corrigan, sadly passed away on Friday 17th April 2015 in the early hours… Due to throat and lung cancer, probably because of all those duty free Drum cigs he smoked… It’s been great to read this thread and all the names mentioned remind me of the times I went with my dad to Dow’s yard, making teas for, Roger, Karl and John… Washing the cars… My dad had the old Yellow Daf 2.6 with the spare wheel on it… I often went with him around eastern Europe… Great times… Any pictures I’d be grateful… Oh yes the picture of the trucks on the M67… I took it when Dow closed… Don’t think Roger minded… take care… Paul…
R.I.P Dad, you are greatly missed… His funeral will be held soon… PM me for details, all welcome
Hi Paul, like everybody else who knew him I am really sorry to hear the very sad news about your father Ken. I tried a few times to get him on to this forum to share some of his experiences about the early days of driving to Pakistan and Iran. It’s a shame that all those stories will be lost forever now especially the one about him getting stuck in the middle of a river for two days somewhere in Pakistan. If John Roberts and Harry Savage turn up for the funeral then maybe they will know whereabouts it was. Last time I spoke to your dad in September he said that he was going to get you to show him how to get onto the site so I hope that he did manage to see a lot of the threads on here. I am sure that all his old mates like myself will have a good Corrigan story to remember him by and I shall try and find a couple of photos of him that you may of not seen before and stick them on here over the next couple of days.
All our thoughts are with you, your mum and Vanessa at this very sad time.
Ken, Dave Cooper (I think) and Stan Warmbold.
Ken with the Fiat somewhere near Sinop in Turkey on the way home.
Best regards Steve.
Thanks Steve, great pictures… Paul
A couple of great pics there M/M. My wife said that she remembers her uncle Stan having / buying a blue Volvo, would that be its door in the picture? Im guessing it would have been an F12! Good stuff. Especially the speedos!
Hi Rick it’s good to hear from you again and you are right about that being the door of your Uncle Stan’s blue Volvo F1217 which I told you he had the name “Osprey” painted on to the side panel next to the door. He bought the Volvo new after he had written off his Foden Fleetmaster one really bad winter in Czechoslovakia. It must of been in January 1981/82 as Dow wrote off one of their M.A.N.'s in the same area in the same week. Stan’s accident was on a stone bridge at the bottom of a steep hill after he said he hit a sheet of black ice about half way down the hill. There was nothing that he could do but to hold on tight knowing that he was going to hit the wall. I went the same way on my next trip and he was very lucky that the trailer didn’t push him over the edge of the bridge into the river below. The police just roped off the damage wall on the bridge and it was left like that for over six months before it was repaired.
I am not sure if the motorway from Bruno to Prague was completed then as we always used to by pass Pilsen and Prague and go via Domazlice, Klatovy, Srakonice, Pisek, Tabor and Jihlava where you could then pick up the motorway. It might of been to avoid all the low bridges, the never ending diversions and the low tram wires in Prague as being one of the reasons why we chose to go this way but it was a really scenic route passing through a lot of medieval looking towns and villages. The bridge as far as I remember was somewhere between Pisek and Tabor.
Stan and Ken at Lake Van in Turkey.
Regards Steve.
Hi Rick, I am afraid that the answer to your question is that I am not absolutely sure, 
the best thing to do is to ask your wife’s cousin if she has still got Stan’s old passports. I am fairly certain that he went to lots of places in the Middle East but the longest trip that I actually did with him was to Sinop on The Black Sea coast in north eastern Turkey.
Ken Corrigan and Stanley were friends for many years, Ken was always winding Stan up but Stan was no fool and he could take all the jokes as well as give them out. I used to give them both a lift home in my car whenever they left their units in the yard as we all lived north of Stockport. Stan lived just off Briscoe Lane in Newton Heath and Ken lived in Moston. Ken told me that he and Stan had once loaded tractors in Brasov in Transylvania and when they had parked up for the night they were sat in Stan’s cab having a “nightcap” and Ken mentioned that Draculas Castle was not far from where they were parked. Old Stan apparently burst out laughing saying Count Dracula is a bloody fairy story. Ken said he spent ages telling Stan all about the wolves and the bears that roamed the area and to be careful of the huge vampire bats that swooped down out of the darkness if he got out of the cab to have a pee during the night. If they attack you watch out for your eyes said Ken they always go for your eyes. Ken could tell that Stan was slowly swallowing the bait as he had started to go quite. After Stan had gone to bed Ken threw a couple of slices of bread onto the roof of Stan’s cab knowing that as soon as it got light in the morning the crows would be pecking away at the bread. Ken said that he could just imagine Stan waking up to the noise of the birds on his cab roof and Stan sliding down into his sleeping bag thinking those vampire bats are not getting my bloody eyes. 
It must of been a couple of months after this that Ken and I pulled off the Townsend Thorenson boat in the early hours of the morning and parked up next to each other in Dover Docks. We put our paperwork into D.F.G. and went straight to bed knackered but I was woken up after about half an hour due to a couple of seagulls having what sounded like they having a fight on my cab roof. You have guessed it, Corrigan had put a couple of slices of bread on my roof. 
R.I.P. Corrie.
Ken, Stan and John Roberts many years later.
Fantastic story, I remember The Tractor factory in Romania, I was with him, after Greece we went to Romania via Yugoslavia, dad’s truck bust a set of springs… Cornelias at the tractor factory hooked us up with his brother in law at the coach station… Cassette, radio stereo, jeans, Bensons ans some DM later… Fixed… Great times… Paul
