i dont know if carl jarman will get this but the scania 143 pics are great e210 bvm was my dads from being brand new i was 7 or 8 on my first outing in it and thats when the v8 bug bit and bit hard,this is his in the pic because i remember his flags in the windscreen and it was always that sotless and clean i cant remember how many times i got cold hands helping wash it down on a saturday
p.s are you the carl jarman with the astran 141? great to see the pic it brrought back so many memorys
Hi Pete, do you remember Andy Turner, storekeeper?
this is a message for streamline sorry ive not been on here for a while just thought i would have a brouse and saw your message.my dad was pete wolstenholme he worked for graham and my grandad also worked for parks derek wolstenholme but he worked for richard.like i say pal i was only a young lad back then the lad youve named of being in the stores does not ring any bells,and also what is your proper name other than streamline.it might wake my brain up hope your well mate where ever you may be.i myself ended up being a bloody truck driver but the job just is,nt the same as it was back then hope you get back to me kind regards little pete wooly
Be good to hear from you Little Pete, Yes I remember your Dad Pete Wolstenhulme
Anybody know if these guys are still going?? Son in law tried to contact them regarding a vacancy advertised, no answer to any of his calls.
I’ll run down & have a look in their yard at the weekend if you’re still interested.
Hi ROF, Thanks for the reply. Bit strange really both phone numbers,one being the office, just went to voice mail.Nobody returned messages left as yet.He has tried a couple of times and not getting any response back has made him a bit wary.
Its fairly local so I will tell him it may be worth a drive by and call in to see.Baffles me when they advertise a job with contact nos then nobody answers the phone. 
But this is Macclesfield, matey! I’m slowly getting used to the way business is conducted around here. I’ve yet to find anyone in the area who has heard of “Right first time”.
And the phrase, “I’ll ring you back” seems to have a completely different meaning to what I’m used to.
hiya just needed on page one…thanks
Hi little Pete Wooly You don’t know me & I don’t know you, but a know your dad, in fact ime his godfather,which doesn’t mean very much these days, I also knew your Grandad Derek, a your Grandma Marjorie, and Colin, janette & Alison.I worked with Derek when we are at Rowley’s from Sale.I new Derek & Marj from the late fifties all the way to Priestners in 1969,when Derek went working in the warehouse.Used to go with Derek & Marj to the Stonemasons in Timperley Village in the late fifties every Saturday night ,Happy Days.If you get to read this post mention my name to your dad, hope he’s keeping well. I posted this previously but it never got posted ,( better luck this time) Cheers. Alec McCance
Little Pete Wooly ,Sorry about the misspelling of my surname its McCance not Mcdance. Please ignore this post as I’ve edited the previous post.
Hi! Does anyone have pics of the trucks from this fleet? Back in the day, the firm was just up the road from my home; in '89 I got lucky and was asked if I’d like to odd job in the workshop, mostly at weekends. Many memories from the few months I worked there. I cut my teeth on a Super B series ERF under expert tuition from Pete ‘Taffy’ Jones, - who also taught me to paint. Some of the transport staff I can recall - Johnny Roles, John & Mick Driffield, Brian Glossop, George & Lee Johnson, John Leah, Clive & Cyril Williams, Len Slater, Eric Hilderbrandt, Andy Gaddis, Ralph Coombes, Rene Arnout, Brian & Arthur Leach, workshop foreman Dave, Stuart Cartledge, Pete Wolstenhulme, Pete & Martin Antrobus, and many more. My quiet manner upset an older chap when he returned to work. 'Bazza was grumpy, Ignorant and I would regularly hear him shouting to all, ‘He’s no bloody experience, a liability’. Oddly enough when I walked in to see what the fuss was, it all went quiet
The fleet!
At the light end, WNF 458S & VND 750S were D series Fords, FNB 866D FNE 550D, GCT 381E, TFG573K/574K 4 wheeler ERF flatbeds. The rest were all curtainsiders; HMA 694G, B26 MRF; C series day cab ERF, a pair of E series with 180 ■■■■■■■ - F288 LNB & F170 TRE. '288 was driven by Eric Hilderbrandt and kept immaculate inside & out. BNE 509Y was a 6x4 Volvo F7 driven by Barry Large, later replaced by a 2421 Merc - the power
The artic fleet were Super B series ERF’s, - WBU 36S, VNF 877S, BDB 966T, JVU 424V, GNE 381V, MNE 903W. All had straight 8 Gardner’s & 9 speed Fuller 'box. The Gardner certainly had a sound of its own and returning to the yard, the trucks came within audible range over half a mile away .The odd one out was ‘Q’. So how did it originate? A flat trailer in the far corner of the yard had a tightly drawn sheet covering a familar square shape. Underneath was a damaged B series cab. Upstairs in the parts store the service books and manuals were kept, and in one of the service books, - I’m sure it was WBU 36S; - read 'fit cab from ‘UNE’. The chassis from UNE was fitted with a flat sleeper B series cab and the result was Q276 RCA.
E84 HBF was a twinsteer E14, Volvo F10’s RRF 599W & RRJ 994W; BFA 958Y was a flat roof F12. Graham had an older F12 4x2 for Continental work.
Parks had been a traditional 2+2 operator, and with the advent of 38 tonnes in 1983 the 3+2 configuration was chosen and the older ERF & Volvo 4x2 tractor units were converted to 6x2 midlift by Southworth. There were fixed and convertable bulkers, a number of flats, and curtainsiders 4, 42, 43, 47 & 48. New in '89 these last 2 were refrigerated also. Trailer 48 was at the Cheshire show in that summer. I remember Pete Antrobus, ever the perfectionist, disappointed to note the rear underrun bar differed in height by 1/5 of an inch over its width. .
F241 cabbed DAF’s were good earners, 2800 E878 WFM was later uprated to 3300 by altering the fuel pump setting, rebadged the lot. C206 LMA was a factory 3300 recabbed after an accident, and a brand new one at that. B489 LVN & C117 LEE were spacecabs, 3300 and 3600 respectively. C117 originated from the Scunthorpe area, and arrived with the cab painted light blue. It was eventually sprayed up in the full colours but whatever, the truck was a flying machine and quite a change for the driver who previously had WBU 36S 
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Several secondhand Scania R112’s were acquired, the 333HP tag axle tractors being ideal for the job. B626 CGD, C749 GSJ, D260 LSJ, and later, C182 GGG. How can you forget a reg like that lol. Rolling into work one afternoon, the truck was parked outside the workshop. T Cut and rags were stuffed into my mitt, and a friendly race between myself and another chap, each removing the lettering from a cab side each, though who won is lost in the midsts of time 
Saving the best til last. Gardner 240’s are one thing, but if the job wants doing, V8 Scanias are the way to go. Things would never be quite the same again…
E904 OFU was a twinsteer R142M new in October 1987. The gentle chatter on tickover shaded what lay beneath, as the Vehicle went like a bat out of hell. Driven by Clive Williams, the muscular torque of the V8 must have had many victims on the road 
E210 BVM & F220 SBE were twinsteer R143.450’s; both trucks had initial problems with ‘wheel wobble’ on the steering axles. 'BVM was on bulk work 'SBE was first driven by Arthur Leach hitched to Trailer 48 most of the time.
So there you have it, the first transport firm I was gainfully employed at and a whole raft of
memories. The company continues succesfully, though Lees lane is a quieter place these days
Sorry I don’t have any pic’s but I remember the firm well, seeing them in the fruit markets in the early 80’s and loading potatoes from Scotland to their yard for onward distribution. In 1988/89 we regularly loaded seed potatoes from central Scotland to Valencia and I seem to remember that was either for Parks or through them.
Nice clean, and what looked like a well cared for fleet. I always had a soft spot for ‘B’ series factory sleepers and they sounded great with a ‘straight eight’, but they definately needed a ‘big cam’ ■■■■■■■ to have any real hill climbing ability.
Ross.
Aye, the B series certainly got a hammering, Pembroke 2 or 3 times a week with the bulkers in the busy season. The 240
had a beautiful sound when driven hard must have been deafening to drive day in day out though
In your list of old drivers, I looked hard for a bloke called Chris Spivey, he worked for Parks, first on an ■■■■■■ van collecting samples from farms and then moving onto the fleet. Probably before your time though.
One of Bubbleman’s, only recently added.
Great picture TIPIT, thanks!
Hi there, came across this post by accident! My father worked for e park and sons at about the same time that you were there – and still does under graham park. His name is Bob Scott. He drove the Daf Reg E878WFM. Now drives a Scania for them. I also worked there for a while washing the potato bulkers for graham park. Have told my dad about this post and he knows all the people you mentioned. I may have some old photos, but not stored on computer.