Fasionflow or naional carreris

UK PROFESSIONAL DRIVERS FORUMS OLD TIME LORRIES, COMPANIES AND DRIVERS (INTERACT
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hiya my dad mike obrien drove for fasionflow and naional carrers and it changed exel at heywood & oldham road depot mancherster

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Hi Lee

I remember Fasionflow, hanging garment transporters

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Fashion Flow had a depot at coventry, a friend of my dads was shopsteward there, this was in the early 80’s, the worst job he ever had, he used to say.

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Fashionflow… weren’t they green , D1000’s then Ford Cargo box van artics-didn’t they also have depot in Ilkeston? & Rowley Rd ,Coventry next to BRS( mortons ) ?

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boris:
Fashionflow… weren’t they green , D1000’s then Ford Cargo box van artics-didn’t they also have depot in Ilkeston? & Rowley Rd ,Coventry next to BRS( mortons ) ?

Spot on Boris, infact Fashionflow was the old Mortons Depot and the original Cartransport (BRS) depot, well half of it.

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boris:
Fashionflow… weren’t they green , D1000’s then Ford Cargo box van artics-didn’t they also have depot in Ilkeston? & Rowley Rd ,Coventry next to BRS( mortons ) ?

the depot in ilky was at furnace rd next to danish bacon,they also ran a lot of daf 2100s.

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Is this the company who you are looking for ?, if it is then I think that Chris Webb’s mate might of drove for them.

I remember a lad called Mick who drove for Fashionflow in Oldham in the early seventies and he was always smartly dressed :unamused: .

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mushroomman:
Is this the company who you are looking for ?, if it is then I think that Chris Webb’s mate might of drove for them.

I remember a lad called Mick who drove for Fashionflow in Oldham in the early seventies and he was always smartly dressed :unamused: .

This must have been when Exel logistics was born around 1990ish