only blakemores still going from the list
Blimey!! It’s a sobering thought to think I spent 22 years of my life running alongside most of those, doing little else five and a half days, and often nights a week, driving, loading, chasing work, changing wheels. Then Saturday afternoons and most Sundays cobbling 'em together ready for the next week. Now they are all gone, including me! Fast forward to today, you have to ask…and for what? 
If it wasn’t for us on the forum nobody would know we had been there. 
Come on chaps, cheer me up, get posting. 
Do any of you blokes remember Alan Duckett, he was from the Walsall Willenhall area, he moved up this way about thirty years ago. Alan had a couple of artics an odd tipper or so, also had scrapyards, he moved after the steel strike when everything around that area took a hit.
Cheers Dave.
You wanted Marc’s pic of Hayward’s Scammell Handyman?
240.: Thanks for that mate, much appreciated, I am hopeless with computer stuff. I follow the instructions, nothing happens, then I’m bug) …stumped! I keep waiting for the kids to come home and sort it but when they do they never have time! now where have I heard that before! Thanks again, I’ll get there one day. 
hi lad ive got one of kendricks tippers in my vintage collection . you may have seen it about s21 8 wheeler . REG 4249 DH . do a google search for kendricks foden an you will see it .
Hi ya lads… Just dropped by to throw a bit of light on this one…Not been on here for awhile… not been to well of late…but all ok now I hope…Anyway to the list of firms…Well I’ve come up with.
Ackers & jarrett,… wolverhampton rd…( nee Express deliveries.) was the transport side off the truck rental…Before I get shouted at…And you all say it was a truck and van rental firm…I know i worked there.
S.T.S. Aldridge… I Believe they’re still going…
T nichol… Aldridge…sold out to Roadway International
Costin’s…Willenhall… Still going I believe…
Taylor’s …Aldridge…Ran into the ground by daughters…
Derek horton…Walsall…Still going i think.
P.T.Smith…Walsall…Don’t know about this one.
Leander…Walsall wood…Not sure think they may still be going.
Mears… Great Wyrley…still going…
Foster’s…Cheslyn hay…There still going…
I’ll think of some more…And get back to you all… Chat later… Wagsie…
wagsie:
Hi ya lads… Just dropped by to throw a bit of light on this one…Not been on here for awhile… not been to well of late…but all ok now I hope…Anyway to the list of firms…Well I’ve come up with.
Ackers & jarrett,… wolverhampton rd…( nee Express deliveries.) was the transport side off the truck rental…Before I get shouted at…And you all say it was a truck and van rental firm…I know i worked there.
S.T.S. Aldridge… I Believe they’re still going…
T nichol… Aldridge…sold out to Roadway International
Costin’s…Willenhall… Still going I believe…
Taylor’s …Aldridge…Ran into the ground by daughters…
Derek horton…Walsall…Still going i think.
P.T.Smith…Walsall…Don’t know about this one.
Leander…Walsall wood…Not sure think they may still be going.
Mears… Great Wyrley…still going…
Foster’s…Cheslyn hay…There still going…
I’ll think of some more…And get back to you all… Chat later… Wagsie…
Costins are still going all though theyve just got rid of their last bedford , and I’m pretty sure Hortons are still going next time I’m in rolling mill st walsall I’ll have a look
Hi Lads…As I said i’ve thought of some more…How about …
Squire’s… not the Hargreaves one’s!! But squire’s in bloxwich the top end of stafford street.
Brevitts,… short heath, willenhall.
Everetts…W/hall…
bate’s n son walsall…
starkey’s…Brownhills…
And did’nt… Smiths of maddison Have a debot in aldridge…or was it Smiths of Eccels…Can’t remember…
Castle service’s… junction 10…walsall…
United carriers…Walsall wood…
Jenkins trst…willenhall…
There’s still one in Rushall walsall…But can’t think of the name…
But I will…Chat later…
All the best WAGSIE…
Wagsie.: Squires? I don’t know about the Hargreaves bit did They buy them out? There was the ones I knew, had blue motors, brothers Neil & Cedric, were in a little yard over a humpback bridge at the back of Bloxwich, then moved to new yard next to big foundry they did work for. Then there was another one had green wagons, just off M54, on the old Hilton Main Pit, I think it was, he used to run Bathgate up and back, so I was told. Can you remember a chap, used to run a couple of Roman four wheel flats out of Cheslyn Hay, can’t recall his name though.
Hiya BigG-Unit! Well Hargreaves brought out the squire’s with the dark blue motors that you know which moved from the little yard by the hump back bridge. And Squire’s with the green trucks by the Truck stop on the M54.Are still going I think…But the squire’s I’m on about Have got light blue ERF’s And are in a little yard next to the pinfold Bloxwich, Opposite the old swimming baths…Yeah I do remember the couple of roman flats but as you name escape’s me, but I’ll try and find out m8… By the way What was your company called? and what motors was you running… Well Hope that helps you m8. And we’ll chat soon…
All the best …Wagsie…
P.S. Thanks for The PM really cheered me up M8…
what about that robbing git mark watts.
remember used to be near the hollies.
git still owes me money dont think i will ever see that 
Blimey!! r s : Who’s he then? can’t say I 've heard of him, but maybe it’s just as well. I had my fair share of non payers over the years, so much so it became sort of the norm. Some were genuine cases where things had gone wrong or they were caught in a knock on effect, but some seemed to be organised, go bump one day and carry on the next in a new name. Yeah, they sure can cause you a lot of heartache, but I think in the end you have to let it go. 
wagsie, : I wasn’t much of a company really, very third division, probably these non payers didn’t help, as I sort of rubbed along, pay as I go style, only buying motors I could afford. I only got into transport 'cos I had a van and someone asked if I could take some stuff for him to B.L. Longbridge and it sort of grew from there. I got a couple of transit’s, then somebody wanted something bigger, got a four tonner, bigger still and so on. Ran some Commers, Ford D series, Leylands, a Bedford, nothing flash, though I did have a 1617 Merc and a 2100 Daf amongst them towards the end. Don’t know if I can claim to be a ‘firm around Walsall’ either, although I started close to there, then had about 5 years in Birmingham, a couple in Bloxwich and finally 13 years in Cannock/Chasetown area.
Oh, the chap with the Romans, think it was Les …somebody, not sure though!! 
hi big g.
m watts. he was in the yard between bowmurs and the hollies. more or less oposite the “new cafe” name escapes me.
ran scanias.dafs. sed atkinsons anything cheap. did tilts for bywaters and plastics from norton canes company name escapes me. all red trucks with m watts on them. had around 13 at 1 time. you will know the yard i mean. right on the maine road. house 1 end small workshop the other.
regards rs
r slicker:
hi big g.m watts. he was in the yard between bowmurs and the hollies. more or less oposite the “new cafe” name escapes me.
ran scanias.dafs. sed atkinsons anything cheap. did tilts for bywaters and plastics from norton canes company name escapes me. all red trucks with m watts on them. had around 13 at 1 time. you will know the yard i mean. right on the maine road. house 1 end small workshop the other.
regards rs
Hiya R.S…I know the yard you mean,It was M.H.Turners yard in the 70s early 80s…I worked there! but cant remember M watts. being in there…But I can find out,might take a while though…
All the best …Wagsie…
Remember Albright & Wilson.Oldury?Picture ain`t great,but the memories of two of their drivers,Dave Clayton and Fred ■■? are.Two sound lads who used to come in through Dun Laoghaire with Coca Cola and Pepsi Cola concentrate for Drogheda and Cork.Clear customs,next stop The Elphin Hotel.Happy days 
By whiplash_012 at 2009-07-13.
wagsie:
r slicker:
hi big g.m watts. he was in the yard between bowmurs and the hollies. more or less oposite the “new cafe” name escapes me.
ran scanias.dafs. sed atkinsons anything cheap. did tilts for bywaters and plastics from norton canes company name escapes me. all red trucks with m watts on them. had around 13 at 1 time. you will know the yard i mean. right on the maine road. house 1 end small workshop the other.
regards rsHiya R.S…I know the yard you mean,It was M.H.Turners yard in the 70s early 80s…I worked there! but cant remember M watts. being in there…But I can find out,might take a while though…
All the best …Wagsie…
I’m thinking it maybe was a bit latter than that, 'cos I don’t recall 'em and I packed up mid '9o’s. Talking of Norton Canes, remember the Aliminium works there, I used to do a job for Squires (dark blue motors) to the village of Belbroughton as you couldn’t get an artic into the place in the village. Squire’s were always good to me when I wanted any artic work doing. They would drop a trailer anywhere for a few days to load, take it and leave it to be tipped and pick it up, sometimes a week latter, and never charged me any extra, and it wasn’t just local work. I sometimes would worry that they would forget my little jobs halfway through, but they were always spot on.
Hi Big G unit has asked me to put these on this thread…no problem mate.
Couldnt see the Kendricks Foden over the last few pages of the scrapbook Big G so put a new one on,if you find what page its on the let me know…ok
Cheers Bubbs. 
How about coopers of cannock, they used to pull out of smith stone & knight paper reels and p t smith was in there too. Not sure if they re still about…
Hodgy67:
How about coopers of cannock, they used to pull out of smith stone & knight paper reels and p t smith was in there too. Not sure if they re still about…
cooopers are still going
smith stone and knight are now part of the smurfitt kappa empire . my uncle worked for them on the forklifts till he retired a few years back