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Sloans Tankers, Owned by Mike Sloan, later became Broxburn Tankers.
Normal shift run empty to Buxton load with lime unload Dumfries & return to Broxburn, all in a days work.
Mike’s son Derek went on to found Continental Freeze, now part of Norfolk Line.
Dave.
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Partly right.Mike started Continental Freeze and one of my machine shops is in one of his old cold stores.Sloans Haulage got taken over by Hogg of Kilsyth.I think there was a falling out later down the line which may have had something to do with Broxburn Tankers.
Continental Freeze was taken over by the Norfolk Line and Derel Sloan is now MD I believe.
Two drivers were based at Dumfries and they double shifted a tank from Buxton to Uniroyal in Dumfries.The Broxburn guys were doing Broxburn,Grays,Buxton,Dumfries back to Broxburn in a oner.I believe they got 36 hours pay for that.
I was on the spanners.
reading through it … some great pics and comments… old paw broon looks the part…
Heat Treatment… in Broxburn… if memory serves me right was this next door to the old Beaverbank Foden garage which is now the Mark Wallace garage in east mains ind…
Sloans Tankers, Owned by Mike Sloan, later became Broxburn Tankers.
Normal shift run empty to Buxton load with lime unload Dumfries & return to Broxburn, all in a days work.
Mike’s son Derek went on to found Continental Freeze, now part of Norfolk Line.
Dave.
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Partly right.Mike started Continental Freeze and one of my machine shops is in one of his old cold stores.Sloans Haulage got taken over by Hogg of Kilsyth.I think there was a falling out later down the line which may have had something to do with Broxburn Tankers.
Continental Freeze was taken over by the Norfolk Line and Derel Sloan is now MD I believe.
Two drivers were based at Dumfries and they double shifted a tank from Buxton to Uniroyal in Dumfries.The Broxburn guys were doing Broxburn,Grays,Buxton,Dumfries back to Broxburn in a oner.I believe they got 36 hours pay for that.
I was on the spanners.
Mark.
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Thats not a bad shift Mark, Broxburn - Grays - Buxton - Dumfries - Broxburn There would be a bit of spanner work to do when they got back off that maybe
stravaiger:
These ones Chris
You may also recognise John Smillie of Govan in the B&W shot. When would that be? around '60/'63 perhaps?
Thats yer man Jim and what a great picture The old AEC MK3 “tin front” a more glamorous frontage than the old MK3 but still the same inside I wonder if she was bought second hand as she has a London reg? I did have a photo of two Highland Haulage 8-leggers and dollies pulling pipes but damned if I can find it.A lot of the pipes were coated in Leith my pal tells me,some money made on that job he reckons.
John Smillie and D and M Smith Wishaw I remember very well.
Still looking for interesting snaps Chris, a picture paints a thousand words as they say. Dave and Mark, any pics of the Sloans/Broxburn tanks? Broxburn seems to stir the grey matter but not so sure about the Sloans livery.
One of my first jobs, 1972, had me going anywhere and everywhere into transport yards buying up casings for re-molding and to me it was just a magic period as a lot of Barbara’s '68 and the '72 Acts were yet to be fully implemented etc It was in some instances as if time stood still ,so it was still possible to see up to 20 year old wagons doing the rounds and talk to drivers still putting in the type of hours you’ve both mentioned on the Buxton run with Johnny Law not being too high on the list of priorities.If you were caught you were caught, and Headlight magazine at the time certainly had loads of examples of court cases on their pages, but the fines etc seemed derisory. Ah when men were men Personally speaking I liked my kip too much for that type of lifestyle and although dodgy running wasn’t unknown to me I could never compete with some of them. Reminds me of the laddie who applied for a job and was asked how many nights he could go without sleep. When he answered two the bossman said if he ever needed a part-timer he’d get in touch.
Chris,London registered and second hand she may well have been to Nicols because at that period firms would have organised a drive by shooting to acquire an “A” licence. Tom Muir, one of my old bosses would often tell us stories of the tricks and hookery pookery that some, not himself, got up to on that score. Best not menton any names on here though. I love life too much
Well I wasn’t perfect Jim by any means and I reckoned I went too far sometimes but you had to do it to make it pay summat like.When I heard some of the trips some lads did I was a part-timer at it Going onto tanker work after market and general quietened me down a bit but old habits die hard…
I heard that one before about the lad wanting a job but the gaffer said “I’ll give you a ring when I want a shunter” and yes tricks of the trade got you an “A” licence even when they were like rocking horse s***.
Anyway I found another photo of pipe haulage,but the wagons are Highland Transport not Highland Haulage.The pipes are ex Stewart and Lloyds and the motors were from the Glasgae depot.
stravaiger:
These ones Chris
Still looking for interesting snaps Chris, a picture paints a thousand words as they say. Dave and Mark, any pics of the Sloans/Broxburn tanks? Broxburn seems to stir the grey matter but not so sure about the Sloans livery.
One of my first jobs, 1972, had me going anywhere and everywhere into transport yards buying up casings for re-molding :
No pics Im afraid.Im struggling to remember the colours,blue with the name in white.Units mainly had nice paint jobs.Blue and white but went to red and white near the end.They were Crane freuhauf tanks and Im sure they used pics of some of them for advertising.Units were 2300 and 2800 Dafs. On that Broxburn to Broxburn round trip I remember some doing three in a row non stop.They werent too bad on motors but when they got back to Broxburn empty they dropped the tank and picked up a full one before heading back down the road.The tank then went to Invergordon to load then back to Broxburn for the next guy.Two tanks every day,one dayshift one nightshift.Off course they were racing.I remeber getting into a unit that was waiting on the nightshift driver and there was a note on the dash saying “four and three quarter hours,beat that”.That was up the old A9 in the wintertime.
Never seen any of the old drivers for years.
Johnny and Sandy McClauchlin,Davy and Tommy Lumley,Jim Bell,Rab Pryde,Tommy Alston,Tam Kelly,Old Arthur,the McGonigle brothers and dozens more I cant remember. Some of them went on to drive for Derek Bertram from West Calder,he ran F88s and tipping boxes,nice red paint scheme.I seem to remeber he did clay and coal for Hargreaves and the Man dealer out of Penrith.Was it Graham and Barnett or Graham and Morton or something?
I can remember the Bandag guy coming in for casings but I can`t remember his name.One of the joys of age.
Mark.
Barnett and Graham it was Mark just off the A66 west of Penrith,I used to change over there on nights,parking area was worse than the Coatesgate They had a place in Buxton as well.
No pics Im afraid.Im struggling to remember the colours,blue with the name in white.Units mainly had nice paint jobs.Blue and white but went to red and white near the end.They were Crane freuhauf tanks and I`m sure they used pics of some of them for advertising.Units were 2300 and 2800 Dafs.
There is a photo of a Broxburn Tankers Daf on here somewhere, I just can’t remember what thread.
Working for Sloan wasn’t all bad, one job we had was leave the yard in the morning, load flyash at Longanet, drive to Macilroy’s Point and take a nice two hour cruise down the Clyde to Ardersier tip and return to Broxburn.
davemackie:
Working for Sloan wasn’t all bad, one job we had was leave the yard in the morning, load flyash at Longanet, drive to Macilroy’s Point and take a nice two hour cruise down the Clyde to Ardersier tip and return to Broxburn.
Dave.
Hi Dave,your memory is as bad as mine.Its a long trip down the Clyde to Ardersier which is on the Moray Firth.But,I cant remember the name of the place either.Its where McAlpine was building the concrete rigs.Sloans man on site was Bobby Marr from Polbeth,now no longer with us.I used to stay in the camp some nights and had a few good nights in Dunoon with Bobby.Bobby didnt eat breakfast after a night on the juice which meant I had two breakfast tickets for the morning. The bad bit about that job was having to stay on the ferry overnight if it was not back at McIlroys Point by midnight. Did you ever do Portavadie when we supplied the cement and flyash up there.Running out of Irvine to Ardrossan harbour with sixty ton in the tanks.Had to be out the cement works before 6am for some reason. Im trying to place which Dave you were.Were you the one who parked the load of flyash from Methil in a field on the Burntisland road,or the one who put forty tons of barytes on the back of a 2300 and phoned us to come out to you cos you thought the brakes were stuck on?
Mark.
On edit. Ardyne Point was the place we sailed over the Clyde to with the flyash.
Sorry having a senior moment, Ardyne Point it was, I remember Bobby Marr, did you know that he went on to do Middle East for Axwel out of Broxburn, after Sloans, you would not have recognized him, he really cleaned himself up.
Shame he died so young.
I am the Dave that was given a tank from the workshops one Sunday night, and only discovered that, when loaded going down Long Hill, that all the trailer brakes had not been reconnected, seem to remember Mike got a bit upset with you lads for that one, the other two incidents not guilty.
One incident you may remember, coming back from Invergordon one morning I had a wheel bearing meltdown coming through Inverness, I left the trailer outside the Police Station at Raigmore and bobtailed home.
davemackie:
I am the Dave that was given a tank from the workshops one Sunday night, and only discovered that, when loaded going down Long Hill, that all the trailer brakes had not been reconnected, seem to remember Mike got a bit upset with you lads for that one, the other two incidents not guilty.
One incident you may remember, coming back from Invergordon one morning I had a wheel bearing meltdown coming through Inverness, I left the trailer outside the Police Station at Raigmore and bobtailed home.
Dave.
Got you now I think,Dave.
Cant remember the no brakes incident,but I do remember the wheel bearing one.I was the guy who worked all night in a blizzard changing the axle on the tank outside Inverness police headquarters while my helper lay in the Transit van sleeping of the dark rum.I wont name him but he reckoned he could drink until that night.
Story I heard was you were heading south that fast you couldnt see the flames (from both hubs)in the mirrors and another driver flashed you down. The red and white Daf was the new colour scheme and I was away before they went to Broxburn Haulage. Were you based down about Derby or somewhere? Did you run a front hub bearing once at Gretna? Didnt know Bobby Marr had gone to Axwel.That was another good company until Maurice got bitten by the long distance bug.
When Axwel got their first two Dafs they loaded up with bottles of Carlsberg on flats with nets and parked them outside our office in the dark.I was never a lover of Carlsberg,but when the price is right…
Mark.
Here’s a nice old motor and the firm’s still going as far as I know.They were regular visitors to the Sheffield area and the tales about them are legendary - i.e. 20 tons of plate topped with an eight-legger etc. I also hear that their yard is not accessible to would be photographers,but I wouldn’t know.It’s just nice to now that Sam is still operational,not many owd 'uns left.
Sniffy:
I wonder what the fella on the roof top rights doin, taking photos ■■
DO you think it could be a silent check?? I know if it was taken nowadays you would’nt see that chap for scaffolding/bunting warning signs, anyway you
would/nt get close enough to even get a photo.The chap in the AEC is’nt to intrested is he.
John
Chris Webb:
Here’s a nice old motor and the firm’s still going as far as I know.They were regular visitors to the Sheffield area and the tales about them are legendary - i.e. 20 tons of plate topped with an eight-legger etc. I also hear that their yard is not accessible to would be photographers,but I wouldn’t know.It’s just nice to now that Sam is still operational,not many owd 'uns left.
fantastic pics there… am sure they still on the go in fact i saw a Volvo F10 a wee while ago still earning a crust… does anybody know the sister company’s name of Anderson’s … they had an almost identical livery… … dont know about their yard not being accessible to photographers … need to ask the next time am passing on the way to glasgow… see if we can get a pic or two… … that reminds me … i past Sibbalds of Bathgate yard this morning and i think i saw an old B seris ERF… with no windows tucked away in the corner and they had a few old scania’s as well some just the cabs and no chassis … think i will need to go speak to the yard man there nice to see if he will let me in for a few mins…
Sniffy:
I wonder what the fella on the roof top rights doin, taking photos ■■
Hi those pics of James Hemphill’s brings back memories of their cleaning bay in Glasgow and the big Newfoundland dog that used to always be there and would get up and walk over to you as soon as you got out of the cab and being the size of a donkey it was very placid which was a relief the first time you went in.
There would be a bit of spanner work to do when they got back off that maybe 
… dont know about their yard not being accessible to photographers … need to ask the next time am passing on the way to glasgow… see if we can get a pic or two… 
… that reminds me … i past Sibbalds of Bathgate yard this morning and i think i saw an old B seris ERF… with no windows tucked away in the corner and they had a few old scania’s as well some just the cabs and no chassis … think i will need to go speak to the yard man there nice to see if he will let me in for a few mins…