I remember most of the Simmonds brewery fleet (pre the Courage takeover) with being a local lad, at least one of those ERF’s is in preservation and also one of the David Brown tugs.
Pete.
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GCR2ERF:
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Some from my part of the country apologies if some have been mentioned before
RH Freight
Stirlands
Geo Dominic
Wm West and Sons
Clearway Distribution
Thomson Jewitt
Middletons
BFI
A R Marshall (Bulwell)
Watts of Notts
The CO OP
Maurice Hills
Bowrings
B Taylor and Sons
Placketts Parcels
Eastern BRS
Alf Vaughn
H Sladen and Sons
Robin Hood transportGeo. Dominics… whatever happened to them? I had forgotten all about them
Other Nott’num hauliers…
(John) Hensons
TomlinsonsDominic’s were bought out by Clearway that’s how Clearway got in to Boots
I don’t know how I forgot Tomlinsons
again my dad worked there
They finished in the late 80s after they lost a load of cigarettes from Players and the aftermath caused them to close
That’s when we started to deliver a lot more cigarettes for Players
Stirlands had always done a lot of work for Players mostly
bringing in raw and rag leaf tobacco out Avonmouth docks plus cardboard and paper from St Anne’s Paper board mill
A few pictures of my dad when he was a Tomlinsons 012
Looking back through this forum and reminiscing (as we oldies have a tendency to do) this post reminded me - anyone recall Plackets from Stapleford or Long Eaton? I seem to remember they went under as a result of a couple of lorries going missing on the M1 one night from the London nightly trunk convoy. I believed they never recovered from that.
Steve
Ste46:
gazsa401:
GCR2ERF:
gazsa401:
Some from my part of the country apologies if some have been mentioned before
RH Freight
Stirlands
Geo Dominic
Wm West and Sons
Clearway Distribution
Thomson Jewitt
Middletons
BFI
A R Marshall (Bulwell)
Watts of Notts
The CO OP
Maurice Hills
Bowrings
B Taylor and Sons
Placketts Parcels
Eastern BRS
Alf Vaughn
H Sladen and Sons
Robin Hood transportGeo. Dominics… whatever happened to them? I had forgotten all about them
Other Nott’num hauliers…
(John) Hensons
TomlinsonsDominic’s were bought out by Clearway that’s how Clearway got in to Boots
I don’t know how I forgot Tomlinsons
again my dad worked there
They finished in the late 80s after they lost a load of cigarettes from Players and the aftermath caused them to close
That’s when we started to deliver a lot more cigarettes for Players
Stirlands had always done a lot of work for Players mostly
bringing in raw and rag leaf tobacco out Avonmouth docks plus cardboard and paper from St Anne’s Paper board mill
A few pictures of my dad when he was a Tomlinsons 012Looking back through this forum and reminiscing (as we oldies have a tendency to do) this post reminded me - anyone recall Plackets from Stapleford or Long Eaton? I seem to remember they went under as a result of a couple of lorries going missing on the M1 one night from the London nightly trunk convoy. I believed they never recovered from that.
Steve
Hello Steve I can remember Plackets I don’t know how I left them off my list and you’re right they were from Stapleford
A good friend of mine Jim Maher came to Stirlands after Plackets ceased trading
He worked there for a good 20 years or so if I remember rightly he was on a wagon and drag on a night trunk I can’t recall which one though before moving on to artics
They ran a lot of DAF 4 wheelers in yellow
I think later on they joined some sort of parcel network group and rebranded as PEP and their lorries were then purple
Cheers Gary
Placketts used to run a large fleet of Seddon 13.4’s with Perkins 6.354 engines and luton bodies. They usually fitted service exchange engines rather than rebuild them as Perkins offered good terms on their replacement units.
Pete.
I was a night trunker for Stirland’s, a very good job, and had dealings one way or another with many more on that list.
Placketts had sort of khaki coloured vans at one time in their incarnation. I often used to see them backed up to the docks from the A 52 early evenings. I believe that one of their drivers was hailed a knight of the road hero by the local press after he stopped on the M1 to help a lady change a wheel on her car. She rang the firm to pass on her appeciation
His reward was the sack, for an unauthorised stop. They were very security conscious, hence the long convoys on the M1
No Chettles on the list btw.
Clearways was the renamed W. Andrews and Son. I worked for Bill Andrews, a really nice bloke and he helped my brother and I in our business. He sold shares to Mr. Dean (he wasn’t the sort to be on first name terms) when his son declined to stay in the business, and then when Bill retired Dean’s son Chris took over. I think they went under in the end.