matamoros:
mfm:
harry_gill:
Hiya,
Do W H Bowker still have a depot/office in LiverpoolYes they have a depot just off charley wood road at Kirkby.
I stand corrected, I had forgotten that they had taken over Potters Logistics
They’ve not been there long mate, like you say they bought Potters.
Photo from fb. Les.
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les-p:
Photo from fb. Les.
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Could that be one of Bewicks motors on contract Les , i was going by the way it was sheeted ? 
ramone:
les-p:
Photo from fb. Les.
0Could that be one of Bewicks motors on contract Les , i was going by the way it was sheeted ?
Maybe the tackle was a bit rough. 
Les.
mfm:
matamoros:
mfm:
harry_gill:
Hiya,
Do W H Bowker still have a depot/office in LiverpoolYes they have a depot just off charley wood road at Kirkby.
I stand corrected, I had forgotten that they had taken over Potters Logistics
They’ve not been there long mate, like you say they bought Potters.
Prior to that, I closed the previous Liverpool depot in Lightbody Street in 1988
mfm:
matamoros:
mfm:
harry_gill:
Hiya,
Do W H Bowker still have a depot/office in LiverpoolYes they have a depot just off charley wood road at Kirkby.
I stand corrected, I had forgotten that they had taken over Potters Logistics
They’ve not been there long mate, like you say they bought Potters.
Bowker has a history of operating out of Liverpool going back to 1926, when the first office was opened at the Fruit Exchange and WIlliam Bowker was appointed the haulage contractor to the Liverpool Fruit Importers’ Association (and that’s a grand old title!). After a rude interruption by the Road Haulage Executive between 1949 and 1954, they then had continuous operations in the city from 1954 to 1988.
I’m assured that there is no truth in the rumour that Harry Gill did the first load out of Liverpool in 1926.
ramone:
les-p:
Photo from fb. Les.
0Could that be one of Bewicks motors on contract Les , i was going by the way it was sheeted ?
We did improve quite dramatically over the coming years though “ramone” 
Cheers Dennis.
Hiya,
Thanks Chris I do feel like I was hauling back in 1926 and when I started
in 1957 as a civilian driver (I’d been driving lorries since 1954 as an army
driver) and the job wouldn’t have changed much in those times still the
roping and sheeting and many motors unheated and slow, I should have
stuck in at school and got myself a proper job.
Levis Haulage Bedford from Liverpool.
Hi DEAN I remember LEVIS L/Pool very well. They obviously done most of their work out of Liverpool but I had seen them regularly hauling out of the Container base Barton Dock Road Trafford Park. When I worked for MAT LIFT Trafford Park we used to load MAT 30 footer side load containers out of BICC Prescott. I had come across a few photos of BICC Holt Lane Transport at Whiston Prescott and W&J Ridings BICC tanker parked up at Longbridge. The first time I has seen the Ridings tanker many years ago before M62 I was sat with other drivers at the Café near Barton aerodrome Irlam A57 One plenty of banter driver said how do the untangle the wire in the tank when blowing off. I fell for it Obviously it was PVC compound.
KEV
Bit of a looker.nmp
John Mason, Pickfords, and Colemans were involved in the major job of removal when ICI Ltd
were leaving a large part of The Cunard Building in Liverpool near the Pier Head. To the rear
of the camera is where many bus and tram routes terminated, also the landing stage where
the ferries departed for Birkenhead, New Brighton, and Seacombe.
Woodwards of Formby advert 1962.
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Hi, came across the forum by chance. I served my time as a HGV Fitter at a firm called J W Walker and sons. Their head office was in Canning Place, the garage was in Wolstenholme Square, the garage then moved to Jamaica Street and their warehouse was in Gore St. From there I went Michael O Leary transport on Leckwith Road. Has anybody got any information or pictures on any of the firms.? I would like to get in touch with a lad who was a fitter for Rj larkin who were in Jamaica Street right next door to Walkers. He then got me on at O Learys.This will be late 60s early seventies? Cheers
Higsons from Liverpool.
DEANB:
Higsons from Liverpool.0
Hi Dean, Higsons Brewery in Liverpool had many Albions over the years. Several Higsons lorry
pictures are on the Brewery Lorries thread. I had many a pint of their bitter when I was a lad. 
Cheers, Ray.
coomsey:
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Parked up in Liverpool according to FB, Ray. Nmp
Thanks for the photo, There were many sites like this in Liverpool in the 1960s and 1970s, many drivers parked
their lorries and went to transport digs. Some drivers preferred to sleep in the cab. Ray.
Guy artic of Miller & Gordon from Liverpool in the early 1960s.
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