tribsa:
Hi All
Its with great sadness I need to let you all know of two more passing’s Roy Charrett & Pat Andrews the lady behind Tom of Shootash Garage.
Cheers Rich
Roy Charrett, did he have a couple of F7’s blue / grey, with his name in red on the doors ? or have I got the wrong guy…
Fergie47:
tribsa:
Hi All
Its with great sadness I need to let you all know of two more passing’s Roy Charrett & Pat Andrews the lady behind Tom of Shootash Garage.
Cheers RichRoy Charrett, did he have a couple of F7’s blue / grey, with his name in red on the doors ? or have I got the wrong guy…
Hi Dave,
You are right I think he had an F10 as well, pulled for LTS amongst others lived just down the road from Pitters.
Hope you and Liz are ok, we’ll come and see you soon.
Regards
Richard
I did a few loads with Roy mainly on ACL containers, when I was on for Maidber
He always reminded me of Rock Hudson when he was McMillan in McMillan and Wife with Susan St James
Regards Pat
Hi all I bet Roy Charrett had at least eight or more trucks, he used a fitter from Princes to keep them all going, they were not pretty but I suppose they did the job. When they started up cold we used to think old George had set fire to the security hut in Lorraines as it was like a thick foggy morning, George was a miserable old “B” to boot Buzzer.
Buzzer:
Hi all I bet Roy Charrett had at least eight or more trucks, he used a fitter from Princes to keep them all going, they were not pretty but I suppose they did the job. When they started up cold we used to think old George had set fire to the security hut in Lorraines as it was like a thick foggy morning, George was a miserable old “B” to boot Buzzer.
John,
Here is a pic taken at Horry’s 2nd home,I can imagine George keeping an eye on him 
Regards
Richard
MaggieD:
Buzzer:
Hi all I bet Roy Charrett had at least eight or more trucks, he used a fitter from Princes to keep them all going, they were not pretty but I suppose they did the job. When they started up cold we used to think old George had set fire to the security hut in Lorraines as it was like a thick foggy morning, George was a miserable old “B” to boot Buzzer.
John,
Here is a pic taken at Horry’s 2nd home,I can imagine George keeping an eye on him
Richard good morning.
One key aspect of George was the fact that you could come in early, take the keys off your hook, build the air up, get a coffee (the machine took centimes!?, just as well as it tasted like the waste water from the wash pad) and depart without George even waking.
Can remember early one morning he was having a kip across the counter and Cluey’s 142 needed quite a lot of oil before we went up the road, so went in his side and took four cans of Myrina. Left a note of course 
Once when he was having an early snooze, moved a Solent Blue Line bus and parked it up right by his window. Can’t understand why he had no sense of humour
The other lads I remember was another George?, Tony and Bren? - He built a little garden and Rockery by the security hut.
I think it was the Snowdon brothers that looked after them had a workshop in Stan Trans yard, then again I could be wrong.
Buzzer:
Hi all I bet Roy Charrett had at least eight or more trucks, he used a fitter from Princes to keep them all going, they were not pretty but I suppose they did the job. When they started up cold we used to think old George had set fire to the security hut in Lorraines as it was like a thick foggy morning, George was a miserable old “B” to boot Buzzer.
One of the first Atkinsons which Ted Horrill supplied to Wrights Fuels in 1968.IIRC Wrights were in Pollars Moor Lane where Drake Bros are now based
Hi all hope every one is good i have sent you a pm maggied. 
Mr Charrett’s exclusive fitter was John Waters esq.
gerbil sb152:
Hi all hope every one is good i have sent you a pm maggied.
Thanks Kev have replied
Regards
Richard
MaggieD:
Buzzer:
Hi all I bet Roy Charrett had at least eight or more trucks, he used a fitter from Princes to keep them all going, they were not pretty but I suppose they did the job. When they started up cold we used to think old George had set fire to the security hut in Lorraines as it was like a thick foggy morning, George was a miserable old “B” to boot Buzzer.John,
Here is a pic taken at Horry’s 2nd home,I can imagine George keeping an eye on him
Regards
Richard
Would this be WOW727T? Regular pilot Malcolm …?
Hi rich been trying to reply but for some reason will not send keeps going to out box but don’t know why will try again tomorrow
Hi Gerbil a bit like the old CB’s years ago they either worked brilliant or were totally useless, all depended on the skip as they called it. Remember once running with a couple of others on our way back from Italia stopped for refreshment in Macon and heard this UK breaker on and he was coming up from Ventigmelia on the coast, we could not believe we had a copy that far away and it turned out to be John Heaton aka “Axle” in his 1632 Transport Services Merc , but come to think about it Axle was so loud he didn’t need a CB he could have just wound the window down and stuck his head out, cheers Buzzer.
in the early seventies on Sunday evenings on the way down to Southampton I could hear the taxi drivers in Miami.Never could get back to them.Also once I was parked up in Stuttgart one evening and picked up a breaker in Aberdeen.We had a back and forth for about ten mins until he faded out. Regards Charlie
gazzer:
Mr Charrett’s exclusive fitter was John Waters esq.
Hi Gazz I remember John Waters he used to do work on my old 88, piston and liner one job, him was a good fella. 
Hi Charlie I remember when CB’s were the rage there was a “young man” in an old … I think it was a Humber Septre or something like that it was called " Diesel Dynomotive " he had a CB when no one else did !!! dunno who he was yakking to!!
Regards Jimski
roolechat:
One of the first Atkinsons which Ted Horrill supplied to Wrights Fuels in 1968.IIRC Wrights were in Pollars Moor Lane where Drake Bros are now based
Hi Roolechat
Wrights did have a yard in Woodlands Road on the left before the first bend coming from the White Horse end, I think the yard was owned by Den Humby’s sister it is now the site of 3 bungalows, it was empty for many years waiting for planning permission!
Regards Pat
Hi roolechat,
Yes you are right,Malcolm Knight was a good driver/fitter he did a few miles in the old gal nearly always at 38 ton, at night he used to switch the headlamps off when he came to a hill so the old 26 couldn’t see it
Did you know Malc he went to live in the West Country if I remember.
Regards
Richard
ainacs:
roolechat:
One of the first Atkinsons which Ted Horrill supplied to Wrights Fuels in 1968.IIRC Wrights were in Pollars Moor Lane where Drake Bros are now basedHi Roolechat
Wrights did have a yard in Woodlands Road on the left before the first bend coming from the White Horse end, I think the yard was owned by Den Humby’s sister it is now the site of 3 bungalows, it was empty for many years waiting for planning permission!
Regards Pat
Hi Roolchat got a feeling the yard you mention in woodlands at one time was occupied by Ted Horrill, I say this cos in my early years I had an Albion super Clydesdale and I used to haul straw with it and one day coming through East Wellow on a bend she swayed over and did not come back, taking out two telegraph poles and coming to rest on a third. The long and the short of it was the spring base was welded to the top of the axle and this fractured allowing the thing to go up and Mr Horrill was the man who sorted it for me and that was done in a workshop that sounds the place you have described. cheers Buzzer.
PS. The Cull brothers were right behind me in there Thames Trader also loaded with straw as I recall.
