Hi Maggie D, yes your nearly right about John w , before Mammoths packed up JW and John Buckley ( who already had 2 trucks in mammoth livery) decided to team up and run out of andover when mammoths finished. they ran from there for quite some time, then they came back to southampton in the guise of Dockside Services, running tractors from bassildon to dockgate 4.
Eventually selling up and starting PMP Logistics, firstly from felixstow then from fareham. Also les emery, one of your old employs i believe,is working for him again ,
it’s quite obviouse that what ever JW touches turns to GOLD…
some nice posts Dreva, Did you ever work for mammoths when they were at belgrave road. Nice story about Pete Phippin, i remember him well is he still alive ?. also remember Dave ( fangs). i belive hes still driving .
no i didnt mate hes sons a member on here[ peter phippen] he pm me to e mail him the article i will find his username for you so you can pm him he wanted the article for his dads retirement so i take it hes still alive
HI im glad some one has got that article as i was only telling MRS Sling about it two weeks ago. I sore Pefer Phippin ploding around souhthampton docks in a white ERF. Hence the story two mrs sling (how sad am i)
A few of us sat in the messroom having a tea break when I was a fitter at BI
heard a noise outside. We thought somebody had dropped a trailer on it’s
knee’s but we were wrong this is what we saw when we went out.
Somebody parked on the steam cleaning bay ready to be cleaned for it’s
MOT which is on a slope and it was not me. The ratchet handbrake did not
work so it was parked on the deadman. Not having spring brakes on either
when the air ran out so did the brakes what made it worse it was loaded with
24 tons of rubber out of Exxon Fawley.
So a big crane was hired the idea was to lift the back of the trailer up attatch
a chain to the AEC and the other end to a loaded truck then pull foward then
lower it on solid ground. But sometimes nothing goes right.
This is the AEC when it was still on the road used for MOT’S and breakdowns
hi lads great pic of the skillbeech daf 3300 [b976ygk] pat and bubbleman ;that was my first artic ; terry barfoot had it with all the skirts on; then ian[little legs] bree had it then me ; peter phippin i think got laidoff from pentalver last week i wil find out ;mappo sorry i over took you at jct 13 m4 and slowed you down on a34 pentalver dropped speed of trucks to 52mph moor overtime :keep them coming gazzap
thats what you get when your made of RUBBER Kns64. Hi mate.
Thanks Dreva, that would be gr8. My father used to work for Louis Bull, then Mammoths at belgrave rd. I like most drivers used to go with my dad on every trip i could when i was a lad… those were the days…
We must have been poor in our house though, don’t seem to have any photo’s of way back then !!!
Did Bulldog turn into Black? Lion or somebody like that? They had yellow motors, I’m sure one of their drivers told me that, mind you it was in a resturaunt in France or Italy so I would’ve been ■■■■■■ at the time
Hi Maggie D,
That’s a picture of the truck that came back from Italy eventually, in cardboard boxes.It broke down out there and the Italians tyred to fix it,Big mistake…
My fathers name was Jimmy James… you should know him. although i believe you know my big brother “Nig” better… would appreciate any photo’s, regards, Kev…
