Hi Bev
John Pike one of my old drivers was on th mail run for Squibby
Stuck here for 5 days because of French customs strike Miguels near Alsasua 1981
Taken at the Irun Border May 1981 1632 Mercedes With the Spanish post
He is very fit and well has given up the ■■■■ and now lives in Turin
I spoke to him when he phoned me over the Christmas
Regards Pat
hi there pat many thanks for the pics,nice ones at that, didnt think that a strike was aloud to stop the post though,may be im wrong,regards bev. 
bon jour,hope your in good spirt fergie,thanks for your quick reply mate,yes your probably right about tony kimber,i knew him well ,remember when thy came back from the middle east mate,him and les barns that is,what a site for sore eyes thoses two were,shouldnt think thy had washed for a week, last time i spoke to tony he was doing up an old boat that he had bought and was working on it down at warsash,then i lost touch with him and les,remember also tony coming back from the east with a different truck than he went out with, went out with an old merc and came back with an F12 all racked out for the job,its a long story but one day ill put it up here, but better check it out with tony/les before i do, if you know what i mean mate. regads Bev. 
Pat: Did you know Chris Hiscocks who had a body shop unit on “possibly” Glebe Farm A36 at the Whiteparish turn? (Where you would turn off for BKG’s yard and next to Holmere’s yard). He did a cracking spray job on my F10 there with his Dad.
Tony Kimber was somewhere up around there too. EWas it “Fizz” that was the “Security Dept” in his yard, working from an old wooden railway goods body?
Talking of alternative living accommodation; Alistair used to live in a 40ft box on Bakers Wharf for Skillbeech.
Hi Gary yes I knew Chris aka Skippy
I think Chris was probably up in Ray Coates yard where Dave Coombes the Volvo spares man, Bob Cartwright, Richard Hood and Barry Barnes and some others all have parts of the yard.Fizz is still there in the yard so Barry told me that other day.
Chris was a very talented man could weld fabricate spray had done allsorts and had been an excellent stock car driver
Unfortunately Chris’ dad has died and last time I saw Chris was some years ago in the Peg and Parrot in Rumbridge Street Totton when I was waiting for a curry from opposite the pub. He looked absolutely terrible thin gaunt and he had really aged not sure if he had had a heart attack or what, he was that bad that I did not recognise him till he called me over I was shocked I have not heard of him since.
Regards Pat
Thanks for the info on Chris and his Dad. Dad was quiet and retiring…Chris…er, was not! As you say, good at his job.
Ah! I was mixing up Tony with Dave Coombes. Alternative Volvo Supplies Inc. LOL.
Cheers.
many thanks to fergie47 , bev wyatt , pat and indeed everyone else for recent replies and post , and everyone elses contributions , making this soton hauliers a truly fantastic thread
dont forget the giant bbc radio mast ( well it seemed giant as a kid ) that used to be in the field next to johns cafe at bartley ! , cheers pdw 
gazzer
what was rolar bears real name.
remember he had the 2 erf’s in gbe livery. ian mayor ■■ and dereck tizzard drove em. later on grandad had one of them. ive been racking my brain for months now. is he still around or driving the erf in the sky. he was not a well man at the best of times as i remember had to take so many tablets in a morning he rattled when he walked.
cheers. brian
morning pat, iv just been browsing through some of the early postings on this thread and see you mentioned an old friend of mine,SHAUN MORAN,i first met shaun when i worked for SCA out of stepney in london, and the last i saw of him was when he was on for comptons down in pool,if i remember right shaun lived in ringwood,so me and shaun go back quite a way, are you or any of the lads on here in touch with him, if so give him my best regards, cheers. BEV. 
Did he have the clean white towel around his neck then Bev. ? I think Shaun is still living in Ringwood and someone mentioned on here a while back that he is driving a van on courier work for his son Chris.
many thanks for your quick response kerbut, that comment on the white towel made me laugh mate, mr immaculate i used to call him, didnt matter what job shaun had given to him,he never seemed to get dirty, great fella though had a few meals out with him in the SCA days down in turin, spoke real good italian and frence, always came across as a well educated guy to me, but he certainly new his job,but i could never understand why he went and worked for comptons,he usualy went for the more up market jobs,but i supose he worked a deal with mark,that was the last time i saw him,before i moved from shaftesbury,once again many thanks for the info. BEV.
Hi Bev
I havn’t seen Sean Moran for years infact last time was when I was running with him and Micky ‘Olio’ Cairns when they were both on for Comptons and we had TV’s on and decided to go over Cenis!! Sean had an Ex Ian Elkins F89 sandy/brown in colour I think.
Before that I had first met Sean when he was on for Sea Route Ferry in Empress Rd Southampton.
Don’t know what he is doing now but I had heard from someone that he had lost his HGV for some reason or other however I do speak with Mark Compton occasionally and next time I will ask if he knows what Sean is up to!!
I dare say he is still with the ‘Wonderful Wendy’
Regards Pat
Quote Pat: Ex Ian Elkins F89 sandy/brown in colour.
Was that Nunkey Newmans old F89 that Stan drove?
r slicker: Kept out of the way of “The Rolar Bear” so dont know much about him. Most of his work was 44t out of Willesden…thank god.
good day to you Pat,well funny enough i remember shaun on sea route ferries,and i also did a bit for them although threw a subbie,if my memory serves me well,it was down to italy to transterra, or may be italmondos.im pretty sure it was the first of the two companies. another name now comes to mind aswell, when i worked for john carter back in the sixties/seventies, his ex transport manager was a guy called CASHMORE not sure what his first name was,think it might have been ian???who when he left carters went to sea route ferries and then on to ranks if the grey matter serves me well,and just to top it another name you have brought up is my old mate IAN ELKINS,he has just bought a magnam,and is on containers out of soton,first met ian at mo bakers,and god have i had some laugh with him over the years, saddly he has put a lot of weight on again,but still has a smile on his face.(A REAL GENTLEMAN IS HE)and a first class fitter, did you know his brother david, last i saw of him he was driving for BORDEN at baddesly, on a tanker.(small world isnt it pat, this trucknet is fantastic.regardsBEV.ps keep it coming mate.
do you remember the days when we loaded blue aspestose out of the docks in soton on a sunday and parked them up for delivery on a monday at the waste ground which was later to become LORRAINS,my god would that cause a stink now a days(health and safty what a laugh)any one remember a drive called johnny ingle or the chant brothers from salisbury■■?
gazzer:
Quote Pat: Ex Ian Elkins F89 sandy/brown in colour.Was that Nunkey Newmans old F89 that Stan drove?
r slicker: Kept out of the way of “The Rolar Bear” so dont know much about him. Most of his work was 44t out of Willesden…thank god.
Hi Gary
Quite possibly but I thought that Bob has a two tone green 89 and an ex Sea Route 111 that Mick Sayers drove!
Regards Pat
Gazzer
I know you had the Joker,but around the time you had yours who had the Wizard ?
bev wyatt:
:lol: good day to you Pat,well funny enough i remember shaun on sea route ferries,and i also did a bit for them although threw a subbie,if my memory serves me well,it was down to italy to transterra, or may be italmondos.im pretty sure it was the first of the two companies. another name now comes to mind aswell, when i worked for john carter back in the sixties/seventies, his ex transport manager was a guy called CASHMORE not sure what his first name was,think it might have been ian???who when he left carters went to sea route ferries and then on to ranks if the grey matter serves me well,and just to top it another name you have brought up is my old mate IAN ELKINS,he has just bought a magnam,and is on containers out of soton,first met ian at mo bakers,and god have i had some laugh with him over the years, saddly he has put a lot of weight on again,but still has a smile on his face.(A REAL GENTLEMAN IS HE)and a first class fitter, did you know his brother david, last i saw of him he was driving for BORDEN at baddesly, on a tanker.(small world isnt it pat, this trucknet is fantastic.regardsBEV.ps keep it coming mate.
Hi Bev
I remember Cashmore only knew him as that, he was Sea Route through and through I was very surprised when they sacked him! Last time I saw him he was selling insurance but he always struck me as being highly strung so it was no surpise when one day someone told me he had committed suicide!
I believe the name in Italy was Transitalia not far from Italmondo who were Jamesons partners in Italy. It was on their Kangaroo trailers.
Ian phoned me the other day and we had a chat, can’t remember what it was he wanted now 
Didn’t really know his brother Dave that well didn’t he go to work for Barbours in Scotland with Kevin Connolley RIP and Barry Stafford■■? I’m sure our learned colleagues will know.
You mentioned Bordens when I lived in Empress Rd there was a Bordens driver used to live a short way away Harry Day had a Seddon Atkinson 400 witha 240 Gardner ( is that possible?) I think and ran abroad, apparently the windscreen kept popping out!! I believe Bob Cartwright was on there too had a Seddon day cab and did Italy in that! They shipped on TTRH’s account.
Regards Pat
Hi is Shaun still waiting for his F12 to be delivered?
It was Dave Cashmore or “Cash” to some. A good mate of Dave Bicknell’s from EST. I think Lesley C knew him too. U know who she is!..
Dave was at Barbours before Bordens.
Gary Elkins RIP. BKG.
Kerbut: No idea.