Here are 3 more pics from Rob Rymer of Bakers Transport, Southampton hauling a boat through Twyford near Southampton. 17’ wide and 18’3" high
Regards Pat
Hello,Bubbs here…first a big thanks to Pat for sticking those Rob Rymers pics on the scrapbook thread…classic stuff 
.I’ve been rooting through some old “Roadway” magazines,these were the RHA’s in house mag which were distributed to its members,most editions had pics of lorries but sometimes other interesting photos would appear…heres a birds eye view of Southampton docks in the mid 60s.
I know its not a long departed Southampton haulier but it may be of interest to you boys. 
Cheers Bubbs.
HI all
Thanks Pat thats the one
Thanks Bubbs great stuff it is a long departed dock &all the ferry comanies have gone 
Hello Lads Due to fall off of the vintage fairground ride and breaking my heel bone. I am now on crutchs and out of the cab for 3 months
Thats right 3 MONTHS
Shiney Boots
Hi here’s one I had missed on Bubblemans Scrapbook Thread (Thanks Marc
) with a Southampton connection a Meachers AEC Mercury I think it is an ‘E’ reg so from 1967 onwards!
Regards Pat
I copied this from Marc’s Srapbook thread concerning one of my old Scania 110s EDM137J
rapidgem:
ainacs:
Hi FergieThis was the best Scania 110 I had bought off Brian Oliver(RIP) from Rochdale went everwhere in Europe brilliant unit
Regards Pat
Hi Pat. Thanks for sharing the piccy of your 110 Scania on the site, I thought I recognised her, here she is with West Derby Transport, Liverpool :-
It’s one our good friend Bubbs kindly sent me. I think she was new to Williams Bros (Wales) at Queensferry - the number plate fixed to the grill was a typical Williams’ practice.
I’m, interested in all the old Flintshire and Chester area firms, which is how I come to have a piccy of the ex-Williams 110.
Cheers - Rob)
Hi Rob
Thanks for that although Marc had already sent it to me but was “For my eyes only”
This was just after I had bought EDM137J in about 1979 Brian Oliver had recently put in a Scania recon engine and previously had the sleeper cab conversion done, alongside my first ever Scania WKW528K another 110 this time with a factory sleeper bought from a Roy Tolley from Hereford late 78ish.
Another pic loading a Sea Route Ferry box at Yate near Bristol (I think)
In my yard on the far right around 80/81
Regards Pat
Hi another pic courtesy of Marc from his Scrapbook thread an early Bakers ERF
Regards Pat
Hi ,Question for Pat,the pic of your 2 Scanias with the SPD lorries in the background…is that Empress road,it looks familiar to me as I used to take stuff for the channel islands there but SPD had gone when I went I used to go there.
Cheers Marc
Hi Marc yes that was at the gate of Sea Route Ferry in Empress Road next to SPD before they moved to Eastleigh. That SPD warehouse is all flat now just a big pile of crushed concrete!
Regards Pat
Thanks for that Pat,I used to go there regularly ,always trying to get there for dinner time as the grub was good,amazed to hear its flattened…there was a chap with a recovery firm where you turned to go in…funny (unusual) name Pete Spacagna if my memories still in gear. 
Cheers Marc.
bubbleman:
Thanks for that Pat,I used to go there regularly ,always trying to get there for dinner time as the grub was good,amazed to hear its flattened…there was a chap with a recovery firm where you turned to go in…funny (unusual) name Pete Spacagna if my memories still in gear.Cheers Marc.
Yes Marc your memory is still in gear, he moved there when his garage was compulsory purchased for a road widening I think, I had stopped pulling Sea Route Ferry trailers by that time but did have connections with Empress Road as I lived there for over 25 years! I also went on a trip to the Commercial Truck Show at the NEC and was with Pete for the day, Scania took us
I borrowed this off his website
Regards Pat
ainacs:
Blimey Pat, thats brave of you to post that, i thought mine were bad enough.
I have very fond memories of working for Sea Route,out of Empress Rd.,a good company in those days.
Looked after me well after my accident.bubbleman
If i remember rightly when tipping at SPD, did,nt you have to reverse into their warehouse and onto an awkwardly
angled bay on blind side.■■
Hi Mappo,come to think of it you’re right,I think though it was for ambient or dry goods which was at the top end of the yard and to get on that bay meant a blind side reverse…I last went there about 12 years ago with a fridge and the first 2 bays were where we would tip and that was easy to get on…who does the channel islands stuff now?..I remember tipping at Penguin coldstores at Fareham,I’m sure they were moving stuff to them 
Bubbs.
Hi Bubbs, i,m not sure who does the Channel Island work now, although i,m sure that someone more
knowledgeable than me will know. I guessing it,ll be a firm out of Portsmouth now.
Have been following your thread Marc, bloody brilliant.
Hi all yet another of Bubblemans (Marc) gems from his Scrapbook thread with a Southampton interest this time a Scammell Constructor of Hills of Botley.
Regards Pat
The work to the IOW that was in Empress Rd is now done by DHL in the old free trade zone warehouse in Southampton Dock & yes there are plenty in Portsmouth. Royers /Boyes Conning, Hampshire Freight go every day & R.G. Maidment Haulage the specialists go whenever.
Hi another of Bubblemans (Marc)'s pics from his Scrapbook thread with a Southampton connection ISR of Fawley near Southampton I think a lot of hauliers were in volved in taking rubber to Membury way back, Summerfields and the Whitehorns definitely.
Regards Pat
Morning Pat,
Used to carry lots of I S R rubber when on for Smith of Maddiston out of Hythe and Membury
in those stillages. We also used to load out of Grangemouth when in Scotland.
Fergie 47 has posted a photo or two of Smiths lorries carrying said load.
I remember an unfortunate driver was killed while sheeting his load at Membury.
He was spreading his sheets on top of load and got electrocuted on an overhead power cable.
Sea Route Ferries you,ll know Pat stored and crated the rubber at Empress road
from about 1979 onwards.
S F M at Dell Wharf used to store it as well.
mappo:
Morning Pat,
I remember an unfortunate driver was killed while sheeting his load at Membury.
He was spreading his sheets on top of load and got electrocuted on an overhead power cable..
I remember that incident well Tony, I can see the guy now, nice bloke, but his name and the company he worked for, I just can’t remember. I think his son ( Dave ■■? ) was a shop steward for Pitter at one time ? I might even have that bit wrong, the old memory’s fading fast ( as you well know, being so much older ! ) I guess someone will come up with a name / company.
My Dad Tony Roberts used to load loose bales of rubber out of ISR when He drove for Reeves of Manchester out of their yard at the bottom of shirley. They used to settle! so a number of retightening of the ropes had to be made, this was early 60’s .
Jeremy