HAS ANY BODY GOT INFORMATION OR PICTURES ON LIVESTOCK SALES TRANSPORT. THEY HAULED FRESH LAMBS TO EUROPE. THE RUN OUT OF LAMBERHURST. THEY HAD VOLVO TRACTOR UNITS AND GRAY & ADAMS REEFER TRAILERS 
Andy L:
HAS ANY BODY GOT INFORMATION OR PICTURES ON LIVESTOCK SALES TRANSPORT. THEY HAULED FRESH LAMBS TO EUROPE. THE RUN OUT OF LAMBERHURST. THEY HAD VOLVO TRACTOR UNITS AND GRAY & ADAMS REEFER TRAILERS
Hi Andy,
I live 20 miles from Lamberhurst iknew several drivers,
Colin Berry lived in NEWHAVEN will be sadly missed died Nov 07
Robin Erith he was living down the road in Stonegate ex M / East driver
Mick Quinn I believe he died also sadly missed he eventually brought LST and soon afterwards it went bust i will dig some photos out.
i used to run down with them or part run some more great guys…
the person that brought the company was Mick Fen
Robin was working for a company in suffolk
do you remeber Jimmy Little
Andy L:
the person that brought the company was Mick Fen
Robin was working for a company in suffolk
do you remeber Jimmy Little
Hi Andy
I actually ended up working for one of the original owners Ernie Farncombe!
he sold LST and emigrated to Canada came back and started Coldfreight int…
Robin persuaded me to go with it…Eenie kept me on and then got rid of Robin i
stayed then a little while later he pulled the plug…!
That was when i sold everything i had and started to take over my dads buissnes.
Jimmy little name i can remember but cannt place him!!
You are spot on Micky Fen not (Quinn) is he still with us!
Regards
Tim
Mikey Fen i think has passed away some time ago
Jimmy Little had the first globetrotter LST
Mr Marshall brought the truck of the volvo stand at the truck show
Jimmy now works for Maguires
Do you remeber Andy Scott, Jason Bunce,and some of the Gander drivers Grandad being one of them
Andy L:
Mikey Fen i think has passed away some time ago
Jimmy Little had the first globetrotter LST
Mr Marshall brought the truck of the volvo stand at the truck show
Jimmy now works for Maguires
Do you remeber Andy Scott, Jason Bunce,and some of the Gander drivers Grandad being one of them
Hi Andy
Jason Bunce rings a bell!
Robin and Colin are the ones i knew well.
Regards
Tim
Is Jimmy Little the bloke who left Lamberhurst and drove for many years with Robbie Burns ?, i never knew his last name he was always called “Jimmy the Bean”
Yes he did drve for Robbie Burns
He was in either Ttruck or Truck and Driver when he drove for Andy Scot Trawlers
I used to load Robin Earith and run with him to Baghdad in the seventies. He had a green Transcon which was much faster than my Scania 110.
Colonel:
I used to load Robin Earith and run with him to Baghdad in the seventies. He had a green Transcon which was much faster than my Scania 110.
Hi Colonel
Did Robin work for Eric Vicks in the 70s, doing M/E.!
Regards T
Not to my knowledge, Timbo, but that does not mean to say that he didn’t. My memory is fading now, but I can remember being with him him parked outside the Moulin Rouge, just around the corner from the British Club, Baghdad in February 1976 as I had my new wife with me. Her honeymoon 18 days in the truck.
Met a guy called jason bunce a couple of years ago at habay he was running his own motor to greece at the time, think he ran out of a yard in snodland somewhere he was telling me he had done a couple of trips down the middle east previously.
Colonel:
Not to my knowledge, Timbo, but that does not mean to say that he didn’t. My memory is fading now, but I can remember being with him him parked outside the Moulin Rouge, just around the corner from the British Club, Baghdad in February 1976 as I had my new wife with me. Her honeymoon 18 days in the truck.
Hi Colonel,
My Dad was doing the M/E to Tehran 75-77 that was when he first met Robin. Also he was local to him!
His name Mick Martin also had a scania 110 super. Marroon and silver with a 12 metre spreadaxle tilt.
You know how to treat a lady 18 days in a truck that was a quick run!
Come to think about it i think Robin was subbing for Vicks!
Regards T
Baghdad was the most cost effective run of them all to do and after spending three years and two very severe winters in Eastern Turkey and Norther Iran I decided that Tehran was a no no and decided to settle on the easier run south to Baghdad.
I did a total of 58 runs to Baghdad myself and when I left home I used to ring the calendar and say to my wife, that is the day I will be home.
I used to load at Midsomer Norton on a Sunday morning with the aluminium foil to wrap chewing gum and the reason I kept this contract for five years was because I always delivered the following Monday in Baghdad. All of my drivers were well capable of doing the same. One day to tip in Baghdad and one day to load the empty beams that I used to bring back for Courtaulds. Once loaded the drivers and myself used to have two days off in the British Club and then make our way home. So it was seven days out seven days home 2 days for tipping and loading and 2 days rest.
To give you some idea as to how I used to do this, after loading on the Sunday I would go home have sunday dinner and then go to bed. I used to leave Bristol at Midnight on the Sunday, travel to Dover and catch the 0530hrs sailing to Zeebrugge. I would drive to Cologne and catch the train which left at 1800hrs Monday evening for Ludwigsburg arriving 0100hrs. I used to be passing through Munich at 0400 hrs and be at the Salzburg Border (Bad Reichenal) by 0600hrs. Two hours was normal to negotiate this border as it was quite complex and being a motorway border had plenty of traffic.
Leaving Salzburg it took 6 hours to cross Austria as the first part had no motorway then and we used to have to use the Ho Chi Min trail, as it was called. Speilfeld was normally not too busy but sometimes the yugos were drinking too much and even though paperwork was complete they were always reluctant to lift the barrier. but once through I used to make the National Hotel, Belgrade, by usually 1030 hrs on the Tuesday evening. Pop in to see Branco on the desk, have a cup of coffee and a shower and then into bed.
So one can see that this initial surge of hard work had virtually killed the job. Istanbul Wednesday night, Ankara Thursday, Pozanti Friday night ready to tackle Tarsus on the old road and then Zahko by the Saturday night. In those days there was a preliminary custom clearance at Mosul, before we made our way down to the Baghdad Customs on Sunday evening which was a dustbowl at Abu Graib.
Customs was done Monday morning and the load was tipped on the Monday afternoon.
When in Baghdad I used to book a room at the Opera Hotel, which was just around the corner from where I used to park the truck.
Just for interest I used to get £5000 for the Aluminium foil to Baghdad and £1400 for the empty beams back to Leicester.
£6500 for the return trip with the running costs at £600, left a very good margin to employ top quality drivers. I paid in 1975 £1200 cash in the hand for a trip to Baghdad and back.
Transcontinentals were under £9000 new at that time.