excellent pictures them really good. i see one of tolemans poking his nose into the picture as well.
jessicas dad:
excellent pictures them really good. i see one of tolemans poking his nose into the picture as well.
cheers! i noticed the tolemans one too, my friends dad used to drive for them out of ipswich, and was one of (i think) 4 drivers hand picked to take some classic cars to monte carlo for auction, the most expensive loads they ever did with a (i think) covert police ■■■■■■ all the way keeping an eye on them!
i will see if i can scan his pics and newspaper clippings one day to put on here
euromat:
jessicas dad:
my friends dad used to drive for them out of ipswich
Enlighten me Mat,who is your friends dad?
My brother worked for Tolemans from around 1979 until they packed up in Ipswich.
you know him keith, paul rowlands!
euromat:
you know him keith, paul rowlands!
Very true. 
Thought it may have been someone else though. 
keith (i know this is a slight thread hi jack) but can you pm me your e mail address so i can pass it on to bob carter for the info on trans uk reunions?
nice pics, you posted 941 and 942, i drove 940
I was wondering if anybody has some pictures of the murfitt fleet,
I worked there for 3 years, Started on the Fixed bodies with John Manthorpe, then later moved over to NEO, working under Ronnie.
wiggum:
I was wondering if anybody has some pictures of the murfitt fleet,I worked there for 3 years, Started on the Fixed bodies with John Manthorpe, then later moved over to NEO, working under Ronnie.
I was with John Manthorpe when I started. Then young Steve ? took over most of Johns fixed body Roadtrains ( 
roadtrain 
)
I had a DAF 95 Space cab with a proper sleeper not a pod. 3 axles on the wagon, 2 on the trailer.
I loaded out of Kellogs, Pirelli and Firestone quite often, for France, Italy and Spain occaisionally Germany. Mainly though I was a jack of all loads, picking up anything and going anywhere. I only did Kellogs when the drop bodies where too busy.
I’ve got a few pics of my rig somewhere, they are probably not digital but I’ll have a look. There are quite a few pics we’ve got that we want to put on disc, so if needed I’ll include those .
Cool.
I did about 2 months with john myself. But someone over here where i live was asking on what i drove over there and wanted to see.
thanks for that
P.S. John Manthorpe was/is also know as Cambridge John.
I met him on Alconbury T/S one night, about 3 years ago. He was back on the road then.
john manthorpe, last night i had out with him was in berlin
last i heard, pearly, graham barrington, scott, stockport steve, arnie and a couple of others were working for ontime at dartford.
big al, little al(mighty atom) and others were with quicktime at shropshire.
geraint was last months t&d long distance diary feature
spanish bob, jill, stafford geoff, sumo and others are with ewels
cornish dave is taxi driving in salou
telford paul and cal settled for the quiet life near wrexham and just did agency driving to get by
jack the hat was on with baxters at hull, but is semi retired or fully retired i think
doug was on for taylors doing the cans out of wakefield but moved on 6 months ago, dont know where
dennis(the organiser) got remarried but dont know if he’s still driving
alistair is still doing europe, but not sure who for
scouse phil(pugwash), and dinger were on for european at dover
chorley phil is on day work running out of chorley
john birch moved to spain, but still drives in uk for a firm in stockport
does anybody know anything about:- tracy, geordie john, cornish john, northampton john, danish and paula, abdul, wombat, kiwi, “hello i’m ■■■■■■■ ces, barnsley pete, swindon pete, chip pan charlie, julian, andy batty, bill the bus, del boy(huddersfield), etc etc
the list goes on, and on, and on
so many good lads, the tackle was ok, and the job was soooooooo easy, spent more time parked up than actually driving.
RIP murfitts
biggusdickusgb:
so many good lads, the tackle was ok, and the job was soooooooo easy, spent more time parked up than actually driving.
RIP murfitts
Must have done BD, I can’t remember knowing that many blokes in the whole of my 40 year career on the road. 
Andy Batty works with me at Ontime Dartford. He has just got a new MAN & trailer.
Must have done BD, I can’t remember knowing that many blokes in the whole of my 40 year career on the road.
it really was that easy spardo, and that list was just off the top of my head, given time i could name many many more, and i spent bar time with all of them 
.
look after him ossie, he’s one of lifes good guys
whoops, this is where the post should have been
didn’t recognise most of those names BD but from further back; micky plant from yaxley, “geordie” geoff welford, puggy, phil wigget, tim davies, mick prokopiw (sp.?) polish tom, eric savage, tony venni, dave berwick, pete lord, eric wall, hughie ashton, nigel hales, “squeaky” neville weathall, mike baldwin, andy “hippy” belcher, mick cook, steve blackmore, dave fuller from oxford, paul godfrey, tony claxton, “sad” bob hill, rainer “herman” boehme, bob hunter, pervy simon dodd and his mate in perversion dan mcloughlin, mitch morris, and off the double teams john & lynn etherington
whoo, have to have a sit down after all that brain exertion
john & lynn etherington ’ I knew John on SCA. Later I heard he went on Croomes. Now you say he was on Murfits…
harry:
john & lynn etherington ’ I knew John on SCA. Later I heard he went on Croomes. Now you say he was on Murfits…
yep i worked a croome’s too but before john left there - he did so because of what he was doing in the boss’s office with the aforementioned lynn, who was married to another driver there at the time
We all know the story & the happy ending ,IE; getting away from Croome’s!!!
Dont forget Lester