Anyone remember a firm from Essex called Nellen and Quack? Green Globetrotter and matching supercube tilt, they did groupage to Germany and I think had a place in Munster? I used to sometimes see one of their blokes in Birch services down the pub, mid 1980’s?
Great name, always made me smile.
Mark.
I thought Nellen & Quack were a German firm?
You must be right, i just seem to remember Essex for some reason too, but Munster sticks in my mind. I can’t recall if the Globetrotter was UK reg or German?
cheers.
Im sure they had an F6 rigid on UK deliveries too but I cant for the life of me remember the drivers name other than that he was a radio amateur.
dieseldog6:
I thought Nellen & Quack were a German firm?
You were correct,still going but not as big I think.They used to be all over west yorks in 70s when we still had a textile industry.Still see a few in ruhrgebeit 
or maybe one a few times 
I.I.R.C. there were two German transport companies in the eighties called Nellan and Quack.
One had a black livery who ran mainly Mercedes and I think that they were from Northern Germany, possible Munster. On their trucks the writing used to say Nellen and Quack " The Black Line " . In fact if you ever watch "Aufweidersehen Pet " at the beginning of every programme it shows Wayne the Cockney carpenter hitch hiking on the autobahn and one of N & Q, The Black Line stops and gives him a lift.
Nellan and Quack known as the Green Line who had light green motors with a yellow stripe were from the town of Grunau on the Dutch / German border. The trucks were German registered and they had mainly Dutch drivers. Two of the drivers I seem to remember were a bloke in his thirties called Gerrit or Gert and a tall big built fellow called Koos.
They used to come over to the U.K. every week doing groupage and mainly textiles, some times doing two trips a week.
Maybe Bert Wolters the Frans Mass guy knows some thing about them.
mushroomman:
I.I.R.C. there were two German transport companies in the eighties called Nellan and Quack.
One had a black livery who ran mainly Mercedes and I think that they were from Northern Germany, possible Munster. On their trucks the writing used to say Nellen and Quack " The Black Line " . In fact if you ever watch "Aufweidersehen Pet " at the beginning of every programme it shows Wayne the Cockney carpenter hitch hiking on the autobahn and one of N & Q, The Black Line stops and gives him a lift.Nellan and Quack known as the Green Line who had light green motors with a yellow stripe were from the town of Grunau on the Dutch / German border. The trucks were German registered and they had mainly Dutch drivers. Two of the drivers I seem to remember were a bloke in his thirties called Gerrit or Gert and a tall big built fellow called Koos.
They used to come over to the U.K. every week doing groupage and mainly textiles, some times doing two trips a week.Maybe Bert Wolters the Frans Mass guy knows some thing about them.
i worked for panalpina in hull and we worked in partnership with nellen and quack black trucks in monchengladbach, the green trucks were from gronau depot. we loaded groupage every friday there,they loaded in hull and bradford panalpina
mushroomman:
I.I.R.C. there were two German transport companies in the eighties called Nellan and Quack.
One had a black livery who ran mainly Mercedes and I think that they were from Northern Germany, possible Munster. On their trucks the writing used to say Nellen and Quack " The Black Line " . In fact if you ever watch "Aufweidersehen Pet " at the beginning of every programme it shows Wayne the Cockney carpenter hitch hiking on the autobahn and one of N & Q, The Black Line stops and gives him a lift.
sorry MM i’m going to have to out-anorak you here, wayne gets a lift with a blue merc sk in the colours of heinrich koch from osnabruck
nellen & quack the green line were indeed from gronau, just on the dutch border
mushroomman:
I.I.R.C. there were two German transport companies in the eighties called Nellan and Quack.
One had a black livery who ran mainly Mercedes and I think that they were from Northern Germany, possible Munster. On their trucks the writing used to say Nellen and Quack " The Black Line " . In fact if you ever watch "Aufweidersehen Pet " at the beginning of every programme it shows Wayne the Cockney carpenter hitch hiking on the autobahn and one of N & Q, The Black Line stops and gives him a lift.
sorry MM i’m going to have to out-anorak you here, wayne gets a lift with a blue merc sk in the colours of heinrich koch from osnabruck
nellen & quack the green line were indeed from gronau, just on the dutch border
jj72:
mushroomman:
I.I.R.C. there were two German transport companies in the eighties called Nellan and Quack.
One had a black livery who ran mainly Mercedes and I think that they were from Northern Germany, possible Munster. On their trucks the writing used to say Nellen and Quack " The Black Line " . In fact if you ever watch "Aufweidersehen Pet " at the beginning of every programme it shows Wayne the Cockney carpenter hitch hiking on the autobahn and one of N & Q, The Black Line stops and gives him a lift.sorry MM i’m going to have to out-anorak you here, wayne gets a lift with a blue merc sk in the colours of heinrich koch from osnabruck
nellen & quack the green line were indeed from gronau, just on the dutch border
jj72, please delete the word anorak, insert the words fountain of knowledge. 
Thanks for that Andy, you are probably right it was a loooooooooong time ago when I last saw " Auf weidersehan Pet ". 
I also think that JACKAL is right and that the Black Merc’s came from Monchen Gladbach.
In fact thinking about it now, were they called The Gold Line. 
Getting back to Brookie’s original post, I do remember seeing a green Globetrotter in N & Q colours with a U.K. rego but I have a feeling that he was a U.K. based subbie. That would of been around 1985 to about 1990, I think.
Regards Steve.
thegreenline.de/en/home.cfm Take a look here
you’re right mushrooman with the years 1985-90. Well remembered. I’m sure he was an Essex lad.
Talking to my mate last night and he reminded me that Stirpark based at Riffa near Otley had a Daf and now a Premium all painted in N&Q colours.
It used to or still runs out to Germany each week - loaded out by Redheads in Bradford and back by N&Q.
Sorry no pics though.
my mate Nick Eagle is having trouble uploading photos and posting them on T’net so on his behalf, here are his words and a couple of his pics:
I’ve just been reading a thread about Nellen and Quack on Trucknet, when I was on Seabourne their yard in Monchengladbach was a regular haunt, they were Seabournes German agent and like most places it was a case of tipping the import groupage one side of the warehouse early morning and load their exports the opposite side in the afternoon, if there was anything for Dusseldorf we had to go and tip that once N&Q had unloaded the imports.
We used Elmpt border near RAF Bruggen, the German border guards were brilliant, my first time through they helped me fill out the paperwork and put me right with diesel allowances, I don’t think anyone had that kind of help at Aachen!!
I’m sure it’ll remind somebody of the Mercs!! it was the year when they started painting the new ones black.
