Cockney Pete3:
Anyone remember Critchlows? ran canary yellow ERFs in the 80s■■?
Hi Pete,
Yeh I remember them, I think their trucks were also maroon colour at one time, I remember loading with them at John Thompsons (later Rockwell) in W-ton. The firm I worked for Thomas Ingles hauled trailer beam axles and Foden axle casings, Critchlows took the Albion axle casings to Scotstoun. One of their big j’s with a 180 gardner had a turbo fitted to it as an experiment, after a trip to Scotland I asked the driver (lenny?) what it went like? His reply had me in stitches he said it was like any other 180 gardner bloody gutless, the only other difference was that it whistled. I think they may have done a lot of work for Shelton steelworks.
yeh your’e talking about jack critchlow & you are right trev he did a lot out of shelton & they were at one time maroon guy big js, then changed to erf & changed colour to the yellow.
i live just round the corner from his old yard which has coaches in it now, but the critchlows transport sign is still there.
i think his grandson phil critchlow used to have his own waggon ( erf ec 14 olimpic )but now i belive he sold it & now works for arclid transport driving a xf105, he was in one of the trucking or truck & driver magazines a month or so ago.
tetragaz:
your right 240 gardner, there was mick bailey & n & j bailey who used to run out of the same yard in canel lane, longport also t m green ran out of there aswell he had 3 erf’s they were just all blue motors, then mick bailey moved to canel street, longport where he runs his concrete business from now, well next door actually.
as asked before has anybody got any janerite pics please as i need some for a model project
cheers
gaz
i worked for mick for a few years in the garage when he was down the back of platts tiles terry green also had a foden what bob used to drive only remember him having 2 erf’s though . mick was married to jack critchlows daughter june .
terry only had 2 erfs a day cab a series which he drove and a big cab b series (which was very quick) which tony drove and a foden sleeper which i drove after the foden i had a new s/a 401 then later a scania 143 terry was a cracking boss of the old school before he ordered the scania he asked what motor did i want i replied that i didnt want a bl**dy erf.doing agency work now working with kenny hawksworth while sorting out a move to france
tetragaz:
your right 240 gardner, there was mick bailey & n & j bailey who used to run out of the same yard in canel lane, longport also t m green ran out of there aswell he had 3 erf’s they were just all blue motors, then mick bailey moved to canel street, longport where he runs his concrete business from now, well next door actually.
as asked before has anybody got any janerite pics please as i need some for a model project
cheers
gaz
i worked for mick for a few years in the garage when he was down the back of platts tiles terry green also had a foden what bob used to drive only remember him having 2 erf’s though . mick was married to jack critchlows daughter june .
terry only had 2 erfs a day cab a series which he drove and a big cab b series (which was very quick) which tony drove and a foden sleeper which i drove after the foden i had a new s/a 401 then later a scania 143 terry was a cracking boss of the old school before he ordered the scania he asked what motor did i want i replied that i didnt want a bl**dy erf.doing agency work now working with kenny hawksworth while sorting out a move to france
tetragaz:
your right 240 gardner, there was mick bailey & n & j bailey who used to run out of the same yard in canel lane, longport also t m green ran out of there aswell he had 3 erf’s they were just all blue motors, then mick bailey moved to canel street, longport where he runs his concrete business from now, well next door actually.
as asked before has anybody got any janerite pics please as i need some for a model project
cheers
gaz
i worked for mick for a few years in the garage when he was down the back of platts tiles terry green also had a foden what bob used to drive only remember him having 2 erf’s though . mick was married to jack critchlows daughter june .
terry only had 2 erfs a day cab a series which he drove and a big cab b series (which was very quick) which tony drove and a foden sleeper which i drove after the foden i had a new s/a 401 then later a scania 143 terry was a cracking boss of the old school before he ordered the scania he asked what motor did i want i replied that i didnt want a bl**dy erf.doing agency work now working with kenny hawksworth while sorting out a move to france
you must be bob then ?
yeah thats right ive been scratching my head but i cant figure out who you might be !! ive got a terrible memory
tetragaz:
your right 240 gardner, there was mick bailey & n & j bailey who used to run out of the same yard in canel lane, longport also t m green ran out of there aswell he had 3 erf’s they were just all blue motors, then mick bailey moved to canel street, longport where he runs his concrete business from now, well next door actually.
as asked before has anybody got any janerite pics please as i need some for a model project
cheers
gaz
i worked for mick for a few years in the garage when he was down the back of platts tiles terry green also had a foden what bob used to drive only remember him having 2 erf’s though . mick was married to jack critchlows daughter june .
terry only had 2 erfs a day cab a series which he drove and a big cab b series (which was very quick) which tony drove and a foden sleeper which i drove after the foden i had a new s/a 401 then later a scania 143 terry was a cracking boss of the old school before he ordered the scania he asked what motor did i want i replied that i didnt want a bl**dy erf.doing agency work now working with kenny hawksworth while sorting out a move to france
you must be bob then ?
yeah thats right ive been scratching my head but i cant figure out who you might be !! ive got a terrible memory
i worked for mick for a while .so you will know me .didn’t you have a triumph stag ?
tetragaz:
your right 240 gardner, there was mick bailey & n & j bailey who used to run out of the same yard in canel lane, longport also t m green ran out of there aswell he had 3 erf’s they were just all blue motors, then mick bailey moved to canel street, longport where he runs his concrete business from now, well next door actually.
as asked before has anybody got any janerite pics please as i need some for a model project
cheers
gaz
i worked for mick for a few years in the garage when he was down the back of platts tiles terry green also had a foden what bob used to drive only remember him having 2 erf’s though . mick was married to jack critchlows daughter june .
terry only had 2 erfs a day cab a series which he drove and a big cab b series (which was very quick) which tony drove and a foden sleeper which i drove after the foden i had a new s/a 401 then later a scania 143 terry was a cracking boss of the old school before he ordered the scania he asked what motor did i want i replied that i didnt want a bl**dy erf.doing agency work now working with kenny hawksworth while sorting out a move to france
you must be bob then ?
yeah thats right ive been scratching my head but i cant figure out who you might be !! ive got a terrible memory
i worked for mick for a while .so you will know me .didn’t you have a triumph stag ?
yeah a blue one. funnily enough i passed mick in his landcruiser on the 500 last week hes looking old now
tetragaz:
your right 240 gardner, there was mick bailey & n & j bailey who used to run out of the same yard in canel lane, longport also t m green ran out of there aswell he had 3 erf’s they were just all blue motors, then mick bailey moved to canel street, longport where he runs his concrete business from now, well next door actually.
as asked before has anybody got any janerite pics please as i need some for a model project
cheers
gaz
i worked for mick for a few years in the garage when he was down the back of platts tiles terry green also had a foden what bob used to drive only remember him having 2 erf’s though . mick was married to jack critchlows daughter june .
terry only had 2 erfs a day cab a series which he drove and a big cab b series (which was very quick) which tony drove and a foden sleeper which i drove after the foden i had a new s/a 401 then later a scania 143 terry was a cracking boss of the old school before he ordered the scania he asked what motor did i want i replied that i didnt want a bl**dy erf.doing agency work now working with kenny hawksworth while sorting out a move to france
you must be bob then ?
yeah thats right ive been scratching my head but i cant figure out who you might be !! ive got a terrible memory
i worked for mick for a while .so you will know me .didn’t you have a triumph stag ?
yeah a blue one. funnily enough i passed mick in his landcruiser on the 500 last week hes looking old now
Hiya …Danial Platt brown roadtrains who has some pikkies of them.I did a few loads on Harrisons for platts.while I am on what
about Downings bricks.IICR they was pale blue with red chassis. I had a hiab i was always in their yards around the potterys.
I was in there yard nr trubshire cross, one of Millars (irelande) was in there he had a steel plate in a fridge that was 7ft wide
and 30 ft long and 3 inches thick and he was trying to put 20 tons of bricks on top of the plate via the ramp.
John
Hiya… flying foden was it micky bailey who had the steel cab ERFs■■? one morning one of his drivers was hit by a TNT /Wilkinsons lorry
about 3 miles south of jct 15 one morning and lost his life. His dad also drove for the same outffit on local work and his dad was in walsall
or near their. They got the old man to go to Derby for a load that did,nt exsist so he would come home a differnt way and not see the crash.
That was a bad day as i knew the lad from the Stoke area.
John
3300John:
Hiya… flying foden was it micky bailey who had the steel cab ERFs■■? one morning one of his drivers was hit by a TNT /Wilkinsons lorry
about 3 miles south of jct 15 one morning and lost his life. His dad also drove for the same outffit on local work and his dad was in walsall
or near their. They got the old man to go to Derby for a load that did,nt exsist so he would come home a differnt way and not see the crash.
That was a bad day as i knew the lad from the Stoke area.
John
you got part of that one correct John. the lad was a family friend of mine my parent went drinking with his parent and i went to school with him .his name was Tim parkinson .god bless him . his dad didn’t work for Mick .Len was a driver for calor gas. a very tragic accident which ended a young mans life .enough on that one from me .
Good to see the old colours,cannot believe none of the other drivers from our Dads time at BET are not on here.
Spoke to my Dad he does remember Mr Knapkin Snr,will see if I can get some photos off him and post on here.
Found another photo of a BET this one is with a subbie pulling a box van
Guys don,t know why or what i might of done wrong but the pics have gone they were downloaded but not from photobucket they were from my computer help pls if you can
Who was the company based inbetween Caverswall Castle and Catchems Corner, my dad seems to recall they used to go everywhere, before my time but he always used to tell me and IIRC a driver I used to work with says he used to work there.
IIRC its got an old Bassets Van trailer in the yard now.
Ben9:
Who was the company based inbetween Caverswall Castle and Catchems Corner, my dad seems to recall they used to go everywhere, before my time but he always used to tell me and IIRC a driver I used to work with says he used to work there.
IIRC its got an old Bassets Van trailer in the yard now.
