bumper:
hi franky, think alfie ellis owned a farm somewhere around corbridge area, thats where they operated from, new some of the lads that worked for him, can’t remember all their names bruce cunningham.R-I-P only know the rest by first name, ozy lived at crawcrook, jacky he was from same area, think hedley twizzel was another, anyway they all went to elddis with the motors, will try and find out who the other drivers were, bumper
sorry i have been of for a while eye problems now ozy is osca Hamil still lives in crawcrook as far as i know his son worked for CRS at prudhoe mill as a loader not sure where he is now last i new he worked for elldis doing same at prudhoe. not sure but jackie could be little jackie from winlaton worked trancontinetal for tt walkers had some laughs with him . funny as hell
A couple of Allinson’s from the mid 90’s and Phil Websters Merc artic unit taken in 96 might have been his first artic he now has two a MAN and a Renault.regards prattman.
Back to Norwood Transport, The Ozzie you are referring to was Ozzie Hanmer and sadly he died last year,he worked for Norwood with Brian Hogarth, Angus Crozier and Jessie from Acomb and a few more, not sure how many they had their as it wasn’t that big a place. My mate Jimmy Blackburn asked me to say hello to everyone for him as Jim hasn’t a computer.
bozziedog:
Back to Norwood Transport, The Ozzie you are referring to was Ozzie Hanmer and sadly he died last year,he worked for Norwood with Brian Hogarth, Angus Crozier and Jessie from Acomb and a few more, not sure how many they had their as it wasn’t that big a place. My mate Jimmy Blackburn asked me to say hello to everyone for him as Jim hasn’t a computer.
i your right just asked about him this morning tell jimmy john asking after him worked night trunk with jimmy at CRS he used to run with aden and i ran with mac but we both ended up late one night coming from trowel, with new scaniers before speed limiters we were doing 80 up m1 nearly blew camper van of road great days heed
Nice to see a pic of Phil Webster’s Merc, I thought I’d seen a MAN outfit the other day belonging to him. Me and Phil went to school together and when I left school 1968 and got the Apprentice Fitter job at Alfie Ellis they told me another lad from my school also had a job, I was chuffed to see it was Phil when we started Monday morning and about two weeks later another mate Ritchie Hewitt started there too, we had some good laughs in the 18 months or so we were there and then went our separate ways. Ritchie went to Rutherford Brothers and Phil to Turk Plant Hire where he stayed involved with plant since then. After my stint in the Army 1980 and now working at Van Hee Phil pulled in the yard with an old D Series he’d bought, moving Forklifts and small plant about, we had a good chat and he was determined to make a go of it and to be honest he must be one of the longest surviving small transport companies that started early Eighties and is still going. Lovely lad too, must call in and see him some day, I never saw Ritchie again after leaving Ellis’s, I’d love to know what he got up to, happy days. Franky.
Kenny, I think your looking for Kenny Smith. Also remember Geordie Leanard hope that’s spelt correct. Also remember Nigel and like you can,t remember his second name either. Think he might of been at Wrighty’s with you.
greek:
Jacky Copeland had some canny hosses but you needed them, he also had a few characters working for him Joe Geary , Wardy, Kenny & one or 2 others but the grey cells wont work Kennys surname gone as well but somebody on here will come up with it imupforit / Alan possibly.
prattman:
Here’s a few more J R Youngs. regards prattman.
Great Photos Mr P. I used to do a bit of Lime for Them in the earley 70s mostley on a Sat/Sun up to Ravencencecraig works , Or To farms in the Lanarkshire region JRY Allways paid on the dot, That’s when I made a few bob as an owner driver, I also worked for Tilcon out of their quarry at Blaydon, Bob Balmer was the man in the w/bridge He was tops IMO, He was a great fellow to know as Im sure anyone who Is still about will agree with me, Regards Larry.
hiya,
Haven’t been near the Quayside for many moons but have memories of using
the Milk Marketing Board weighbridge awful set-up that was, drop the trailer
every time, surely that’s long gone, if not it should be.
thanks harry, long retired.
harry_gill:
hiya,
Haven’t been near the Quayside for many moons but have memories of using
the Milk Marketing Board weighbridge awful set-up that was, drop the trailer
every time, surely that’s long gone, if not it should be.
thanks harry, long retired.
Aye Harry it was removed a long time ago, The fellow who operated was a real Pheasant Plucker he moaned about something every I went in I refused to tare off my trailer for each load, I told the goon the trailer would be the same weight , What a set to with the silly old bugger, It took a visit from the shipping agent to put him in his place, Regards Larry.
seth 70:
what happened to oughtred harrison ,used to allways see them in normans at brotherton
I don’t know what happened to them but I can remember them having a depot on the Tyne Tunnel Trading Estate, & Also a one in Yorkshire somewhere, Regards Larry.
i think it was hull,they used to do tea from ringtons somewhere up newcastle down to south kirkby and had a few trucks in their colours,stobart got that contract and thats the last i saw of them.
norman irvine used to pull their trailers aswell,i think he used to work in transport office ,i could be wrong
Norman was in the transport office was he not the Transport manager too, they used to do the tea from ringtons at the top of Shields road Byker and the
soft drinks from Durham ,coca cola i think the F7 Volvo day cab the Green godess used to run back and forth from durham to T.T.T.E .
nice little motor it was
i was only in my twentys and got to know some drivers well ,there was one called tommy who really took me under his wing,the job revolved in round the best place to get a good pint ,i think there were 3 f10 and rest were fls ,all were good lads
hi gazza25 here when i worked at fergys iam sure there was a driver that worked for o/h he used to come in to blyth harbour to load reels .( f troop alec )will probly know his name i think it was derek sure he work for pringles christan bank aswell also there is a lad that works in our tpt office coop birtley alex carrinton ? he worked there aswell as jp bells,newcastle brewaries hays ,
TTB:
Jackie had a impressive Fleet at one point i can recall at least two 111s and maybe a 141 and a 112 or maybe two its long ago plus at least one 142 and the two shunters witch were a daycab 110 this ended up in Barry Emerys minus its cab and the other shunter was a Atki Borderer.I recall even the cage trailers for the pipes were always painted up smart as well The last time i saw jackies last unit it was in Kevin Dixons in 2006.I have posted a pic but sorry about the quality as i dont have a scanner.
I remember when he ran under his own name (same livery) and pulled for C B Chastneys when they were still in Sunderland. When he became Whitstage he had a LHD Scania 141 (V reg) that looked like it started life in the Netherlands. He had 2 142s Y and A reg, all of them used to pull paper out of Sunderland on a Sunday afternoon. Looked quite impressive then as he always had plenty of marker lights around the cabs back then and they didn’t hang about.
On a different note does anyone remember W S Winter from Houghton le Spring, had a couple of Scanias (111) and an Atki Borderer?
used to run back and forth from durham to T.T.T.E .
