Old North East haulage companies (Part 1)

[lawrence_dunbar]

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[pete_smith]

A Mc Phee’s advert out of a Wolverhampton trade magazine,1968 to 1970 ish, Cheers Pete

[servo88]

[lawrence_dunbar]

The late Tommy Dodds MK5 AEC, Regards Larry.

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The late Tommy Dodds Guy, Regards Larry.

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[keith8357]

blackbox:
Hi the billy you are thinking of is billy reeve he was workshop forman when him and norman came in on the Saturday morning after been on the drink in wrekington Friday night the criac was great daft lads. Still drive a saab keith send my regards to barry if you see him cheers benny

i will do will be seeing barry this weekend this is what i drive now been here 12 years was walon,autologic then stobart, been on car transporters since 1989

[servo88]

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[keith8357]

blackbox:
Hi the billy you are thinking of is billy reeve he was workshop forman when him and norman came in on the Saturday morning after been on the drink in wrekington Friday night the criac was great daft lads. Still drive a saab keith send my regards to barry if you see him cheers benny

barrie might be joining us if he gets his finger out, been to see him today and told him to register on here, see what happens

[greek]

Hello Kieth How you doing? remember us both applying to Holmans when they were in the process of biulding Nissan bloody lifetime ago.

[lr_man]

Here are few photos of my good friend John Gornall’s motors from the late 70’s

[lr_man]

John Gornalls Bedford KM 6x2 was a special modified when new by ■■■■■■■ at Darlington. They fitted a ■■■■■■■ 555 V8 for testing and was some machine!

[greek]

Remember parking one night with Jeff Suddes when on for Gornals, he had one of the Fodens Day Cab. Had to laugh at his night Heater one of them catalytic things would have frightened the life out of me especialy after having a few.

[lawrence_dunbar]

Hi Greek, We had two of these heaters in our Leyland day cab Clydesdales, the certainly kept us warm but as you say they were scary things, I don’t think they would be legal nowadays, Regards Larry.

[servo88]

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[night_shift_bri]

Was talking to a mate of mine the other day and he was telling me that when he worked at the DSS they got sent home early if it was snowing. I told him in 35 years of driving wagons I never got sent home cos the weather was too bad, just got told to get on with it. It’s still the same no doubt. No health and safety for wagon drivers then.

This was winter 2010, A1M just north of the 690 turn off, just left Washington on the way to Nottingham to do a changeover and everything at a stop. Oh well only another 140 miles to go.