matt watson:
Hi chris, Dont know if you have looked on the oil company thread, I have posted some other photos of Globe tankers on there.cheers matt.
Hi Matt, I have posted some pictures of Shaws Fuels and Sykes Bulk Liquids on the photo section they had a depot on the Newbridge Industrial estate in the 70s and 80s as I went up when opened and worked out there for a few weks while they set the drivers on most came from Pollocks as they used to sub contract to Shaws before they opened their own depot when I worked there they had about 15 depots and around 200 wagons. The depot was run by 2 brothers and they built a tank wash there as well which a mate of mine ran and later bought it off them.
cheers Johnnie
P S they have their own thread and then there is the oil company and tanker threads on there.
Dave the Renegade:
Paul’s thread has been lost due to the picture outfit that he used going bust.He is hoping to retrieve them …
Thanks for the “Heads up” Dave – I did find that out when I visited the northwest truck photo site thread.
James
jamesicus:
I really owe everybody an apology for “horning in” on a thread that really belongs to a close-knit group of old mates. I just saw the Thread header and posted that I will be 82 this coming August without reading the other posts. I am new here – I actually joined to find out what happened to Paul Anderson’s Northwest truck photo site. I really liked that site – it held a particular interest for me because I was an apprentice truck cab and body builder at Oswald Tillotson’s, Summit Works, Manchester Rd., Burnley from 1947-1950 – I probably built, or help build, many of the (especially) flat bed bodies depicted in some of the Tillotson built truck photographs on Paul’s site. I also have great interest in British trucking in general. My father was the driver for Economic Gas Boilers of Burnley during the 1930s (up until the outbreak of WWII in 1939 when he went to work for Joseph Lucas). Every week he would make deliveries all over Britain (picking up material such as sheet copper to bring back to Economic). He used to take me with him when possible (even sneaking me away on school days), and I have fond memories of trucking down the Great North Road – standing up in the cab and giving “thumbs up” to the AA patrols.
Economic had three vans: a Leyland, Dodge and Bedford – my Dad drove all three from time to time.
James
hiya,
Believe me good buddy this thread is for anyone who want’s to read the posts or add to the ones already posted and at 82 you are well qualified to be on here you beat me agewise me only being 75, I may have driven some of the motors you worked on having worked for Fearings of Olympia s garage Burnley as a very young driver in the late 50s they had motors bought from Tillotsons I also did a spell for J and E transport who bought most of their vehicles from Summit garage too, welcome to the thread pal and keep posting.
thanks harry long retired.
harry_gill:
… hiya,
Believe me good buddy this thread is for anyone who want’s to read the posts or add to the ones already posted and at 82 you are well qualified to be on here you beat me agewise me only being 75, I may have driven some of the motors you worked on having worked for Fearings of Olympia s garage Burnley as a very young driver in the late 50s they had motors bought from Tillotsons I also did a spell for J and E transport who bought most of their vehicles from Summit garage too, welcome to the thread pal and keep posting.
thanks harry long retired.
Thanks for the warm welcome, Harry. I remember Fearings well – we did indeed build up Lorry bodies for them. Have you ever heard of Economic Gas Boiler Works of Burnley? I would dearly love to unearth some information for I have long since lost all of the Company letter-heads and business cards I had. I even had a photograph of the Leyland Van my Dad drove – all lost now – you know how that goes!
James
jamesicus:
harry_gill:
… hiya,
Believe me good buddy this thread is for anyone who want’s to read the posts or add to the ones already posted and at 82 you are well qualified to be on here you beat me agewise me only being 75, I may have driven some of the motors you worked on having worked for Fearings of Olympia s garage Burnley as a very young driver in the late 50s they had motors bought from Tillotsons I also did a spell for J and E transport who bought most of their vehicles from Summit garage too, welcome to the thread pal and keep posting.
thanks harry long retired.
Thanks for the warm welcome, Harry. I remember Fearings well – we did indeed build up Lorry bodies for them. Have you ever heard of Economic Gas Boiler Works of Burnley? I would dearly love to unearth some information for I have long since lost all of the Company letter-heads and business cards I had. I even had a photograph of the Leyland Van my Dad drove – all lost now – you know how that goes!
James
hiya,
Never heard of the " Economic" James did do work for Bellings but in my time most of the work done by Fearings was via the Hygrade carton works at Nelson i’m not a Burnley lad i lived over the hill in Bacup bit of a journey by bus in those far off days and never allowed to take the motor home even if the motor was loaded for that area he liked the motors in the yard at all times.
thanks harry long retired.
harry_gill:
… Never heard of the " Economic" James did do work for Bellings but in my time most of the work done by Fearings was via the Hygrade carton works at Nelson i’m not a Burnley lad i lived over the hill in Bacup bit of a journey by bus in those far off days and never allowed to take the motor home even if the motor was loaded for that area he liked the motors in the yard at all times.
thanks harry long retired.
Thanks for the response anyway, Harry. Ee by gum! I do know Bacup well! My mother’s family (Baldwins) were from there. I used to be a faithful Burnley LL cricket supporter and always went to Bacup to see the matches whenever we played there. I used to also go to watch Bacup play when Burnley played away for Everton Weekes was one of my favorite batsmen.
Jim
jamesicus:
harry_gill:
… Never heard of the " Economic" James did do work for Bellings but in my time most of the work done by Fearings was via the Hygrade carton works at Nelson i’m not a Burnley lad i lived over the hill in Bacup bit of a journey by bus in those far off days and never allowed to take the motor home even if the motor was loaded for that area he liked the motors in the yard at all times.
thanks harry long retired.
Thanks for the response anyway, Harry. Ee by gum! I do know Bacup well! My mother’s family (Baldwins) were from there. I used to be a faithful Burnley LL cricket supporter and always went to Bacup to see the matches whenever we played there. I used to also go to watch Bacup play when Burnley played away for Everton Weekes was one of my favorite batsmen.
Jim
Looks like your at home already James, you’ve met “Mother Harry” and now can look forward to the fearsome old “Grandfather Bewick” 
. Us little one’s will just be here playing round the fire waiting for “gramps” to fall asleep so we can rifle his pockets and tie his bootlaces together. regards kevmac47.
kevmac47:
jamesicus:
harry_gill:
… Never heard of the " Economic" James did do work for Bellings but in my time most of the work done by Fearings was via the Hygrade carton works at Nelson i’m not a Burnley lad i lived over the hill in Bacup bit of a journey by bus in those far off days and never allowed to take the motor home even if the motor was loaded for that area he liked the motors in the yard at all times.
thanks harry long retired.
Thanks for the response anyway, Harry. Ee by gum! I do know Bacup well! My mother’s family (Baldwins) were from there. I used to be a faithful Burnley LL cricket supporter and always went to Bacup to see the matches whenever we played there. I used to also go to watch Bacup play when Burnley played away for Everton Weekes was one of my favorite batsmen.
Jim
Looks like your at home already James, you’ve met “Mother Harry” and now can look forward to the fearsome old “Grandfather Bewick” . Us little one’s will just be here playing round the fire waiting for “gramps” to fall asleep so we can rifle his pockets and tie his bootlaces together. regards kevmac47.
hiya,
“Mother Harry” indeed, I’ll have you know I’m a former rufty tufty lorry driver, Kev I’m going to send you a PM with my phone number I don’t know how to text if I’d had that sort of knowledge I might have decided on a career as a brain surgeon and then i would have had to miss out on the get togethers they are my only escape route from the missus.
thanks harry long retired.
jamesicus:
harry_gill:
… Never heard of the " Economic" James did do work for Bellings but in my time most of the work done by Fearings was via the Hygrade carton works at Nelson i’m not a Burnley lad i lived over the hill in Bacup bit of a journey by bus in those far off days and never allowed to take the motor home even if the motor was loaded for that area he liked the motors in the yard at all times.
thanks harry long retired.
Thanks for the response anyway, Harry. Ee by gum! I do know Bacup well! My mother’s family (Baldwins) were from there. I used to be a faithful Burnley LL cricket supporter and always went to Bacup to see the matches whenever we played there. I used to also go to watch Bacup play when Burnley played away for Everton Weekes was one of my favorite batsmen.
Jim
Hiya,
Bacup cricket club I was in the clubhouse not long ago for a drink or two with my brother who has remained a Bacupian all his life and he uses the cricket clubhouse as his local watering hole I left the town when i was about 25, 50 years ago but do remember Everton Weekes he had a cycle sales and parts shop in Bacup but I was never into cricket so only went in there for puncture repair kits and bits for the old pushbike when still a youngster never discussed cricket although I do know the man was regarded as a legend when playing for the town, most unusual to see a coloured person in that area in those days.
thanks harry long retired.
harry_gill:
… Bacup cricket club I was in the clubhouse not long ago for a drink or two with my brother who has remained a Bacupian all his life and he uses the cricket clubhouse as his local watering hole I left the town when i was about 25, 50 years ago but do remember Everton Weekes he had a cycle sales and parts shop in Bacup but I was never into cricket so only went in there for puncture repair kits and bits for the old pushbike when still a youngster never discussed cricket although I do know the man was regarded as a legend when playing for the town, most unusual to see a coloured person in that area in those days.
thanks harry long retired.
Yes, Harry, there was an influx of West Indies and Indian Test Cricket Professionals right after the end of WWII. Pre-war there were very few coloured people in Industrial East Lancashire – again mostly Professionals in the Lancashire League. There was Manny Martindale at Burnley, Leary Constantine at Nelson and George Hadley at Haslingdon. The Martindales lived three houses down from my Pickering grandparents – they had two boys (Fred and Colin) and three girls. I went to school with Fred and used to play cricket after school with both Martindale boys. A side note: I got an e-mail from one of Fred’s daughters a little while ago asking me for childhood remembrances of her father and grandfather. Fred died a few years ago and of course her grandfather died a long time ago. Leah Martindale is a fine young woman - she swam on the West Indies Olympic team – graduated from the University of Florida – now teaches and coaches swimming.
Jim
jamesicus:
Norman Ingram:
Jim , the reason Harry is happy to welcome you to our fold is now you are the oldest he thinks we will stop calling him a old man …
… but if your not a trucker, we can still call him a old lorry driver. 
I am indeed not a Trucker, Norman, but I suspect Harry has been called a lot worse than an old lorry driver in his lifetime! 
Jim
hiya,
Hate the term"trucker" i was only ever a lorry driver now Norman a mere youngster of only 74 likes to regard himself as a trucker i’ve a feeling his dad was a G I who visited our shores before world war 2 started but please don’t tell him he’s easily upset and he might just cross my name off the cruise he’s promised some of us on here. PS would get barred of here if I had to print and post the names i’ve been tendered in my lifetime and that’s only by the Missus.
thanks harry long retired.
harry_gill:
jamesicus:
Norman Ingram:
Jim , the reason Harry is happy to welcome you to our fold is now you are the oldest he thinks we will stop calling him a old man …
… but if your not a trucker, we can still call him a old lorry driver.
I am indeed not a Trucker, Norman, but I suspect Harry has been called a lot worse than an old lorry driver in his lifetime!
Jim
hiya,
Hate the term"trucker" i was only ever a lorry driver now Norman a mere youngster of only 74 likes to regard himself as a trucker i’ve a feeling his dad was a G I who visited our shores before world war 2 started but please don’t tell him he’s easily upset and he might just cross my name off the cruise he’s promised some of us on here. PS would get barred of here if I had to print and post the names i’ve been tendered in my lifetime and that’s only by the Missus.
thanks harry long retired.
I go along with Jim and yourself on the description of driving a large goods vehicle,as a lorry driver.As stated by a lot of us, trucks are small van derived vehicles.I was a lorry driver.It says also on my birth certificate Father lorry driver.
Cheers Dave.
Hi Dave,
Totally agree with you on the lorry subject, it would seem from what Harry is saying that Norm’s birth certificate may have Father-Some Soldiers !! 
Hope you and Tracy are keeping well.
Regards
Richard
MaggieD:
Hi Dave,
Totally agree with you on the lorry subject, it would seem from what Harry is saying that Norm’s birth certificate may have Father-Some Soldiers !!
Hope you and Tracy are keeping well.
Regards
Richard
Hi Richard,
We are both fine.Tracy is in Tenby for the week with her family,me and the do are in temporary charge this week .
Norm went over the water,so perhaps he was brainwashed into calling himself a trucker .
Cheers Dave.
hi all “lorry drivers” and james, i’m a new member, but i am a retired lorry driver! 66 years old as of of today!! does that mean i can join the thread? i hope it doesn’t offend anybody but i’m from the south-east! kent the garden of england so they say, anyway i’ve watching this thread with interest, thought i’d jump in and see what happens! tee cee65
Hi teecee,
Good to have you aboard,we could do with a few tales from your neck of the woods,also your experiences on the road and life in general.
Cheers Dave.
teecee65:
hi all “lorry drivers” and james, i’m a new member, but i am a retired lorry driver! 66 years old as of of today!! does that mean i can join the thread? i hope it doesn’t offend anybody but i’m from the south-east! kent the garden of england so they say, anyway i’ve watching this thread with interest, thought i’d jump in and see what happens! tee cee65
hiya,
Welcome onboard TC everybody welcome to the loony bin of course you don’t have to be mental to be associated with this lot but i’m sure you’ll find being a bit crazy will help, hope to hear more from you, by the way nice part of the world where you live long time since i was down there.
thanks harry long retired.
teecee65:
hi all “lorry drivers” and james, i’m a new member, but i am a retired lorry driver! 66 years old as of of today!! does that mean i can join the thread? i hope it doesn’t offend anybody but i’m from the south-east! kent the garden of england so they say, anyway i’ve watching this thread with interest, thought i’d jump in and see what happens! tee cee65
Hi teecee and welcome,no discrimination on here,even “sarf east” lads allowed.Are you a Man of Kent or a Kentish Man,summat to do with north and south of Medway or Stour I think.Photos are always welcome and a bit of banter. 
Chris