Yes used to come into our local too, happier days.
Most of our local Pubs had Shell Fish stalls outside and on Sunday afternoons a chap come around the streets with a Handcart selling Shrimps, Whelks, Winkles, Crabsticks and Jellied Eels, I like Jellied Eels to this day wasn’t too keen on the rest, I think everything apart from the Eels and Crabsticks were sold by the Pint…
Ray
A company from Southport called Kershaws supplied the seafood to Sheffield area pubs and clubs.
They bought whelks,cockles etc in bulk from Van Smirren, a Boston Lincs firm and were transported in a SWB Commer TS3 tipper which I had a lift in when in RAF early 60s.
Kershaws also had links in the Thames Estuary Leigh on sea cockling trade.
What would you call that Dig? A Body A-Triple? Super efficient anyway.
Thanks Buzzer bit above my pay grade these days I think on my next birthday they are going to take my MC [multi combination ] licence away.
Spardo [David]
I would call it a body truck and 3.Your old employer had numerous of them at the time i arrived in the north,2 of the 8wheeler body trucks [one was called the High and Mighty the other I believe was the King and I] were all double deckers scary when you saw them coming your way on the road if it was the sealed roads it was best to give them all the road as they didn’t give much themselves and you couldn’t blame them as to put them off the edge of the sealed sent the trailers off on a bit of a whip about.
Dig
What would you call that Dig? A Body A-Triple? Super efficient anyway.
Thanks Buzzer bit above my pay grade these days I think on my next birthday they are going to take my MC [multi combination ] licence away.
Spardo [David]
I would call it a body truck and 3.Your old employer had numerous of them at the time i arrived in the north,2 of the 8wheeler body trucks [one was called the High and Mighty the other I believe was the King and I] were all double deckers scary when you saw them coming your way on the road if it was the sealed roads it was best to give them all the road as they didn’t give much themselves and you couldn’t blame them as to put them off the edge of the sealed sent the trailers off on a bit of a whip about.
Dig
He was fond of that name, High and the Mighty, Dig, he had used it before my time on a Mack I think. When I was there he had a 6 wheel body truck (Mack B61) and 2, George’s truck that I have mentioned to you before, in which I did some of my ‘training’
Edit. Just checked, well before my time, in his early days. It was a B61 and he ran it with an elderly Foden and a Diamond T that he borrowed from Kurt Johanssen. Noel regarded Kurt as a ‘mechanical genius’ based largely on the fact of frequent breakdowns of the DT and that he only had to call Kurt who would ‘fix the problem in minutes’. Doesn’t say how he got him from one end of the Territory to the other though.
Buzzer …classic shot of the W G Davies Marathons …" WG" had about 6 of them …in the background is “Swansea Jack” named after a pub …the name was later transferred to a Hino artic …as i say great shot with the old Morriston gas works as well !! …Geraint
Buzzer …classic shot of the W G Davies Marathons …" WG" had about 6 of them …in the background is “Swansea Jack” named after a pub …the name was later transferred to a Hino artic …as i say great shot with the old Morriston gas works as well !! …Geraint
An Albion 16ton flat lorry of Robertson Buckley & Co Ltd seen in Northgate, Chester city centre in 1965.
I seem to remember that Robertson Buckley had depots in various locations throughout the country,
including Liverpool. This Albion has a 1964 Liverpool number plate. I have tried to find some history of
Robertson Buckley, but so far, nothing. The ERF at the rear is from from Scottish & Newcastle brewery.
Ray Smyth:
An Albion 16ton flat lorry of Robertson Buckley & Co Ltd seen in Northgate, Chester city centre in 1965.
I seem to remember that Robertson Buckley had depots in various locations throughout the country,
including Liverpool. This Albion has a 1964 Liverpool number plate. I have tried to find some history of
Robertson Buckley, but so far, nothing. The ERF at the rear is from from Scottish & Newcastle brewery.
Ray Smyth.
When I was on nights for MFS at Maltby I very often got a Littlewoods Chester delivery after doing Ellesmere Port if room on 4-wheeler.The run was done with a wagon and drag via a trailer change at our Altrincham depot,but both drops had to be done off the 4-wheeler.I used to drop the trailer on Northgate Street Chester in early hours and drive down a narrow alley into a yard where the store bay was. There was a skip outside always full of cardboard and “Ambrose” the resident tramp didn’t take kindly to being awakened,muttering and moaning as he reared up out of the skip.One morning I drove out to reverse onto “A” frame and there was a body lying on road,with somebody trying to revive it.Turned out the bloke was ■■■■■■ and fell over A frame,but his mate eventually revived him and they both staggered off into the darkness,covered in grease off dolly eye.
A couple of photos of the wagon and drags I used.
Chris, I have just had a look on Google Earth at the location, and I think that Greasy ■■■■■■■■ who fell on to your
A Frame had probably been in the Commercial Hotel pub or The Victoria which were about 100 yards up the side
alley way near to where the Scottish & Newcastle ERF is parked on Northgate. These two pubs are in a traffic free
square. I imagine that the S & N brewery driver and his mate took quite a while to get the delivery up the long
alley, and the empty kegs and crates of empty bottles back to their lorry. It makes me wonder if they were based
at Newcastle, or was there a warehouse and depot somewhere in the Northwest. Cheers, Mines a pint.
Ray Smyth:
Chris, I have just had a look on Google Earth at the location, and I think that Greasy ■■■■■■■■ who fell on to your
A Frame had probably been in the Commercial Hotel pub or The Victoria which were about 100 yards up the side
alley way near to where the Scottish & Newcastle ERF is parked on Northgate. These two pubs are in a traffic free
square. I imagine that the S & N brewery driver and his mate took quite a while to get the delivery up the long
alley, and the empty kegs and crates of empty bottles back to their lorry. It makes me wonder if they were based
at Newcastle, or was there a warehouse and depot somewhere in the Northwest. Cheers, Mines a pint.
Ray Smyth.
Ray,I would very often take a 45 when coupled up and patrolling coppers would keep me company.Then I would go back to Maltby via Tarvin and Northwich to Stockport and Woodhead.Nice and quiet on that road on a saturday morning at 0400.
I haven’t come across any Cheraliase over here but they could be in our south west a popular breed the Murray Grey maybe related a very sulky breed to handle the biggest change of breeding here was the english short horns breeds with the Brahman breed which has now progressed to the Droughtmaster which is a 50/50 breeding of the shorthorn and Brahman a very successful union good beef producers and able to handle the heat of our summers much better.
Dig
Hi DIG personally dont think the Charolais breed would fair too well in Oz as they are more like intensive feeders, crossing with the Brahma is probably the way forward as they seem to be able to survive on far sparser ground, Buzzer.
