PAUL GEE's PHOTO COLLECTION (Part 1)

[smallcoal]

JAKEY:
Hi small coal , bloody hell I have to have a good think , maybe getting some where in Dublin before you good google map a gate entrance and having to walk 500 yards with about 4000 cuft ,and the neighbours kept moaning about the lane blocked !!! I have a think today and get back to you , as marktaff says we could all write a book about removals !!! I think I have seen it all .

I have grown up with removals but I did start my working life as a yts/apprentice then a full time fitter then a driver for British road services Oxford depot , but removals is in my blood, I love it, customers are the hardest to figure out at times , I get grumpy quick these days if they have already packed the tea stuff by the time to start ! that just rattles me

Hi jake do you remember the alphabet system you ask the customer what comes between s and u they reply t answer yes please ,or what comes from Brazil coffee they reply we say yes please 2 sugars ,or we used to say pack kettle last

[jakey]

yes that’s still used today !! marktaff?

[smallcoal]

JAKEY:
yes that’s still used today !! marktaff?

The old ones are the best ones ,we used to do dhss jobs people on the dole moving house ,some houses what a mess used to hate them jobs ,dhss used to pay £70 a removal back then ,how much they charge now for removals compared back to the 80,s and 90,s

[jakey]

smallcoal , 500cuft with two men you want 400 plus there days on local, on off move with no packing or dismantling, when I took over here 20 years ago we had that price for a 1400 cuft motor with dismantling and packing (my dads rates not mine)

[smallcoal]

JAKEY:
smallcoal , 500cuft with two men you want 400 plus there days on local, on off move with no packing or dismantling, when I took over here 20 years ago we had that price for a 1400 cuft motor with dismantling and packing (my dads rates not mine)

Our price was local 1van 2 man crew £85 ,3 man £100 long distance 3 man £185 that was the 80,s. Till the 90,s

[marktaff]

smallcoal:

JAKEY:
smallcoal , 500cuft with two men you want 400 plus there days on local, on off move with no packing or dismantling, when I took over here 20 years ago we had that price for a 1400 cuft motor with dismantling and packing (my dads rates not mine)

Our price was local 1van 2 man crew £85 ,3 man £100 long distance 3 man £185 that was the 80,s. Till the 90,s

Hi…John…Hi…Jakey,
John DHSS jobs didn’t you just love those jobs…everything packed in black bags including China …the cocker always had to be covered to carry it out of the house…some realy smelly beds…and always needed a lift in the van with you…and can you put the dog in to

[smallcoal]

marktaff:

smallcoal:

JAKEY:
smallcoal , 500cuft with two men you want 400 plus there days on local, on off move with no packing or dismantling, when I took over here 20 years ago we had that price for a 1400 cuft motor with dismantling and packing (my dads rates not mine)

Our price was local 1van 2 man crew £85 ,3 man £100 long distance 3 man £185 that was the 80,s. Till the 90,s

Hi…John…Hi…Jakey,
John DHSS jobs didn’t you just love those jobs…everything packed in black bags including China …the cocker always had to be covered to carry it out of the house…some realy smelly beds…and always needed a lift in the van with you…and can you put the dog in to

Loved it with a vengence horrible jobs cookers with grease underneath and mattresses stained

[marktaff]

smallcoal:

marktaff:

smallcoal:

JAKEY:
smallcoal , 500cuft with two men you want 400 plus there days on local, on off move with no packing or dismantling, when I took over here 20 years ago we had that price for a 1400 cuft motor with dismantling and packing (my dads rates not mine)

Our price was local 1van 2 man crew £85 ,3 man £100 long distance 3 man £185 that was the 80,s. Till the 90,s

Hi…John…Hi…Jakey,
John DHSS jobs didn’t you just love those jobs…everything packed in black bags including China …the cocker always had to be covered to carry it out of the house…some realy smelly beds…and always needed a lift in the van with you…and can you put the dog in to

Loved it with a vengence horrible jobs cookers with grease underneath and mattresses stained

Lol and the mattresses wet sometimes to…I think of some of the younger generation I work with today…they wouldn’t touch things like that today John…Remember doing a job on Prince of Wales road in Swansea…DHSS job …went up stairs to find he was keeping pigeons in the bedroom …you can imagine the state in the bedroom mate…bird buisness everywhere …Remember telling him what we would take and what we wouldn’t take.

[marktaff]

smallcoal:

marktaff:

smallcoal:

JAKEY:
smallcoal , 500cuft with two men you want 400 plus there days on local, on off move with no packing or dismantling, when I took over here 20 years ago we had that price for a 1400 cuft motor with dismantling and packing (my dads rates not mine)

Our price was local 1van 2 man crew £85 ,3 man £100 long distance 3 man £185 that was the 80,s. Till the 90,s

Hi…John…Hi…Jakey,
John DHSS jobs didn’t you just love those jobs…everything packed in black bags including China …the cocker always had to be covered to carry it out of the house…some realy smelly beds…and always needed a lift in the van with you…and can you put the dog in to

Loved it with a vengence horrible jobs cookers with grease underneath and mattresses stained

Lol and the mattresses wet sometimes to…I think of some of the younger generation I work with today…they wouldn’t touch things like that today John…Remember doing a job on Prince of Wales road in Swansea…DHSS job …went up stairs to find he was keeping pigeons in the bedroom …you can imagine the state in the bedroom mate…bird buisness everywhere …Remember telling him what we would take and what we wouldn’t take.

[moomooland]

Think you removal guys need to start your own ‘Removal’ thread here on Trucknet

[oiltreader]

moomooland:
Think you removal guys need to start your own ‘Removal’ thread here on Trucknet

Revival on the way you removal guys have been sent packing .
Oily

[revman]

artic monkey:

DEANB:
Glyn John Transport F88.We have had alot of there trucks they must have been a large company ?

Sooner Foods Scania.

W.F.hall & Sons DAF 2800.

Anyone recognise the F10,think it says Grimsby on the door ■■?
abc from grimsby dean, still going but owned by revis transport from york

Stephens Transport ERF.

Mallon Brothers MAN.

D.V.Williams Scania.

Freightliner Marathon.

Williams Seddon Atkinson. Welsh ■■

Monk Atkinson.

[5thwheel]

oiltreader:

moomooland:
Think you removal guys need to start your own ‘Removal’ thread here on Trucknet

Revival on the way you removal guys have been sent packing .
Oily

[kempston]

DEANB:

Kempston:
This is the AEC Mammoth Major I used to go out in as a kid.

Nice pic of the London Brick AEC “Kempston”

Heres a newer London brick motor !

Thanks DEANB, I have today found my photos, I’m meeting my sister Wednesday and am hoping she can show me how to scan them and post them on here. I have some of the Foden he had after the AEC was retired with a couple of shots of me in it. Believe it or not I used to drive it around building sites! Can you imagine being able to do that today! The driver can barely drive onto a building site nowadays without someone walking in front waving a red flag. The Foden reg was SNK 316R fleet no.DGS82

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240 Gardner:

DEANB:
Monk Atkinson.

I’m guessing this must have been part of a batch of vehicles registered by a dealer in Lancashire: J B Rawcliffe had STF 851M (it still survives, I believe, having belonged to K & P Iddon for several years), Ferrymasters in Preston had 852 & 3 (possibly 854 as well), whilst this is 855.

Sounds about right then Chris,possibly Road Vehicles Ltd.

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[willis]

hi paul gee is it possible to buy a copy of your daf photo of ware transport on page 92 great photos and great memeries

[chris_webb]

Hi Dean, The Monk Atkinson was owned by Monk of Warrington, Monk were a major civil engineering and construction company. Ray.
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I think Monks from Warrington also carried explosives for quarries etc out of the ICI Nobel plant at Ardeer Ayrshire.

[moomooland]

Arthur Monk founded the company back in 1920 at Irlam near Warrington.
The company became one of this country’s largest building and civil engineering firms employing several thousand
staff and were responsible for many important industrial projects across the UK…
They had large sites in Warrington and London along with offices in Hull, Middlesbrough and Stamford.

A nice line up of Monk’s tippers parked up in Warrington.

Click on article to view larger size.

They even ran a number of their own buses for transporting their staff out to remote
areas were construction was taking place.

[nomis36]

Thought I’d have a look out of interest if that shop behind the monks bus still looks like it did then because I could see it’s in Allen street.

[smallcoal]

moomooland:
3Arthur Monk founded the company back in 1920 at Irlam near Warrington.
The company became one of this country’s largest building and civil engineering firms employing several thousand
staff and were responsible for many important industrial projects across the UK…
They had large sites in Warrington and London along with offices in Hull, Middlesbrough and Stamford.

1A nice line up of Monk’s tippers parked up in Warrington.

2 Click on article to view larger size.

0They even ran a number of their own buses for transporting their staff out to remote
areas were construction was taking place.

I notice that Atki got 2 CB Aries on it cheers john

[deanb]

robroy:
I used to know a lot of Cardiff Transport lads, they used to work out of BSC Gartcosh and Ravenscraig when I did with KTS between 83 and 86 ish.
I was the young and cool skinny lad with the Magnum tache and long permed mullet ( ) with an Atki Borderer,.and later on a 2800 DAF, Kirkbride Transport Services…(I’m now a fat bald guy with a Merc Actros, so you’ve no chance of recognising me if you do see me. )

The “Magnum tache” quality !

pete 359:
Hi Dean Gwyn R. Davies Transport were from south wales.Based near Cowbridge and for many years they used to work out of a builders merchant next door to us in South Cornelly.Davies’ ceased trading over 10 years ago now…

Thanks for the info Andrew !

revman:
Anyone recognise the F10,think it says Grimsby on the door ■■?
abc from grimsby dean, still going but owned by revis transport from york

Nice pic “revman” thanks for posting !

willis:
hi paul gee is it possible to buy a copy of your daf photo of ware transport on page 92 great photos and great memeries

Is this your first post on here “willis” PM me your email address.

Chris Webb:
Hi Dean, The Monk Atkinson was owned by Monk of Warrington, Monk were a major civil engineering and construction company. Ray.

I think Monks from Warrington also carried explosives for quarries etc out of the ICI Nobel plant at Ardeer Ayrshire.
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Thanks for your comments Chris !

moomooland:
Arthur Monk founded the company back in 1920 at Irlam near Warrington.
The company became one of this country’s largest building and civil engineering firms employing several thousand
staff and were responsible for many important industrial projects across the UK…
They had large sites in Warrington and London along with offices in Hull, Middlesbrough and Stamford.
They even ran a number of their own buses for transporting their staff out to remote
areas were construction was taking place.

Quality stuff Paul ! The pic of the tippers reminds me of “hell drivers” ! That advert
confirms what Chris and Ray have already said. They certainly were a busy company looking at the advert.

nomiS36:
Thought I’d have a look out of interest if that shop behind the monks bus still looks like it did then because I could see it’s in Allen street.

I like the name of the pharmacy “Green Cross”

smallcoal:
Monk Atki.
I notice that Atki got 2 CB Aries on it cheers john

Well spotted John that would have been around the time they started to become popular !

“JAKEY”,“marktaff”,“smallcoal” thanks for your comments i will pop some stuff on the removal thread !