windrush:
1970commer:
1970commer:
Dan Punchard:
Looks like the back of Stephen Dale to the left and Steve Skinner on the right ?J.D.Wayne with the beard, Frank Goodwin at the back, Tommy Johnson in the body warmer & cap and believe it or not he still wears them same two items of clothing, cant just place the other bloke though. Come on windrush put us out of our misery,
I was talking to Mick Salt today & just happened to mention this picture, he said the reason he wasn’t on the picture was because he would have been in the offices at Ballidon at the time trying to get a rate increase, he & Tony Kent were the people who organised the protest.
I asked him why he wasn’t wasting every spare moment of his retirement on TNUK like a lot more of his cronies to which he replied he soon got bored of it, I told him Peter Barker spent every waking minute he had on here & his mood changed quick saying he would drop him a comment on here, so get ready Windrush.
[/quote]HaHa, water off of a Duck’s Back Robert! Saxa and me never fell out, one of the few hauliers who I would have worked for if need be. Glad the old lad is still around anyway and having a better ‘retirement’ than I am. Funny that I cannot remember that strike (if it was a strike) at all, Tilcon drivers had one in the late seventies/early eighties but I can’t recal another? I wonder if I was still Tilcon/STB employed then and not really directly affected by it, it certainly didn’t happen while I was driving for Eric unless it was when I was carting from another quarry which I often did?
Pete.
Bloody hell Peter, now you’ve gone & done it, you’ve only gone & got Mick Salt putting his 1st post on TNUK, before you know it both him & Don Fox will be missing a bowls match just so they can trawl through pictures of old lorries driven by old men in old quarries, heres one to start him off with. (sorry if I pinched someone else’s picture)
Hiya…was it Chris Moon who had the dar beard. not seen him for about 10 years he was near our house just up from
Queensferry one morning. i was on the bike with a crash hat on had a shout to him i bet he’s still thinks who the hell
was that.if id been in the brickyard another story.
John
malmic:
I’m a newcomer to this site.Iwas talking to Robert earlier this week and thought i’d have a look at it.Ifeel like i’ve entered a time warp some great pics and stories,Thanks Pete for your comment although i’m not very keen on the old lad bit, young man would sound better!Regards the driver dispute at Ballidon this was around 1989 and I got involved, aged me about 10 years.All for now love to hear from any old truckers.
Yes Mick welcome, and finally somebody else with a bit of common sense (besides me of course 
) appears on here! 
My comment was true, there were just a few folk I would have gladly driven for and some that I would not! I get some stick off of that young upstart Robert but I just keep taking my ‘No notice’ pills daily and let it all wash over me. If I could stand Boss Hogg giving me an earful then Rob is only a beginner in the game. Still playing Old Mans Marbles (Bowls) I see, just watch that back of yours though because you aint getting any younger lad. Find yourself a nice big organ to play with like Gavin has done… Regarding the driver dispute, in 1989 I would have been with Tilcon so not directly affected. I dont remember it though, must be an age thing. Catch you around sometime and enjoy your well earned rest.
Pete.
windrush:
malmic:
I’m a newcomer to this site.Iwas talking to Robert earlier this week and thought i’d have a look at it.Ifeel like i’ve entered a time warp some great pics and stories,Thanks Pete for your comment although i’m not very keen on the old lad bit, young man would sound better!Regards the driver dispute at Ballidon this was around 1989 and I got involved, aged me about 10 years.All for now love to hear from any old truckers.Yes Mick welcome, and finally somebody else with a bit of common sense (besides me of course
Pete.
Talking of old men playing marbles, here’s a picture of one of Mick Salt’s co-partners in crime at that game, Don Fox in his AEC, he’s dropping down the hill into Hayfield, this same lorry went on to be the first lorry of another legend in the world of owner operators in Ballidon, Jim Fairbanks.
Looks like Buxton hill Ashbourne to me commer .
Dan Punchard:
Looks like Buxton hill Ashbourne to me commer .
It is Buxton Hill Dan but you have to excuse Robert as he would have been told about Hayfield but wouldn’t have a clue where it actually was! 
Some Ballidon hauliers got Vertigo if they turned left at the road end, the only time they ran North was coming back from the West Midlands empty.
(Actually I HAVE seen a photo of Don going down the old road into Hayfield, Rob has just pressed the wrong button as he would still be half asleep!)
That AEC looked a lot different once Jim got hold of it Robert, did Tommy Johnson own it at one time as well?
Pete.
malmic:
I’m a newcomer to this site.Iwas talking to Robert earlier this week and thought i’d have a look at it.Ifeel like i’ve entered a time warp some great pics and stories,Thanks Pete for your comment although i’m not very keen on the old lad bit, young man would sound better!Regards the driver dispute at Ballidon this was around 1989 and I got involved, aged me about 10 years.All for now love to hear from any old truckers.
Well.Well Mick I wondered where you were .Do you remember your dad’s red ■■■■■■ Estate and have you got any photos of the Ford tippers ?
Tony
I remember the ford ■■■■■■ well g reg I think. Took it out one night and brought it back with a few scratches not very popular for a while . Sadly don’t have any photos of the fords.
Mention of Don Fox (surely one of the shortest owners names to grace a cab door! ) reminds me of the occasion when Don ran a Foden Haulmaster 6 wheeler with a Gardner 6LXC engine which coincidentally was later owned by Mick Salt (Malmic) for a short while and later by (I think) Qualcast at Derby! Don was taken ill in Ashbourne on his way to Groby Road Hospital near Leicester with a load of tarmac, I was kicking my heels in the garage as my Tilcon Sed Ak was on test preparation so I was nominated to take his lorry the rest of the way. When I arrived at the job there was Police prescence everywhere, a Nurse had been murdered in the Hospital grounds the previous night so the job was on hold for quite a while. Durolas Contractors from Brum were the surfacing gang and signed all of us up with waiting time anyway so it made a day of it at least and it got me out of the garage, just a tragedy about the whole episode for the poor ladies family etc.
Strange just how many lorries stayed around the same quarry but with different owners, I can think of plenty that were passed around during their lifetime as some folk purchased new ones or upgraded from a 4 to a 6 or 8 wheeler, plus ex Tilcon ones found their way into owner/driver ownership as well of course.
Pete.
malmic:
I remember the ford ■■■■■■ well g reg I think. Took it out one night and brought it back with a few scratches not very popular for a while . Sadly don’t have any photos of the fords.
That’s a shame.I remember selling your dad two D-Series one with a ■■■■■■■ and one with a turbo 1614.Not much money then.If I remember the 1614 ( D1000) would have been about £3000.
I also remember selling Norman Thorpe a 1614 in the Yew Tree at Holloway when Jack Hawkins kept it.Norman thought it would be about that price which is what he wanted to spend.
Noman had a couple of Fords but before that he had Bedfords which did him alright but anything would serve Norman well as he looked after them.
Does anybody remember Allan Roland.He had a couple of Ford 16tonners.
Tony
I feel as though I should remember Allan Rolland Tony but I cannot just place him? Certainly remember Norman Thorpe though, he still had a six wheeler in Dene until fairly recently and his lad Peter worked at Ballidon for a few days when STB owned the transport. Peter soon returned to work for David Bradley though, he couldn’t take to the sitting around on the tarmac jobs, or the worn out Fodens after driving Bradleys Volvos! 
Sadly I believe he passed away a good while ago. I used to frequent the Yew Tree occasionally when Jack ran it, a top class landlord if ever there was one.
Did you ever sell many of the K series Traders, I used to work on a few when I lived ‘Down South’ but they didn’t seem to make the impact that the Bedford TJ, Commer Superpoise or WE/WF series BMC’s had?
Pete.
I’ll never forget that foden Shaun Clarke drove it was parked on ashbourne lorry park and when he started it up in the morning the lorry park disappeared in the smoke . The engine eventually croaked under the pressure of Shauns right foot and I bought a short engine from longcliffe.
malmic:
I’ll never forget that foden Shaun Clarke drove it was parked on ashbourne lorry park and when he started it up in the morning the lorry park disappeared in the smoke . The engine eventually croaked under the pressure of Shauns right foot and I bought a short engine from longcliffe.
When I drove it I was surprised how gutless it was Mick, for saying it had the same engine as the eight leggers and carrying five tons less it performed badly and I was not surprised when Shaun finished it off! Probably Don ran it in carefully when new, they were hopeless if you did that. Gardner’s field engineer told me to always give them plenty of wellie from day one but take care not to over-rev them down banks as THAT was what caused engine damage. Shaun made that Leyland Constructor go though, I remember going to the M40 job one morning and I met him coming through Woodeaves empty going up to load, he passed me an hour later on Weeford bank!! 
Must have made you some brass over the years, after his diesel was paid for of course!
Pete.
Dan Punchard:
Looks like Buxton hill Ashbourne to me commer .
Same hill Dan different lorry.Albion PRE1?5F
Same ■■■■■■ car too ,in same position as well ,it could belong to an another haulier in confession ?
windrush:
Dan Punchard:
Looks like Buxton hill Ashbourne to me commer .It is Buxton Hill Dan but you have to excuse Robert as he would have been told about Hayfield but wouldn’t have a clue where it actually was!
(Actually I HAVE seen a photo of Don going down the old road into Hayfield, Rob has just pressed the wrong button as he would still be half asleep!)
That AEC looked a lot different once Jim got hold of it Robert, did Tommy Johnson own it at one time as well?
Pete.
It because Robert uses satnav pete he doesn’t actually know where he is or where he’s been !!!
Dan Punchard:
It because Robert uses satnav pete he doesn’t actually know where he is or where he’s been !!!
Ah that explains why Gavin was piloting him on the Gravel Run the other day, no sat-nav in that old Commer of his. I wonder if the ■■■■■■ on Buxton Hill was the photographers car, I hope the lad had a mask on with all the asbestos dust that would be floating in the air back then? I remember that laden artic running away down there, it made a mess of George Siddall’s D Series Ford 6 wheeler that was on its way up the Market Place! Before your time perhaps Dan?
Pete.
They were both heading downhill the artic used buddys 6wheeler as a backstop and turned them both over lucky it was a Wednesday afternoon as there was sugar stone and tarmac all over the market place . The artic was Aiden Hares fathers.
malmic:
They were both heading downhill the artic used buddys 6wheeler as a backstop and turned them both over lucky it was a Wednesday afternoon as there was sugar stone and tarmac all over the market place . The artic was Aiden Hares fathers.
Ah I hadn’t realised that Mick, I thought that Buddy was empty going uphill. I was in the garage so only saw it in the paper and it was a long time ago. I was also told that they couldn’t find buddy in the wreckage but he turned up in the Legion downing a whisky to calm his nerves, dont know if that is true or not but he wasn’t known for passing pubs. Didn’t he live at Bradley Wood? I did know that it was Aidens father’s artic, as you say a day later and it would have been carnage with being market day.
Edited to say that have found a link to the event and it was a Bedford and not a Ford, I remember buddy driving a D Series though.
ashbournenewstelegraph.co.uk … story.html
Pete.
Hiya any of you lads remember the lorry that run away in the 70,s and run into i think Frank Wrights shop at he bottom of
the hill a couple of doors from Boots i think one person was burned badly with the tarmac(maybe a school girl)i think thats
why the one way system come about after that happened.
John