Hi
Does anyone remember S A Green & Son of Beverley East Yorks? They were on contract to Barkers & Lee Smith and ran a fleet of lorries in Barkers livery.
Yes, they were the ones who gave me a start when my licence was brand new.
I worked there from February 1974 until they went into voluntary liquidation in July 1977.
Regards,
Nick
I seem to recall they purchased Crystal’s Transcon demonstrator, and I went to tech college with one of their apprentices Steve Buckle?
They did, OAT 666 P. The driver was called Pete Mason.
I drove it once, from Beverley to North Sea ferries to Ford, Halewood and back to Beverley.
Very quick and very thirsty, it had space for a bed but there wasn’t one.
If you slammed the door(s) with the window not fully shut, the glass would shatter.
I don’t remember a Steve, though there was an apprentice there who left at the end of his apprenticeship
because (I was told) they wouldn’t pay him full money to carry on doing the job.
Regards,
Nick.
ncooper:
They did, OAT 666 P. The driver was called Pete Mason.
I drove it once, from Beverley to North Sea ferries to Ford, Halewood and back to Beverley.
Very quick and very thirsty, it had space for a bed but there wasn’t one.
If you slammed the door(s) with the window not fully shut, the glass would shatter.
I don’t remember a Steve, though there was an apprentice there who left at the end of his apprenticeship
because (I was told) they wouldn’t pay him full money to carry on doing the job.Regards,
Nick.
Blakey’s Transcon was also without the bunk and suffered with the same slamming door / window problem, not paying apprentices “full money” once they had finished their apprenticeships was quite common.
I have copied this from the Old Hull haulage companies thread, if it is if any interest.
You can see “Barker’s” on the door of the Dodge, made in the shape of a cow.
My first “proper” job was with S.A.Green and Son, Flemingate, Beverley, where I started in February 1974.
I had left a job as a trainee salesman at Kennings, Boothferry Road and was very soft and even more naive.
My first day was spent loading 8 stone blue bags of ICI fertiliser (tillage) onto trailers from a mountain of the stuff in the yard.
It was a “kill or cure” day, luckily,it was cure.
I had joined as a Class 1 driver but I had only just passed my test, having been taught to drive by Brian Greenwood, who I think I remember, told me he had worked for Wakes until health problems had persuaded him to leave and set up as an instructor.
He had a TK Bedford, with a singe axle trailer, which I thought then and still do now, is one of the trickiest to reverse.
Greens sent me out with another driver to load “sharps”, wheetfeed, at Ranks mill in Hull and then let me loose in a J reg Albion Clydesdale four wheeler.
Then they “promoted” me to a G reg AEC Marshall six wheeler and after almost a year, I was given this…
That’s 15 tons of meat and bone meal from Prosper de Mulder at Doncaster, pallets were a thing of the future.
45 mph flat out, 28 tons gross but you could put 20 tons on a 33 foot trailer and not be overweight.
Later, I was given another, which had started life as a Leyland Lynx, the Buffalo’s baby brother but had been fitted with a 680 engine out of a 1965 beaver, along with the gearbox.
This was the first “TIR” trailer I had ever pulled, loaded with electronics but not customs cleared.
I had no idea what I was doing but eventually managed to get it cleared at an inland customs depot and tipped.
The old girl was given a facelift and I was put onto Keyways, off 10 shed, King George Dock.
Those were the days when you could park outside your house, this is Victoria Avenue, where I lived in a flat.
Eventually, it was my turn for a new motor and they bought this
Unfortunately, almost 100years of carrying animal feed and the like, had not equipped Green’s to deal with the shark infested waters of the haulage industry in Hull.
Three weeks after I got this truck and a month after I had married (for the first time) they went into voluntary liquidation and we were all made redundant.
Regards,
Nick
Great pictures Nick
Pine Fleet, Jac W Hereveld and Billy Townhill 
Memories are made of this!
How about Browns of Beverley? they were a big company in the day.
Wheel Nut:
Pine Fleet, Jac W Hereveld and Billy Townhill
How about Browns of Beverley? they were a big company in the day.
I remember Browns Malc,didn’t they have an elephant as a logo on the headboards of some of their motors? They did a London trunk and maybe worked for Hodgsons in Beverley?
I see Keyways has been mentioned,was that the same company as Key Warehousing with the Scammells ?
Chris Webb:
I remember Browns Malc,didn’t they have an elephant as a logo on the headboards of some of their motors? They did a London trunk and maybe worked for Hodgsons in Beverley?
I see Keyways has been mentioned,was that the same company as Key Warehousing with the Scammells ?
The Keyways I worked for was part of Ellerman Wilson Lines and they had their own lorries, running under the name Keytrans,
possibly out of Key Warehousing?
They had a fleet of Mercedes in the 1970’s, maybe I don’t go far enough back.
Browns were based at Victoria Barracks, Beverley when I was at Greens and I think their main customer was Armstrong Shock Absorbers,
certainly some of their lorries were Yellow. Once again, maybe I don’t go far enough back.
I think we all did work for Hodgsons Tannery at one time or another, I certainly remember the challenge of keeping a load of
bouncy leather on a flat trailer under ropes and sheets and then having to handball/lever/throw/kick all 15 tons of it off at Birkenhead Docks,
while the dockers played cards and drank tea inside their hut in the shed.
Happy days…not.
Regards,
Nick.
Aye, Barker & Lee Smith, Beverley, I used to deliver wheatfeed from Spillers at Newcastle there, It was a rip tip a right slow job emptying the bags into a funnel at the back of the trailer, they were not the best of blokes that were involved with the unloading, but you just got on with it & hoped your next trip down was for somewhere else, Happy days Eh, Regards Larry.PS The 60s Era.
Browns were mainly working for Armstrongs in the day, but they also ran a lot of stuff off the docks
ncooper:
I have copied this from the Old Hull haulage companies thread, if it is if any interest.
You can see “Barker’s” on the door of the Dodge, made in the shape of a cow.My first “proper” job was with S.A.Green and Son, Flemingate, Beverley, where I started in February 1974.
I had left a job as a trainee salesman at Kennings, Boothferry Road and was very soft and even more naive.
My first day was spent loading 8 stone blue bags of ICI fertiliser (tillage) onto trailers from a mountain of the stuff in the yard.
It was a “kill or cure” day, luckily,it was cure.
I had joined as a Class 1 driver but I had only just passed my test, having been taught to drive by Brian Greenwood, who I think I remember, told me he had worked for Wakes until health problems had persuaded him to leave and set up as an instructor.
He had a TK Bedford, with a singe axle trailer, which I thought then and still do now, is one of the trickiest to reverse.Greens sent me out with another driver to load “sharps”, wheetfeed, at Ranks mill in Hull and then let me loose in a J reg Albion Clydesdale four wheeler.
Then they “promoted” me to a G reg AEC Marshall six wheeler and after almost a year, I was given this…
That’s 15 tons of meat and bone meal from Prosper de Mulder at Doncaster, pallets were a thing of the future.
45 mph flat out, 28 tons gross but you could put 20 tons on a 33 foot trailer and not be overweight.
Later, I was given another, which had started life as a Leyland Lynx, the Buffalo’s baby brother but had been fitted with a 680 engine out of a 1965 beaver, along with the gearbox.
This was the first “TIR” trailer I had ever pulled, loaded with electronics but not customs cleared.
I had no idea what I was doing but eventually managed to get it cleared at an inland customs depot and tipped.The old girl was given a facelift and I was put onto Keyways, off 10 shed, King George Dock.
Those were the days when you could park outside your house, this is Victoria Avenue, where I lived in a flat.
Eventually, it was my turn for a new motor and they bought this
Unfortunately, almost 100years of carrying animal feed and the like, had not equipped Green’s to deal with the shark infested waters of the haulage industry in Hull.
Three weeks after I got this truck and a month after I had married (for the first time) they went into voluntary liquidation and we were all made redundant.Regards,
Nick
Great pictures Nick! I can remember S A Green & Son lorries coming into Barkers mill at Lincoln and one of them was the six wheeled rigid.I can also remember a driver called Aubrey who used to drive an Albion bulker.I was only a boy at the time riding shotgun with my dad who was a driver with J Kime & Son who as you may well know were on contract to Barkers.My Dad drove a Leyland Badger for a long time FVL 20F. Would I be right thinking S A was Sarah Ann? There was also a driver that my Dad knew called Pete,I think he had been scarred in a glass attack after an altercation in a pub.
Regards
Paul.
My grandad worked for SA green John syrett he’s called . couldn’t believe when he told me there was about 45 trucks in the fleet.
Andyv8:
My grandad worked for SA green John syrett he’s called . couldn’t believe when he told me there was about 45 trucks in the fleet.
Hi Andy,did your grandad know any of the Barkers drivers from Lincoln?