Don’t think I’ve posted this picture before on this thread. I was working for Mitchell & Robertson, fruit hauliers of Staplehurst in Kent. They were about to buy their first artic, a Scammell Crusader, and were given this demonstrater to enable some of us to take our HGV Class 1 test. I think just Norman, the senior driver and I both took our tests in it before it was handed back after about nine weeks.
sandway:
Don’t think I’ve posted this picture before on this thread. I was working for Mitchell & Robertson, fruit hauliers of Staplehurst in Kent. They were about to buy their first artic, a Scammell Crusader, and were given this demonstrater to enable some of us to take our HGV Class 1 test. I think just Norman, the senior driver and I both took our tests in it before it was handed back after about nine weeks.
Great to see this posted on here
As a Kent boy traveling the roads with my dad in his lorry, I can remember many great local haulage firms of old.
Am I right in saying that Staplehurst Transits started up and took over the yard and work ■■?
scamm73:
sandway:
Don’t think I’ve posted this picture before on this thread. I was working for Mitchell & Robertson, fruit hauliers of Staplehurst in Kent. They were about to buy their first artic, a Scammell Crusader, and were given this demonstrater to enable some of us to take our HGV Class 1 test. I think just Norman, the senior driver and I both took our tests in it before it was handed back after about nine weeks.Great to see this posted on here
As a Kent boy traveling the roads with my dad in his lorry, I can remember many great local haulage firms of old.
Am I right in saying that Staplehurst Transits started up and took over the yard and work ■■?
Morning scamm73. I worked for Mitchell & Robertson up to 76 or 77. I know very little about the company 'Staplehurst Transits". After Woods bought out M & R a few years after I left and moved the lorries up to Detling the yard at Brandon Farm stood empty for a while. Later ST moved in but I am fairly sure didn’t take over any of M & R’s work. Woods would have handled that. I believe, about ten years after moving in ST purchased the freehold of the yard and extended and modernised it. One of your photos shows the Bedford lorry GKR 453L. I believe this was one of their original lorries and in later years a restoration job was done on her.
sandway:
scamm73:
sandway:
Don’t think I’ve posted this picture before on this thread. I was working for Mitchell & Robertson, fruit hauliers of Staplehurst in Kent. They were about to buy their first artic, a Scammell Crusader, and were given this demonstrater to enable some of us to take our HGV Class 1 test. I think just Norman, the senior driver and I both took our tests in it before it was handed back after about nine weeks.Great to see this posted on here
As a Kent boy traveling the roads with my dad in his lorry, I can remember many great local haulage firms of old.
Am I right in saying that Staplehurst Transits started up and took over the yard and work ■■?
Morning scamm73. I worked for Mitchell & Robertson up to 76 or 77. I know very little about the company 'Staplehurst Transits". After Woods bought out M & R a few years after I left and moved the lorries up to Detling the yard at Brandon Farm stood empty for a while. Later ST moved in but I am fairly sure didn’t take over any of M & R’s work. Woods would have handled that. I believe, about ten years after moving in ST purchased the freehold of the yard and extended and modernised it. One of your photos shows the Bedford lorry GKR 453L. I believe this was one of their original lorries and in later years a restoration job was done on her.
Evening Sandway
Many thanks for the great memories back in the days when drivers were Drivers!
ARC
Some cracking pics on here ! This article may intrest the Routeman fans.
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