Muckaway:
Silly question; What happened to BRS? Sold off, divided up, renamed?
Hiya Nathan,Happy New Year mate,the origional BRS operation gradually withdrew from general haulage because they were unable to compete with private enterprise,they moved into Truck Rental and carried on with Contract Hire eventually the whole operation,including Pickfords and BRS Parcels were sold to the Management and group employees for,basically,1p in the £1.So it was a case of wey hey! fill your boots lads ! A good number of the former employees made a right [zb] killing when they were finally allowed to sell their shares,best of luck to them but the whole episode was a total rip off as far as the UK taxpayer was concerned.All the senior Board members were only interested in “bailing out” with their Loot as soon as was legally possible,which the greedy [zb] did !! Cheers Dennis.
Did no-one in Whitehall or Westminster remember the British Leyland fiasco?
Well spotted Marc yes it does look like WHJ183S I bought that 111 from Scantruc at Purfleet it had belonged to Coopers of Manningtree from new I then traded it in against a 142 in 1982 at Morville Trucks Lutterworth.
Muckaway:
Silly question; What happened to BRS? Sold off, divided up, renamed?
BRS Truck rental was sold off, to Volvo If i recall, so was Pickfords removals, but the rest went through several name and ownership changes BRS/NFC/Exel but is effectively Part of DHL today
Muckaway:
Silly question; What happened to BRS? Sold off, divided up, renamed?
BRS Truck rental was sold off, to Volvo If i recall, so was Pickfords removals, but the rest went through several name and ownership changes BRS/NFC/Exel but is effectively Part of DHL today
Yeah BRS Truck rental were bought by Volvo i dealt with them until a couple of years ago when their recharges became ridiculous
Muckaway:
Silly question; What happened to BRS? Sold off, divided up, renamed?
BRS Truck rental was sold off, to Volvo If i recall, so was Pickfords removals, but the rest went through several name and ownership changes BRS/NFC/Exel but is effectively Part of DHL today
Yeah BRS Truck rental were bought by Volvo i dealt with them until a couple of years ago when their recharges became ridiculous
A lot of BRS truck rental places operate from Renault truck dealers these days, we leased 6 Volvo’s from them up until last year.
Muckaway:
Silly question; What happened to BRS? Sold off, divided up, renamed?
BRS Truck rental was sold off, to Volvo If i recall, so was Pickfords removals, but the rest went through several name and ownership changes BRS/NFC/Exel but is effectively Part of DHL today
Yeah BRS Truck rental were bought by Volvo i dealt with them until a couple of years ago when their recharges became ridiculous
A lot of BRS truck rental places operate from Renault truck dealers these days, we leased 6 Volvo’s from them up until last year.
They tried to push some Premiums onto us at the time which are mainly Volvo running gear now
Muckaway:
Silly question; What happened to BRS? Sold off, divided up, renamed?
BRS Truck rental was sold off, to Volvo If i recall, so was Pickfords removals, but the rest went through several name and ownership changes BRS/NFC/Exel but is effectively Part of DHL today
Yeah BRS Truck rental were bought by Volvo i dealt with them until a couple of years ago when their recharges became ridiculous
A lot of BRS truck rental places operate from Renault truck dealers these days, we leased 6 Volvo’s from them up until last year.
They tried to push some Premiums onto us at the time which are mainly Volvo running gear now
Never had much to do with Renaults but they did send one once as a replacement for a Volvo, The boss went nuts he phoned them up and told them to take “the heap of crap away and come back with a Volvo” ! It seemed ok to me but I wasn’t going to get to drive it .
Numbum:
You can add your own ending to this. The proper one is that they liked it and bought many more.
The first Scania sold in Britain 1967.
Cheers Phil.
CJA1:
Hi Phil Great Picci of The Inter City Volvo Worked for them in the early 70s, don"t suppose u got anymore? Cheers Chris. PS Mind if I use it mate CJA1.
Numbum:
Hi CJA1,
The photo is from a magazine or brochure and is the only one that I have.
Cheers Phil
CJA1:
Cheers Numbum, we had a small thread going last yr, about “Inter City”, It seems Piccies are like Rocking horse doo doo LOL, I used to work out of Leigh Depot early 70s Drove one just like the one u put on, and a few more, u got what was available on the day those days LOL, thanks for that one mate,PS Should of had a camera those day"s, but eh" it was just get on with it, Cheers Chris,
bubbleman:
Hi again,great pics Phil…what the f**k is a Baron…looks like a Dodge to me…ok heres a few from me,Cheers Bubbs,
CJA1:
Hi Bubbs, being from Bristol yourself, do u remember NMT Industrial storage? had a place in Fishponds, Had Fodens and 110 Scanis and some other stuff ERFs, I know its a long shot but, any Piccs? Cheers Chris.
bubbleman:
Hi again,heres todays stuff lads,Cheers Bubbs,
I wonder where the Redland pearle “sludge Gulper” came from, its still used a lot today but was it a maunufacturers pet name
I think you’ll find it comes from Whale Tankers, we use to do a lot of work for them and they had pet name with a cartoon like drawing on them, for different tanks.
TDL102:
Can anyone help me with what this might be, and its age?
Cheers!
TDL102,If nobody can help you,the firm is still in operation in Sittingbourne,Kent,you could always give them a ring,I’m sure they would be most happy to help you with your enquiry.
,heres todays stuff,Cheers Bubbs, 
