Chris Webb:
Bewick:
Frankydobo:
No probs Chris easily done, registrations can be difficult to pin down sometimes. Franky.I always thought that the reg letters “MA” were issued in Cheshire were many ERF’s were registered ! and Reg letters for Stoke were “VT” & “EH” I will obviously stand corrected if this is not the case Doh! Cheers Dennis.
Hi Dennis,you are right,VT and EH were both Stoke on Trent CBC.Cheshire C C was M,MA,MB,TU and LG.
Chris.
Weavers mill has gone it’s on the way into swansea there was a lot of firms in there brs,pickfords were the big ones there’s pics on South Wales thread,it was a brs depot weavers were a contractor to hauliers
It was demolished January 7th 1984,it’s the site Sainsbury’s is on
Frankydobo:
No probs Chris easily done, registrations can be difficult to pin down sometimes. Franky.
A full list can be found here for anyone who’s interested
I think the Scania has a New Zealand number plate.
Buzzer:
Buzzer
That’s certainly a memory jogger for me Buzzer so thanks for that. 
The building in the top left of this photo is where that Latex tanker is discharging.
Taken on a Sunday morning from our back bedroom window before shipping out, some 36 years ago.
mushroomman:
Buzzer:
1 BuzzerThat’s certainly a memory jogger for me Buzzer so thanks for that.
The building in the top left of this photo is where that Latex tanker is discharging.
Taken on a Sunday morning from our back bedroom window before shipping out, some 36 years ago.0
MRM was that a DOW freight that you were driving for ? Buzzer
Buzzer:
mushroomman:
Buzzer:
BuzzerThat’s certainly a memory jogger for me Buzzer so thanks for that.
The building in the top left of this photo is where that Latex tanker is discharging.
Taken on a Sunday morning from our back bedroom window before shipping out, some 36 years ago.MRM was that a DOW freight that you were driving for ? Buzzer
Yes John, in fact it was this one.
The night watchmen at Vitafoam used to keep an eye on it for me overnight so I would drop them off a carton of Belgium beer now and again. 
mushroomman:
Buzzer:
mushroomman:
Buzzer:
2 BuzzerThat’s certainly a memory jogger for me Buzzer so thanks for that.
The building in the top left of this photo is where that Latex tanker is discharging.
Taken on a Sunday morning from our back bedroom window before shipping out, some 36 years ago.1
MRM was that a DOW freight that you were driving for ? Buzzer
Yes John, in fact it was this one.
The night watchmen at Vitafoam used to keep an eye on it for me overnight so I would drop them off a carton of Belgium beer now and again.0
Did you know Carl Burgess then, ? he went on to run JSL from Stoke who we did work for, Buzzer
Ezydriver
The photo is of the BRS depot at North Dock Swansea.
As a kid in used to go with my father who drove for BRS Bridgend. When heading for West Wales the first stop was North Dock for breakfast then on to West Wales tip and then back to Port Talbot drop the empty motor off get into a loaded one and back to Bridgend, a full day ! What memories! . BTW I am 75 now.
Regards, Allan
Mrsteel:
Ezydriver
The photo is of the BRS depot at North Dock Swansea.
As a kid in used to go with my father who drove for BRS Bridgend. When heading for West Wales the first stop was North Dock for breakfast then on to West Wales tip and then back to Port Talbot drop the empty motor off get into a loaded one and back to Bridgend, a full day ! What memories! . BTW I am 75 now.
Regards, Allan
Thanks for that Allan. I always love old stories like that.
Yes Buzzer, I worked for Carl in the eighties but he left Dow Freight to start up a gym as he was, as far as I can remember, always into keep fit and looking after himself. I liked Carl as he would stand up for the drivers and give them the benefit of the doubt whenever there was a problem.
He once told me that while he was working for Thor in the seventies, he had to take an Aeroflot flight out to Iran from London and do an overnight stop in Moscow. The Russian travel agency had arranged to meet him and the other transiting passengers at the airport and take them, with an armed guard, to a hotel where they were all locked in their rooms overnight. They had their meals brought to their rooms and an armed guard was sat at the end of the corridor all night.
I thought that this story sounded a bit bizarre until about a year later when I was flying home from Budapest for Christmas with another ex-Thor driver who worked for Dow. After doing customs at the airport, we were taken by two Hungarian policemen to a room with glass partitions. All the other passengers were sat in there and we were counted several times.
After about half an hour we were told to get on to a bus that was parked outside, two soldiers carrying A.K. 47 rifles counted us as we left the room and two more soldiers counted us again as we boarded the bus which was parked about 50 yards away from the terminal building.
We drove over to the British Airways B.A.C. 111 which was parked up on its own away from all the other aircraft and as we disembarked the bus another two soldiers carrying A.K.47’s counted us yet again.
I believe that Carl started as a driver at Thor Transport in Stoke on Trent and ended up as their transport manager.
Somebody posted these photos of Carl when he was tipping in Moscow in the early seventies.
Ian Taylor, a.k.a. Bestbooties mentioned here on Trucknet many years ago that Carl and Sir Peter de la Billiere used to have regular meetings in The George Hotel in Burslem at the time of The Kosovo War.
I had heard that Carl had started another transport company and that he was sending trucks down to the former Yugoslavia with British army supplies but I can’t remember which year that was.
Jeff The Flying Foden posted these Thor photos on Trucknet courtesy of another ex-Thor driver Phil Bunch.
Tahir, Turkey.
great pics of tahir my uncle used to tell me stories of that in the winter
mushroomman:
Yes Buzzer, I worked for Carl in the eighties but he left Dow Freight to start up a gym as he was, as far as I can remember, always into keep fit and looking after himself. I liked Carl as he would stand up for the drivers and give them the benefit of the doubt whenever there was a problem.
He once told me that while he was working for Thor in the seventies, he had to take an Aeroflot flight out to Iran from London and do an overnight stop in Moscow. The Russian travel agency had arranged to meet him and the other transiting passengers at the airport and take them, with an armed guard, to a hotel where they were all locked in their rooms overnight. They had their meals brought to their rooms and an armed guard was sat at the end of the corridor all night.I thought that this story sounded a bit bizarre until about a year later when I was flying home from Budapest for Christmas with another ex-Thor driver who worked for Dow. After doing customs at the airport, we were taken by two Hungarian policemen to a room with glass partitions. All the other passengers were sat in there and we were counted several times.
After about half an hour we were told to get on to a bus that was parked outside, two soldiers carrying A.K. 47 rifles counted us as we left the room and two more soldiers counted us again as we boarded the bus which was parked about 50 yards away from the terminal building.
We drove over to the British Airways B.A.C. 111 which was parked up on its own away from all the other aircraft and as we disembarked the bus another two soldiers carrying A.K.47’s counted us yet again.
I believe that Carl started as a driver at Thor Transport in Stoke on Trent and ended up as their transport manager.
Somebody posted these photos of Carl when he was tipping in Moscow in the early seventies.7
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Ian Taylor, a.k.a. Bestbooties mentioned here on Trucknet many years ago that Carl and Sir Peter de la Billiere used to have regular meetings in The George Hotel in Burslem at the time of The Kosovo War.
I had heard that Carl had started another transport company and that he was sending trucks down to the former Yugoslavia with British army supplies but I can’t remember which year that was.
Jeff The Flying Foden posted these Thor photos on Trucknet courtesy of another ex-Thor driver Phil Bunch.5
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Tahir, Turkey.
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Hi,
1st 2 photos of Carl tipping in Moscow were given to me to scan many years ago by Jason - Carls son which I posted - sadly Carl passed away a few years ago and Bunchie passed away just before Xmas
Ant
stevejones:
great pics of tahir my uncle used to tell me stories of that in the winter
Great pics and stories Mushroomman, I missed out on Tahir because my one trip through Turkey took me south via Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and Iraq to Iran and then on to India. No idea why, but the Boss insisted for some reason. 
Mushroom man thanks for the full reply, sorry to here of Carl’s passing I liked him, what about his wife Barbara is she still alive. As you say Carl got involved With the Bosnia/ Kosovo war taking all manor of stuff down there, our initial involvement with his company JSL Janerite Services Ltd of Stoke was once a month there was a load of seconds china to go to Jaen in Spain and JSL did not really do Iberia so we did it, then we were called on in the very early 90’s to take frozen food to the supply ship moored in Split, this soon generated into more work and we took all sorts down usually via a ship from Ancona but later on overland. We had mail, bog rolls, petrol in jerry cans on stillages and oil you name it we carried it and all in fridges. This was a good jo for us especially when the fruit season from Italy was in full swing.
To get on there you had to be checked out by the MOD via Hogg Robinson who were the main contractors, we had 30 trucks back then and we did the job for 6 years or so until Eddie Stobart bought Carl out solely to get the MOD work, after they became involved the job went to pot but we earned good money while it lasted and to be fair JSL payed us twice a month for the work we did so no moans there, looking back that was 30 odd years ago how time fly’s, Buzzer
Buzzer:
petrol in jerry cans on stillages and oil
Eurgh, hope that went well, Buzzer, Gauthier loaded me back once with paraffin in plastic containers on pallets in a fridge, and some of them sprung a leak. Took me half a day to steam away the mess and the smell. 
Spardo:
Buzzer:
petrol in jerry cans on stillages and oilEurgh, hope that went well, Buzzer, Gauthier loaded me back once with paraffin in plastic containers on pallets in a fridge, and some of them sprung a leak. Took me half a day to steam away the mess and the smell.
We did lots of that as it was from a fuel dump depot near Ferndown, in Dorset so not too far to go, when it came on was usually 14/20 loads at a time, one Christmas we had 27 trailers in our yard ready to go. There was an officious woman in charge who stopped us loading directly into fridges so we used to hire a couple taught liners so she could load through the side, back to our yard and tranship into a fridge change the number on the trailer and back for another load, never had any problems with the loads at all, we even loaded a couple Schimeter tank vehicles inside a fridge old lorry tyre front and back but not a lot of room, Buzzer