Buzzer
Buzzer:
Buzzer
I guess the short artic tippers were not so common in that era? Would they be Comets on the front?
Been with these a couple of months now on general haulage
My Dad worked at K&M in the late 60s when they were based at Piccadilly Bulwell
He started on a Seddon like this but was asked to go on tankers after a while as a favour after 3 months of the favour he asked to go back on flats but the gaffer refused so he left
gazsa401:
My Dad worked at K&M in the late 60s when they were based at Piccadilly Bulwell
That is identical to my motor at K & M and I loved it, didn’t think it was as far back as the 60s though but it could have been, just a tad confused in old age and I have no idea what the reg. no. was.
The manager at the time was called Watts and there was another driver of the same name on tankers like mine. But we were based alongside the railway line towards Hucknall, the garage at Piccadilly was just that, the garage, not the base.
Why on earth did your Dad want to go back on flats? My brother was on flats and for all the heavy work he did, handballing roping and sheeting, he was paid just basic hours. On tankers we were on measured day work, I think it was called. So much a mile (at a rate of speed far lower than we actually did (50 mph for instance on motorways I think) plus generous hourly rate for loading and blowing and on top of that extra money if we went anywhere near London. I couldn’t believe my luck.
My brother was not best pleased, he was there before me, in fact they put him through his test (when was that, that’ll date me, I never had to take one) but I would see him after a day’s work handballing pigs at the docks plus tying them all down and smelling accordingly 
, whereas there was I all smart and dry flicking a bit of dust off my lapel 
I had been at a bit of a loose end (never suffered fools of hauliers gladly 
) and he said why not come and see. Mr. Watts interviewed me and said ‘I’m sorry I only have a job going on tankers, have you done that before and would you fancy it?’ 
I gave him his hand back after I had bitten it off and all was fine after that. But fell out with the yard foreman one day and, like your Dad, said I’m off, and started at Bunny Hill Motors the same day.
Not really a good move, from a Foden 12 speed and easy living to handballing cable covers and tiles with a Beaver semi-auto. Wasn’t there all that long either though. Cue Buzzer.
Blimey, where was that picture of all those Stanton lorries taken? I never saw such a place in all my time there, or so many Stanton lorries in one place either.
Somebody else can date it from the lorries, or perhaps the fact that it was before the Stanton and Stavely merger. My memory doesn’t stretch to telling me when that was.
Probably early to mid 50’s for the Stanton motors pic Spardo, the ‘Big Bedfords’ seen on the left were introduced 1950 and the Atkinsons were 50’s models, couldn’t resize the photo to get a better look. 1962 Stanton Iron Works Co was merged with the Staveley Iron and Chemical Co to form Stanton and Staveley. Franky.
Geordielad:
Probably early to mid 50’s for the Stanton motors pic Spardo, the ‘Big Bedfords’ seen on the left were introduced 1950 and the Atkinsons were 50’s models, couldn’t resize the photo to get a better look. 1962 Stanton Iron Works Co was merged with the Staveley Iron and Chemical Co to form Stanton and Staveley. Franky.
Thanks Franky, I suppose I was in there regularly for several years from about 1965 and I thought the merger was after that, but perhaps that was because they didn’t change all the names immediately. As regards the Stanton fleet, I reckon it must have been drastically depleted after that photo was taken. There was a regular crowd of us loading daily in there mid 60s and I don’t remember a single Stanton driver.
Lawrence Dunbar:
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Looks a little bit like the Krupp Atki cab, Larry. 
