hiya,
Chris you’re a handsome git, a woman across the street from me has just given me a windscreen sticker which reads “God you’re ugly” i’m really hurt, you could say cut to the quick, i doubt if i’ll ever be the same again, might never go out again.
thanks harry long retired.
Very interesting reading on how some of you old uns got your licence, me four lessons & a test at Hansworth Sheffield. My instructor was Jim Andrews of artic at Woodseats , does anyone remember Jim, to my point on Monday I witnessed one of today’s professional attempting to reverse off a wide main road into the Coop at Toll Bar on the A629 going down in to Rotheraham, he held the traffic for nearly ten minuets & only had 4 goes, he must have been very embarrassed as he drove of in the direction of Rotherham for about a mile to the Fenton Road roundabout only to drive all the way round, I assume only to go back & have another go.
MUST HAVE GOT HIS IN A 10P LUCKY BAG Cheers Mel
Chris Webb:
Wheel Nut:
Looks like there are some wheel polishers in the Humber Warehousing garage too
That 15cwt Thames van brings back a memory too, When I was small, my dad had one as a company car and I remember falling out of it, I ended up on the road, crying, the neighbour picked me up and took me in for squash and sympathy
My mum used to remind everyone, Malc cried and told everyone “Blood on road, went to Junes and got blood on carpet” A bit embarrassing when you are twenty and she was telling all my mates
I drove a Ford Thames van as well on a milk round.I was in the RAF and used to thumb it back to Sheffield at night from near Thetford,usually a friday.Give the intended bride a big kiss then away to the Express Dairies depot about 0400,in her uncle’s Thames van UET 55,load up and away delivering round the Hackenthorpe estate.
Here’s a photo of UET 55 at the back of a good-looking RAF lad on a Norton,Lathkill Dale Derbyshire 1961.
And I did marry the intended and I’ve still got her after 47 years.
Hi Chris,
I bet you ain’t as slim as that now,after many years of lorry driving. I drove one of those thames vans for a builder in Kington,it had a column change and had a diesel engine,the older blokes wouldn’t drive it,they couldn’t manage the column change. I was then 19,and like you slim,and now,oh dear.
Cheers Dave.
harry_gill:
hiya,
Chris you’re a handsome git, a woman across the street from me has just given me a windscreen sticker which reads “God you’re ugly” i’m really hurt, you could say cut to the quick, i doubt if i’ll ever be the same again, might never go out again.
thanks harry long retired.
I’ve altered since then Harry,got a face that would worry rats. they used to say to me at Maltby “Webby there were no sheep on t’Woodhead this morning,tha must have freetened 'em off wi thi face last neet!”
Or,“Webby,thas got t’weekend off so t’Duke of Devonshire has asked for thi to go and haunt t’West Wing of Chatsworth House,and t’stables if thas got time!”
Charming,but great days.
hiya,
Bit like that myself Chris, the young mothers buy my photograph, they say putting it on the mantlepiece keeps the bairns clear of the fire.
thanks harry long retired.
Hi Dave.Still slim at 67,just over 10 stone.Twenty years shunting kept me in pretty good nick.
More fat on Lester Piggot’s whip.
Chris Webb:
Hi Dave.Still slim at 67,just over 10 stone.Twenty years shunting kept me in pretty good nick.
More fat on Lester Piggot’s whip.
Hi Chris,
My weight is constant,about 16 to 17 stone,was about 15 stone for thirty years,but its crept up,will have to lose some.
Cheers Dave.
Dave the Renegade:
Chris Webb:
Hi Dave.Still slim at 67,just over 10 stone.Twenty years shunting kept me in pretty good nick.
More fat on Lester Piggot’s whip.Hi Chris,
My weight is constant,about 16 to 17 stone,was about 15 stone for thirty years,but its crept up,will have to lose some.
Cheers Dave.
Here you are Dave,me and me Terberg in 2003.
Built for speed,not for comfort.
Dave the Renegade:
Chris Webb:
Hi Dave.Still slim at 67,just over 10 stone.Twenty years shunting kept me in pretty good nick.
More fat on Lester Piggot’s whip.Hi Chris,
My weight is constant,about 16 to 17 stone,was about 15 stone for thirty years,but its crept up,will have to lose some.
Cheers Dave.
We had about 10/12 shunters "salt of th earth "the unsung hero’s of many a good fleet !!! Bewick
hiya,
Was around the 14 stone mark for years then found out about the “C” thingy, that knocked a bit of the podge off, but back up to about 15 stone at the moment and the doctors are quite happy that being the case although they want me to watch my weight again and try to keep my weight around what it is now.
thanks harry long retired.
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Brilliant stuff flatman.
The pic of what Ithink is a Scammell with the in line low loader trailer ?
Anyway, wtf is that sat in the passenger seat ? - looks like a duck wearing a scarf to me 
Hi all. Phew I’ve missed a few days through pressure of work & had to go through 8 pages to catch up! Do you think Marc will make 100 pages by Xmas?
Flatman how did you come by those pics of Arthur Ducket? For a time I lived across the river from him in Highbridge and worked in a garage on the A38 I used to see his trucks go past. He sold up in '67 just when I started driving and went into farming (a co-incidence yesterday I met the son of one of the men who bought his licence H&R transport -Horrell & Roe- never met him before) Arthur started driving for a local firm Coxes of Street on night shift when we were all building the M5 but a bad accident put him off the road (he was farming during the day 
)He got involved in transport again with the sea defences using those Kamas dumpers (I think he was working on the 'DeRooey 'principle i.e. thats the type of vehicle thats needed so thats what I’ll use) unfortunately they were totally illegal for road use & the DoT got shirty and pulled Arthur into Norton Fiztwarren testing station and impounded the Kamas. IIRC it was decided that the Kamas could be driven on the road empty but not loaded so Arthur ‘donated’ the stone to the DoT (in the entrance to the testing station) needless to say they were not amused hence the fine.
He is now a Licenced Slaughterman driving around in a Renault 4-wheeler collecting ill or dead animals from farms, some time ago he was carrying a Colt 45 in a holster (a la Wyatt Earp) legally but I’ve heard there was an ‘incident’ and dont know if he still does that.He must be at least 75 now and to say he is a character is a definate understatment 
My very good friend the late John ‘Robbo’ Robbins (see my posts on the Astran thread and some mentions in Cola Cowboys)drove for him many years ago, I think in that Rowe although that is not him in the pic, I think it might be Mike Harding(?) from Highbridge.
I hope I’ve not bored you 
Gavin
This is a good unusual one. Makes you ownder how long it had to stay there like that. 
Gavin McArdle:
Hi all. Phew I’ve missed a few days through pressure of work & had to go through 8 pages to catch up! Do you think Marc will make 100 pages by Xmas?
Flatman how did you come by those pics of Arthur Ducket?
Hello Gavin
They came from an article in T---- ( I hate that word) magazine October 1992. As I said earlier on this thread, I just kept the pics and articles I wanted as It took up too much space to keep all the mags. All the pics and articles I kept are now in four large binders and a draw.
John
The man himself in the 1960’s
Part of his fleet
Anyone remember this company?
That’s a great picture of 3 of Reader Bros loading fruit, I cannot make out whether that is Humber Street fruit market, but the load certainly looks a little precarious.
