jacksons also made bricks at counciler lane at adswood , when it closed it became a landfill and the kilns were knocked down . jewsons opened a depot there with the rail lines for the kilns still there . i took many a load in there , always a good quick tip, dave
J&A Jacksons main place was on windmill lane it runs between Hyde Rd Denton & Reddish.Not sure but I think it is still operating in some capacity with someone else these days.
hiya,
Not a haulier but they seemed to have plenty of motors, the people in question Quilgotti tiles.
thanks harry long retired.
harry_gill:
hiya,
Not a haulier but they seemed to have plenty of motors, the people in question Quilgotti tiles.
thanks harry long retired.
Harry,
Quilligoti’s used to be next to John Jones’ on Newby Rd H/Grove,for whom I used to drive the Low Loader,not sure if they are still there though?
Take it easy,
David 
Any of you drivers remember Claribell Motors in Fairfield St. Ardwick they were blue wagons they also ran coaches. I used to back load off them in the 50/60s. the manager was called Mr Ogden handle bar tash & smoked a pipe I think he was a canny sort of a bloke he would help you out anytime. They did work out of Jonhsons ■■ barbed wire & nails plus drums out of Berry Wiggins. Regards Larry
I remember the coach office being on Ashton Old Rd corner of Claribel st.
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And this is the place they had on Fairfield Street for the lorries ( not the best photo sorry.)pity the gates weren’t closed at the time they took this showing the full name.
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Nice one John, that brings back memmories I used to stop in some digs further along from the coach office The Sunny Rose Cafe it was handy if I was loading out of their yard the stored bales of material for export industrial stuff for Tyne Dock Noth Shields Cheers Larry
Another couple of firms Ridings from Ordsall Lane & Storey Bros with the old Fodens & if my memmory is right was there a firm Wake Transport carried reels of paper on Bedford artics they used to run past Hanging Ditch where we used to deliver bacon from Denmark also Fennel St. & Greenwood St. Cheers Larry
harry_gill:
hiya,
Not a haulier but they seemed to have plenty of motors, the people in question Quilgotti tiles.
thanks harry long retired.
This the firm you looking for harry.
Stanfield:
harry_gill:
hiya,
Not a haulier but they seemed to have plenty of motors, the people in question Quilgotti tiles.
thanks harry long retired.This the firm you looking for harry.0
hiya,
Yes Stanfield that’s them, are they still going?? there seemed to be plenty of them knocking about back in the 60s both tipper and delivery motor’s which of course would be on “C” licence in those days.
thanks harry long retired.
Still going over 70 yrs harry but now at a different address
Quiligotti Terrazzo Tiles Limited
PO Box 4,
Clifton Junction,
Manchester,
M27 8LP
Stanfield:
Still going over 70 yrs harry but now at a different addressQuiligotti Terrazzo Tiles Limited
PO Box 4,
Clifton Junction,
Manchester,
M27 8LP
hiya,
I never got to the Quilgotti works, but when I worked for a company called Holdsworth of Rochdale i did the Scottish run with a four wheeler ERF and regularly used to find Quilgotti’s had dropped a small amount of stuff off to make my multi dropper load up my instruction when putting my load on away from our yard was too leave a couple of foot at the back and it was usually tiles to finish a job off somewhere in the Highlands.
thanks harry long retired.
I have loaded with tiles from there but it came under the name of Pilkingtons 1999 was the last time I was in they supplied the tiles for the extention at Newcastle Airport. I also remember delivering to a battery Co Exide I think in the same area. in the 60s Regards Larry.
Your quite right Lawrence it was part of Pilkingtons but was bought by the management in 2010
The sale, which completed on 26th November 2010, ensures that the UK’s main producer of specialised terrazzo flooring remains in operation within the UK, and also protects 23 jobs at the company’s production facility in Swinton, Greater Manchester
So it has now reverted back to the name of quiligotti.
Another old haulier Knowles of Rambottom blue & red motors allways looked smart mostley Albions 4s & 6s Bill Knowles was a hands on bloke when I new him in the 50s he used to load us back regular sometimes cotton waste out of his warehouse & quite often from Greengate & Irwell Trafford Park my gaffer used to load his wagons back to Lancs
Anyone remember Holdens Transport & Storage from Rawtenstall they also had a yard in Trafford Park they did a lot out of Thos Hedley Ltd [Procter & Gamble] Green coloured BMC artics flats & some 4wheeler box vans then later Big Js I wonder if they are stiil going ■■?. Larry
Hiya Lads,
Anyone remember H Currie, Manchester1, later to become Shamrock Express running out of Heywood?
I used to run to Manchester from time to time I can remember H Currie & Son. they got a new Ergo cabbed tractor unit in 1970/1 with a single axle box van, it was fitted with Hope Anti Jack Knife device, the driver was in Trafford Park at one of those hut cafes, cant remember the name, there were quite a few in those days. but I never saw him after that, Cheers Larry
Lawrence Dunbar:
Nice one John, that brings back memmories I used to stop in some digs further along from the coach office The Sunny Rose Cafe it was handy if I was loading out of their yard the stored bales of material for export industrial stuff for Tyne Dock Noth Shields Cheers Larry
Hallo Lawrence Dunbar
Along time ago I saw your contribution in this News group where you mention the suny rose transport cafe. I wanted to answer immediately but took me ages to register and be accepted in this forum. I don’t know what I did wrong but now it works.
In the seventees I was a lorry driver and faried goods from Switzerland to UK. Many of us stopped at sunny rose in Mossley. We knew the owners from manchester, where they opperated a transport cafe befor they moved to Mossley. We liked to stay there because the Italian woman also spoke german. We had some grat times there when we had to stay for weekends in the area of manchester. The Hulstons had two sons Robert and John and a daughter Maria. They were some younger than we were. Through Internet I find out, that the transport café on this address does not exist any more. I think is used to hold different kind of meetings.
Now I wonder if out there are more Lorry drivers who used to stop at Sunny rose and also if somebody could tell me something of the where about of the children.
kind regards
Robert SUTER
Hofmatt 54
6332 Hagendorn
Switzerland
Tel: 041 / 780 40 61
Natel: 079/ 674 99 18
Skype: rhs_tramp
suternetmail@datazug.ch
Great Pics John. Claribel Carriers (or Motors or Coaches) use to do a great deal of work out of the CoOp on Pollard Street and Shell at Trafford Park really good jobs they also as stated did a lot of work for Joseph Hoyles, when Claribel closed the doors most of the work and some of the drivers went to Hoyles. Although they had the yard on Fairfield Street it wasn’t big enough for all the trucks so most drivers kept them at home which was par for the norm in them days, but the garage was on Claribel Street off Ashton Road, running a haulage garage on a street full of terraced houses seems unreal these days.
