Awsome, you have made my year already! Cheers.
Who are you anyway?!
my name is on the trucks !! Mick Tyson… If I remember right, I think Fred invented a sun bed inside a drawer divan whilst at S/N ■■
Sorry Mick, been on a stag doo in Newcastle, I left some of my brain there…
Yes he did, it was in my bedroom at home. He started making them in the old buoyant mill on Pendle St. He still has the patent docs somewhere.
The who are you? was aimed at vwvanman0
Wasnt Bouyant on PINDER ST in Nelson ? Where the factory stood are now new houses…
My MANs… 16.232 Reg HUG 66N ex Housemans of Darley… 16.240 Reg LCP 848T ex Brennans Tankers of Leeds.
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Chris,tis me,Ste Dixon ,bet ya dads f88/9 was faster than that thing of kibbles is!
Thats the only pic i have of your dads motor,think i got it in silentnights yard one day on a trip with Mick and Matthew years ago.
Evening Ste, thanks for that, I really regret not getting pics of the stuff we had when I was a kid. Pics of the pink f10 that came after this would turn a few heads…
Are you going to Llandudno this year Ste?
yep,Matts taking 4 this year,f88,f10,W13,and the new ugly bus fh. that fm i keep seeing you in is nearly classic enough to go!
It will be once I get it painted and a new demount frame on it. One lady driver from new…
Mick, can you remember what colour the pale blue was■■?
I asked Brian Carlos, but he didnt know
Cold Up North:
Mick, can you remember what colour the pale blue was■■?
I asked Brian Carlos, but he didnt know
Was it Larkspur blue? I once got a motor painted with the wrong label on the tin to my shade of blue, it just looked like a Sealy motor and it was Larkspur.
Could be, but i think the silentnight blue of that era was a greener blue than sealy’s, which hasn’t changed for years…
My favourite Silentnight livery was the big white " S " in the shape of a bed on the light blue backing… But when I first started working there approx 1966/67 the livery was the street /houses view … for some reason the Guy Pantechnicon ETF 218B I drove didnt have any sign writing or livery on it !! Fleet was mainly Guy but I do remember also 2 Bedford TKs , one of which was given to Keith Coates… Then came Dodge Kew Pantechnicons, very luxurious , smooth and quiet compared to the big Guys . Then later, possibly after the Dodge Kew artics came we had 2 Leylands, Mastiff ?, again I think allocated to Andy Gallagher and a tall lad called Bob ? Again later when Toms son , Peter, had the Ford garage in Skipton, Silentnight purchased 6 Ford tractor units and most of the company cars were replaced by Ford, Cortinas and Granadas . At that time, Silentnight founder and brilliant boss Tom Clarke ,being very patriotic wouldnt have anything foreign in the yard, but I do remember after having as his own car, an Aston Martin DB5 he got a Volvo. He didnt like it and went back to Aston Martin. I enquired about the Volvo and he said " A good looking woman cant always cook " !! At that time , Tom and the Transport Management team held regular meetings with all the drivers in the boardroom and he knew all the drivers by name… He would never ask a worker at Silentnight to do anything that he wasnt prepared to do…
Yeah, Fred said the same. His other son John started on the same day as him as a driver.
I had a lot of time for John Clarke. He went straight into the company from school, worked in all the departments so he knew all the different skills before becoming a driver with us, no airs and graces, he was one of us, John then , as some of us, became an owner driver albeit in a bigger way and ran his own company Twins Transport from Skipton… A nice lad…
Who was the Scottish guy with the top of range silver Merc, with own box trailer that worked out of there mid 80s.