Does anyone remember this company? They employed mainly family members and most of their vehicles were Ford Transit tippers on Q plates or registered in Ireland. Said vehicles usually had greedy boards made out of old doors, and had some sort of exemption to road tax and could run on red diesel… 
Back in the late 60’s and early 70’s this firm had new kit.They specialised in a new technique of laying the black stuff.No stone underneath just grass or weeds,always looked a tidy job for a couple of weeks until the underlay came up through the black 
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Cheers Dave.
Didn’t they have an in house fuel supply division ■■?
Pye Quay Fuel Removals if I remember rightly
Never minded traveling for work, and always gave you a deal for cash.
Dave the Renegade:
Back in the late 60’s and early 70’s this firm had new kit.They specialised in a new technique of laying the black stuff.No stone underneath just grass or weeds,always looked a tidy job for a couple of weeks until the underlay came up through the black
Cheers Dave.
They had a strange waste carriers license that meant they could tip, literally anywhere…
mainly ditches, laybys and lanes
Also a novel way of painting barn roofs before Hammerite came out which went straight onto rust,but didn’t make any difference .
making metal farm gates disappear
They have diversified of late into manhole covers and other metal artifacts that can be sold to supply the Chinese market 
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They used to quarry slate; from church roofs
Muckaway:
They used to quarry slate; from church roofs
Kevin McCloud comes a poor second to their revelopment skills; They transformed a greenfield site in the middle of a conservation area at Shipston on Stour into several dozen traditional traveller units all in a bank holiday weekend; It had all the usual Big Fat accessories including land set aside for ponies, waste recycling centre (for several dozen gas cylinders and a dead whippet), eco sewage system where foul water is dispersed into the surrounding trees, and for recreation purposes an area used for bare-fist boxing and grabbing club.
I gather they also had plans to store construction plant like Kubotas, compressors and Ifor Williams Trailers but the police objected…
Muckaway:
They used to quarry slate; from church roofs
and recycle the lead as they don’t like to waste things, being good citizens
They are a fair minded bunch,operating a two shift system.
The day shift would be having a run round all the likely premises
offering to remove anything you did’nt seem to require anymore.
And of course you would inform them that there was nothing for sale in a polite manner.
All the days information would be taken back to HQ. Newark use to be a large Depot
in my day.They would be debriefed and then you would have the night shift boys going round trying to relieve those kindly client’s
who their mates said did’nt really want the stuff in the yard’s anyway,but were just to shy to admit it.
Transit type vehicle’s seem to have a free run at night in Derbyshire must be a special licence.
Yes a fair minded crowd that Tinker and Co.
They used to haul Leylandii cuttings and backload gravel that was left over from the Council of the district they were in.
They help VOSA with roadside fuel tests… removing it… they very kindly do this at night, to minimise traffic disruption.
billybigrig:
Didn’t they have an in house fuel supply division ■■?Pye Quay Fuel Removals if I remember rightly
They’d do the elderly a cheap rate and drive them to the bank to get the money…where the price suddenly went up.
Muckaway:
They’d do the elderly a cheap rate and drive them to the bank to get the money…where the price suddenly went up.
but fortune telling is free
Tinkers work Sundays; They’re driving around here right now in a white transit van with “scrap wanted” blowing an air horn. Very admirable of them to let us know they’re about so we can lock our garages, hide our pets and bicycles.