mekon:
Hi.Dieseldog6.! No I don’t recall Kevin or Alan but I’ve just put the phone down to Gerry Perry who drove for Dines and knows 'em both so maybe you know Gerry?? We tended to work on the same firm but he’s broke ranks at the moment and is on for MVT car transporters…I do remember De Costa…he was the same era as John Arnett.
John had a place in Curriers Close Coventry doing the Massey Ferguson tractors out of Banner Lane. He also had a warehouse in Rugby for the storage and distribution of the calor gas heaters from spain.
Mekon… Don, nice to see you on here, I used to drive for Dines of Bicester when I lived in Banbury, although we didn’t know each other, you may have known 2 friends of mine , Kevin and Alan Tagg who werer also on Dines, I also did a stint at Compton’s. I used to think that Scania of yours was the dogs do da’s. John Arnett, now there’s a name from the past, I know I should know more about him, but I can’t recal what!!! age thing I guess. Do you remember a bloke from Coventry with a 2800 DAF, De Costa Transport, yellow and Blue, used to do Spain back then? Dieseldog6 [/quote ]
I remember Jack Dicey having a warehouse full of those heaters in Rugby they were brought in from Spain i think? allways seemed busy with them.
gunnerheskey:
Truckerash !
Superb pictures, especially the one of the Hercocks Daf !
Me being from leicester i can remember Hercocks very well situated behind leicester tigers rugby ground on the welford rd.
As a young lad i can just about remember Hercocks swapping there AEC Mandators for F86s and F88s. Then after the 86s an 88s they got 5 brand new F10s on a T plate then another 5 on a Vs an W reg plus numerous F7s. But the best thing about your priceless photo’s is i never new they had any Dafs, can’t ever remember seeing one.
I used to know quite a few and still do know a lot of there old drivers.
They sold the site to fina, then they were market bosworth haulage, darby white,houston transport (in conjunction with jimmy houston from doncaster), arrivehaul then finally Pickarbys.
Cheers…
Ps Do you have any pics of Pinnacle international, or W smith haulage of leicester
truckerash:
Sunday evening… time for a few more “gems” me thinks
NOW IVE GOT YOUR ATTENTION…
is this one Welsh or Irish
This is very interesting…
Check out the slogan on the fridge: New reefer for the 80’s"
Ummm, nice “slimline” fridge. Was that the latest design then? Looks SO dated nowadays.
Shanahans ran this■■?
At least it was “turbo intercooled”
Ahhh oooohh: a proper MIDDLE EAST lorry
and another…
anyone remember SANDTRANS? They had an ex OHS Volvo F12 and an F16 Globetrotter all painted like this. Quality
Right thats enough drooling
heres a few from Scotchland - Good luck tonight in the rugby by the way
and for you London boys:
Anyone know this bloke MALTRANS?
Is this THE classic Dover photo?
Subby pulling another company trailer. Its a supercube, so he’s probably had the “crap” run. Left on Tuesday, punched down to Italy. One tip then 5 or 6 tiles collections, then up to Novara to top up with groupage. Then if he’s lucky, out by Friday night!
He’s had a “crap” run back up, so he’s late getting into Dover which means he cant pick up the “glamorous” hitchiker standing by the truck
And finally…this will get you all guessing
Especially for you AXORMAN. Are you watching Ron■■?
What is this all about?
English reg. Willi Betz Volvo? Its a bit blurred im afraid but i think its ?VF 500H. Its right hand drive. And check out the back of the cab, looks like half the sleeper roof’s missing!wyatt206 writes, the unit belonged to Bobby Martin, wvf 500h, ex fridged freight volvo(john wyatt) the roof is cut because a fridge hit the roof boarding a boat at dover, one of a kind hey.
Hope you’ve all enjoyed tonights selection Plenty more to come
truckerash:
Sunday evening… time for a few more “gems” me thinks
NOW IVE GOT YOUR ATTENTION…
is this one Welsh or Irish
This is very interesting…
Check out the slogan on the fridge: New reefer for the 80’s"
Ummm, nice “slimline” fridge. Was that the latest design then? Looks SO dated nowadays.
Shanahans ran this■■?
At least it was “turbo intercooled”
Ahhh oooohh: a proper MIDDLE EAST lorry
and another…
anyone remember SANDTRANS? They had an ex OHS Volvo F12 and an F16 Globetrotter all painted like this. Quality
Right thats enough drooling
heres a few from Scotchland - Good luck tonight in the rugby by the way
and for you London boys:
Anyone know this bloke MALTRANS?
Is this THE classic Dover photo?
Subby pulling another company trailer. Its a supercube, so he’s probably had the “crap” run. Left on Tuesday, punched down to Italy. One tip then 5 or 6 tiles collections, then up to Novara to top up with groupage. Then if he’s lucky, out by Friday night!
He’s had a “crap” run back up, so he’s late getting into Dover which means he cant pick up the “glamorous” hitchiker standing by the truck
And finally…this will get you all guessing
Especially for you AXORMAN. Are you watching Ron■■?
What is this all about?
English reg. Willi Betz Volvo? Its a bit blurred im afraid but i think its ?VF 500H. Its right hand drive. And check out the back of the cab, looks like half the sleeper roof’s missing!wyatt206 writes, the unit belonged to Bobby Martin, wvf 500h, ex fridged freight volvo(john wyatt) the roof is cut because a fridge hit the roof boarding a boat at dover, one of a kind hey.
Hope you’ve all enjoyed tonights selection Plenty more to come
I see a few of these are under the clock at smithfield bring tears to me eyes smithfield not the trucks great pics I never thought of taking a camera with me when I drove thank god some fellas did
Subby pulling another company trailer. Its a supercube, so he’s probably had the “crap” run. Left on Tuesday, punched down to Italy. One tip then 5 or 6 tiles collections, then up to Novara to top up with groupage. Then if he’s lucky, out by Friday night!
Gawd yeah, We did groupage to Barcelona regular. What a lot of messing about. Amazing what some of those ■■■■■■■ could fit in.
Subby pulling another company trailer. Its a supercube, so he’s probably had the “crap” run. Left on Tuesday, punched down to Italy. One tip then 5 or 6 tiles collections, then up to Novara to top up with groupage. Then if he’s lucky, out by Friday night!
Gawd yeah, We did groupage to Barcelona regular. What a lot of messing about. Amazing what some of those [zb] could fit in.
if you ever loaded at Spain TIR (other firms were probably the same) their loaders always impressed when they got the sides up, got up their ladders and filled in any spare space with cartons, tubes, small bales - you name it, couldn’t get a ■■■ paper between as they say
first time i was in a spain tir depot,maybe alicante ?i’m not sure, i arrived first thing in the morning and was told to open the trailer up right away, so i thought i would be heading up the road for home nice and early only for to be still there late into the evening waiting on all those wee rolls and shoe boxes to be squeezed in.
glenman:
first time i was in a spain tir depot,maybe alicante ?i’m not sure, i arrived first thing in the morning and was told to open the trailer up right away, so i thought i would be heading up the road for home nice and early only for to be still there late into the evening waiting on all those wee rolls and shoe boxes to be squeezed in.
dead right, I only ever loaded at barcelona and irun depots, but can imagine others to be the same - only place worse is prato (john!)
truckerash:
What about Dukes, Carna, East West, Persitts, Millars?
Connolly’s used to run beef to Teheran in the '70’s.
In about '69-'70,before I started on the M/E,I used to do recovery work an the M6 at Keele MSA and would get talking to guys that did Turkey in AEC 8 leggers with drags on,Fridge Freight,can anyone remember that far back?
Double manned,NO sleeper cab?
here you go Ian, Fridged Freight! They ran some awesum rigs. A lot were day cabbed, all the AEC’s were and some of the Vabis’s had sleepers. They bought one of Asians old Vabis’s, fitted it with fridge boxes and sent it bacck to the desert! MAD…hi mate, the vabis that john got from asians transport came from hingham norfolk, and they never went to the middle east/dessert, i have doudle checked, sorry mate that is wrong, (family) should know.
please note: this photo is from Martin Phippard
Oh no…im slipping back a few years with these older pics so what about Lowes then? They did mostly NAFFI stuff to Germany, but i saw them in Italy occassionaly.
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