The picture isn’t clear enough for me to read the name on the door, not on my phone anyway, but you will know a lot more about them than I, all I did was share a picture I found, other than that, as Manuel would say, I know nothing…
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Another way of laying down on the job just outside Dover harbour.
Hi all, I remember I was given the first eu permit before we joined the common market, to go to Boston Lincolnshire to load beef Fran’s Butterlar I think, to go Belgium unload then take my orders from Van de mere, reload to Italy load Italy on to Germany unload reload on to Italy, then on to Belgium, where I was told to come home. Van De Meer where a bit of slave drivers, before this permit,you loaded in your country unloaded in the other country loaded in the same country and came home. I think that is how it worked.
I have been asked to let all know that one of the greatest bloke that worked for Union Cartage has passed away. R I P Sam McAuley who died this morning at around 0630 our time. He was the main negotiator for the wages and conditions enjoyed by all who worked for the firm. After the cessation of operations at Warley he went on to be a top negotiator on LONDON TRANSPORT based at Seven Kings garage. He will be sadly missed by all who knew him.
Greetings,cartageman.
We were very sad to hear about Mac.In our day, with Johnny Sadler, we used to run down to Germany,fridge stuff to the American Camps. He was a handy man on those runs as he had a good command of the language which eased quite a few problems.Would you keep us updated ref. the final arrangements if possible? R.I.P.,Mac. We had some good days on UCC. 
900x20.AKA Ted and Dave.
Hi, as far as I know at the moment, he will have a funeral and cremation in San Miguel de Salinas`ALICANTE SPAIN and the ashes will be brought over for them to be interred with his wife Birgitte who died a couple of years after UCC ended and a small ceremony will take place at the internment at the small cemetery adjacent to the old Oldchurch hospital Romford. I don’t know when that will be yet. He was the best negotiator that I ever me in my working life. RIP MAC.
Hello,cartageman. Thanks for the info.,a sad business.R.I.P.Mac. 900x20.
Sorry to hear, spoke to him about 1 year ago.
Greetings Everybody and A Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to All.
Hoping I am not treading on any one’s toes,I found these two photos on the web and with apologies if needed,I’ve attached them on this site.It’s an old 700 car that has been restored.It had a five cylinder Gerdner in it and without the “Block” it did 40mph and there were better lorries to go to Liverpool in.Still,it was the job + 11 hours pay.
All the best to you all for the Season,regards,900x20. 
Merry Christmas to all.
Hi, has the post now finished, not heard from any body.
Hi, has the post now finished, not heard from any body.
Greetings,Terry.
I agree it has gone a bit quiet,I think there’s only you Dave and myself left.Good to hear from you anyway.We’re both O.K.,still living in West Sussex and enjoying life,hope you’re in good health too.
George Curtis is still around but I don’t know if there are any others about.News is scarce.Tel,all the best,keep looking at the site,someone might see this and write in.Regards,Ted and Dave. 
Hey, have found this in our old documents yesterdag, sorry for the bad condition.
Eric,
Interesting, a bit hard to read, nice to hear you are both well and dear boy, cant be many of us left now, im 73 and was the youngest, when I spoke to the yank he named quite a few who have past on,but there must be a few left,well keep in touch.
These 15 pages i have read over two days are the most funny/honest/just as it was brilliant the whole lot of pages should be made in to a book of its own
and i agree that only men who worked for U.CC CONTRIBUTE
As ex driver 72 years of age i new about U.CC by being around the royal docks in the late 1960.70. i was .delivering exports.
i do remember the lorries but never took any notice when i was on the meat boats,“FEDERAL”
What a lot of outsiders ie, not from the docks working area ,would not get ,was,that all workers were ■■■■■■■ in the same union .dockers, meat .fish, paper, print ,all the themes water/boat workers,and you would get the father and son follow on, in all the mentioned industrys, and a thing called a "brief ". it was probably a membership card.that was i think passed down in family’s .
The camaraderie all those men had would have been infectious .just enjoyed reading it all.
As I posted before we used to service the Reading based fleet, only about three trucks I think, and they had an ERF like the one in the pic above which replaced a bonetted Austin WEK. It was getting on a bit by then and the diff went on it and we dragged it in, I don’t remember what happened to it as it stood in our yard for weeks. This would have been around 1974.
Pete.
Hi Peggydeckboy, you are correct we did have a union meat drivers ticket, without which you were not allowed to deliver to Smithfield market, our newbies were not issued with them. On tractor /trailers we each carried a 3ft piece of timber(called a mate). This was for ease of coupling to a trailer on your own.
If delivering to a cold store people would often pull the pin and put the mate under the bar and you would pull out solo. One of my mates came back to Poplar solo and had to go back to Nelsons Wharf, looking for his trailer on the way. Another was putting trailer grease inside the NS door handle and try to keep a straight face when the docks copper opened the door, with grease on his hand and anger on his face. Another was wiring a rasher of bacon on the exhaust manifold, the smell made the driver keep fancying bacon sandwiches. Our ex BRS depot joiners never knew the sort of things that used to happen.
Turners tried to get in by opening a depot in hackney wick, they brought in drivers from Soham which were some of the worst paid drivers, but they had to employ the ticket drivers at the London rate, and not long after closed there depot. In regards to a UCC depot in Reading I might be wrong but I cant remember one as we used to go from Poplar to Caversham cold store and back. I think it suited lord vestey the way the union worked as he had control from his farms in south america and Australia Zeeland with the meat on to his ships, Blue Star line to his transport UCC then Wedlles and his butchers shops dewhurst.
Cartageman you come up on a private message for me and a reply will not send back no prob to you but all explained in your last post tyhanks