Hi Ron…Pleased you cleared that as I knew they are related but not how, hope your keeping okay and the “Wifey” oops starting to talk ■■■■■■■■ again 
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Eddie
edworth:
Hi Ron…Pleased you cleared that as I knew they are related but not how, hope your keeping okay and the “Wifey” oops starting to talk ■■■■■■■■ again
Eddie
Hi Eddie
Bet you wished te winter was over and the caravan season started agan and back to ■■■■■■■
Carl
Carl,sent you a pm yesterday have you seen it.paul
paul motyka:
Carl,sent you a pm yesterday have you seen it.paul
Hi Paul,
Thanks very much, have just read.
I will look ad comment on here.
Once again thanks
Carl
On Atkins of Derby is a video of stills of their fleet and depot.
youtube.com/watch?v=finUm2S08Ew
great video and in middle is a still of 1372UP.
It must have been taken about 1968 aprox as 1372UP has been repainted with our name in brown rectangle on front of Luton.
Anyone who has not watched video it is well worth watching, but I would appreciate if anyone can tel me if it is possible to freeze frame and copy, as I certainly would like a copy of this photo of 1372UP
Carl Williams:
On Atkins of Derby is a video of stills of their fleet and depot.youtube.com/watch?v=finUm2S08Ew
great video and in middle is a still of 1372UP.
It must have been taken about 1968 aprox as 1372UP has been repainted with our name in brown rectangle on front of Luton.
Anyone who has not watched video it is well worth watching, but I would appreciate if anyone can tel me if it is possible to freeze frame and copy, as I certainly would like a copy of this photo of 1372UP
Looking at the video again, it looks as though the Mercedes in front of the van could have been dad’s first Maercedes (which was cream). I surpose it is possible that dad had travelled down to Derby to meet the driver of 1372UP and it would have been typical of Dad if he had rang Atkins to arrange to meet a driver there, as their depot and truck stop was so central for the Midlands.
Peter, if you read this I need your help. Do you recognise the car?
Eddy & Ronnie,
Eddy sorry i presume your brother died.
Thanks to you both it has put me right on both counts.
When i was 16 years (1958) i worked @ the Co-op in Whitworth Terrace then the branch on the High Street with Norma Kay married to John Gornall i had some great times riding that store bike to every street in Spennymoor even in snow a foot deep that’s probably how i got into driving & delivering then meeting people, worked my my to the top but not the easy way and i would do it all again.
After all the footage of the wars gone by i remembered before the M27 was built to get to Portsmouth we turned left @ the lights @ Winchester on the B333 from what i remember then arrived on the hilltop overlooking the many ships in the old harbour ,
what i am getting at is can anyone also remember the many submarines that were waiting to be cut up & scrapped? it was a sorry sight.
Gordon.
Carl
That Merc looks like your Dads old Cream Merc is it i wonder?
Gordon.
Carl Williams:
Carl Williams:
On Atkins of Derby is a video of stills of their fleet and depot.youtube.com/watch?v=finUm2S08Ew
great video and in middle is a still of 1372UP.
It must have been taken about 1968 aprox as 1372UP has been repainted with our name in brown rectangle on front of Luton.
Anyone who has not watched video it is well worth watching, but I would appreciate if anyone can tel me if it is possible to freeze frame and copy, as I certainly would like a copy of this photo of 1372UP
Looking at the video again, it looks as though the Mercedes in front of the van could have been dad’s first Maercedes (which was cream). I surpose it is possible that dad had travelled down to Derby to meet the driver of 1372UP and it would have been typical of Dad if he had rang Atkins to arrange to meet a driver there, as their depot and truck stop was so central for the Midlands.
Peter, if you read this I need your help. Do you recognise the car?
Hi Carl, This one was a bit of a brain tease. Ouch!
The car in the photograph certainly looks like your dads Mercedes but I remember it being a pale Primrose Yellow rather than cream (not that you can tell from a black & white photo) so for this reason I don’t think it was your dad’s as this one looks too “White”. I am sure his car was ‘M’ registered which, if it was your dad’s, would then date the photograph 1973 onwards. The registration which comes to mind is NUP 977M but I could be wrong. Def “M” registered because I married in 1972 and he had the red Rover 3500: JUP 107H then. Your dad kept the Mercedes until 1976 and then this was replaced with a blue Mercedes 280.
Was it this car you took to the continent taking Malcolm Marsden with you on holiday but returned alone 
Could help with dating the car if you knew which year that was.
Peter
pbsummers:
Carl Williams:
Carl Williams:
On Atkins of Derby is a video of stills of their fleet and depot.youtube.com/watch?v=finUm2S08Ew
great video and in middle is a still of 1372UP.
It must have been taken about 1968 aprox as 1372UP has been repainted with our name in brown rectangle on front of Luton.
Anyone who has not watched video it is well worth watching, but I would appreciate if anyone can tel me if it is possible to freeze frame and copy, as I certainly would like a copy of this photo of 1372UP
Looking at the video again, it looks as though the Mercedes in front of the van could have been dad’s first Maercedes (which was cream). I surpose it is possible that dad had travelled down to Derby to meet the driver of 1372UP and it would have been typical of Dad if he had rang Atkins to arrange to meet a driver there, as their depot and truck stop was so central for the Midlands.
Peter, if you read this I need your help. Do you recognise the car?
Hi Carl, This one was a bit of a brain tease. Ouch!
The car in the photograph certainly looks like your dads Mercedes but I remember it being a pale Primrose Yellow rather than cream (not that you can tell from a black & white photo) so for this reason I don’t think it was your dad’s as this one looks too “White”. I am sure his car was ‘M’ registered which, if it was your dad’s, would then date the photograph 1973 onwards. The registration which comes to mind is NUP 977M but I could be wrong. Def “M” registered because I married in 1972 and he had the red Rover 3500: JUP 107H then. Your dad kept the Mercedes until 1976 and then this was replaced with a blue Mercedes 280.Was it this car you took to the continent taking Malcolm Marsden with you on holiday but returned alone
Peter
Hi peter,
The more I look at the photo and think about it the more I think it is dad’s Mercedes. You could be right about the reg number NUP977M,which would have been issued first month of M reg, so the car was almost L reg, as dad always liked a 7 in numbers when possible, but the colour of the car was definatly cream not unlike the cream on the vans. Also the car was Mercedes 250 which in fact had 2.8 litre 6 cylinder engine, with automatic box, in it with no suffix. (Not E or SE) and the model was only available in UK for about 1 year between 1973-4, and the car on the photo is a 250.
For some reason I thought it was the blue Mercedes 280SE I took to Italy, but I couldn’t think how it could have been as I had taken the blue Rover 2000 TC MUP882J the year before to Denmark, Sweden and Norway, as somewhere I have a photo of it being lifted onto the DFDS ferry at North Shields, and thought it couldn’t have been three years afterwards I went to Italy. That being the case the car had only about 600 miles on the clock when I left to go to Italy, and was about two weeks old. Also it must have been before I bought the Triumph Stag RUP99M or I would have taken it.
Thinking about it now I think I might know the answer. Dad went down to Southampton to see and buy the Scammell breakdown. I know a day or so afterwards that Ken Armstrong went down to collect it and rang me crying saying it was so slow he would never get home again and I went down with MUP882J and sent Ken back with it and drove the Scammell back. So the timing is correct, as MUP882J was three years old when it was replaced with the red Stag.Croxdale Service Station sold the Rover on my behalf as they would not do P/x on the stag, as they were so much in demand at the time, and it was a sellers market.
So I recon that would be dad calling at Derby after arranging to meet the driver there on his way to Southampton, and most probably Jack Kempsey (Doug) would have gone with him for a ride out. Dad only sacked one driver, en route, as far as I recollect. (Charlie Brown on the M6 at the service station going North before Tebay), so the only other reason was to take a porter down as most probably 1372UP was picking up a removal and needed a porter to help load.
Isn’t it strange. You never know when you might be caught on camera.
Carl
Carl
I remember your Dads Merc being cream as i thought @ the time coffee & cream vans cream car.
Another name Billy Canney from Crook before joining WHW he was in the Guards.
Gordon
I remember it as a buttery cream with a slight tinge of pale lemon (if that makes sense) Chris 
825christineh:
I remember it as a buttery cream with a slight tinge of pale lemon (if that makes sense) Chris
Thanks, Christine. You’ve described the colour quite well. It’s exactly what I should have said. 
Peter
goggietara:
Carl
I remember your Dads Merc being cream as i thought @ the time coffee & cream vans cream car.
Another name Billy Canney from Crook before joining WHW he was in the Guards.
Gordon
Thanks Gordon,
Well noticed,
I have added Bill to list. I will put it on again in a few weeks time, as there are still so many names missing.
It’s strange! Like Bill Canney, you can’t see the wood for the trees , and the harder you look sometimes the less you see.
I was disapointed none from Bishop turned up at the reunion,also Durham with the likes of Martin Halliday, perhaps we might persuade some to come for the next one
Carl
825christineh:
I remember it as a buttery cream with a slight tinge of pale lemon (if that makes sense) Chris
Hi Chistine,
You have an excellent way with words making such an accurate description.
I bet you travelled with me up to the bank many times in that car.
When we got it I found it a delight to drive, being the first Mercedes I had driven, so diffferent from the British Rovers we had ued in the past. Now reading your description it makes me feel it would have been nice to eat, as it sounds like a cake!
Carl
Carl
As a driver we could not afford a nice car like yourself i remember the red stag you had very nice & when i saw your family cars outside the office i always thought some day when i win the lottery i will have a one to treasure, us poor drivers cars after being away all week had to be push started ha ha.
Christine
A lady is the person to ask to sort out an argument fine attention to detail my girl thanks, and i wish we had more ex staff like yourself on this site it would be nice to hear more stories.
Its good to see Eddie & Peter the "Memory Man"on hear almost daily to keep it going.
Gordon
I can honestly say it’s the only time in my life I’ve ridden in a Merc. Reliant Robins yes, Mercs no. Maybe get a last ride in one when I croak. Chris
825christineh:
I can honestly say it’s the only time in my life I’ve ridden in a Merc. Reliant Robins yes, Mercs no. Maybe get a last ride in one when I croak.
Not at all I have a merc that I drive very nice too I must say was not that expensive to buy either ( I did get a very good deal on it ) you should maybe have a look
goggietara:
Eddy & Ronnie,
Eddy sorry i presume your brother died.
Thanks to you both it has put me right on both counts.
When i was 16 years (1958) i worked @ the Co-op in Whitworth Terrace then the branch on the High Street with Norma Kay married to John Gornall i had some great times riding that store bike to every street in Spennymoor even in snow a foot deep that’s probably how i got into driving & delivering then meeting people, worked my my to the top but not the easy way and i would do it all again.
After all the footage of the wars gone by i remembered before the M27 was built to get to Portsmouth we turned left @ the lights @ Winchester on the B333 from what i remember then arrived on the hilltop overlooking the many ships in the old harbour ,
what i am getting at is can anyone also remember the many submarines that were waiting to be cut up & scrapped? it was a sorry sight.
Gordon.
Hi Gordon…Nice lass Norma, her and John lived opposite my mam n dad at green lane, her brother Barry is a great lad, one thing about Norma she took no ■■■■ and she could probaly learn a few lorry drivers some new swear words, anbody know how John n Norma are these days, Gordon I had a few bikes in spennymoor Eddie