Guests and Their Trucks

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="2" width=215 BGCOLOR="#CC0000" TEXT="#080000"> <div> If you wish to appear on this page send me an e-mail with picture. I am pleased to feature a real character as my first guest his name is Bill Weatherstone have a look at his web page.</div> <div> <IMG SRC="119c8b10.jpg" border=0 width="200" height="177" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Grandson Connor, he is lorry mad, seen here at the Leyland Commercial Vehicle Museam in Leyland, Lancs. Well worth a visit.</div> <div> <IMG SRC="161c7850.jpg" border=0 width="199" height="133" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Captain Al at the helm of The Branson Queen.</div> <div> <IMG SRC="163b4780.jpg" border=0 width="180" height="120" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> The Silverfox with Captain Dan's</div> <div> Branson Duck.</div> <div> <IMG SRC="165c6840.jpg" border=0 width="198" height="132" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> On the Strip in Las Vegas.</div> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=95 BGCOLOR="#CC0000" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Times New Roman" ><B>Big Al's Truck Stop</B></FONT><B>  </B><B> </B><B>|   </B><A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Big Als Truck Stop"><U><B>home</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id17.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="My History"><U>My History</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id18.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Photo Album"><U>Photo Album</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id22.htm" 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England.</div> <div> <IMG SRC="831680f0.jpg" border=0 width="360" height="271" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> <IMG SRC="83081210.jpg" border=0 width="385" height="289" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <IMG SRC="8338a280.jpg" border=0 width="394" height="296" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> <IMG SRC="832a83e0.jpg" border=0 width="424" height="318" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Pat loads a 44 ton Caterpillar 594 Pipelayer due for export to South Africa</div> <div> <IMG SRC="1a4046a0.jpg" border=0 width="516" height="362" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Pat's Husband George delivering pipelayer to our site.</div> <div> <IMG SRC="16f1a120.jpg" border=0 width="538" height="274" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Here is a link to another Lady Truckers Site, have a look it is very interesting.</div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Station/2424/" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Station/"><U><IMG SRC="17418d50.jpg" border=0 width="280" height="213" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A> <IMG SRC="17c80200.jpg" border=0 width="384" height="288" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Another Big Orange, this one is driven by Bernard Gilligan thank you for</div> <div> sending these pictures  in Bernard.</div> <div> <IMG SRC="17e47f50.jpg" border=0 width="327" height="245" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> <IMG SRC="18048f60.jpg" border=0 width="328" height="246" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Here is a new guest name of Carmen one of the growing band of Lady Truckers. Carmen is pictured </div> <div> with her Scania unit.  (perhaps Carmen will send me her bio so that I can expand this article )</div> <div> <IMG SRC="197f84b0.jpg" border=0 width="248" height="331" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> <IMG SRC="1999e470.jpg" border=0 width="414" height="327" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Next generation Trucker, young Will posing with George Pringle's superb looking Scania.</div> <div> <IMG SRC="1a98feb0.jpg" border=0 width="655" height="491" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Thanks go to Tony Thompson for pictures of his models in their working environment, they really</div> <div> do look realistic.</div> <div> <IMG SRC="1d65d030.jpg" border=0 width="349" height="259" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> <IMG SRC="1d85e040.jpg" border=0 width="350" height="260" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <IMG SRC="1da62070.jpg" border=0 width="354" height="263" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> <IMG SRC="1dc7b190.jpg" border=0 width="379" height="281" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> Eddie and Margaret Eyles from North Yorkshire sent me this picture of their superb Thames Trader, they</div> <div> spent the winter respraying and signwriting her, nice job Eddie</div> <div> <IMG SRC="24c75d20.jpg" border=0 width="373" height="210" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> <IMG SRC="3345a040.jpg" border=0 width="346" height="260" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Visitors to a pipeline contract at Samlesbury, by junction 3 of the M65 motorway, JJ Bullen's of Appley Bridge</div> <div>  mighty DAF lowloader with nice airbrush designs delivers Komatsu dozer to site.</div> <div> <IMG SRC="51f4d7a0.jpg" border=0 width="845" height="634" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <IMG SRC="521a43b0.jpg" border=0 width="420" height="315" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> <IMG SRC="523a33a0.jpg" border=0 width="419" height="314" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Biffa waste collect skip with Iveco hook loader from Samlesbury site.</div> <div> <IMG SRC="525aa400.jpg" border=0 width="426" height="320" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> <IMG SRC="527b7490.jpg" border=0 width="439" height="329" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Same site, ALE Scammell on it's way south after working in the far north of Scotland carried on George Pringle's lowloader.</div> <div> Strangely enough I saw an identicle Scammell in Jebil Ali port when I was working in Dubai, this prompted me to email ALE</div> <div> and ask if it was the same truck we had transhipped in McConnell Dowell's yard a few years earlier. They replied that yes it</div> <div> was the same truck, it was on it's way back to Dubai where it is now based after moving some large equipment in Iraq</div> <div> <IMG SRC="52990ac0.jpg" border=0 width="912" height="684" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> </div> <div> Ian Wright, Lefty to his friends got the job of off loading the Scammell, Company name Trident, heavy duty kit.</div> <div> <IMG SRC="52c97b10.jpg" border=0 width="919" height="689" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> This 8 wheeler Seddon Atkinson belongs to a good friend and neighbour of mine Bob Sutcliffe    Reg number  V813 DBV</div> <div> <IMG SRC="7c0b87b0.jpg" border=0 width="952" height="635" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> W.Partington & Son Ltd run this really tidy DAF  Driven by David Partington it's a credit to the fleet.</div> <div> <IMG SRC="7c2a76f0.jpg" border=0 width="935" height="623" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Another shot of David's new DAF</div> <div> <IMG SRC="7c6be7f0.jpg" border=0 width="958" height="639" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> David drove this Alpha cab Foden prior to aquiring the DAF</div> <div> <IMG SRC="7c8be7f0.jpg" border=0 width="958" height="639" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> A 1910 Foden Showman's Steam traction engine belonging to Mike Wilkinson of Hambleton near Blackpool (Chipping Steam Fair 2008)</div> <div> <IMG SRC="7d5c3820.jpg" border=0 width="963" height="642" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> George Wilkinson (Mike's Dad) and Alan Atkinson next to Alan's model of an Atkinson steam lorry</div> <div> <IMG SRC="7d7c9860.jpg" border=0 width="969" height="646" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> My son Gareth sent  me these scanned pictures, his friend Ian Bradley brought him the pictures, they show Ian's Dad and some of the lorries</div> <div> he has driven.My favourite is the Atkinson Borderer in Woodside Bros livery.The company was formed in 1967 by brothers Ian & Robert Woodside</div> <div> originally in Northern Ireland  but now has a large depot in Preston.</div> <div> <IMG SRC="809f3ba0.png" border=0 width="499" height="442" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> <IMG SRC="80bcbb60.png" border=0 width="459" height="438" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <IMG SRC="80df6ee0.png" border=0 width="502" height="494" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> <IMG SRC="80fc2d00.png" border=0 width="450" height="464" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <IMG SRC="834d2930.png" border=0 width="978" height="659" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <IMG SRC="8159f7f0.png" border=0 width="415" height="383" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> <IMG SRC="81728940.png" border=0 width="552" height="404" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <B>Taken at Chipping Steam Fair  24th May 2008   Riverside Recoveries</B></div> <div> <IMG SRC="84e3ad10.jpg" border=0 width="1082" height="721" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <B>Pete Spencer sent this picture from Canada of his Peterbilt                        Pete with his dog. Looks like they had a rough winter.</B></div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="8501b940.jpg" border=0 width="539" height="404" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> <IMG SRC="852b2430.jpg" border=0 width="434" height="579" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>Took this picture of Wayne Catt's bonneted Scania round the corner from our depot  at Red Scar Business Park, Preston</B></div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="8fedd930.jpg" border=0 width="989" height="659" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>Les Turnbull sent me this picture of his  Alpha cabbed Foden with 345BHP Cummins engine coupled to an Eaton 12 speed gearbox</B></div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="90bf83a0.jpg" border=0 width="760" height="570" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>Gerald Walker sent me these pictures of his ERF, the first one taken on Caldbeck Fell, Cumbria, the second one </B></div> <div> <B>in the garage at the end of the Rally season. Thank you Gerald nice pictures.</B></div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="90dd9df0.jpg" border=0 width="985" height="735" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="90fdee70.jpg" border=0 width="990" height="743" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>Dave Wilson (a.k.a Soapy) sent me these two pictures of lorries he has driven. Dave is pictured in one of Atkins of Findern Mercedes,</B></div> <div> <B>the second one a well known company in the 60's and 70's Smith of Maddiston who ran a large fleet of Guy  Big J's</B></div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="91a14240.jpg" border=0 width="532" height="548" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> <IMG SRC="91c050c0.jpg" border=0 width="517" height="524" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>Geoff Walker and his wife Lynn  started as owner drivers in 1983 buying Norsman International from Harold Woolgar of Epworth.</B></div> <div> <B>Their first lorry was a Volvo F88 290 which they later changed for a second  hand F12 330. This was mainly on a UBC contract </B></div> <div> <B>running to Spain with an occasional run to Italy. Lynn passed her HGV test and she and Geoff double drove for the next 13 years.</B></div> <div> <B>They progressed to a new Scania 142 420 doing fridge work for D.R.Bailey of Littlehampton. Their next purchase was a meat</B></div> <div> <B>hanging fridge, and in 1990 a brand new 1748 Mercedes which had the Globetrotter roof conversion fitted in Holland. They  went to work </B></div> <div> <B>for Bondalpha of Grimsby. The ERF pictured below was purchased in 1993 and assembled as a special order in the Sandbach works.</B></div> <div> <B>Geoff tells me this was the best lorry he ever bought, they finished running abroad in 1999. Lynn bought a cafe which she ran until she</B></div> <div> <B>retired in 2006. Geoff sold his last lorry in 2004 and went on to co own a fishing tackle shop in Scunthorpe until he too retired in 2008.</B></div> <div> <B>In their International career they travelled as far North as Bremerhaven in Germany, as far east as Kavala in Greece, and to the Southern</B></div> <div> <B>parts of Spain and Malta. In this time they visited 15 countries and covered around 2 million miles, quite an achievement, well done.</B></div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="961fda40.jpg" border=0 width="1021" height="676" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="96317d30.jpg" border=0 width="1047" height="723" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="9651da40.jpg" border=0 width="1053" height="676" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="96e17160.jpg" border=0 width="1047" height="790" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="967421f0.jpg" border=0 width="1090" height="799" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>Geoff also sent me these picture of T.C Brears wagon and drags loaded with straw.</B></div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="96a3ed60.jpg" border=0 width="1086" height="726" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>Above John Brears strapping down and below loading with JCB telehandler.</B></div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="96c41d90.jpg" border=0 width="1089" height="729" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>taken 19/04/12 M55 Junction  joining southbound M6 J32  T.C.Brears wagon and drag back loading ?   Driver possibly John Brears or his son ?</B></div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="ac8f44d0.jpg" border=0 width="1268" height="845" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>Phil Sherry sent me this email back in 2005 and to my shame I never got round to putting the pictures he sent me on this page, An error I am correcting now.</B></div> <div> <B>Hi Alan</B></div> <div> <B>Nice of you to reply, like a lot of peoplewho signed your guest book I really enjoyed your web site, its much more ‘realworld’ than many on the web if you know what I mean.</B></div> <div> <B> I’m 58 and although I started driving HGVs in 1969, I never got to drive many of the wonderful vehicles that are pictured on your site. My dear old dad though was a driver</B></div> <div> <B> through the war and all his working life, unfortunately he passed on in 1985 after he retired. I have to say he was a bit lost without his job. I rode shotgun from the age of 4 </B></div> <div> <B>in some wonderful wagons though, in particular his Unipower which I cant get much information on. He hauled timber after to the war to the late ‘50’s and then drove for</B></div> <div> <B> J Spurling and later Moreton/BRS. He never actually had a blameworthy accident in all those years and I still have his RoSPA medals. Always very popular amongst drivers,</B></div> <div> <B>probably due to his scouse humour. Back in 1987 I was getting directions on the CB from another driver near Warwickand it turned out he knew my dad, </B></div> <div> <B>we met in a lay-by and shook hands, he said some nice things about my dad.</B></div> <div> <B>Anyway Alan, I will pop back to your website from time to time and look forward to the update. Your efforts are very much appreciated.</B></div> <div> <B>By the way there is a steam fair near me (Billericay, Essex) every year at a farm called Barleylands, some lovely old trucks are shown there, if you ever get this way</B></div> <div> <B> its well worth a visit and I’m sue Mildred would be a star there.</B></div> <div> <B>Don’t have many photos of my dad’s old trucks, just one of his Leyland Comet when he was working for J Spurling and one of a transporter he drove in the war,</B></div> <div> <B>I think it’s a Diamond T, not sure though. Ginger Sherry was his name.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Thanks Again  Phil</B></div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="b0643cf0.jpg" border=0 width="323" height="463" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> <IMG SRC="b07665f0.jpg" border=0 width="358" height="351" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div>                                                              </div> </td> </tr></table></body>