What a fabulous find. I started my driving career with AA Griggs, at the main depot in Soham , Cambs. I recognised a lot of the vehicles shown from the various depots. Wonderful family firm to work for. Interest to see one of the photos of a long line of lorries parked by the side of the road, a contract we had with the american forces. Brought back lots of fond memories.
yeh I can remember my dad roping and sheeting loads of glass bottles at rockware glass in doncaster in 90 degrees heat, then jumping in his atki borderer and driving to down to coca cola schweppes in sidcup kent, I used to help him get his ropes off and pull the sheets off and fold em, he was a proper old school driver, no power steering, cruise control, night heaters or anything like that, today's steering wheel attendants wouldn't have lasted 5 minutes.
A good firm, got a backload of reels off of them a few times. I remember having to put an old fly sheet down on the bed first because of holes in the bed, You needed some good chocks with one long chock on ropes to go across the back. Nice photos, thank you.
What a fabulous find. I started my driving career with AA Griggs, at the main depot in Soham , Cambs. I recognised a lot of the vehicles shown from the various depots. Wonderful family firm to work for. Interest to see one of the photos of a long line of lorries parked by the side of the road, a contract we had with the american forces. Brought back lots of fond memories.
proper roped and sheeted loads too, proper drivers.
in the 70s that's what my Dad do, I can't see these steers doing that today
yeh I can remember my dad roping and sheeting loads of glass bottles at rockware glass in doncaster in 90 degrees heat, then jumping in his atki borderer and driving to down to coca cola schweppes in sidcup kent, I used to help him get his ropes off and pull the sheets off and fold em, he was a proper old school driver, no power steering, cruise control, night heaters or anything like that, today's steering wheel attendants wouldn't have lasted 5 minutes.
Also had a depot at Watchet in Somerset, my dad was the garage foreman until they were all made redundant around 1998 and they shut it down.
It shut down later than that.. I was still running into Watchet mill in the 2000s from Avonmouth for Griggs / St Regis
Brilliant 👍🏻👍🏻 forgot about AA Griggs
A good firm, got a backload of reels off of them a few times. I remember having to put an old fly sheet down on the bed first because of holes in the bed, You needed some good chocks with
one long chock on ropes to go across the back. Nice photos, thank you.
Thank you, this was the haulage company i could not think of, always used to see them in the late 70`s through the 80`s
Your welcome Steve glad you injoyed it
can remember griggs, they used to carry a lot of cardboard and paper for st regis.
Another cracking video. I think they had a depot also at Monmouth or was it Hereford???? Thanks for your efforts. Super....
Thank you Douglas
The depot was at Monmouth later on they also had a small depot at Chepstow
they had a depot in Ashton gate bristol i used to go past them on way to Baileys caravans all ways se the F7s F10 there well kept trucks