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[SKYMAN]

HI JOHN thanks for pm glad your doing ok .cheers mate ,,

[eddieguff]

No worries Skyman. Alan (Yorkie) who used to drive for Suttons told me they had gone under. How sad.

[SKYMAN]

IM not crawling ' They were a nice family to work for .i drove a Red Luton on the Fibre contract, ,they would let you know if you did anything wrong but did it in a way you didnt want to argue back,i started when one of the brothers was still there , ( ARTHUR
One day i was waiting to get loaded at fibre glass and i rang the office ( ,Reverse charge, ) i didnt think anymore about it ,then when i got back to the yard,arthur came to me ,and pointed to the top of the hill at fibre glass,he said ,you phoned us up ,he said i could have heard you from there if you had shouted ,,Great gang of lads,the family and the drivers, ive had a few jobs in my time,
THIS WAS THE BEST ONE,
PS,, I Still havnt heard from any of you ex drivers who was there the same period when i was there,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

Edited by SKYMAN, 12 November 2011 - 04:29 PM.

[Dicky D]

Like I said, Harry Ireson was Foreman there before he retired. I worked there for two and half days then told him to stuff his job. He had may wages & P45 made up before I could empty the cab. Must have been glad to see the back of me. I was always a Bolshie sod even in those days. My mother worked as a cleaner and companion to old Tabern & his wife. They thought the world of her and her of them so I blotted my copybook with mother for a while.
Old Tabern told my mother how he started up as a night soil man. No one else wanted the job and he cleaned up,(forgive the pun). It wasn't long before he swapped his horse & cart for a lorry. That was between the wars and he stood by his dictum of: 'wears there's muck there's money'. They gave my mother some old family silver and she gave it to me, but it turned out to be Brittania Metal and worthless. That's old Tabern for you!