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Western SMT 12th December 2008 20:57

Oldest Haulage Company
 
No idea who it is but try this one -

http://www.jwcousins.co.uk/history.html

G-CPTN 13th December 2008 01:13

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his first vehicle which was a Ford truck, costing £210 and could carry 1500 cwt.
Really? 20 cwt = 1 ton
1500 cwt = 75 ton!

coastie 13th December 2008 04:53

Hmm, methinks someone's put the decimal point in the wrong place!!!

dmackay 14th December 2008 14:30

D. Steven & Son. Wick & Scrabster, Were established in 1920

Western SMT 23rd January 2009 11:28

http://www.dsteven-son.co.uk/

dmackay 23rd January 2009 12:11

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Originally Posted by Western SMT (Post 3009)

Good link thanks Western SMT:)

Alan Parsons 2nd August 2009 11:56

Oldest Haulage Company
 
Berry's of Taunton was founded in 1920 and is still going strong, but having been nationalised in 1948 they changed from road haulage to passenger transport and now operate a modern fleet of coaches from a depot in Taunton, the company used to operate from the village of Bradford on Tone about 3 miles away. It is still a family business now run by the grandson of the founder.

Look out for us (I'm one of the drivers) on the M5 and M4, A 303 and M3 every day with our Volvo/Van Hool Astrobell double deckers on our London Superfast Service. Coaches are white with red design on them. We also operate all over the UK and into Europe.

240 Gardner 2nd January 2011 16:41

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Originally Posted by Western SMT (Post 1845)
No idea who it is but try this one -

http://www.jwcousins.co.uk/history.html


Shore Porters' Society, established 1498?? http://www.shoreporters.com

robertdavey6 3rd January 2011 18:38

1498 would just about do it.

G-CPTN 3rd January 2011 18:46

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Originally Posted by Alan Parsons (Post 6136)
Look out for us (I'm one of the drivers) on the M5 and M4, A 303 and M3 every day with our Volvo/Van Hool Astrobell double deckers on our London Superfast Service. Coaches are white with red design on them. We also operate all over the UK and into Europe.

You'll have to run up the M6 to Leyland or the A55 to Anglesey to get caught by our resident photographers (or you could send us some photographs yourself . . . ).


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