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I drove for fishwick in the middle 60s. i'm sure i remember pat love, also there was a gordon love.quote:
Originally posted by crooky
Hiya All, I should have made my introductions yesterday. Noel, who was your dad ?
I remember a Dennis Hindle. Loads of others as well, Harold Mackreal, Alan and Dessy Bellingham, Norman Quinn, Pusher Pilk,Pat Love, Barbara Thompson, Mary ... cant think of her name, I remember an oldish brother and sister, he had a limp. My dad worked there in the sixties till early 70's. He also worked there for a while in the fifties previous to that. Jimmy Kitchen, Johnny Cross, someone they called 'Lurch' cos he looked like the guy from the TV programme.
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the double axle coach you speak of could have been the bedford duple twin steer. i drove one in the early 70s. they were lethal in wet weather. the front had a mind of it's own.quote:
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Well, Jim, it was Singleton's for many years. We didn't have a family car for the longest time whe I was growing up, and we always had a Singleton's taxi to take us to St.Annes or Fleetwood for our summer holiday. We got to see that old horse-yard with the wooden stables out back converted to garages for the Singleton's coaches quite a lot.
Singleton's had one of the only three-axle single decker coaches I've ever seen. I think it was built on a modified Leyland truck frame, can't remember if it was a "Steer" or a "Hippo". One had two front axles, the other two at the back. the coach had two at the back. It had the then-conventional half cab for the driver alongside the engine.
I believe a group of people in the Leyland area have resurrected that old trouper.
Frank
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Actually, Gordon, the one I was talking about was a pre-war Leyland half-cab with twin rear axles.
There were quite a few twin-steer coaches around in the early 1960s. I remember seeing them on Blackpool holiday-maker trips coming through on Wigan Road before the M6 made it south of Leyland (we emigrated in 1968). I think most were Duple-bodied on modified Bedford truck chassis. The front wheels were behind the driver and front entry door. I think the coach in the original Michael Caine movie the "Italian Job" was one.
Frank
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See photograph on page 2.
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Hello
I use to live across the road from the Carton's and Bren was a wondeful chap !
He used to have a ford car and if we where lucky we would get a lift to school when it rained.
I am still waiting to have a beer with one of his son's
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Were the older brother and sister called Reg and hazel? Even if that wan't their names they retired down to Cornwall somewhere near Penzance as I saw them when we holidayed down there.
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Originally posted by Brian King
Hello
I use to live across the road from the Carton's and Bren was a wondeful chap !
He used to have a ford car and if we where lucky we would get a lift to school when it rained.
I am still waiting to have a beer with one of his son's
Colm didn't mention it but I am pretty sure his mum was a clippy for Fishwicks. I also remember Chris Ashwells mum being a clippy. Chris if anybody remembers him tragically took his own life many moons back. The Ashwells lived at the top of our road ( St Johns Green ). Oh and Brian I have seen both the Carton brothers lately in the Queens usually when there is a rock band on. You are more than welcome to buy me a drink next time you see me on a Friday night if you still remember me !
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Sounds good to me about the beer!
his name is billy pilkington he still works for fishwicks
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