Transport names from yesterday..

Knights
Collins
Bunkers
Travlos
Straits (spelling? West Runners)
Millers and Burns - Nagambie
Aitkens - Bendigo
Genio Bros.


chocs

Knights
Collins
Bunkers
Travlos
Straits (spelling? West Runners)
Millers and Burns - Nagambie
Aitkens - Bendigo
Genio Bros.


chocs

Which Collins, you talking about Chocs???

Collins from Adelaide are still about in a fairly sizeable way........

some of the obvious ones...comet,kwikasair,alltrans,howard haulage[willow tree],pozzolanic bulk carriers,C.J Dean,noel buntine.

Heres a list of few...
One of the Ol Mates from Sydney sent em down on one of Pronto's paper trucks..

syd - adelaide

bill cousins trans
jack seaton trans
don binns trans
mitchell bros
paddy best trans
grimms trans
kel anderson trans
carl breen trans
harold davies trans

syd -nt

copper city trans

syd mt isa tras - ray miller

pacific coast truckin
steve dunstan [dubbo]
bowdens bourke
greens bourke

stock
yagers grafton
bowden bourke
robinsons ivanhoe
dickinsons dubbo
walkers dubbo
thompson bros dubbo
pouts forbes


general

carinbah haulage

cronulla carrying
jj woods
af toll newcastle
chadwicks newcastle
deans tumit
doons adelong
pattons griffith
east coast

hyway haulage
coldroad
turners
aboods
trial bay
hayse and kydd

Message ends with...
ill get a beer n think of a few more that have dissapeard



chocs

What about some Transport Names from the Past?
(they can be still operating today)

Yep..JC's from Adelaide, 'Seed..

I'll throw a D. Collins from Adelaide in there too..

And...hmm

Males
Stawell Haulage
Stows
Horsham Removals
Stepnells
Tatiara transport
Ryans Warrnambool


chocs

OK,Chocs' I'll clean My glass's

There was also; A.B.Dean (CJ's Brother?) from Adelong, had Stock trucks, they were Red, with a Rams head on the Door...

Also, only recently;
Charter transport. Closed the doors only the last few Weeks..........

Also,

Lewington Stock & Tankers
SPD
Alltrans
Finemores TPT (comes & goes)
1st fleet ex Rapid Tsp
Stevenson Tsp
Cootes (changes name every so often)
Sydney Haulage
All Star tsp
Ron Slack tsp

Wes Searle (Nth Parramatta)
Trans Link Melb
Chadwick Melb
Billy Connell Footscray
Freight Transfer
Road Air Lavington
W J George
Jones Bros Sydney

And they just keep comin..

This lot just arrived in, on one of Wes Searle's paper trucks....


Haddads - Moree
Nev Johnson Transort - bB1's Revesby
Tinka Latham Transport Revesby
Roy Behns Transporty Revesby
Blair and Reabah - Petes
Vaughans
Hobbs Bros
Yellow Express
Kain and Shelton
Mc Mullens Orbost - S models
Cromack and Trantor - Grafton Dt's
Intermoutain Express - Grafton Petes
Kennelly Transport 'Honest John' yeah right!!!!

Forbes Meat - Petes


NT

Noel Buntine Katherine NT - B mobels stock n general

Bob Holt Katherine NT - fuel
Stratty Bloomfield Katherine NT - any and everything


chocs

Mayne Nickless came to N.Z. about 1965, they went into business with some Kiwi operators to form the Allied Freightways Group. The original businesses were Dale's Transport in Auckland, formerly George Dale and Son, which became Dale's Freightways, Pettigrew's Transport from Napier and Taupo which became Pettigrew's Freightways. O'Brien's Transport of Wellington became O'Brien's Freightways and A.R. Guthrey and Co. from Christchurch became Guthrey's Freightways. About three or four years later they took over the old established N.Z. Express Company which gave them five more South Island depots. The Freightways group adopted the red and orange Dale's colour scheme and they would have been one of the biggest transport operators in N.Z. through the 1970s and 1980s. I don't know too much about their more recent history, but I would be interested to learn more. Brambles I think came over here in the late 1960s, they acquired J.B. O'Loghlen and Co. in Auckland, Barton Ginger and Co. in Wellington, Port Freighters in Christchurch and Spencer, Crust, Gain Transport in Dunedin. All these firms adopted the Bramble's orange livery. In the early 1970s they bought into Bob Burnett's business Burnett's Motors in Ashburton, they also bought another rural carrier, Service Transport and Agency Co. of Amberley. These purchases got them into rural cartage and Burnett's business also got them into earthmoving and contracting. Service Transport wasn't owned for long before being sold on to Transport Nelson. I think Bramble's N.Z. interests were eventually acquired by the Owens Group which itself became part of Mainfreight in recent years.