Oh Eights

Continuing the theme for the week:

May Gurney

May Gurney

Continuing a quick look at some of the road transport fleets that can be found in Plymouth

May Gurney

May Gurney took over the TJ Brent Fleet which was owned by the parent company of South West Water.

May Gurney

The utility arm of contractor May Gurney is gearing up for anticipated growth in the South West in a bid to increase its £40million turnover in the region.The part of the company which deals with gas, water and electricity services employs around 200 people and has two offices in the Plymouth area. It has two main regional bases, in Bodmin and Exeter.May Gurney vans have been a familiar site on the South West's road since the Norwich-based company bought contractor TJ Brent in 2005 and renamed it May Gurney Utility Services

May Gurney

I was right!
The plain white Vauxhall Movano vans have now started to receive new May Gurney logos.
I dont get much chance to take pictures in the mornings now as I start work a bit earlier but I did get a few today when this was one of three which passed within a few minutes.

Other news:
It was confirmed today that another one of our VRTs has arrived at Barnley for scrapping. LFJ841W still with a note to say its last day of service was 12th July at Torpoint.
seen below back in happier times in March this year.


didbygraham

May Gurney?

I have been puzzled by the ownership of a sizeable fleet of new vans which have been appearing in Plymouth recently - mostly large white high roofed vans like this one. I am now fairly certain that they belong to May Gurney - who recently have taken over TJ Brent. I know that they were looking at rebranding the fleet into a new livery of white with orange/ yellow logos. I am sure that these vans will soon gain the new logos. Of course I could end up being wrong!
(I was right!)

didbygraham

17th June 2005: TJ Brent

TJ Brent operate a large fleet across the south west with a large base in Plymouth. Owned by May Gurney since 2004 they had previously been part of South West Water group.
More photos in the Brent gallery

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T J Brent

TJ Brent Ltd was until recently a large civil engineering company owned by South West Water's Parent company. It still is a large civil engineering company which covers a large area of the South and West but is now owned by the May-Gurney group. A large fleet of Ford Transit vans is run but there are larger lorries, such as this Iveco Euro Cargo Heavy Tipper.

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