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Dominion Breweries beer tanker at Greymouth 1969
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DescriptionDominion Breweries beer tanker outside Westland Breweries in Greymouth circa 1968. In those days it was not unusual to deliver beer in bulk in a tanker. Tractor unit is a Mercedes Benz 1418. Westland Breweries Ltd had earlier been purchased by Dominion Breweries Ltd.
DB supplied much of the South Island from Greymouth until the Washdyke branch was opened in the 70'sDate of Photo1969Map[1] ContributorDon Eadie
DB supplied much of the South Island from Greymouth until the Washdyke branch was opened in the 70'sDate of Photo1969Map[1] ContributorDon Eadie
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Location (city or town)GreymouthOrganisation (eg business)Dominion Breweries
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Category TagBrewerytransportMenuBy Decade | 1960-1969By Location | GreymouthBy Topic | Working Life | Industry
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CommentsLaurie Anisy One of many they had.
Nigel Roberts remember them well
Jeremy Sutherland DB took over WB in 1969, so '69 at earliest
Jan Ward Jeremy Sutherland DB took over a little earlier than that cos it was DB when my dad died while still working there in 1968. and he left me DB shares.
James Codyre DB supplied much of the South Island from Greymouth until the Washdyke branch was opened in the 70's.There was a photo of the Grey brewery in the DB Tavern here in Timaru.
Jeremy Sutherland Yes, about 7 years that went on until the DB South Island Brewery was opened at Washdyke in 1976
James Codyre I was working for the opposition(Ballins) which became part of Lion Breweries in the late 70's
William Burnett Went for ride in most of them
Wayne Leckie William Burnett was your dad Peter
Greg Procter Local firm here in Northland still uses an MB 1418!
Warren Parkin When I was with MOW, Jock Allen would usually stop for a chat on his way to meet the tanker coming down from Nelson...
Brenda Brown Been for ride in a couple timaru and Nelson my friends husband drove them great way to see the country
Jan Ward My dad George Burn was very proud of this tanker. It had a kotuku painted on the back. I remember when Westland Breweries first got it. Dad worked for WB from when he left school in the late 1920s until his death in 1968. He officially, was assistant manager, working in the office, but was often seen working in the factory & frequently delivered beer, to pubs up country, who had run dry on Sunday
Blair Johnston My Uncle Bob Davies worked at the Greymouth brewery, me an the cousins got to go for a ride in the trucks from time to time.
Heather Newby Linzi Woods ha ha,, i cant remember
Rae Woods i remember going with dad, ( bill woods) up the coast from greymouth, to barrytown delivering beer in the old wooden and then aluminium kegs, when he drove for westbrew, used to sit me up at the bar in barrytown with a sarsaparilla..would have been the mid sixtys.
Linzi Woods Must have been before I got there from the slave trade that was DSW. :)
Rae Woods yeah we lived in carroll st. think i was 7 or 8 .
Linzi Woods oh yeah cos when i arrived we were in seddon st..
Rae Woods yeah, pretty sure you lived in carroll st as well, in grandads house for a while
Linzi Woods Rae Woods Yeah that we moved there about a year before the Inungahua EQ stuffed the roof....
Rae Woods yep thats rite, then got flooded out.
Linzi Woods
Linzi Woods Rae Woods We better learn to swim sometime soon lol :)
Rae Woods Linzi Woods why that
Linzi Woods Rae Woods Sorry Step Daughter came to visit. Climate change and cheap travel to/from oz
Glenn Johnston Jeremy Sutherland is correct that DB did not take over Westland Breweries until 1969 so in pin pointing the date of the photo I would suggest it is a little later than circa 1968 as suggested by Heather.
Rae Woods i remember going with dad, ( bill woods) up the coast from greymouth, to barrytown delivering beer in the old wooden and then aluminium kegs, when he drove for westbrew, used to sit me up at the bar in barrytown with a sarsaparilla..would have been the mid sixtys.
Glenn Johnston Jeremy Sutherland is correct that DB did not take over Westland Breweries until 1969 so in pin pointing the date of the photo I would suggest it is a little later than circa 1968 as suggested by Heather.
Margaret McLean My Father in law. Bill McLean worked for Westland Breweries in the 1950- 60
Jock Allen worked with Bill Eddie Kerridge Jim Arthur Bob Davies Bill Sequinn at Westland Breweries also Kath Kaye Pollock
Kaye Pollock Yes Jock, Kath Pollock worked at Westland Breweries for many years. Kath was my late husband’s (Kevin Pollock,Runanga) aunt.
Ian A Cox My motorbike broke down and my brother got me a ride from Greymouth to Motueka with a brewery tanker.
Malcolm Lutton
Malcolm Lutton the driver was mev johnston
Glenn Johnston I know Merv Johnson who was once a brewery driver. Perhaps it was him? Merv started as an apprentice cooper at Westland Breweries in Hokitika and switched to being a driver when aluminium barrels came in making the coopers jobs redundant.
Malcolm Lutton boarded with merv at Birchfield in grey
Jock Allen bob glover and me had old 1418 under flat deck for a few years
Colin Pattinson
Colin Pattinson Used to work with Jock Allen in the Dobson mine
Jock Allen true col those were the days hope you are going great cheers
Marie Tucker Jock Allen bring back memories.
Les Bryce
Cliff Hende (my Godfather) used to drive that from Hokitika to Greymouth in the early 60's. In the school holidays he would pick me up at Camerons and I would go for a ride with him.
Glenn Johnston
Les Bryce It would have been a different truck and a Westland Breweries one in the early 1960's.
Stephen Laurenson
Going by the truck suspension, it looks like the proverbial beer tanker with no beer!
Colin Taylor
A great drop that beer.
Ken OLeary
yep that was a good drop ,but alas like all good things from the coast it was stopped and produce away from the coast and never tasted the same ,just like the Montieth`s today
Glenn Johnston
It was 1969 that the DB takeover of Westland Breweries was done. Therefore it is not 1968 or DB had a tanker in Greymouth in 1968 prior to having completed the take over of Westland Breweries. ·
David Whyte
An oasis
John Roberts
Good times working there .Had some greaat mates.
Des Kennedy
When did Neville Musto ceased being the Brewer. He was responsible for installing the Steinger Plant early 60s.
Mary Hood
We had small tankers delivered to our sports club in Runanga and then the next onto our lawn and the hose through the window
Dallas Robinson
Herbert St. just up the road from where we lived
Kay Stan McKenzie
That was a high dash hi screen model LS ,so the photo would have been about 74to 76
Bull Haussmann
Ken OLeary true story mate
Colin Harman
Can remember cleaning the tanks before the truck arrived at the Criterion Hotel in Reefton
Jann Hines
Worked here for 11 years straight out of high school loved my job & all the good people who worked there
Nigel Roberts remember them well
Jeremy Sutherland DB took over WB in 1969, so '69 at earliest
Jan Ward Jeremy Sutherland DB took over a little earlier than that cos it was DB when my dad died while still working there in 1968. and he left me DB shares.
James Codyre DB supplied much of the South Island from Greymouth until the Washdyke branch was opened in the 70's.There was a photo of the Grey brewery in the DB Tavern here in Timaru.
Jeremy Sutherland Yes, about 7 years that went on until the DB South Island Brewery was opened at Washdyke in 1976
James Codyre I was working for the opposition(Ballins) which became part of Lion Breweries in the late 70's
William Burnett Went for ride in most of them
Wayne Leckie William Burnett was your dad Peter
Greg Procter Local firm here in Northland still uses an MB 1418!
Warren Parkin When I was with MOW, Jock Allen would usually stop for a chat on his way to meet the tanker coming down from Nelson...
Brenda Brown Been for ride in a couple timaru and Nelson my friends husband drove them great way to see the country
Jan Ward My dad George Burn was very proud of this tanker. It had a kotuku painted on the back. I remember when Westland Breweries first got it. Dad worked for WB from when he left school in the late 1920s until his death in 1968. He officially, was assistant manager, working in the office, but was often seen working in the factory & frequently delivered beer, to pubs up country, who had run dry on Sunday
Blair Johnston My Uncle Bob Davies worked at the Greymouth brewery, me an the cousins got to go for a ride in the trucks from time to time.
Heather Newby Linzi Woods ha ha,, i cant remember
Rae Woods i remember going with dad, ( bill woods) up the coast from greymouth, to barrytown delivering beer in the old wooden and then aluminium kegs, when he drove for westbrew, used to sit me up at the bar in barrytown with a sarsaparilla..would have been the mid sixtys.
Linzi Woods Must have been before I got there from the slave trade that was DSW. :)
Rae Woods yeah we lived in carroll st. think i was 7 or 8 .
Linzi Woods oh yeah cos when i arrived we were in seddon st..
Rae Woods yeah, pretty sure you lived in carroll st as well, in grandads house for a while
Linzi Woods Rae Woods Yeah that we moved there about a year before the Inungahua EQ stuffed the roof....
Rae Woods yep thats rite, then got flooded out.
Linzi Woods
Linzi Woods Rae Woods We better learn to swim sometime soon lol :)
Rae Woods Linzi Woods why that
Linzi Woods Rae Woods Sorry Step Daughter came to visit. Climate change and cheap travel to/from oz
Glenn Johnston Jeremy Sutherland is correct that DB did not take over Westland Breweries until 1969 so in pin pointing the date of the photo I would suggest it is a little later than circa 1968 as suggested by Heather.
Rae Woods i remember going with dad, ( bill woods) up the coast from greymouth, to barrytown delivering beer in the old wooden and then aluminium kegs, when he drove for westbrew, used to sit me up at the bar in barrytown with a sarsaparilla..would have been the mid sixtys.
Glenn Johnston Jeremy Sutherland is correct that DB did not take over Westland Breweries until 1969 so in pin pointing the date of the photo I would suggest it is a little later than circa 1968 as suggested by Heather.
Margaret McLean My Father in law. Bill McLean worked for Westland Breweries in the 1950- 60
Jock Allen worked with Bill Eddie Kerridge Jim Arthur Bob Davies Bill Sequinn at Westland Breweries also Kath Kaye Pollock
Kaye Pollock Yes Jock, Kath Pollock worked at Westland Breweries for many years. Kath was my late husband’s (Kevin Pollock,Runanga) aunt.
Ian A Cox My motorbike broke down and my brother got me a ride from Greymouth to Motueka with a brewery tanker.
Malcolm Lutton
Malcolm Lutton the driver was mev johnston
Glenn Johnston I know Merv Johnson who was once a brewery driver. Perhaps it was him? Merv started as an apprentice cooper at Westland Breweries in Hokitika and switched to being a driver when aluminium barrels came in making the coopers jobs redundant.
Malcolm Lutton boarded with merv at Birchfield in grey
Jock Allen bob glover and me had old 1418 under flat deck for a few years
Colin Pattinson
Colin Pattinson Used to work with Jock Allen in the Dobson mine
Jock Allen true col those were the days hope you are going great cheers
Marie Tucker Jock Allen bring back memories.
Les Bryce
Cliff Hende (my Godfather) used to drive that from Hokitika to Greymouth in the early 60's. In the school holidays he would pick me up at Camerons and I would go for a ride with him.
Glenn Johnston
Les Bryce It would have been a different truck and a Westland Breweries one in the early 1960's.
Stephen Laurenson
Going by the truck suspension, it looks like the proverbial beer tanker with no beer!
Colin Taylor
A great drop that beer.
Ken OLeary
yep that was a good drop ,but alas like all good things from the coast it was stopped and produce away from the coast and never tasted the same ,just like the Montieth`s today
Glenn Johnston
It was 1969 that the DB takeover of Westland Breweries was done. Therefore it is not 1968 or DB had a tanker in Greymouth in 1968 prior to having completed the take over of Westland Breweries. ·
David Whyte
An oasis
John Roberts
Good times working there .Had some greaat mates.
Des Kennedy
When did Neville Musto ceased being the Brewer. He was responsible for installing the Steinger Plant early 60s.
Mary Hood
We had small tankers delivered to our sports club in Runanga and then the next onto our lawn and the hose through the window
Dallas Robinson
Herbert St. just up the road from where we lived
Kay Stan McKenzie
That was a high dash hi screen model LS ,so the photo would have been about 74to 76
Bull Haussmann
Ken OLeary true story mate
Colin Harman
Can remember cleaning the tanks before the truck arrived at the Criterion Hotel in Reefton
Jann Hines
Worked here for 11 years straight out of high school loved my job & all the good people who worked there
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