HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1973-06-28, Page 111Section 1, Page 23 THE EXETER TIMES-ADVOCATE JUNE 28, 1973
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JOTTINGS BY J.M.S.
Dec. 4, 1954
Now nearing completion in
Exeter North and almost ready
for occupancy is a large quonset
building that has been erected by
the Exeter Coach Lines, Limited
for the Guenther Tuckey Tran-
sports Limited.
These two companies are now
creating an activity in Exeter
North that has not been known
since the days when the Verity's
first built their foundry there,
and a Presbyterian church and a
Catholic church ministered to the
religious needs of the com-
munity.
The new building is 50 x 120 feet
with a large loading platform
down the entire length and with
offices in the front of the building.
Considerable drainage was
T-A November 12, 1959
T-A Publisher wins
Newspaper award
J.M. Southcott, publisher of
The Times-Advocate, has been
named Ontario Weekly
Newspaper Man of the Year.
The publisher will receive the
honor Friday night during the
awards banquet of the Ontario
Weekly Newspapers Association
annual convention.
At the same dinner, his
newspaper will be presented with
two prizes won in the better
newspapers competition.
The T-A has been named
winner of the Albert V. Nolan
Trophy for general excellence
among weekly newspapers
published in towns of under 3,500
population. The paper also placed
second for the Frank Pren-
dergast award for best front page
among all weeklies in the
province.
The citation to Mr. Southcott,
who last fall marked his 60th year
in the newspaper business, will
be presented by Barry Wenger,
editor of the Wingham Advance-
Times and former member of the
Times-Avoca te staff.
The- T-A editor is a charter
member of Canadian Weekly
Newspapers Association and
served as president of the Ontario
group in 1950. He has been
overseas twice on editors' tours.
The Nolan trophy comes back
to the Times-Avocate after a
number of years absence. The
newspaper won it three years in
succession — 1956-58. It also won
the front page award in 1955 and
1956.
T-A October 26, •1933
Entertain Male Chorus
The Huronia Male ConCert Co.
with their wives and lady friends
were pleasantly entertained at
the home of their leader, Mr. and
Mrs. W.R. Goulding on the
evening of Oct. 18. A jolly time
was • spent in putting together
several jig-saw puzzles.
Following the games an address
and presentation of a walnut end
table was made to Mr, and Mrs.
M. Cudmore. Lunch was served
by the hostess after which Mr. W.
Smith moved a vote of thanks to
Mr. and Mrs. Goulding for the
very spendid time that all en-
joyed, "For They are Jolly Good
Fellows" was sung and then all
journeyed homeward.
Exeter Times-Advocate,
February 7, 1948
A disastrous fire Tuesday
morning wiped out the wood-
working factory on James St. of
Helge Jensen arid the heroic work
of the local firemen fighting the
flames kept the flames within the
walls of the building.
Exeter Times, May 24, 1901
The Exeter Council have
passed a by-law fixing a fee of $50
for the privilege of selling
cigarettes in Exeter. The
council is to. be commended for
their action in this respect as the-
cigarette habit is becoming far
too prevalent-
necessary before building
operations began and almost four
hundred loads of gravel have
been drawn in for leveling and
building up the roadway as the
trucks go in the north end of the
building and out the south.
Situated well back off the high-
way there should be no traffic
problem.
This new setup brings together
the Guenther and the Tuckey
Transports under the directions
of B.W. Tuckey and the whole
transport business will be
operated from this new location,
Adjoining the new building are
the buildings formerly used by
the Guenther Transport Ltd.
They will now be used by the
Exeter Coach Lines, Limited,
under Earl R. Guenther, who has
taken over the school buses and
the bus transportation business
and is now operating nine buses
and a motor vehicle.
Mr. Guenther after thirty-three
years of an exceedingly active
life, has decided to take things
easier, but will still have suf-
ficient duties to keep the average
man busy. He is at present, the
postmaster at Dashwood;
operates the mail and passenger
bus from Exeter to Grand Bend
and carries the mail to and from
the Exeter post office to the
railway depot.
Mr. Guenther served in the
First Great War. He arrived
home from overseas March 31,
1919 and on April 14 the same
year, he took over the business
from his mother who had been
operating it while he was over-
seas.
' For thirty-three years he has
been untiring in his application to
business working into the night
and up again early in the mor-
ning, with scarcely a Sunday or
holiday tacall his own. This close
application to business kept him
in intimate touch with every
phase of it. He could tell you
almost at any hour just about
where any truck was supposed to
be, but more amazing he could
tell from memory the serial
number of any one 'of the
vehicles. He has been driving
since 1910 and never once had an
accident.
But before the days of the
motor vehicle Guenthers
operated a stage business and
particularly in summer did a
thriving business between Exeter
and Grand Bend. For forty-five
years Mr. Harry Hoffman, of
Dashwood was the driver of the
bus, retiring a few years ago,
Harry wps a marvel of ingenuity
at packing his passengers and
luggage as they arrived by train
bound for the summer resort,
I remember on one occasion
going ,out to the Bend with Harry.
The bus was packed and from
beneath the driver's seat he drew
a board, placed it across the seat
and he sat on one end, a
passenger on the other and I was
sandwiched in between.
At Maple Grove we stopped to
let out some passengers. As
Harry got down from the bus I sat
out on the end of the board and
the gentleman at the back got up
to stretch himself as we had been
sitting in that position for over
two hours. When he got up I fell,
landing behind one of the horses
and with one arm clutching the
'Tongue of the bus, Harry was
quite excited and remarked: "If
you had fallen behind the other
horse you would have been killed
as the horse would have kicked
the life out of you." That was a
pretty close shave for me.
In 1919, B.W. Tuckey, while
living in London and believing
that there was a future in the
trucking business, started a route
between Exeter and London. H.
Bagshaw was doing a big
trucking business at that time
and I remember a card he had
printed poking fun at the Tuckey
truck. The Tuckey business
flourished and not many years
after the Bagshaw business
folded up.
Mr. Tuckey's first truck was a
"little red Chev" with a platform
that measured only 6' by 9'. It
wouldn't even carry all his
household belongings when he
made the move to Exeter, Now
some of his trucks can carry up to
27 tons of cargo.
The local transportfirm is one
of the oldest in Ontario and their
licenses show the number A-95,
indicating there were only 94
others issued before Mr. Tuckey
received his.
He hitch-hiked to Toronto to get
that first license for his one-truck
fleet.
The business operated out of a
small barn at the former Tuckey
residence on Simcoe Street until
1932 when Eric Campbell was
added to the staff and a new truck
purchased,
Mr. Tuckey's firm had the
area's first tractor and semi-
trailer and it measured a
whopping big 15 feet in length. A
new office was opened at the site
of the present Tuckey Beverages
plant on Main St. and by 1952 had
grown to nine units.
However, things started hap-
pening that year and Mr. Tuckey
bought out Earl Guenther's
business.
When the Guenther-Tuckey
Transport Limited was formed,
Guenther Transport Limited had
twenty motor units, comprising
trucks and trailers, while the
Tuckey Transport had nine. Two
more units have been added and
two more are on order.
On June 21, 1969 Benson W.
Tuckey marked 40 years in
business with a surprise
celebration put on by his em-
ployees.
Two years later, on Sept. 22 Mr.
Tuckey announced that he had
sold his firm to Laidlaw
Motorways Ltd. of Hamilton. At
that time he owned 125 units. '
He, has remained on as general
manager of local operations.
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