Hauliers around the Ashton in Makerfield area

Question for you Eddie Heaton, or Barrywaddy or any other local. Hope DEANB doesn’t mind me reproducing Paul Gee’s picture here. (If it’s a problem I’ll remove it).

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Were Bennett’s tautliners red? Had a sudden flashback that the long haired hippy type who I was friendly with worked for Bennett’s. Tautliners were very unusual then and I seem to remember that they had a fleet of them. Were they from Chorley and what work did they do?

John.