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0Boalloy LV Cabbed ERF 64GX heavy duty 4x2 tractor unit Reg No YDB 601 pictured here in 1965 while loading up an International (Hough) loading shovel on the quayside at the now long gone Salford Docks.Throughout the 1960’s one of the company’s main contracts was collecting and delivering American built Caterpillar & International heavy plant machinery from Liverpool and Salford docks as well as from Caterpillar’s own manufacturing plants in Glasgow and Birtley.
Edward Beck invested heavily to ensure they always had around 50 trailers parked up at any one time on the docks so as and when a ship docked all imported Caterpillar equipment could be loaded and taken off the dockside immediately, thus saving Caterpillar a fortune in quayside storage fees.
Is that a Smith & Robinson AEC MM Mk.III tanker in the background bunkering the ship?