windrush:
Chris Webb:
Heavy Transport Ltd belonged to ECC IIRC Pete?That’s right Chris. I think they were only based in Cornwall for the china clay job, used to see them tipping into conveyers at Par for shipping overseas. I never carted that stuff but when Ballidon used to run tippers into Cornwall and Devon many years ago they backloaded it to the Potteries.
Pete.
In the 70s they used to backload lumps from Snibstone pit after they’d tipped Stoke potteries. Not a job for a man in a rush, time ground to an halt under the screens, but the Wagon n Horses pub next door eased matters a little. Allegedly