Westranah:
Can remember these tipping trailers well,two of us took HR55 up to Michelin stoke one day where whilst trying to tip his container full of rubber blocks in the unloading Bay Area of Michelin the back end of the trailer gave way and the lot turned up on its side leaning against the frame work inside the building,this apparently stopped and held up the production line costing ££££££££ and there must have been 15 motors outside waiting to get in to tip,we couldn’t do a lot with a recovery truck and a crane was brought in to send his jib in and right it,once we got it out and the box off the trailer it was took back to Anglian road and scrapped.What was ironic to me was Michelin had there own container box removal system in that bay to take a box off ,the vehicle could pull out the bay whilst the box was tipped up and unloaded,then back the vehicle back into the bay,box back on,S jones being the leaders though had to have tipping skeletal trailers,unfortunately they was showing there age a bit added with rubber blocks not coming out the container easy when fully tipped up,not good,don’t think you would be allowed to do that today,I had a good half day out though and all adds to experience whilst being around some of the old s jones drivers who was waiting to get tipped that day and helping out,they didn’t seem to be phased by it at all keeping a good atmosphere and an air of calm,proper drivers
looks like brian pratt,he used to pull that tipping trailer and kenny derry had the other one