Northwest Trucks

moomooland:

kevmorrow:
Only words “fantastic” as it brings back many happy memories. I was trying to find delivery vehicles for Lewis’s Department store and Pauldens off Stretford road but could not find any.

Thanks again for your very interesting comments Kev.

Regarding Pauldens here’s a old period shot taken outside Pauldens in Manchester.

Thanks for interesting photo but what a coincidence that Pauldens had a horrific fire and maybe fuelled by flammable products such as latex foams that now need fire certificates in furniture.
They seem to have had a history for disasters on this site.

The building was rebuilt in 1930 and it apparently escaped disaster in 1941 when it received a direct hit from a bomb that went straight though the lift shaft doing little damage.

In 1957 the store had a major refurbishment and on the Sunday before it was due to re-open a fire broke out that completely gutted the building. The links below show the scene as firemen were fighting the blaze and the front of the building collapsed.
Initially Pauldens moved next door and set up business in the neighbouring Drill Hall.
Another incident occurred at the site after the fire when a double-decker bus was involved in a crash and ended up falling into the exposed basement of the store.
In 1959 Paulden’s reopened in Market Street in the former Ryland’s Warehouse that today is home to Debenhams. KEV