Ray Smyth:
Hi Trooper2, Thank you for the above information. All that I knew was what I had heard on our local TV news, Granada Reports.
I can remember the news item, and the reporter kept mentioning the loss of historic commercial lorries, so quite a few of us
assumed it was The British Commercial Vehicle Museum in Leyland town centre. Regards, Ray.
The turbine tractor was being housed in a warehouse unit operated by W. H. Bowker, along with their own 1934 Beaver, and were lost when an adjacent unit caught fire - I believe it was H Parkinson’s unit, in which paper was stored.
I knew the Bowker motor well, having collected it from its previous owner and then had driven many miles in it, but both vehicles were a sad loss. As I understand it, there were no injuries caused by the fire, which is the main thing.