PAUL GEE's PHOTO COLLECTION (Part 1)

coomsey:

colinwallace1:
Chas Draper, grain merchants and animal feed producers, from Wigston, Leicester.
Bought Leylands up until the early nineties, then ran a ERF dealership from their Wigston premises for a few years.
Ran some ERF’s (ec14’s) I think, before packing up.

One of their Bisons came in to Cliffe hill for a load dry stone from under the hoppers. The guy who loaded you could get you to the cwt on gross wt, the Draper’s driver knew better n asked for more n got it, they say he grossed 38ton. He pulled up to Chuck off area n cocked her up, the rams came through the body n stuck up through the load !! They brought a JCB to off load her.

Ha, might have had oats on, the load before. Fill the body to the same height.
They had a fleet of Roadtrains, all trucks were bought brand new. some of the r/trains only ran in harvest time, and parked the rest of the year.
In 91 i did the harvest for them, i had a F reg that had only done 82K. It was still like new.
A lot of things started to change that year, which the long serving drivers didn’t like.
Enjoyed my season on the grain, and were good payers.