gingerfold:
Chris Webb:
kevmorrow:
watched a program on tele today about “How its Made”. They subject was “Chemical Tank Trailer” youtube.com/watch?v=g4BiI0JsnR8I remember collecting new tankers from WP Butterfields Shipley about 1972 and some Clayton Tankers not a lot has changed in design.
gracesguide.co.uk/W._P._Butterfield
claytoncommercials.co.uk/index.php/about/Regards Kev
Yewco - Yorkshire Engineering and Welding Co. Ltd. were also at Shipley Kev.
I’ll be very surprised if the chemical tank trailer was made in the UK. No one here makes a pressure powder tanker anymore; we have to import them from Europe. We tend to be nostalgic about our lost vehicle manufacturing industry, but we’ve also lost the ancillary makers as well. My Goods Vehicle Yearbook from 1962 lists these liquids and / or powder tanker makers: -
A.P.V. of Crawley
Andrews Bros, Bristol
Anthony Hoists, Ruislip
Appleyard, Leeds
Autolifts and Engineering, Blackburn
E. J Baker, Dorking
Barham Bodies, Northampton
Baranaby’s Motor Bodies, Hull
O.G. Barnard, Stowmarket
W.B. Bawn, London E17 (They only made tankers)
Bonallack, Basildon
B.T.C. Trafford Park
W.P. Butterfield Shipley
Capital Motor Co, London N1
Carmichael & Sons, Worcester
Darham Industries, London W.C.2
Dayson & Co, Smethwick
Dunns Motors, Taunton
Duramin Engineering, Ruislip and Lydney
Eagle Engineering, Warwick
Holmes-Alexander, Dumfries
Interconsult, Slough
Jeffrey’s Commercial Motors, Swansea
Lawson Pigott Motors, New Barnet
Marston Motor Company, London N15
Metropolitan-Cammell Carriage & Wagon, Birmingham
Mickleover Transport, London NW10
Alfred Miles, Gloucester
R. Murfitt, Wisbech
Portasilo, York
Powell Duffryn Engineering, Cardiff
Road Transport Services, Hackney
Chas. Roberts, Wakefield
Saro Engineering, Anglesey
Scammell, Watford
Scottorn Ltd, New Malden
Steel Barrel Co, Uxbridge
Thompson Bros, Bilston
Oswald Tillotson, Burnley
Universal Boilers & Engineering, Burnley
Yorkshire Engineering & Welding, Bradford
You missed out Clayton Commercials Graham. Universal Boilers & Engineering became UBHI (Universal Bulk Handling International) after the company moved to Burscough. It’s still in existance, and after a period of around 25 years without producing road barrels they re-commenced production 3 years ago and are still building them.