Only just got back on here but thank you to all those who remembered the name off the Crossflats company being called Windeck Paints.
Also glad that Bowater Drums at Disley left a bad memory for at least one other driver. That was the factory where the approach road (road? no, just a tarmac track) had a very sharp right hand bend on a bridge where, with a 40’ single axle trailer, you had to nose the unit into to nearside hedge while striking the low offside wall with the offside trailer wheels to ‘shunt’ the trailer round. The advice I was given by another driver on my first visit there was ‘hit the wall with the wheels just fast enough to get you round; too slow it’s drag you to a stop, too fast and you could turn the trailer over’. Found out later that was why the 40’ single axle trailers always crabbed behind the unit! Another similar place was the old PYE TV factory at Clacton where, on a very tight right hand corner, we used to have to get a fork lift truck to lift the back of the trailer round. Good job we were only carrying polystyrene packaging! Happy days!