J.W. French Ergomatic AEC Mammoth Major crossing Chelsea Bridge, a couple of years or so before their merger with Spillers
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J.W. French Ergomatic AEC Mammoth Major crossing Chelsea Bridge, a couple of years or so before their merger with Spillers
Hres one of some of the new FHs we got at M/C Mill. CJA1
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J.W. French Ergomatic AEC Mammoth Major crossing Chelsea Bridge, a couple of years or so before their merger with SpillersHres one of some of the new FHs we got at M/C Mill. CJA1
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J.W. French Ergomatic AEC Mammoth Major crossing Chelsea Bridge, a couple of years or so before their merger with SpillersHres one of some of the new FHs we got at M/C Mill. CJA1
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This one is about 92/3 Vac Tank Used to go all over clearing out at mills and bakeries CJA1.
Spillers had quite a healthy export market for flour into the Republic of Ireland, several European countries and the Middle East, particularly the Gulf States and in my time with the company I went on several overseas trips either with the export manager or on trouble shooting jobs. This photo was a load done a few years before I worked for Spillers but it was still talked about. The load was the first bulk flour load delivered to a NAAFI bakery in Germany and the Scammell Handyman was photographed leaving the ferry at Zeebrugge. It was a Birkenhead based vehicle driven by Harry Carpenter and in true Spillers fashion no expense was spared on the equipment, such as two spare wheels on the trailer etc. Accompanying Harry were a couple of senior transport managers from Head Office but even so they managed to get stuck under a low bridge en route. The tyres had to be deflated to get under the bridge and the load was eventually delivered successfully.
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Spillers had quite a healthy export market for flour into the Republic of Ireland, several European countries and the Middle East, particularly the Gulf States and in my time with the company I went on several overseas trips either with the export manager or on trouble shooting jobs. This photo was a load done a few years before I worked for Spillers but it was still talked about. The load was the first bulk flour load delivered to a NAAFI bakery in Germany and the Scammell Handyman was photographed leaving the ferry at Zeebrugge. It was a Birkenhead based vehicle driven by Harry Carpenter and in true Spillers fashion no expense was spared on the equipment, such as two spare wheels on the trailer etc. Accompanying Harry were a couple of senior transport managers from Head Office but even so they managed to get stuck under a low bridge en route. The tyres had to be deflated to get under the bridge and the load was eventually delivered successfully.
Hi Graham [Gingerfold] once did a job in southern/Ireland a bakery down there had a silo blow out!and I was sent down there with the Vac/Tank to clean it up and recover all the Flour that could be salvaged, Got a few names from B/Head mill for You John Mac/ Pete Brogan/ Jimmy Hughes/ Cliff Stanton/ to name but a few you might know? Regards Chris [CJA1]
Great thread, been to many of the Spillers Mills over the years.
The house on the right is where Joseph Rank was born and he started to make religious and temperance films about the evils of drink.
A block of Victorian town houses designed by city architect Alfred Gelder (1854-1941), who later became Mayor of Hull. Alfred Gelder was presumably pleased with the resulting buildings as he is said to have lived at No.365 (left of picture) from 1888 to 1903. The house is now the offices of the rather wonderfully named Annison & Boddy Funeral Directors. Gelder was involved in the transformation of Queen’s Dock into Queen’s Gardens and designed a number of Methodist Chapels as well as a revolutionary roller flour mill for customers such as Joseph Rank.
Joseph Rank (1854-1943), fellow Methodist and founder of the milling firm of Joseph Rank Ltd., lived at No.371 (right of picture). His grandfather’s old windmill still stands a little further along Holderness Road. LinkExternal link Joseph’s son Joseph Arthur was born here in December 1888 but was to become famous for something other than the family business he inherited, although it continues to this day as Rank Hovis McDougall (RHM). Joseph Arthur began showing religious films as a Methodist minister in his middle age, an occupation which eventually led to him become a world-renowned film producer and distributor and founder of the Rank Organisation which is now known as The Rank Group Plc.
The house is going to be refurbished and turned into a museum if the Rank Organisation will help Hull Council with the cost
Birkenhead based Spillers Guy Big J on its last day in service, July 1981. And yes CJA1, I remember some of the Ranks Birkenhead names you mention.
Two Spillers’ Leyland ‘Two-Pedal’ Beavers posed with both the Spillers and Ranks mills in the background at Birkenhead.
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Two Spillers’ Leyland ‘Two-Pedal’ Beavers posed with both the Spillers and Ranks mills in the background at Birkenhead.
[CJA1 Vac Job M/C Mill.
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Two Spillers’ Leyland ‘Two-Pedal’ Beavers posed with both the Spillers and Ranks mills in the background at Birkenhead.[CJA1 Vac Job M/C Mill.
Two of Ranks’ Ireland vehicles. This was an animal feeds division operating in the Republic.
Hosegoods Mill in Avonmouth Docks. It was built in the late 1930s by a local consortium (led by Hosegoods) of small millers and grain merchants whose ambition was to operate an ultra modern large flour mill. The consortium ran out of money before all the machinery was installed so Spillers stepped in and bought it. Even though the Hosegoods name is prominent this mill never milled a sack of flour under that ownership. It was acquired by ADM when it bought the rump of the Spillers business in 1998 and is still in production today. ADM - Archer Daniels Midland - is a massive American company based at Decatur Illinois with worldwide grain, flour, and agricultural commodity businesses. It is also big in cocoa trading.
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0Spillers some years ago when it was in its hayday on the Tyne, Regards Larry.
That was some building!
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Hosegoods Mill in Avonmouth Docks. It was built in the late 1930s by a local consortium (led by Hosegoods) of small millers and grain merchants whose ambition was to operate an ultra modern large flour mill. The consortium ran out of money before all the machinery was installed so Spillers stepped in and bought it. Even though the Hosegoods name is prominent this mill never milled a sack of flour under that ownership. It was acquired by ADM when it bought the rump of the Spillers business in 1998 and is still in production today. ADM - Archer Daniels Midland - is a massive American company based at Decatur Illinois with worldwide grain, flour, and agricultural commodity businesses. It is also big in cocoa trading.
Used to go there to the animal feed Division with recovered Flour, and there was a company further down the dock, the name escapes me, big in waste Products[Animal Feeds]
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Hosegoods Mill in Avonmouth Docks. It was built in the late 1930s by a local consortium (led by Hosegoods) of small millers and grain merchants whose ambition was to operate an ultra modern large flour mill. The consortium ran out of money before all the machinery was installed so Spillers stepped in and bought it. Even though the Hosegoods name is prominent this mill never milled a sack of flour under that ownership. It was acquired by ADM when it bought the rump of the Spillers business in 1998 and is still in production today. ADM - Archer Daniels Midland - is a massive American company based at Decatur Illinois with worldwide grain, flour, and agricultural commodity businesses. It is also big in cocoa trading.Used to go there to the animal feed Division with recovered Flour, and there was a company further down the dock, the name escapes me, big in waste Products[Animal Feeds]
