I used to work for cawthorns in the 70’s. I was 17 yrs old working as an office clerk in thier Skelmersdale office on the westgate ind estate…We had F86 , F88 & F89’s. we had some leyland units on the thorne contract. I have a pic somewhere of an F89 that used to go to Italy weekly,the drivers name was Mike 
My boss was Don Blundell, i can remember some drivers,jOHN mORGAN,mIKE bOLTON. We had a driver,Terry Smith that was contracted to BCT he drove a mag deutch tractor, i went to Germany (5 drops) once for a holiday,never forget it 