Marley Tiles, 1934 Octopus
Bewick:
Lawrence Dunbar:
Bewick:
Lawrence Dunbar:
Martin Cook.0Now I just fancy my chances on this beauty Larry, I wonder what it’s spec was as IIRC The Invincible was the “proper” Guy 8 wheeler so it maybe have had the 150 LX/DB 5 speed ?/ and double drive bogie. What do you reckon ? Cheers Dennis.
Hi Dennis IIRC It was a 150 Gardner but Im not sure about the drive line,Armstrongs from Ponteland bought It when Cooks replaced it with an artic. Regards Larry.
Looking at the axle ends Larry they look identical so it possibly is double drive but it was a fine motor in it’s day, Radio, shaver point, cig lighter What !!!
Cheers Dennis.
Well the lad that got it new was called Jonny Roddam & prior to this he drove an old AEC For another firm, He was over the moon with it, His first brand new one, When I mentioned Armstrongs bought it they fitted a livestock body onto it all the drivers liked , Regards Larry.
Masterpiece, Turners Volvo FL6 on contract to Smedley’s, 16 pallet body
Hello Dennis and Graham, with regard to “Clarendon Haulage”, Their lorries were always turned out
in a smart condition, a rich deep maroon colour scheme,and the sign writing was beautifully done
by a proper signwriter. The lettering was done in “Clarendon Medium” font !!. Regards, Ray.
ChrisArbon:
0Marmon in the mirror
Brilliant 
Maudslay
Millers of Wolverhampton, long gone,
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Two great shots there Dean ! I wonder if the Maudsley Steer ( Mustang?) factory motor was taken after AEC took them over ? and looking at the Chivers waggon and trailer I’m just wondering what weight it had on board, 22 pallets but were they 1 ton each ? and it is on pallets which would have been somewhat of an innovation in those days as “handball” was the industry norm then. And I see they look as if they have put a row of boxes down the middle of the motor which would help run off the rain, but not it appears on the trailer? My kind of outfit ! Cheers Dennis.
Yes, the Maudslay Mustang (it is the correct model name) was built after AEC took over. One of the reasons for what were fundamentally AECs being badged as Maudslays, apart from “badge engineering”, was to circumvent post WW2 steel rationing. So AEC was allocated a certain tonnage of steel and Maudslay also had its own separate allocation. The twin steer type was never an AEC model until it acquired Maudslay, something to do with the AEC braking system that wasn’t easily modified for a hand brake system on the second steering axle. In those days hand brakes had to be effective on 50% of the lorry’s axles to meet type approval and C&U Regs. The Maudslay factory at Alcester became AEC’s special products facility designing and building the Dumptruk models as well as producing all the axles for itself and Southall. After the Leyland take over Alcester was eventually sold off to Rockwell and if you were familiar with Maudslay / AEC rear axles you could still spot that ancestry in the later Rockwell axles, especially the hubs.
So, following from the above on here is a genuine Maudslay, re-engined with a Gardner 4L2. Operated by Seymour Mead, a large Manchester wholesale grocer and provisions merchant.
McAlpine Dumptruk, could have been built at Maudslay, or by this date some were also built at Thornycroft Basingstoke.
Matador and trailer. Hovis had a liking for bonneted lorries.
Matador forestry tractor, after WW2 service as a gun tractor, regarded by the top brass of the Army as the finest medium weight gun tractor in any army. One of AEC’s finest vehicles and this one was clearing up in 1987 after the hurricane that Michael Fish failed to forecast.
Mercury’s and these two were bought by Spiers of Melksham at 18 months old in 1959. They were put to work on the Avon Rubber contract running between Melksham and Manchester nightly. Four wheelers were preferred by Spiers for such work as they were faster than eight wheelers or artics in pre-Motorway years. Recorded as giving sterling service these Mercurys led to AECs became the lorry of choice for Spiers for the next 20 odd years, all being bought secondhand. Bill Spiers is on the left with Eric “bodger” Dredge, and garage foreman Derek Sheppard, both long serving Spiers’ employees. (For the first few years of production Mercury’s were built at Maudslay)
