From the archives…
Edward Beck & Sons Ltd Boalloy LV Cabbed ERF 64GX heavy duty 4x2 tractor unit’s Reg No’s XJA 762 and BJA 500B are about
to depart under police ■■■■■■ after loading up at Grosvenor Steel Fabrications in Audenshaw near Manchester in 1965. Boalloy LV Cabbed ERF 64GX heavy duty 4x2 tractor unit Reg No’s XJA 762 leads the way after loading up at
Grosvenor Steel Fabrications in Audenshaw near Manchester in 1965.
to depart under police ■■■■■■ after loading up at Grosvenor Steel Fabrications in Audenshaw near Manchester in 1965. Boalloy LV Cabbed ERF 64GX heavy duty 4x2 tractor unit Reg No’s XJA 762 leads the way after loading up at
Grosvenor Steel Fabrications in Audenshaw near Manchester in 1965.
Click on either picture to view them full size.
This is the one with me in the driving seat, not the best quality but they are old and I only had a cheap camera.
Kempston:
Story behind these two loads. Factory overhead cranes could only lift 60 tons, the combined weight of the box and Diesel engine was around 65 tons so I had a trailer dropped in the factory, they then put the pre made base on the trailer bed and finished the box off on the trailer overnight. The second lorry then repeated this. Just before the two lorries were due to leave for iirc Hull docks the shipping agent rang to say the quayside couldn’t take the combined weight of the lorries plus load. I had to hire in a mobile crane from NMT Crane hire to lift the two boxes off the trailers and leave them in the yard. £5000 for two lifts + the cost of the lorries! A week later we did everything in reverse and they finally left for Egypt, can’t recall which port that was via.0
Hi Kempston,
Great photos and memories,thanks for sharing them.I was really interested to see photos of B110 ATG,I remember going to Tony Morgan’s yard when it was brand new,some machine in 1984.It was the only one in Wales afaiaa.How did you rate this truck in your experience of it as a heavy haulage motor?
Regards Andrew.
On the A1(M) thanks to Richard Says.
Oily
moomooland:
1Edward Beck & Sons Ltd Boalloy LV Cabbed ERF 64GX heavy duty 4x2 tractor unit’s Reg No’s XJA 762 and BJA 500B are about
to depart under police ■■■■■■ after loading up at Grosvenor Steel Fabrications in Audenshaw near Manchester in 1965.0Boalloy LV Cabbed ERF 64GX heavy duty 4x2 tractor unit Reg No’s XJA 762 leads the way after loading up at
Grosvenor Steel Fabrications in Audenshaw near Manchester in 1965.Click on either picture to view them full size.
Cheers moomooland, cracking pic’s 
oiltreader:
On the A1(M) thanks to Richard Says.
Oily
Cheers Oily
Ooh, you’re spoiling us here Oily, cheers! 
pete 359:
Kempston:
Story behind these two loads. Factory overhead cranes could only lift 60 tons, the combined weight of the box and Diesel engine was around 65 tons so I had a trailer dropped in the factory, they then put the pre made base on the trailer bed and finished the box off on the trailer overnight. The second lorry then repeated this. Just before the two lorries were due to leave for iirc Hull docks the shipping agent rang to say the quayside couldn’t take the combined weight of the lorries plus load. I had to hire in a mobile crane from NMT Crane hire to lift the two boxes off the trailers and leave them in the yard. £5000 for two lifts + the cost of the lorries! A week later we did everything in reverse and they finally left for Egypt, can’t recall which port that was via.0
Hi Kempston,
Great photos and memories,thanks for sharing them.I was really interested to see photos of B110 ATG,I remember going to Tony Morgan’s yard when it was brand new,some machine in 1984.It was the only one in Wales afaiaa.How did you rate this truck in your experience of it as a heavy haulage motor?
Regards Andrew.
Thanks Pete, have to say that the overall experience of using Leicester Heavy Haulage was a good one, there was a lot of messing around with the way the engines had to be loaded but Leicester were really good and from my point of view everything we were involved with went like clockwork. Can’t remember the make of the trailer but was really good, this may be the case with all of these types of trailers so excuse my ignorance but he had the ability to level the trailer once loaded by dropping the suspension slightly one side or the other. Of course it rode higher than the Wrekin low loader which I remember the driver was slightly concerned about.
Regarding the tractor, I reckon it would’ve pulled both trailers if possible! Certainly sounded powerful and had no trouble pulling away with it. Certainly looked impressive and much more up to date than E.Hulls trailers!
pv83:
LR Man:
Scammells are popular at present, here are a couple more Crusaders…Cheers LR (Land Rover?) Man, I’m off sick at the moment, but this is the medicine I need to get back on me feet
Hi pv38, sorry to hear you’re sick, keep taking the medicine There’s plenty of really classic medicine on here at the moment, keep it up everyone!
Yes, Land Rovers are another big thing for me, especially Series Ones and Defenders.
Kempston:
This is a turbine generator set being loaded by Sauter transport engineering. Overhead crane couldn’t lift that weight so had to be jacked up the trailer reversed under it then lowered onto the trailer. I believe this was bound for ICI Severnside at Avonmouth. The artic in the bottom photo belongs to TWF who took over E.Hull and Fredrick Rays I believe.0
Hi kempston there was a programme on a while back super truckers featuring kings haulage avonmouth and they were moving two of the generators to a plant they had to reverse it into the building for it to be taken off and put into position ready to be used cheers John
smallcoal:
Kempston:
This is a turbine generator set being loaded by Sauter transport engineering. Overhead crane couldn’t lift that weight so had to be jacked up the trailer reversed under it then lowered onto the trailer. I believe this was bound for ICI Severnside at Avonmouth. The artic in the bottom photo belongs to TWF who took over E.Hull and Fredrick Rays I believe.0
Hi kempston there was a programme on a while back super truckers featuring kings haulage avonmouth and they were moving two of the generators to a plant they had to reverse it into the building for it to be taken off and put into position ready to be used cheers John
Don’t spose you remember what channel that was on do you John?
pv83:
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These mighty Scammells are fine looking trucks, as were in France our Berliet GBO and Willèmes!
LR Man:
pv83:
LR Man:
Scammells are popular at present, here are a couple more Crusaders…Cheers LR (Land Rover?) Man, I’m off sick at the moment, but this is the medicine I need to get back on me feet
Hi pv38, sorry to hear you’re sick, keep taking the medicine
Yes, Land Rovers are another big thing for me, especially Series Ones and Defenders.
Cheers LR Man, was just the flu, but it held me tightly in it’s grip, now about that (Scammell) medicine, there’s some dodgy bloke on here, going by the name of Dean, trying to take that medicine away from me… now, what sort of a man would do that eh
My grandparents had a Series III, man did I love that machine, they sold it recently though, pity that was…
