Hipwoods must have had some gig with Shell as in 1970 one of those old Leylands turned up at our farm at Unsworth where we had a tank for the cattle wagon. I asked the driver how old it was and he said 15 years ,I thought blimey a year older than me,anyway he showed me the dipstick thingy and went on to tell me a tanker driver tale while he was pumping. The tank was set up on cut-down telegraph poles and the pipe shoved in the top hatch which no doubt isn’t allowed nowadays. The same bloke turned up again a couple of times though it was usually Shell with a AEC pulled single axle tank. Fast forward 10 years and I was stopped on Anderton as it was called then, and a Hipwoods Scania pulled alongside and the driver asked for a lift. He said he was well over his time after a long delay in Glasgow so I duly dropped him at Farnworth roundabout. Moving on to 1987/88 and the outfit I worked for had some arrangement have the vehicles washed by some firm in Hipwoods yard, a Routeman Tanker turned up at the same time though it was dull grey(I think) with no name on also in for wash, the lad said it would be £8 which I thought was a lot though probably the same we were paying them.