true only ever saw jack ashworth in a brown suit never saw him out of the office so no comment about his bits,was the metal fabricator an irish guy called frank?
i do remember a story eric watkiss told me, but only half of it 
involved jack ashy squatting down in the yard to lift up a heavy drawbar or something, and his town halls making contact with a cold puddle - if i could remem ber the full story i’m sure it’'d be hilarious 
think i’ve posted on here before, presumably around 1983 there was an RHA branch meeting and the subject of changing the limits to 38 tonnes came up, to which mr ashworth heckled from the back “well i ent droppin two ton for no [zb]er”
ashworths always had over engineered kit no chance of it breaking but the trailers were really heavy,the triaxles when the 38 ton limit came in were all twin wheeled no super singles then plus a large amount of chains,chocks,scotches the set of sheets, toolboxes big diesel tanks for the cheap stuff wouldnt like to guess how much they weighed empty,The balertrailers were even heavier about 3 ton of framework was stashed when they were loaded for home or being used on general haulage.
if thought he was scottish,but could have been irish,didnt get his name,a guy in his early sixtys with a beard.told me a tale about one of the drivers,might have been frank,pulled out of the yard with a load of tractors for the docks but he couldnt get out because a car was parked outside the fish shop over the road,anyway the driver went in to ask him to move the car because he was in a hurry but the car driver said no ,so jacks driver hit him got back in his wagon and somehow got round the car and went on his way.wish i got his name it was intresting talking to him.he knew jack robo,b.patefield
this thread has laid dormant for too long lets get it going like the aone thread im sure there are people out there who could contribute some good stuff!!
peterq5422:
this thread has laid dormant for too long lets get it going like the aone thread im sure there are people out there who could contribute some good stuff!!
seconded! somebody mentioned articulationpix.com in the a-one thread - he also has a few photos of ashy’s motors for sale, including a marathon and a baler trailer 
peterq5422:
sorry for pic quality ,F10 with double deck baler trailer i think on dunkirk dock about to unload the driver is Dennis Robson sadly no longer with us.Picture 2 is Bob Quirie loaded with four international tractors not sure of location DWW967T is the seddon atki the erf posted earlier was his previous truck will try to improve photos but still new to this sure they will get better
Hiya… did that Bob live nr the top of the M606 ■■? I think he stated as a owner driver after leaving Ashworths. i used to unload Ashworths lorrys at a farming
firm in Leek in the 70s. they was international dealears…another chap who delivered quite oftern had white hair i saw him years later driving a Foden for IICR Bakers i think his nickname was silver fox his son also worked on another foden with him doing europe.
John
no bob lived and still does in a village called denholme about 6 miles from the m606 the guy you recall may have been bob fraser i think he lived somewhere over that way i saw him about 4 years ago in hellmans at bradford and he was an owner driver doing urgent jobs for them with a transit size pickup
i took this picture in concorezzo in italy mid 70s
Hi guy’s, this can only get better, I never worked for Ashworths, but I did work for Fielders/Chapmans/and A One, when they eventually bought them out, but we did all work together, I went to Fielders early 1960’s when I came out of the Army, and we were all going strong on the wool job, although it’s hard to remember most drivers after so long ago.
The same happened with the A One site, it started with a couple of drivers and escalated, so it’s great that some of the older end can get together and chew some fat, look on the A One site and you might even remember some of us from there. Good luck :-Jack Graham 
just looked on an international harvester video about the bradford ih factory called they built tractors there and at the end there is an ashworths sed atki in the lord mayors procession dressed up as the float for the tractor company and the images are stored at the bradford industrial museum so gonna have a look next time im off it could be a treasure chest!!
some photos at last three with loaded baler trailers one with tractors and an old atki outside liverpool docks enjoy
dad seems to think this was gerry jones
twin splitter:
Any0ne remember Bill Brown [Long since died ] I used to drink with Bill in the Lilycroft Pub. Bill worked for Ashworths for years had one of the new ERF sleepers. Fell out big time with Old Man Ashworth orer something and got the bullet, Sued for unfair dismissal and got 3000. lasted Bill a couple of months you would have thought he had won the pools the way he spent the cash.
Cracking pictures - thanks for posting them
hi people stuart broughton hear i did work for ashworths for about 9 months after a row with jack bell worked out of doncaster for a bit went to ierland a few times i had a big J got the sack after sleeping in lorry blocked in out side G.E.C thornbury all day not very popular with jack …but hay ho…remember davy crocket
picture of the aec drawbar loaded with 13 tractors some machine and all made in house they had two of these the pic is from one of this montrhs truck magazine would love to get my hands on a good copy of it
I`ve seen that picture before somewhere cant think where
its on the wall in the red lion pub at girlington
I think its in a book ive seen it somewhere i used to work with a few ex asworths drivers Bob Noble,Bugsy and Bob Fraser