Buzzer
gazsa401:
Took these yesterday sadly rotting away at the A1 Truck stop Colsterworth
I suppose the cab would be well beyond?
Hi Buzzer, W. J. & J. Green very successful livestock breeder with tidy haulage fleet, put Corskie Farm into Facebook search, recent Highland show with 7 Simmental entries 6 firsts and a second.
Oily
Thanks to Buzzer, vwvanman0, Froggy55, robroy, gazsa401 and Kempston for the photos 
Oily
Credit to Lee Bristol for the photo.
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Shephard and Hough have a few classic trucks, the first ERF WRA 588F was one of my club members when it was in B J Waters livery.
NMP
Pete.
The Bulwark Seddon Diesel SD8 was actually shown at the 1964 Comm Vehicle show at Earls Court, the 62 date is a mistake. It was shown along with the new 13:Four:354 models. The vehicles on show for 1964 heralded (according to the Comm Motor writers) a new era of cabs designed for comfort and hopefully less noisy, which still had to be determined by road tests non the less. The article from the time even stated that UK trucks were ahead of their Foreign rivals in this area, no doubt the Swede lovers will choke on that statement! It was also the coming of the Vee engines which again had to be scrutinised to see if they really were as good as what was ‘said on the tin’! Hindsight is a wonderful thing. Franky.
essexpete:
gazsa401:
Took these yesterday sadly rotting away at the A1 Truck stop ColsterworthI suppose the cab would be well beyond?
Next time I stop there I’ll take some more photos [emoji106]
Buzzer:
Buzzer
That’s a nice shot of the J W Grahams Comet descending the forest haul road loaded with Pulp wood which would have been destined for the Bowater newsprint plant at Ellesmere Port. This shot would have been a late 1962 one going by the reg no. These loads of wood were regular traffic for Grahams during the 50’s and into the early 60’s and their return loads would have been Feeding stuffs from L’pool or B’head back to a Agricultral Merchant in Cockermouth. In the mid 60’s with the decline of BRS in W.■■■■■■■■■■ Grahams along with H & M E Fearon took over the British Steel work out of Workington and eventually was handled by Grahams up until the Steel works closed in the 80’s. We were regular subbies for Grahams throughout the 70’s and into the early 80’s after I bought out McGuffie Transport in 1974 the main job was loads of new 45 gal drums from Aintree to Whitehaven 8 or 10 loads a week so we were regularly in the Steel Works loading either Pig Iron or Rails for Lancs/Cheshire and sometimes Pig Iron to Dagenham or heavy rail for export through Tilbury. The Steel rates were somewhat keener than our own paper traffic and loads out of Libbys but in the main we always did OK with Grahams and they were very prompt payers on the dot ! All the McGuffie trailers had been supplied by Grahams as they were CF agents and I bought a number of trailers off them both before and after I took McGuffie Transport over. Cheers Bewick
Kempston:
Is this you Dennis?0
Looks to me like the geezer out of the ‘Brothers’ TV series.
