Can anybody tell me what Beaverbank Motors Edinburgh colours were. Eddie.
Hi Eddie, I think they were green and white but cannot be 100% sure, J & A Sutherland sawdust merchants seemed to have some sort of connection with them, I think their premises were in the same street.
Regards, Leyland 600.
Thanks Gerald I canny mind as I think I only ever seen one of their demonstrators and your right about Sutherland being ■■■■■■■ with them. Have you mind o the state o some of Sutherlands trailers they were sure home made by the look of them. Hope the health is improving its no handy when you are both ill at the same time.
I have had COPD for 3yrs and in March took a chest infection and was takeing Blackouts so Swansea has my licence last one was about 7months ago but still no sign off them giving me the licence back. Eddie.
Thanks to LeeJ, Leyland600, erfguy and Stanfield for the pictures 
To erfguy and Leyland600, I wish you good health post-haste.
A few from the heilans.
Oily
Hi Eddie, Here is the answer to our discussion re Beaverbank. This is a quote I received off them in 1979. Take a look at the directors names.
Cheers Leyland600
Cheers Leyland600
Aye that explains why Sutherland always had Fodens. Did you hear the story about their sawdust trailer couped on its side in Weyroc quick phone call to Tom Carruthers he gave them a price to lift it Oh that’s to much we will get it done cheaper so they phone around and nobody was cheaper so back they go to Tom, Aye I will lift it but the price has went up another £200. Eddie.
Aye I could believe that Eddie having met two of the proprietors once in their yard in Beaverbank Place where I went to load sawdust in bags about 1962.
Cheers Leyland 600
Leyland600:
Aye I could believe that Eddie having met two of the proprietors once in their yard in Beaverbank Place where I went to load sawdust in bags about 1962.
Cheers Leyland 600
More info here bizzy.co.uk/uk/SC038650/j-and-a- … nd-company
clicking on the director’s names gives further details of companies they had
Oily
Some more thanks to Graham Richardson, stills from a film taken 2001, M5, Gordano Services area.
Oily
Cable transport/laying Swiss style thanks to darkshine231, reels appear to be connected, not sure why.
Oily
oiltreader:
Cable transport/laying Swiss style thanks to darkshine231, reels appear to be connected, not sure why.
Oily
Hello Oiltreader. The answer is almost certainly that the engineers have connected the reels of cable together in order to make a single length
of cable - to have that amount and length of cable on a single cable drum-reel would be too big and unwieldy:the cable drum reel would have to be twice as big and twice as heavy. So it’s more convenient to package and transport the cable on two smaller,lighter and easier to handle cable
drum reels 
VALKYRIE
VALKYRIE:
oiltreader:
Cable transport/laying Swiss style thanks to darkshine231, reels appear to be connected, not sure why.
OilyHello Oiltreader. The answer is almost certainly that the engineers have connected the reels of cable together in order to make a single length
of cable - to have that amount and length of cable on a single cable drum-reel would be too big and unwieldy:the cable drum reel would have to be twice as big and twice as heavy. So it’s more convenient to package and transport the cable on two smaller,lighter and easier to handle cable
drum reelsVALKYRIE
Hi VALKYRIE, That makes sense, thanks
Oily
Boys and their toys. Great Dorset 2004
Thanks to truckfing for the pictures, a real sense of atmosphere, though I’d rather be up wind of it
a bit o’ competition.
Oily
ROF from Sprog’s:
That last shot looks suspiciously like one of the big Atki/Gardner 150s that were supplied to Pickfords.
I think you’ll find it’s the Atkinson-cabbed Mack, formerly owned by Atkinson Vehicles (Scotland) Limited at Airdrie. It started out as a straightforward Mack, then gained a secondhand Mk.1 cab, and later still, an Atkinson bonnet and radiator
Here it is as at the inbetween stage:
Atkinson Airdrie depot wrecker by Gardner 8LXB, on Flickr
And later:
Atkinson by Carricklad, on Flickr
Although Atkinson did build a number of large bonneted tractors for both home and abroad, designed for up to 100 tons gross, the ones which Pickfords had were rather smaller, and were described as Semi-Bonneted Tractors. As you say, they had the 6LX and were intended to fulfill the same role as the Scammell Highwayman.