A double helping of steam Oily, road and rail. regards Kev.
Hi Bewick, Dovers just had four wheel tippers all Comets I think, they had thre or four in all and I suppose would operate on B licences mainly out of Threlkeld Quarry. The company ceased trading a number of years ago but a member of the family runs Greta Motor Body Works in part of the old Keswick pencil factory site where after acquiring an almost identical Comet he restored it to back into the firms old livery with a new body fitted.
Cheers Leyland 600
Cheers Leyland 600
Those Comets remind me of Pat Kennett’s column in one of the truck magazines, called ‘Looking Back.’ They were brilliant. He often mentioned these round-nosed Comets and clearly had an enormous affection for them. I remember Brett’s Quarries of Canterbury used to run them into Whitstable Harbour (not literally) for ballast in the mid-60s. Robert 
Another for CWM, this company’s main business was coal but they diversified to a detachable cattle box as there was obviously demand for this, Buzzer.
My son clocked this one today at Harris Lane Shenley Hertfordshire WD7 9EG + the owner says it up for sale.
pete smith:
One i used to own,don’t know who owned it 1st but was bright orange and is that a scottish reg?ta,Pete
Hi Pete, MS up to 1962 was Stirlingshire, post '62 it was Edinburgh.
Oily
oiltreader:
pete smith:
One i used to own,don’t know who owned it 1st but was bright orange and is that a scottish reg?ta,PeteHi Pete, MS up to 1962 was Stirlingshire, post '62 it was Edinburgh.
Oily
Hi,Oily,monett or monex rings a bell,could see where transfers had been before re-spray,ta,Pete ps hated that truck,had it to replace 142 so i kept it for couple of years and bought a 144 [R947DHS] ex jw morrison strathaven
Thanks to pete smith, Buzzer, kevmac47, Leyland600 and Stanfield for the pics 
a selection of Fords starting in the States(a while ago) thanks to Andy Breeden.
Oily
A Hippo loaded with what looks like some kind of feed stuff, big sacks may be 2 1/4 cwt west of England remember them, Buzzer.
Leyland600:
0Hi Bewick, Dovers just had four wheel tippers all Comets I think, they had thre or four in all and I suppose would operate on B licences mainly out of Threlkeld Quarry. The company ceased trading a number of years ago but a member of the family runs Greta Motor Body Works in part of the old Keswick pencil factory site where after acquiring an almost identical Comet he restored it to back into the firms old livery with a new body fitted.
Cheers Leyland 600
Superb shot that one L600 and a smart livery as well,I suppose Threlkeld quarry would be the nearest to Keswick and I wonder what kind of payload they’d manage on those bonneted Comets,and with a wooden drop-side body ? Can’t see how they’d make 10ton at 14ton GVW but who knows! Cheers Bewick.
Hi Buzzer, H&R Ainscough of Burscough Bridge Lancashire Telephone 3131 . My first ever return load was straw from a West Lancashire farm, my instructions being when you get tipped in Liverpool, ring Ainscough’s for details of the load to be picked up. August 1962. The first of many return loads off them.
Cheers Leyland 600.
This is a more-recent photograph of the H. & R. Ainscough Ltd. Leyland Hippo.
It currently resides in the B.C.V.M. , Leyland.
Cheers , cattle wagon man.
Happy St.George’s Day! 
Wednesday,23rd April,2014.
‘Once more unto the breach’. ‘Cry God for Harry, England, and Saint George!’ speech of Shakespeare’s Henry V, Act III, 1598.
Leyland Hippo.While we are on the subject,did you know that a magnificent preserved 1936 Leyland Hippo lorry took part in a superb pop music video film? 
East of Eden is a great song written by the late Stuart Adamson,and recorded and performed by his great music group-band Big Country,an outstanding Scottish rock and roll-electronic-highland fling music band,some of their musical instruments in some of their recordings
sound similar to Scottish Bagpipes!
BIG COUNTRY.
EAST OF EDEN. The music video film is set in Kilmacolm,near Paisley,Scotland,in 1952.
Leyland Hippo TSW9D Flat-bodied 6x4 Lorry,ATE 328,1936.Time on East of Eden music video film:-1.33 to 1.51.
The Leyland spent nearly all of it’s working life in Scotland,then spent 15 years in a Glasgow scrapyard,rescued and restored by T.Thomson,of
Wishaw,Scotland,was restored in the blue and red livery of London Scottish Transport Ltd,eventually was bought by Reg Pearson,of Eltham,London.
Currently owned by a Mr.Aitken,and the Leyland is in a blue livery.
Here are some photographs of the Leyland Hippo,ATE 328:-
public.fotki.com/Scottishtruckph … yland.html
flickr.com/photos/mikealaska/4726811596/
ccmv.aecsouthall.co.uk/p88117016 … #h5fff79c4
Stuart Adamson,wearing the flat cap,and fellow group member musician,Bruce Watson,have hitched a ride on the back of the Leyland Hippo,ATE 328:-
Big Country,East Of Eden.Some days will stay a thousand years,others pass like the flash of a spark.Who knows where all our days go.
Big Country,East of Eden Music Video Film,Stuart Adamson,Mark Brzezicki ,Bruce Watson and Tony Butler.
mtv.co.uk/big-country/videos … st-of-eden
Enjoy the great music and the magnificent Leyland!
VALKYRIE.
Can you believe they delivered coal with one of these three wheelers, Buzzer.
This time next year, Rodney, we’ll be millionaires!
We used to have a fish monger call at our farm every Thursday with a three wheeler like that only it had a van body on it, had handlebars just like a motorbike, Buzzer.
