A mighty contractor ! With a F88 cab. 
Hi Chris, Seeing these Askey photographs reminds me of loading Batchelors Foods way back in the mid 1960s through a firm with a very similar livery a style that seemed to signify Sheffields best sign writer, I cannot remember the company name but they were from Wadsley Bridge. I came across the livery again last summer at Tain Easter Ross vintage rally when a chap from Invergordon had just bought the unit shown below which he intended to rally.
Cheers, Leyland 600.
Leyland600:
Hi Chris, Seeing these Askey photographs reminds me of loading Batchelors Foods way back in the mid 1960s through a firm with a very similar livery a style that seemed to signify Sheffields best sign writer, I cannot remember the company name but they were from Wadsley Bridge. I came across the livery again last summer at Tain Easter Ross vintage rally when a chap from Invergordon had just bought the unit shown below which he intended to rally.
Cheers, Leyland 600.
There were a lot of hauliers in Sheffield with that style of livery.The main contractor out of Batchelors was Harry Bradley at that time - he had some in Batchelors livery but I can’t remember if he had any like the Askey one.
Do you mind if I copy that photo and send it to my son whose company use Askeys for their haulage,he could then show it to Rob Askey who let me post his photos.
Cheers,Chris.
Hi Chris , not a problem it has my copyright stamped on it. The unit had just been bought by a mate of the folk that my wife and I rent a cottage from in Easter Ross and are all keen vintage tractor and car enthusiasts. They were not siphoning Dalmore whisky from the casks on the back of Charlie Munro’s petrol engined Commer. Can you give me another name for a contractor out of Batchelors in the mid 1960s I cannot for the life of me recall the name of the firm I loaded off but they had blue wagons with this livery style.
Cheers, Leyland 600
Leyland600:
Hi Chris , not a problem it has my copyright stamped on it. The unit had just been bought by a mate of the folk that my wife and I rent a cottage from in Easter Ross and are all keen vintage tractor and car enthusiasts. They were not siphoning Dalmore whisky from the casks on the back of Charlie Munro’s petrol engined Commer. Can you give me another name for a contractor out of Batchelors in the mid 1960s I cannot for the life of me recall the name of the firm I loaded off but they had blue wagons with this livery style.
Cheers, Leyland 600
Hi Leyland.600.Thanks for the permission,I had a Leyland Badger ex NIT with 600 engine - 9902 FZ,loved it.
Anyway the only other companies I can recall with that type of livery in that area were Wesley Nicholls,J E Parker,Warringtons Haulage and further out Shepherds at Ouhtibridge. There are others but not in the Wadsley Bridge area - mind you it’s a long time ago so I might have missed somebody,sorry.
Cheers,Chris.
Hi Chris, J.E. Parker thats the company I was trying to think of, as you say its a long time ago. I remember that when I was there there were some overlooking flats which had been severely damaged by a recent hurricane. I recall going to Edinburgh via Abington and Biggar two days after the hurricane and picking my way through a path cut through fallen trees between Abington and Biggar. The Scottish timber haulage men hauled fallen trees for months after that Sunday night.
Thanks for the info.
Leyland 600.
Leyland600:
Hi Chris, J.E. Parker thats the company I was trying to think of, as you say its a long time ago. I remember that when I was there there were some overlooking flats which had been severely damaged by a recent hurricane. I recall going to Edinburgh via Abington and Biggar two days after the hurricane and picking my way through a path cut through fallen trees between Abington and Biggar. The Scottish timber haulage men hauled fallen trees for months after that Sunday night.
Thanks for the info.
Leyland 600.
Yes,that was in 1962 I think.I was in RAF and hitchhiked from Norfolk to Sheffield that night. I had to walk from city centre to where I lived,about 3 miles as there were no night service buses running.There was debris flying all over the streets,it was too dangerous to walk really,but it had to be done.
J E Parker was quite a big company in it’s day,they also worked out of Dixons paper mill - later British Tissues,as well as several steelworks int city.This photo has been on several groups,one of Parkers 8-leggers,they ran a London trunk.
Kempston:
This is the Foden I used to go in after the AEC was retired, there’s a photo of me in the drivers seat as a youngster. Or rather there isn’t a photo of me in these, scanned the same pictures twice!0
I noticed that this Foden is only single drive although I would have thought a double drive bogie would have been more suitable with having to enter building sites. Or did they only insist that they tipped from hard standing ? Just an observation ! Cheers Bewick.
Interesting to hear mention of that hurricane. My uncle, Jack Clarke, used to work for George C Croasdale, who had a timber yard just outside St Boswells. Jack left Croasdales in about 1967 and started on his own as a timber merchant. In 1969, I left the safety of Glaxo Laboratories in Ulverston and bought a Leyland Comet 4 wheeler to haul Jack’s timber, mainly to Lancashire. I think the hurricane had happened soon after he moved from Haverthwaite, near Ulverston, to St Boswell’s as manager for George C.
Jack used to refer to that as ‘the big blow’ and relished the idea of another. I think anyone involved in timber at that time made a lot of money!
John.
Bewick:
Kempston:
This is the Foden I used to go in after the AEC was retired, there’s a photo of me in the drivers seat as a youngster. Or rather there isn’t a photo of me in these, scanned the same pictures twice!0
I noticed that this Foden is only single drive although I would have thought a double drive bogie would have been more suitable with having to enter building sites. Or did they only insist that they tipped from hard standing ? Just an observation ! Cheers Bewick.
Its a very good observation Bewick, they were all single drive which as you say caused lots of problems on sites. My dads mate used to say to the guys on sites, if you want them over there (meaning somewhere off hard standing) then ok providing you get the JCB to pull me out if I get stuck.
Hi John interesting to read about Croasdales, the hurricane occured in 1964 not long after I had started out on my own driving a BMC FHK 140 four wheel flat and as I said earlier was on my way to Edinburgh with a load picking my way through a narrow path of fallen fir trees that had been hurriedly saw up and dragged to the roadside. Every small plantation on that road had been scythed through by the wind.
Cheers, Leyland 600
Buzzer:
Nice couple of tippers today, Buzzer
Nice photos Buzzer.
I remember H E Musgrove’s immaculate fleet from Stamford,all the wagons had names like Lincolnshire Poacher etc…They did a lot of coal out of South Yorks and East Midlands pits and were a regular sight on the A616 between Ollerton and Newark.
Chris Webb:
Buzzer:
Nice couple of tippers today, BuzzerNice photos Buzzer.
I remember H E Musgrove’s immaculate fleet from Stamford,all the wagons had names like Lincolnshire Poacher etc…They did a lot of coal out of South Yorks and East Midlands pits and were a regular sight on the A616 between Ollerton and Newark.
One of the Musgrove family runs this, I was talking to him a year or two ago at the Stamford Car Show, not the best of pictures I know, taken on my 'phone in poor lighting. Nice to see a traditional livery in this day and age.
Bernard
Mack at Fishguard.
Been without computer and landline access since last Monday when I reported a fault with our landline (crossed line)to our supplier EE, within an hour we had an Openreach engineer at the door, no problem indoors and after couple of hours at the nearest junction box he reported deterioration of existing copper cable, which he said will have to be renewed. He assured us that this would be done by thursday last, no show so back to EE, different story from them, months more like, first planning permission to dig trenching, then civils, another lot to do trunking etc before reconnection. The annoying part is the BT landline also serves our neighbours who are unaffected.
Heated discussion with EE, the outcome being reconnection on monday and unlimited data added to my mobile hence this info.
Oily
oiltreader:
Been without computer and landline access since last Monday when I reported a fault with our landline (crossed line)to our supplier EE, within an hour we had an Openreach engineer at the door, no problem indoors and after couple of hours at the nearest junction box he reported deterioration of existing copper cable, which he said will have to be renewed. He assured us that this would be done by thursday last, no show so back to EE, different story from them, months more like, first planning permission to dig trenching, then civils, another lot to do trunking etc before reconnection. The annoying part is the BT landline also serves our neighbours who are unaffected.
Heated discussion with EE, the outcome being reconnection on monday and unlimited data added to my mobile hence this info.
Oily
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