Hi again,well I must admit after all these years of thinking that that Hagues Atki was built in 1937 it turns out to be a typing error…an easy mistake as some will work for many years …fancy 240 not spotting that as well,I assumed he was Mr Atkinson!!!
bubbleman:
Hi again,well I must admit after all these years of thinking that that Hagues Atki was built in 1937 it turns out to be a typing error…an easy mistake as some will work for many years …fancy 240 not spotting that as well,I assumed he was Mr Atkinson!!!
Cheers Bubbs.
Ah, but Marky is “Mr Hagues of Lathom” as well as having the same model of Atkinson anorak that I have!! And it could have been an old one, re-cabbed!
Well - it seems an apology may be in order here. I was under the impression (from the information I have about the Hague Transport fleet) that DTD319 was a 1957 motor. I’ve just looked through the stuff I’ve got again and it would appear that the photograph bubbs has posted on here dates from a 1958 edition of Motor Transport.
On the face of it, there’s no way a 12-month old motor could’ve amassed a million miles under its wheels, so I don’t know what to think now. Harry Hague wasn’t known for buying old duffers, so unless it was ex-BRS like a couple of ERFs and an L1266 Atki and was re-cabbed later, I can’t explain this conundrum. I know that at around the time that picture was taken, Harry had two companies - Hague Transport Ltd and Harry Hague Ltd. Hague Transport were the red & royal crimson heavy motors (eight wheelers mainly) and the Harry Hague fleet comprised Bedford OWs, Thames Traders, etc which did local produce collection and deliveries to school kitchens, etc. Theses wagons were two-tone green.
Harry started to change the types of wagons in the Hague Transport fleet through trading-in O-licences - from eight wheelers, he went to artics with single axle trailers, then onto larger artics. By the time this was done he was a minority shareholder in both companies, thanks to a string of failed enterprises. The firms were sold to W B Anderson in 1966 and that spelled the end of the liveries. Later on, Andersons sold the business to WCF and that takes the firm up to the present day.
Harry Hague went in with another haulier from Preston after selling (against his wishes) to Andersons, and went on to revive the 15-motor fleet of Tichener & Brown from Blackpool. He smartening up the livery and got the fleet up to scratch, eventually buying-out the partner in the interest. Harry retired to Beetham in ■■■■■■■ and died in 1972.
An aunt of mine worked for Hagues at Burscough from the mid-sixties until a couple of years ago and during the early nineties the offices were redeveloped. Before the old building was demolished, the staff were asked if they wanted to take anything, as the contents were being scrapped. My aunt managed to retrieve Harry Hague’s leather-topped desk from his office, which had been there for decades (unused). My uncle went to the office to dismantle it before taking it home and when he unlocked the drawers, he found four short pieces of timber. When he compared them to the legs on the desk, he quickly realised (after recalling Harry’s diminutive stature) that someone had sawn three inches off the legs - and Harry had kept the offcuts. They’ve been dowelled & glued back into place and the desk is now in regular use.
Hello again,well that old Atki of Hagues has brought out some nice history of the company from Marky…although I have to say the cutting came from a copy of Roadway the RHAs in house magazine distributed to its members…and was from 1966,so I suppose 1,000000 miles could have been clocked and it wouldnt have had to stop though.
harry_gill:
hiya,
if they had gone no higher than that the job would have been a doddle i always seemed to be twice that.
thanks harry long retired.
I remember bottles out of Alloa, 2 pallets high, and struggling with 2 sets of sheets, and then a bottle sheet, which seemed to weigh a ton, and 2 tons if it was wet !! Got put up on top of the load with a fork-lift, if you we’re lucky, if not you scrambled up the headboard, then clawed yourself up the load. Kept me fit, but looking back didn’t realise just how dangerous it was, but in those days it was the “norm” so took no notice.
Loads of timber the same, especially after coming out of the machine shop. Loads so high you have to throw a rope over the load so that you can pull your chains over, then as has been mentioned scramble up the headboard and the load so you can haul your sheets up as well. Open up your sheet and spread it out and then the wind blows it off
Eeeeeehhh lad thee dont know thee born these days
Ray
flishflunk:
Eeeeeehhh lad thee dont know thee born these days
Ray
Remember when I was on container work some years later, it was an effort to get out the cab and open the doors, and, as for undoing 4 twist locks !!! that was really hard work !!
used to do that work meself fergie . backloading from alloa off robsons like you said two high fly sheet down one side two main sheets then corner boards taboo , hard graft on ye own even when you know how to do it but it was regular for scotch and good paying
hi bubbs, that photo of turnbulls brought back some memories, turnbull stored flats for containerways at their north shields depot,often loaded a flat from them, then load it with ships engine parts from hawthorns for H&W belfast, then it was up to ardrossen, lift flat of , a cross to motherwell load pit arches, then back home, we where paid trip money in them day, and as the saying go’s it was money for old rope, keep up the good work bubbs and thanks for the memories, bumper
For me these are brilliant but frustrating. I’m always on the lookout for modelling inspiration and its here by the bucketful. But I can’t model a vehicle in black and white