Hi flatman001,
Another brilliant batch of pics,a great range of lorries covering several dacades.
Cheers Dave.
Wheel Nut:
That’s a great picture of 3 of Reader Bros loading fruit, I cannot make out whether that is Humber Street fruit market, but the load certainly looks a little precarious.
I agree Malc,a great picture.Reader Brothers and Haltemprice Transport used to pull the Dutch trailers off the dock and leave them in Humber Street.I used to go at night and help myself to boxes of lettuce for Sheffield market.There were always one or two produce merchants loading off the same trailer and if it was windy those boxes of lettuce were a bugger to keep on the wagon 
I think there is a Octopus preserved in Readers livery.
Yiddle Davis Lay By in Kent, 60s
I ran the SRS depot in Edinburgh briefly in the early 90’s and that picture of the old Scammel recovery wagon brings back a few memories. It was well past it’s prime and was a sorce of embarassment when we had to use it as it’s lifting gear was totally outdated and unsuitable for most recovery work and it was so slow that the queue of traffic that built up behind it made it very unpopular. The Dennis refuse wagon in the first pic would have been used to support a contract with the local authority in the Inverness and Elgin area where BRS bought and leased back all the refuse vehicles. To seal the deal they had to provide cover for breakdowns and MOT’s etc so this being BRS it’s no surprise to see what would have been at least an 8 year old vehicle being painted in the then new two tone grey livery as a dedicated contract “spare” vehicle.
Anybody remember this Scammell around Glasgow in the 70s.
flatman001:
Well! S A Bell of Malton. That might even be their yard. Its a housing estate now. I never knew they ran Leylands, but they had a few ERF Bs
Hi - been away for a couple of days, just enjoying catching up.
Is this the one, Leyland powered bought in 1956< Yes, flatman. The old man’s Rutland dated from about 1955 and had an AEC AV505 if I remember rightly.
Stravaiger - lovely pix. That King and Son of Andover Albion Chieftain with the Homalloy (I think) cab with the wrap-round windscreens - or an identical one from the same firm - is preserved, or was when I wrote an article about it in about 1992 after it had been rebuilt by a farmer who lived near Salisbury somewhere.
Lonewolf Yorks:
Well! S A Bell of Malton. That might even be their yard. Its a housing estate now. I never knew they ran Leylands, but they had a few ERF Bs
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Three more of their Leylands.
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Good news everyone!
Marcus should ne back on line by tommorow evening 
Regards Paul Anderson Northwest Trucks
Some more Meadow Tpt.
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Stravaiger not sure if I should be putting this on here, note Registration,as it is Today.
Ben.
Sometimes I think it’s the fate of every tired old Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow to be blown over white and put in the wedding trade and every Scammell Highwayman to be turned into a fake Showtrac. It looked better as it was originally.
When I was a kid my old man enrolled me in the Scammell Spotters Club, which featured in what was, I think, called the Leyland Journal. I wonder if I’m the only surviving member?
Sorry I missed your explanation, Stravaiger. I find that the pages fly up and down the screen as the pix load when I’m catching up, so it’s easy to miss the words in between!
intertype7:
Sometimes I think it’s the fate of every tired old Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow to be blown over white and put in the wedding trade and every Scammell Highwayman to be turned into a fake Showtrac. It looked better as it was originally.
When I was a kid my old man enrolled me in the Scammell Spotters Club, which featured in what was, I think, called the Leyland Journal. I wonder if I’m the only surviving member?
Sorry I missed your explanation, Stravaiger. I find that the pages fly up and down the screen as the pix load when I’m catching up, so it’s easy to miss the words in between!
That’s just a Scammell with a ballast box on this is a real Showtrac, taken at Bourton-on-the-Water in 1952 by Rod Spooner. For anyone interested in Fairground/Circus lorries this is my site on Fotopic pics-by-john.digimig.co.uk
