Any pics or info of their fleet of Magirus Deutz 6 wheel drive tippers and the Scania 6 wheel tractor unit doubling as a tipper/artic low loader and the fleet of skip wagons they operated during the 70s/80s,also any pics etc of the plant they ran.Are they still in business?
shirtbox2003:
Any pics or info of their fleet of Magirus Deutz 6 wheel drive tippers and the Scania 6 wheel tractor unit doubling as a tipper/artic low loader and the fleet of skip wagons they operated during the 70s/80s,also any pics etc of the plant they ran.Are they still in business?
Sorry mate, I don’t have any pictures, but I remember a Thomas Gravesons from Carnforth back in the 70s and 80s. They run out of a yard on the road between Carnforth and warton. I can recall a Scammell Constructor 8 wheeler skip compactor, most of the fleet at the time were Merc skip wagons. I think the were taken over by one of the national environmental firms.
T.B
T. Graveson & Son were early users of 2 - way radios for quicker communication between base and their individual drivers. There was an advertisement in one of the transport publications ( probably Commercial Motor) for the Company and the radio suppliers .
Their slogan across the front of the cabs was - " We specialise in talking rubbish " .
Hope this is of some help and interest.
Cheers , cattle wagon man.
I think they also owned a parcel delivery business.
In later years their speciality was supplying the gas extraction plants for landfill sites throughout the UK once the tips had started to degenerate and produce methane gas. Cheers Bewick.