Bewick,
Cracking photo’s of your fleet, do you have any internal shots of your workshops? I envisage that your service facilities were super also. 
EW
EW car truck & bus:
Bewick,Cracking photo’s of your fleet, do you have any internal shots of your workshops? I envisage that your service facilities were super also.
EW
This is a shot of the building I bought in 1970 for £7500 it was used previously as a Sugar warehouse by R.O.Hodgson a Milnthorpe haulier who delivered Tate & Lyle sugar around the area,they relocated to Carnforth.We “knocked it about a bit” and installed a single pit which you can see in this '71 shot the first Atki we bought standing over it.We soon outgrew this facility which I sold in late '72 for £9500.
A great return on your investment with that property Bewick, AND I GUESS SUBSEQUENT FACILITIES incorporated several Pit’s!! .
E.W.
This was the second premises I bought in the village for £14500,again it had been R O Hodgsons old Garage.It was a great facility,3x30ft pits,toilet block and a stone built detached office block,the only problem was it only had a limited yard space as the whole facility was origionally built in the '20’s for ridgids and not artics.However,it served us very well until I bought out another haulier on the outskirts of the village with 1 acre of parking.This new workshop wasn’t as good as the one we had in the village but it’s location was far better.
Hey Bewick you sure there was no 240 Big J hiding in there somewhere?
EW car truck & bus:
Hey Bewick you sure there was no 240 Big J hiding in there somewhere?
You sure are observent EW,I see you’ve “clocked” the new Big J at the back,well I had to keep it under wraps as at the time SOM couldn’t get a new Big J 240LXB,but I never had the heart to register it,I just kept it in a corner until I cut it up with the gas axe and sold the engine to a Junk builder in Hong Kong 
Bewick.
Shot from a different angle,a line up of some of the finest British motors of the time,every one with a ■■■■■■■ engine ! 
You’ve taken some quality photos over the years but these last few on this page are as good as any especially the units parked in R O s old garage keep em coming
Dennis,
Great thread you’ve got going here ,and long may it continue.
When you put a new truck ( or any truck that you acquired) into service, did that truck have to do a set amount of years service? Was they ran until no longer economical or sold on at optimum price time.
Bewicks didn’t look the sort of firm that would just run them into the ground and then scrap them.
Cheers Bassman
BIBS:
You’ve taken some quality photos over the years but these last few on this page are as good as any especially the units parked in R O s old garage keep em coming
Thanks for the kind coment “BIBS”,it was a great garage the old ROH building,I wish I could have picked it up and dropped on the depot we created behind the Libby factory ! 
Cheers Dennis.
Bassman:
Dennis,
Great thread you’ve got going here ,and long may it continue.
When you put a new truck ( or any truck that you acquired) into service, did that truck have to do a set amount of years service? Was they ran until no longer economical or sold on at optimum price time.
Bewicks didn’t look the sort of firm that would just run them into the ground and then scrap them.Cheers Bassman
Thanks for that “Bassman”,I never had a firm policy with regards to fleet additions/replacement,you couldn’t have as there was always something “developing” trafficwise so to speak.However,on an adhoc basis I would buy and sell the rolling stock if I was offered something interesting,at the right price, and I sold motors again if I thought I could improve the fleet and again if I was bid a sensible price But in the main our fleet grew continuously throughout the years as our customer base expanded so was usually something along the lines of 1 or 2 out and 4 or 5 in 
And,of course,through the 70’s I shifted the ■■■■■■■ engined motors out as we went over to the Scandinavians and Gardner 180’s and 240 Lxb’s.A couple of Atkis did make it right through the years into the 90’s as well as a Gardner 180 A Series,don’t ask me why,they just did 
I trust this rambling explanation is understood,(I doubt it 
) but thats how it was,there was never an instruction book,it was all in my head 
Cheers Dennis.
Not such a good shot at all here,I took it in late '73 when both the ERF and the Crane Fruehauf van were fairly new.I bought the Van from J.W.Graham,Bass Lake and it ran out of Bowater Scott’s Barrow Mill to the South East but it didn’t prove a success as we had to find loads for it when we had plenty of woodpulp straight back to Milnthorpe,so I sold it to J & W Watt of Carlisle (for what I’d paid for it I believe they were desperate for vans at the time for a new tyre job they had out of Scotland,IIRC it was Uniroyal.The fron’t end of our trusty Austin (Morris) 1000 pick-up is just nosed into the frame ! 
Bewick:
Bassman:
Dennis,
Great thread you’ve got going here ,and long may it continue.
When you put a new truck ( or any truck that you acquired) into service, did that truck have to do a set amount of years service? Was they ran until no longer economical or sold on at optimum price time.
Bewicks didn’t look the sort of firm that would just run them into the ground and then scrap them.Cheers Bassman
Thanks for that “Bassman”,I never had a firm policy with regards to fleet additions/replacement,you couldn’t have as there was always something “developing” trafficwise so to speak.However,on an adhoc basis I would buy and sell the rolling stock if I was offered something interesting,at the right price, and I sold motors again if I thought I could improve the fleet and again if I was bid a sensible price
I trust this rambling explanation is understood,(I doubt it
What sort of work were the veterans on by the 90’s Dennis - locals or yard shunting?
You`re missing your new vocation in life Dennis "WRITE A [zb] BOOK " the photos and memories would make you “another” fortune .Seriously this thread is so interesting
Couldn’t write a book “ramone” as I’m [zb] illiterate,now do you want the craic about these two Atki’s or what■■? 
Dennis.
These were the three old motors that survived into later years,OJM 480L was about 10 years old when we took it out of the fleet to run on a a very lucrative local job between warehouse and mill,the shot shows it newley painted and lettered ready to go again,the other shot shows it after it finnished it’s working life,parked up in the depot.The first shot of ONL 482M is of it at the Leyland museum after we had taken it out of service and re-furbed it,we used it periodically,on trades,to pull the recovery trailer.The shot of ONL 482M in among the scrap tyres is what the ■■■■■■■ morons at WRM allowed it to deteriate into after I had left the Group,but one of my ex drivers told me that when it was finally sold/removed they just put a set of batteries on to it and it was “on the button” The ERF A Series NEC299P was just setting off out of the depot on it’s last trip to London,we sure got the last ounce of work out of our motors at Bewick Transport, Cheers Dennis.
Bewick:
These were the three old motors that survived into later years,OJM 480L was about 10 years old when we took it out of the fleet to run on a a very lucrative local job between warehouse and mill,the shot shows it newley painted and lettered ready to go again,the other shot shows it after it finnished it’s working life,parked up in the depot.The first shot of ONL 482M is of it at the Leyland museum after we had taken it out of service and re-furbed it,we used it periodically,on trades,to pull the recovery trailer.The shot of ONL 482M in among the scrap tyres is what the [zb] morons at WRM allowed it to deteriate into after I had left the Group,but one of my ex drivers told me that when it was finally sold/removed they just put a set of batteries on to it and it was “on the button”
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London?.. with only 1 headlight Dennis…typical gaffer that!!!
David
Some more of the modern stuff please ,fl10 etc and day cabbed scania s . thanks Dennis
JAKEY:
Some more of the modern stuff please ,fl10 etc and day cabbed scania s . thanks Dennis
