same wagon different no plates different sign writing
Hello,
I haven’t seen any photos of Hinchcliffe’s for years!!! How many lorries did they run?
■■■■■■■■ Gill
240 Gardner:
Stanfield:
I think 240G is going off the reg numbers being NAO20F & NAO21F on an earlier photo of JW Grahams Dennis.Maybe wrong though.Maybe - I only asked!
I could well be wrong Chris and will stand corrected,of course! However,turning my recollections back to 69/70 JW Graham were indeed Atki and Crane Fruehauf agents. I don’t know who supplied the Atkis to them though.John McGuffie was a regular subbie to JWG at this time and he bought an Atki tracor and all his 7 CF platform trailers from Grahams.Bewick Transport also bought a CF van and a couple of flats from them as well.Around this time I believe that George Graham RIP,one of the Graham brothers had taken a “shine” to Scanias,via Union Trucks of Newcastle ( John McGuffie took delivery of a Scania 80).However I don’t think Georges interest in Scanias went down very well with old J W or brother Maurice( aka Puzzle!) so George moved to Carlisle and along with his sons Colin(former police sergeant) and Kenneth(A.C.E.) started Graham Commercials,and the rest is history as they became Scania Distributors,which IMHO that along with Keltruck became the two finest Scania outlets in the UK,and I’m speaking with the benefit of first hand experience albeit from a good number of years ago now! Back to Atkinsons,around early /mid 71 Scotts of Nottingham the big Atki dealer opened up in Penrith which obviously knocked J W Graham out of the picture!! So getting back to the two Atki consecutive reg nos.I think J W Graham may have supplied the 6 wheeler to someone else as IIRC JWG only ran Atki artics and 8 wheelers! Having only operated on the “fringes” of Marra land(thank the Lord!!)I hope someone could come up with a more detailed explanation! Hope I’ve stimulated debate!! Cheers Bewick.
Just out of interest “sidd” where was that shot of the Bewick motors taken Cheers Bewick.
Bewick:
Just out of interest “sidd” where was that shot of the Bewick motors taken Cheers Bewick.
Hello Bewick,that photo was taken at Witton Castle truck show in the early 90s.
Hello f7sidd,
Those photos are great. Have you any photos of Irvings of Mealsgate?
■■■■■■■■ Gill
Bewick:
Hope I’ve stimulated debate!! Cheers Bewick.
Stimulated debate? You?? What an absurd proposition! 
240 Gardner:
Bewick:
Hope I’ve stimulated debate!! Cheers Bewick.Stimulated debate? You?? What an absurd proposition!
Aye OK OK Chris! for all the debate it’s stimulated I might just as well stood on top of Shapfell and tried ■■■■■■■ into the wind eh! Cheers Dennis.
The entire Bewick fleet stood in the Mill at Beetham after loading one saturday morning in early '70,The Mastiff is loaded for CP of Bracknell by the looks of the load.
i’ve been pondering the "marra " dialect dennis , are they taught to speak english when they go to school or do they always talk like that ? it would be easier to understand glaswegian than marra . anon
rigsby:
i’ve been pondering the "marra " dialect dennis , are they taught to speak english when they go to school or do they always talk like that ? it would be easier to understand glaswegian than marra . anon
Your right there Dave! apparently the north ■■■■■■■■ dialect has more in common with Norse Viking.I once heard a tale about a Norwegian who was on holiday in West ■■■■■■■ and when he called into a pub in Ireby he was intreagued with the local “crack” it sounded very familiar to him and he could understand some of the words although he couldn’t speak English! Cheers Dennis.
Bewick:
rigsby:
i’ve been pondering the "marra " dialect dennis , are they taught to speak english when they go to school or do they always talk like that ? it would be easier to understand glaswegian than marra . anonYour right there Dave! apparently the north ■■■■■■■■ dialect has more in common with Norse Viking.I once heard a tale about a Norwegian who was on holiday in West ■■■■■■■ and when he called into a pub in Ireby he was intreagued with the local “crack” it sounded very familiar to him and he could understand some of the words although he couldn’t speak English! Cheers Dennis.
theres nowt wrang wid way we talk its everybody else needs ta larn ta talk proper like we div
hodgeturbo:
Bewick:
rigsby:
i’ve been pondering the "marra " dialect dennis , are they taught to speak english when they go to school or do they always talk like that ? it would be easier to understand glaswegian than marra . anonYour right there Dave! apparently the north ■■■■■■■■ dialect has more in common with Norse Viking.I once heard a tale about a Norwegian who was on holiday in West ■■■■■■■ and when he called into a pub in Ireby he was intreagued with the local “crack” it sounded very familiar to him and he could understand some of the words although he couldn’t speak English! Cheers Dennis.
theres nowt wrang wid way we talk its everybody else needs ta larn ta talk proper like we div
Spokun like a reet native of God’s country eh! Hoosta garn on Hodge? ista fit tu bull beast up hill wid oot a barra?
Bewick:
hodgeturbo:
Bewick:
rigsby:
i’ve been pondering the "marra " dialect dennis , are they taught to speak english when they go to school or do they always talk like that ? it would be easier to understand glaswegian than marra . anonYour right there Dave! apparently the north ■■■■■■■■ dialect has more in common with Norse Viking.I once heard a tale about a Norwegian who was on holiday in West ■■■■■■■ and when he called into a pub in Ireby he was intreagued with the local “crack” it sounded very familiar to him and he could understand some of the words although he couldn’t speak English! Cheers Dennis.
theres nowt wrang wid way we talk its everybody else needs ta larn ta talk proper like we div
Spokun like a reet native of God’s country eh! Hoosta garn on Hodge? ista fit tu bull beast up hill wid oot a barra?
just aboot as feeling as grand as oot if it got any better a divent think ah could cope
hodgeturbo:
Bewick:
hodgeturbo:
Bewick:
rigsby:
i’ve been pondering the "marra " dialect dennis , are they taught to speak english when they go to school or do they always talk like that ? it would be easier to understand glaswegian than marra . anonYour right there Dave! apparently the north ■■■■■■■■ dialect has more in common with Norse Viking.I once heard a tale about a Norwegian who was on holiday in West ■■■■■■■ and when he called into a pub in Ireby he was intreagued with the local “crack” it sounded very familiar to him and he could understand some of the words although he couldn’t speak English! Cheers Dennis.
theres nowt wrang wid way we talk its everybody else needs ta larn ta talk proper like we div
Spokun like a reet native of God’s country eh! Hoosta garn on Hodge? ista fit tu bull beast up hill wid oot a barra?
just aboot as feeling as grand as oot if it got any better a divent think ah could cope
Ther’ll only be one or two on the site that can understand us Paul eh! so we’d better return to the Queens English,so get thi Dictionary oot Marra!! Dennis.