Retired Old ■■■■:
Forgot to swop the mudflaps, Dennis?
As Capt. Mainwearing used to say “ROF” “I wondered when you would spot that” !! But I recall that when I got the trailer back to Milnthorpe those flaps were exchanged for a pair of blanks ! Although the Tinsley ones were used eventually on a Task trailer,well you know the old saying “waste not want not” 
Cheers Dennis.
tetragaz:
Dan Punchard:
Apologies if I’ve missed it but no mention of Lawrence David yet ,did they just make bodies or chassis as well ?Hi Dan,
I think Lawrence David just made bodies mate.nobody mentioned Donbur either.
cheers
gaz
Cheers Gaz ,here’s another Dennison trailers .
gingerfold:
I have a 30 ft. Corus tipping skelly trailer in the yard, built in 2000 at Darlington. Does anyone know the origins of Corus trailers? This one was bought last Autumn for a job that never materialised in the end and 30 ft tipping skellys are as rare as hen’s teeth. it’s fully tested if anyone wants to make an offer for it.
Thanks for clearing the Corus / Tinsley mystery up for me Dennis. You learn something on this forum every day.
Oldbury - (don’t think they have been mentioned yet)
made a sliding bogie trailer with twist locks - mainly supplied to the army so they could load vehicles or containers
The best trailers we had were from Cameron of Liverpool, we were looking for a boalloy tautliner at the time and Cameron were £3000 cheaper but fitted with ROR axles sliding side posts they were built like brick you know what’s about a ton hheavier than anything else though which was the down side, but our attitude was if its on its gone…!
The company was called JC Cameron and the boss was notoriously hard to deal with and my father used to say JC thought he was Jesus Christ himself…!
We had 3 or 4 full rigs on hire from Buckstones from Shaw in the late 80’s.They had put the trailer axles well to the rear so they could be awkward in certain places but were well specced and maintained. They just seem to build bodywork for lightweight stuff now. There was also Utility who I believe took over a former York factory, they looked a bit dated with the rivets exposed but they did the job ok.We seem to have just Montracon and Gray and Adams now both of which are ok in their different ways.
A couple of lesser known trailer manufacturers from Lancashire. Turner Trailers at Freckleton and Westby Trailers near Wrea Green. Just finished the book We made Trailers by John LB CRANE, The story to CRANES at Dereham, a good read.
Lancashire Trailers from Bamber Brigde Geoff and his brother who sold out to fleet factors plus Tasker from Garstang now a housing estate
Lance Biscomb:
Lancashire Trailers from Bamber Brigde Geoff and his brother who sold out to fleet factors plus Tasker from Garstang now a housing estate
Now come on Lance yer scraping the barrel bottom here ! Oh! and there was Municipal Trailers at Bamber Bridge at one time IIRC they used to come around our way with a spares van IIRC Jim Walmsley a.k.a. “Captain Pugwash” had something to do with them.He had formerly been the Sales Director of BTC Trafford Park who were the main manufactures of 4 in line trailers in their day.Cheers Dennis.
I found this old promo notepad from Tidd Strong Box Ltd, I must have had it for about 40 years!!
Frankydobo. Fixed it maybe
Arrow Blyth Northumberland.
ECG Bermondsey. Morgan Bordon Hants.
Weeks Hessle.
Bramber Devon.
ERF Sandbach.
Northern Lanarkshire. Welford Tipton.
Boden Oldham Lancs.
Fox Speke Lancs.
Peak Stockport Cheshire.
Whitlock Essex.
Brockhouse West Bromwich.
Fromant Bognor Regis.
Pitt Barton Stacey.
York Corby.
BTC Trafford Park.
Hands Hertfordshire.
Primrose Burnley Lancs.
Carrymore Stanley Durham.
Halson Newhaven.
Rice Leicester.
Carter Tamworth Staffs.
Highway Southampton.
RM Hampshire.
Charrold Huntingdon.
Hoynor Essex.
Scammell Watford.
Crane Fruehauf Dereham.
Hudson Morley Leeds.
Seaway Greenock.
Dayson Stourport.
HWP Doncaster.
Taskers Andover.
Dixon-Bate Chester.
King Leicester.
Thompson-Trailmobile Gloucester.
Duramin Gloucester.
LOLODE Bedford.
Tollbridge Hants.
Dyson Liverpool.
M&G Worcester.
Walker Stockton on Tees.
Ibbett Bedford.
Merriworth Dartford.
Warrington Wheel Warrington.
Weightman aka Weightlifter Bodies. Scunthorpe
and the main one. DAF
Van Doorne’s Automobiel Fabriek
As an apprentice with Ferrymasters in the early 80’s, we used to see some oddballs from the continent, tilts mainly by Pacton, Roland, Trailor and Van Hool. The kangaroo by Hukepak was another. If I’m not mistaken, the early TIP rental trailers were made in house.
thedriverson:
I found this old promo notepad from Tidd Strong Box Ltd, I must have had it for about 40 years!!
I had several Tidd Strongbox trailers - young Hector Tidd being an innovator. They were built with Glasonite GRP and on a Merriworth chassis, two of them step frames. They were super trailers, in white, scratch resistant and so easy to clean, very popular with the musical event industry.
hayday:
As an apprentice with Ferrymasters in the early 80’s, we used to see some oddballs from the continent, tilts mainly by Pacton, Roland, Trailor and Van Hool. The kangaroo by Hukepak was another. If I’m not mistaken, the early TIP rental trailers were made in house.
The first trailers for the TIP fleet were built by U.S. manufacturer Strick - T.I.P was originally a Strick owned Company in U.S. and expanded into Europe via Rotterdam depot and then West Thurrock in U.K. They had such things as Trilex wheels and only two line air at first, the bogies also mounted rearward but the need for trailers and, in particular, T.I.R. tilts and skeletal changed the ordering to European and U.K. manufacturers but built to T.I.P. specifications such as Rubery Owen oil filled hubs, twin position folding kingpins etc.
I said earlier about Foden making trailers, they used the same hubs etc as the trucks, but did they sell them to anyone as just a single trailer or only as part of a Foden articulated or Twin Load outfit? I can’t imagine there would be many takers as they had no intention of competing in that market anyway, but I suppose buying a complete outfit from the same maker (as Scammell used to do) would be attractive to some purchasers?
Did any other truck manufactures make both the unit and trailer, I can’t think of any off hand apart from Bristol although I believe Leyland and Atkinson may have done? I suppose it probably happened a lot in the early days of road transport with drawbar trailers though?
Pete.
Moose:
Raven / Bogies/ BSG
Wheelbase
Kroy
Tirsan
Polski
Miles Nunn
Cartright
Andover
PeakM&G / Hingley
Hingley would be AHP then ?
Seddon built trailers during WW2, it was a relatively new company in 1939 so was unable to get engines. Most of the trailers it made were for the Army and RAF.
Following a disaster with Crane Fruehauf tri axles in April '83 I was persuaded by my Pal the late Malc Woodhouse Snr to try some TASK tri’s and the factory at ■■■■■■■■■■■ undertook to build trailers to our exact spec, which they did, and their M. D. couldn’t have been more helpful ! So started a 10 year plus relationship which resulted in many many Task tri axles joining our trailer fleet with the final batches being built to take the Boalloy Tautliner bodies. The Task trailer gave us no trouble apart from a very early chassis cross members cracking which was immediately rectified with TASK supplying a batch of profiled flitches which our Welder fitted and the problem was solved. This additional flitching was then incorporated on all future builds .
