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MARK MAYHEW OLD ADInteresting, I never knew that Duramin fitted cabs onto Foden chassis. Mark Mayhew was a Ranks mill, acquired in the 1920s.
Pretty sure that Blue Circle had some Duramin cabbed S18’s?
Pete.
FLOURPOWER:
Smiths Flour
my dad was on for smiths in walsall when they had the traders.any photos ■■
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Andrews Belfast
That Guy should be on the Guy Gardner 8LXB thread 
Cranfields of Ipswich started the Betabake sliced bread bakeries at Ipswich and Norwich and eventually was bought by Allied Mills / Allied Bakeries. Cranfields enjoyed a certain amount of autonomy within the Allied set up and traded as an independent for much of its time with Allied. Cranfields (along with Smiths of Worksop) was one of the mills that Ranks enlisted for help when there were industrial relations problems with either its own drivers, or at its bakeries and Cranfields would deliver flour into Ranks’ bakeries.
HI,Mr Gingerfold/Mr Flourpower have you any pics or info about a flour miller Greensmiths? burton on trent,still going in late 80’s powered by a turbine off the trent,seem to remember a mickey mouse foden tanker parked up,ta,Pete
I’m heading for ■■■■■■■ tomorrow, basically my itinerary is Bolton, Bacup, Skipton, Ingleton, Kirkby Lonsdale, Kendal, Oxenholme, Windermere, Grange over Sands, Poulton Le Fylde and then Lytham. Bar Bacup Oxenholme and Poulton it’s all handball.
Kirkby Lonsdale is the main bugbear, awful place to park a lorry.
Call for a brew on the way back! You should have plenty of time with that little load. 
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Call for a brew on the way back! You should have plenty of time with that little load.
If I had anymore pallets on, I’d have to leave the taillift up and back doors open. Thankfully the back ones are handball and forklift. I try to arrange it like that so I get room to manoeuvre with the pump truck. (Which will be stuck under a pallet so I’ll have to faff about before it’s lifted off)
Hi Pete theres a photo on FLICKR of their S21 FODEN TANKER first I knew of them sorry that’s all I know cheers flourpower
pete smith:
HI,Mr Gingerfold/Mr Flourpower have you any pics or info about a flour miller Greensmiths? burton on trent,still going in late 80’s powered by a turbine off the trent,seem to remember a mickey mouse foden tanker parked up,ta,Pete
FLOURPOWER:
Hi Pete theres a photo on FLICKR of their S21 FODEN TANKER first I knew of them sorry that’s all I know cheers flourpowerpete smith:
HI,Mr Gingerfold/Mr Flourpower have you any pics or info about a flour miller Greensmiths? burton on trent,still going in late 80’s powered by a turbine off the trent,seem to remember a mickey mouse foden tanker parked up,ta,Pete
Should have been a museum,used to collect sharps out there,1990 last time,still in cwt urden sacks,8 ton down chute your neck was red raw after,lad what threw bags down chute showed me turbines under mill,it is now flats so at least building been saved,ta,Pete
pete smith:
FLOURPOWER:
Hi Pete theres a photo on FLICKR of their S21 FODEN TANKER first I knew of them sorry that’s all I know cheers flourpowerpete smith:
HI,Mr Gingerfold/Mr Flourpower have you any pics or info about a flour miller Greensmiths? burton on trent,still going in late 80’s powered by a turbine off the trent,seem to remember a mickey mouse foden tanker parked up,ta,PeteShould have been a museum,used to collect sharps out there,1990 last time,still in cwt urden sacks,8 ton down chute your neck was red raw after,lad what threw bags down chute showed me turbines under mill,it is now flats so at least building been saved,ta,Pete
Greensmiths were a long established miller in Burton, and the building which is now flats was built in 1889. Milling ceased just over 100 years later in the early 1990s. In my years in the milling industry Greensmiths was a firm that kept very much under the radar in terms of commercial activity and supplied mainly biscuit flour to such as McVities. Sir Hector Laing, the chairman of United Biscuits which owned McVities, was very loyal to his smaller flour millers and suppliers such as Greensmiths and Clark & Butcher of Soham. Sorry, but I do not have any photos of Greensmiths’ lorries, it would be nice to see some.
gingerfold:
pete smith:
FLOURPOWER:
Hi Pete theres a photo on FLICKR of their S21 FODEN TANKER first I knew of them sorry that’s all I know cheers flourpowerpete smith:
HI,Mr Gingerfold/Mr Flourpower have you any pics or info about a flour miller Greensmiths? burton on trent,still going in late 80’s powered by a turbine off the trent,seem to remember a mickey mouse foden tanker parked up,ta,PeteShould have been a museum,used to collect sharps out there,1990 last time,still in cwt urden sacks,8 ton down chute your neck was red raw after,lad what threw bags down chute showed me turbines under mill,it is now flats so at least building been saved,ta,Pete
Greensmiths were a long established miller in Burton, and the building which is now flats was built in 1889. Milling ceased just over 100 years later in the early 1990s. In my years in the milling industry Greensmiths was a firm that kept very much under the radar in terms of commercial activity and supplied mainly biscuit flour to such as McVities. Sir Hector Laing, the chairman of United Biscuits which owned McVities, was very loyal to his smaller flour millers and suppliers such as Greensmiths and Clark & Butcher of Soham. Sorry, but I do not have any photos of Greensmiths’ lorries, it would be nice to see some.
Foden S21 Spaceship Sputnik K or F Model Rigid Eight-Wheeler Flour Bulk Tanker Lorry,AJU 963A,1963 Leicester-registered,Greensmith Ltd Flour
Millers photograph on Flickr:-
flickr.com/photos/7240226@N02/11422755163/
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