Kempston:
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The driver in the picture is Peter Whittle’s dad, the late Wilf Whittle.
pete smith:
One for Floupower, on M54 Telford,
Nice one Pete,G132 RDV new to E.J.COOMBES Thoverton Devon then came to Healings ali bulk wagon had a blower fitted in chassis to discharge 1 ton bins for smaller bakeries.cheers Keith.
FLOURPOWER:
pete smith:
One for Floupower, on M54 Telford,Nice one Pete,G132 RDV new to E.J.COOMBES Thoverton Devon then came to Healings ali bulk wagon had a blower fitted in chassis to discharge 1 ton bins for smaller bakeries.cheers Keith.
Thank you for the info Keith,
Has Tewkesbury mill (Healings/ABM) been redeveloped yet? I know the workshops came down but heard the main building with it’s drunken silo was still much the same.
Muckaway:
Has Tewkesbury mill (Healings/ABM) been redeveloped yet? I know the workshops came down but heard the main building with it’s drunken silo was still much the same.
Hi Muckaway,Healings mill is still for sale the Lab and some silos this side of the bridge have been demolished and the warehouse and bulk outloading bay and the weighbridge/transport gone also it looks a very sad state with broken windows etc 12years this November since it shut cheers Keith.
Couple Of Bowmans.
Bowmans
FLOURPOWER:
Hi Muckaway,Healings mill is still for sale the Lab and some silos this side of the bridge have been demolished and the warehouse and bulk outloading bay and the weighbridge/transport gone also it looks a very sad state with broken windows etc 12years this November since it shut cheers Keith.
Was the lab formerly the Blizzard Brewery? We walked around there yesterday and noticed the overhead pipes from the mill going into there.
Healings’ Tewkesbury.
1962 ERF68 with the new LV cab & Gardner 6LX engine. The Homalloy body was designed for hopper loading & tipping discharge
Carmichael Worcester bodied ERF carried 13.5 tons & was capable of tipping or pressurized discharge[
This LAD cabbed Octopus with it’s Locomotors aluminium alloy body had a capacity of 15 tons
It entered service in early 1963 & carried fleet no 272.
Does anybody know who the operator was ?
It was Rank Hovis McDougall, Mothers Pride Bread was their main brand baked by subsidiary division British Bakeries. On the back of the body it carried this slogan “this is the wheat that makes the flour that bakes the bread that mother used to make”. At the time “mother” was the character used in TV adverts for the bread.
