I imagine thats true.
I seem to remember a parcel delivery company somewhere Padiham/Earby way having a fleet of 4 wheeler IH’s.
Bradleys or something like that
Scud if you look on the yorkshire companies thread there is a picture of a fielders six wheeler loaded with wool
del949:
I imagine thats true.
I seem to remember a parcel delivery company somewhere Padiham/Earby way having a fleet of 4 wheeler IH’s.
Bradleys or something like that
Jack Bradley of Accrington ran a fleet of I.H artics, no rigids though.
Russell.
googled Jack Bradley and you’re right as regards the artics. (some good pics as well!)
But I am still certain that I remember some 4 wheelers on parcel delivery based somewhere around that area, not in accrington itself though.
The livery I have in my minds eye is the same as bradleys though.
I remember that i always used to think that they would be hard work on parcels with the long bonnet.
Anyway, enough off topic!
scud:
Ididnt know they had a yard in Liverpool where abouts ? Iwas talking to Ralph Smith the other day after some photos of his seddon and his F88 loaded with wool for my book ; hewas telling me he used to subbie for ashworth when the wool job was slow but hed no photos.
What about ashworths otheryard ?Denholme? There must have been half a dozen units parked up in the village when i went through on a saturday afternoon.
Have u seen this Peter Davies picture of 2 bradford wool, lorries
Also this Longs motor my dad had 1 identical to it both pictures are copyrights so cant be used
Hiya…about 20 years ago i was at a vintage show at Temple newsome,there was a1950’s 6 legger AEC belonging to ashworths,
the AEC was green with a red chassis but no singwriting. where has that gone to any ideas.
John
Is it the one on page one of this threadE
del949:
googled Jack Bradley and you’re right as regards the artics. (some good pics as well!)
But I am still certain that I remember some 4 wheelers on parcel delivery based somewhere around that area, not in accrington itself though.
The livery I have in my minds eye is the same as bradleys though.
I remember that i always used to think that they would be hard work on parcels with the long bonnet.Anyway, enough off topic!
I lived near Bradleys old yard in Accrington and have a few good mates who drove for him.
He had rigid S and TK Bedfords on Irish Containers out of Preston dock. He had some J type artics as well.
Anyway, enough off topic, lets get back to the proper jobs, big heavy eight leggers and trailers carting woolen bales from Liverpool docks to the Yorkshire mills. I used to stand for hours by the road side in my village watching them passing through. There were too many to remember but Ashworths, Hansons, Holdsworth, Henry Long and Sanderson Murray and Elder were some which I thought the bees knees. This was about 1950 ish.
Russell.
peterq5422:
Scud if you look on the yorkshire companies thread there is a picture of a fielders six wheeler loaded with wool
Cheers ,ill have a look at that. I only have one photo of fielders its an 8 wheeler but its loaded with a catterpilar machine .
I can recall while loading at a wool merchants in Edinburgh called Russell & Ramsden in the mid 1960s , during my many visits there seeing Ashworths and many other hauliers from the same part of the country .
Re the Ashworths AEC 6 wheeler flat that was on the preservation scene, any news on where it is now? 
Ashworths 6 wheeler AEC is still in Bradford, in fact about 2 miles up the road from Ashes old yard at Allerton. It’s owned by a pal of mine. It’s been laid up for last few years but he’s just dug it out and give it a spruce up and hoping to do a few rallies this summer. I think it may be going to Kirby Steven this Easter and the AEC Rally at Newark.
Cheers Andy
Great stuff, cheers Andy 
I have lots of Fielders and Chapmans photos showing them loaded with wool, also quite a few H Baker…
any chance of putting your pics on would like to see the bakers ones
fodens20:
Ashworths 6 wheeler AEC is still in Bradford, in fact about 2 miles up the road from Ashes old yard at Allerton. It’s owned by a pal of mine. It’s been laid up for last few years but he’s just dug it out and give it a spruce up and hoping to do a few rallies this summer. I think it may be going to Kirby Steven this Easter and the AEC Rally at Newark.
Cheers Andy
I would love to see it passing through Walsden on the Pennine Rally, first Sunday in August, (hint)
Russell.
peterq5422:
any chance of putting your pics on would like to see the bakers ones
Here`s a couple ,my brother worked for them
ramone:
peterq5422:
any chance of putting your pics on would like to see the bakers onesHere`s a couple ,my brother worked for them
Did Bakers have a depot at mazamet in france ?dilivered there when we were on for thompson davis and used to see their motors,ramone can you let me have a copy of your photos of bakers line up for the book? cheers.
Are there any more pics of the Ashworths motors? I’d particularly like to know how many F88 & F10 Volvo’s the company ran, and did Ashy, like H
Baker, run any 2800 DAF’s
scud:
ramone:
peterq5422:
any chance of putting your pics on would like to see the bakers onesHere`s a couple ,my brother worked for them
Did Bakers have a depot at mazamet in france ?dilivered there when we were on for thompson davis and used to see their motors,ramone can you let me have a copy of your photos of bakers line up for the book? cheers.
Just click on the pictures and save,they aren`t my photos so they may have a copyright on them ,i cant remember where i found them