Idont know when the photo of the albion was taken it was given to me by an old mate of my dads called Leo Horsefall who worked at bells.We had two motors on for Fielders in the 1960s, mainly on dock work but also jobs such as butterfield tanks and paper out of the mill at tadcaster. Did you know Raymond Collinge i think he had an 8 wheeler .
scud:
hamster x:
0Great photo hamster, id like to put something like this in the book ,did you get my message?
I have been talking to an ex H Baker driver today and he said Bakers have a scrapbook and a wall full of their old motors ,it may be worth calling in and asking for a look to see if anything is suitable for your book
hamster x:
Early H Baker Photo
Apparently this Albion set on fire on the M6 and was destroyed much to the delight of the drivers but not the Bakers
ramone:
hamster x:
Early H Baker PhotoApparently this Albion set on fire on the M6 and was destroyed much to the delight of the drivers but not the Bakers
Cheers for that ramone ill do that .
I remember this wagon being outside my mates house ,his name was Brian Grice and he worked in the garage at Ashworths.He died in a car crash while only in his teens,i think his dad was Donald Grice and drove for Ashworths.
hamster x:
I remember this wagon being outside my mates house ,his name was Brian Grice and he worked in the garage at Ashworths.He died in a car crash while only in his teens,i think his dad was Donald Grice and drove for Ashworths.
Iwas going to post this photo today but you beat me too it hamster, I was talking to a lad called Paul Summers the other day and he drove one of these seddons, there was a problem with the gear box he said so ashworth just parked it up, it was too old by then to spend money on.Ithink Paul went to work at barritt steel.
was talking to dad and showed him the daf 2800 he said it was delivered as a blue unit and he had it for the first week then it went into get resprayed and dennis stansfield had it till 1980 when the trio of f10s turned up ,he then got nub100 v dennis robson got one and donald grice got the other can remember when they got delivered in primer saw them in the hilltop garage before they got painted
Peter, was the red erf that your dad drove one of feather and kents? which ashworth bought, they had some mk5 aec s and a couple of marshalls i think rughead had one of these, theres a photo somewere ill see if i can find it .They also bought out jefferys from halifax and arthur whites wagon this was a commer2 stroke alec feather drove it .my dad put a set of rear tyres on it for him then he sold it to ashy we never got paid for the tyres by white.Do you know of any other firms that ashworth bought out?
To all you Bradford Lads , - heres a blast from the past ` !
Here is a photograph of one of the fleet , possibly in their early years of livestock haulage .
I attended the Kirkby Stephen Rally at the weekend , and saw the A.E.C. , with its imposing white bumper .
In the cab windows , were various photographs of some of the fleet from years-gone-by.
One photo was of an A.E.C. 8 wheeler cattle wagon . Does anyone have other photos of the other cattle wagons which would be welcome on here or on the Yorkshire Livestock thread , please ?
Cheers , cattle wagon man .
the erf was a burgundy colour a series then it got painted i think not sure where it was from dont know any firms ashworths bought out ,i know after the big sell off some trailers were sprayed yellow as i believe jack was going to start up again but it never happened maybe dib dib or jack may have more idea about this
cattle wagon man did you get any more photos
Theres a couple of photos on the net one of a seddon atki at doncaster with a 250 ■■■■■■ in it on scrap book memories the other is on blb i think its on british trucks working abroard a volvo at the end of a line up in italy , good luck finding them if i come across them again i print them . peter have you any loaded with wool for the book?
The a series was from feather and kent the reg no was cte155 b
Del my dad seems to think frank mcquade got the big j you used to drive and he also remembers taking the lowloader to germany loaded outbound with harvester crawlers and returning with combine harvesters
glad your dad only took the trailer ! the Guy was a slow, slow truck. 49 mph.
reg no was WAK 705K, with a RR Eagle engine, IIRC 200hp.
the trailer was a bit ■■■■■■■■■■ too, with it being a swan neck with no hydraulics etc.
I have been trying to remember who the driver was at Blackburns before me, he was one of the old school who everyone knew, it will come back to me later.
Found the pic of sed atki with baler trailer page 35 of scrapbook memories also an early f88 on page 1 or 2
scud i found the sed atki what is blb so i can look for the other cheers sorry no pics of any wool loads yet but will keep asking
peterq5422:
cattle wagon man did you get any more photos
Hi peterq5422 ,
This is the only photograph I have of a James C. Ashworth cattle wagon .
I took a couple of photos at the Kirkby Stephen Rally , but that`s about all I have of the fleet.
Cheers , cattle wagon man.
Peter, I was talking to a lad today who says hes was watching a dvd made by the ICI in the 1950s it was a promotional film to sell there firtilizer and it was made on a farm at thornton, at the end of the film theres about a two muinute shot of a wagon picking up milk cans , he said it is one of ashworths. Ill try and see if i can get hold of it if possible.blb is big lorry blog.
Tried to look on blb signed up but cant see any pics for some reason