looks like a stoke number on the door ?
Is that a Mercury at the side of the SA ?
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It is Ramone its been there a while now
One of Appleby’s, when they where parking at Barlows yard in New Invention Bloxwich, Thanks Graham, Pete
You’ve just beat me to it Pete 
It was used in a ■■■■■■■ publicity flyer to advertise its 290 bhp engine.
These are great folks, keep 'em coming please 
Hi, Folks , The Bewick S/A , YEC 314 S , WE Bought her later on in life she was a firey little motor and done us proud , just a little useless info ,Cheers Barry ,
GCR2ERF:
These are great folks, keep 'em coming please
This topic is doing well and seems popular, with mainly fond memories of Seddon Atkinson. Maybe not such a bad lorry after all? 
Factory publicity shot, taken by the late Tony Price
Operator is K Fell of Milnthorpe. The Earl of Westmorland will have a comment… 
NHG 920P Seddon Atkinson T36C250 by Chris Gardner, on Flickr
More factory photos, taken by the late Tony Price:
RBV 405P SA 400 Series by Chris Gardner, on Flickr
RBV 405P SA 400 Series by Chris Gardner, on Flickr
Another factory photo… click on the photo for a link to Flickr, and more information posted there.
Photo taken on the linkspan at the Pandoro terminal in Fleetwood, but the motor spent all its working life at Stoke
RBV 830P SA 400 Series by Chris Gardner, on Flickr
Not what it seems!! And neither is the one in the background
Click on the link for the full story
Atkinson Searcher VTD 495M by Chris Gardner, on Flickr
the pile on the right is the ones I’ve posted ,I’ve no time to post the other million sorry ,may be another time .thanks for looking .
gingerfold:
GCR2ERF:
These are great folks, keep 'em coming pleaseThis topic is doing well and seems popular, with mainly fond memories of Seddon Atkinson. Maybe not such a bad lorry after all?
They were decent enough but, for our work, the 400’s were not in the same league as Foden’s. Probably cheaper to purchase though? Nice to drive and all the drivers liked them as they were geared better than the Foden (the Eaton diffs had far less drag than the worm and wheel Foden ones) and the cab was nicer but, as I said before, too heavy, a large turning circle and rather frail chassis and axle-wise. Springs were replaced almost monthly, I broke three on one trip! Brakes were a pain as well, they worked well but wore very unevenly and when there appeared to be plenty of lining left on the front half of the shoe looking through the inspection hole in the backplate the rear part of the show was often down to the rivets.
However the three 200’s and one 300 we ran gave very little trouble at all, their International engines were never touched. Tilcon bought no more though and after around three years they were replaced with Foden eight wheelers and the smaller load work was done by OD’s.
Pete.
Speaking as a die-hard ERF nut, I always thought that SA had a good range of cabs/engines spread over the 201/301/401 - something for everyone.
The 2-11/3-11/4-11 was a facelift too far, but the Pegaso-cabbed Strato looked the biz I thought.