Sorry for the thread revival but I have only just learned how to scan pictures. So here goes…
Well done Beanie, Keep them rolling, Regards Larry.
Lawrence Dunbar:
0The Same CAT Some time later being loaded at Beadnell Northumberland to be transported to another site at Ponteland, Regards Larry.
Who did the signwriting Larry ? 
Cheers Dennis
D&B Haselden had two wagons mainly working for Leverton Wigan or directly for Leverton customers.
The loaded motor looks like it had collected a container handler from Speke freight terminal.
Bewick:
Lawrence Dunbar:
0The Same CAT Some time later being loaded at Beadnell Northumberland to be transported to another site at Ponteland, Regards Larry.Who did the signwriting Larry ?
A fellow called Biro, You must know him Dennis he is world famous, Ha Ha, Regards Larry.
ISHIFT5:
I believe Leverton’s Caterpillar in Lincolnshire was owned and run by farmers Fred Myers and family from Lincoln. They still farm today trading as Leverton Farms.
I don’t think so.
H Leverton and Co. Were based in Spalding, and were Caterpillar an John Deere dealers from before the Second World War
Leverton is also a place east of Boston, could explain the LevertonFarms…
Leverton were part of Unilever, who sold them to Finning who were originally based in Canada, and had originally bought out Bowmaker to get a hold in The UK.
Bewick:
Was it Finnings that took over Bowmaker Caterpillar at Brownhills ? I recall going by them on the A5 in the 60’s and 70’s,they always had a yard full of many £000’s of Plant lined up,I often wondered where they sold it all.Cheers Bewick.
For several years, just before Christmas, I used to get a phone call from them at Brownhills, to see if I could run a four wheeler up to Scotland, between Xmas & New Year, I think, to one of their depots. The chap always seemed so pleased we could do it & always said he wouldn’t forget us for work throughout the next year, but we never ever got another job! They paid well for it though & I had a driver who loved to do it each year, so all good really. I know a chap that was a fitter there & he went all over the world with them. He did a stint down the Falkland Isles when they were sorting that lot out, anyway he brought me back a tie, with a small motive of the Island on. Now that used to be a talking point, to the more observant, at many a bar gathering, who wished to know of my involvement at the time. somehow I could never bring myself to disappoint them with the real story behind it, so after a few evasive answers I would say “It’s something I can’t say too much about” and leave it at that! 
I remember a few old time track shovel drivers who’d get quite upset if you called a Cat a “Drott”, as drotts were built by International. I never got to drive a Drott but did do part of ‘dozer course on an International TD15. Pushed like mad but gave you earache, just like most marriages. There aren’t many companies still operating track shovels, Smiths Bletchington have a 953 that has to be pushing 20 years old and its’ interior is as clean as the day it arrived. Never got to drive that but did drive the 943 for pushing the Gill Mill tip over, before Smiths got more into muck/recycling.
Did a lot of my digger loader training on Cat machines as I couldn’t get on with the backactor controls of a JCB