Scottish CWS Leyland Beaver delivering a bulk load to the SCWS bakery next door to Kelvin Hall in Glasgow.
gingerfold:
Some mills didn’t (and still don’t) have bag packing facilities, and it’s also to do with product rationalisation within millers running several mills. Only yesterday we did a stock transfer of bagged flour from ADM Liverpool to ADM Leith.
CJA1:
By Eck Graham, Leith eh" used to go to Ranks on the Dock, When I say It was the Blow from Hell, I Aint joking, 5/6hrs was not uncommon, tried to follow the pipe in one time, gave up in the end LOL!!! Cheers Chris, CJA1,
Hiya have you looked at the video. trucks on you tube■■? nice foden s21 in hovis livery,
i dont know where the film is taken but looks like it may be on the A20 to me.
well worth a look blue circle/ridings/hall aggrates and quite a few others to see.
John
rigsby:
i’m plodding on ta chris , busy pulling the stuffing out of my mattress , it’s the wife’s birthday tomorrow and she wants me to take her out for a meal . i offered her a takeaway ,but she insists she wants to go out . she must think i’m made of brass . hope you are keeping ok and prospering , cheers ,dave
CJA1:
Hi [Rigsby] Dave, how did the night out with the wife go mate, was there enough dosh in the mattress for a slap up? or was it just a take away? LOL!!! Cheers mate CJA1 Chris.
BIGGEE:
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CJA1:
Hi Biggee, Nice Model Mate did you make it? I a put piccie of some FHs we had at M/C Mill, earlier in this thread, Cheers mate CJA1 Chris.
hiya chris , great evening out with she who must be obeyed , went to the duke of york on the a515 just past dowlow quarry . lovely meal there and it didn’t cost the earth , the day after was our 49th wedding anniversary but she got a bunch of flowers for that . hell, i’ve just realised we’ve been together 52 years now and no time off for good behaviour , cheers , dave
Rank’s Seddon Atkinson for local bagged deliveries
AEC Mammoth Major of Spillers photographed with Millennium Mills Silvertown in the background
Spillers hadn’t run any Fodens since the 1950s when this artic appeared in the fleet in the mid 1970’s. Although it was painted in Spillers’livery it was actually a demonstrator seeded by Fodens into the Spillers fleet. At the time Spillers were running about 160 lorries on its flour milling division. The driver of the Foden was Harry Carpenter and Dock Road Mill, Birkenhead, was the location.
Not much headroom to spare here.
looks like one or two have scraped it
Posing on the docks at Birkenhead with a Spillers silo in the background.
Something smaller from Rank Hovis, for local deliveries.
This is a superb Peter Davies copyright photo of a Ranks Hovis ERF and grateful thanks to Peter for letting me use it.
Not many vehicles can claim to have operated in both Ranks and Spillers fleets but both these DAFs did. They were originally Spillers’ vehicles based at Cambridge mill. The demise of Spillers was brought about when Dalgety, who owned Spillers, suffered heavy financial losses in its agricultural and animal feeds businesses in the 1990s because of the crisis in farming brought about because of BSE disease. Dalgety, a smaller company than Spillers at the time, had mounted a takeover bid for Spillers in 1980 and was successful. At that time Spillers was a moribund company licking its wounds after withdrawing from the sliced bread making market. Dalgety transformed Spillers, closing several mills and investing heavily in others to modernise them. Throughout the 1980s Spillers and its parent Dalgety were very successful. Dalgety also bought the Ranks animal feeds division. When Dalgety hit problems in the 1990s it sold some Spillers mills to Ranks, Cambridge being one of them, but the monopolies and mergers commission stepped in and ordered Ranks to sell off some mills, and Cambridge mill was closed down. I photographed these DAFs at Cambridge when the mill was in Ranks ownership for a short time.
Spillers was always innovative on its transport fleet and designed the body on this Leyland Reiver to supply individual batches of bulk flour to smaller bakers that had a small bulk silo installed. The Reiver had its own on-board weigher and printer for preparing a POD after delivery. It also had space on its body to carry two pallets of bagged flour for delivering a few bags of speciality flour to the baker at the same time it made the bulk delivery. The number of smaller bakeries prepared to invest in their own bulk silo was very low and the Reiver was under-utilised, so eventually this body was removed and a standard curtain sider body was fitted. The special equipment off the Reiver languished at the back of Tilbury Mill warehouse for years afterwards.
An earlier Albion Reiver that was also a dual-purpose vehicle based at Spillers’ Plymouth mill, which was one of the smallest mills in the group. There wasn’t enough bulk flour trade in the Plymouth area in the late 1950’s and early 1960’s to justify a dedicated bulk tanker fleet, so this Reiver was designed so that a bulk flour tank could be carried in a tipper body when required, and the rest of the time it was used for grain carting or wheatfeed deliveries. It would probably have been more cost effective to have an older bulk tanker based there, but Spillers was prone to having some wacky ideas.
