Saw this and thought of this thread
Spud1960:
Saw this and thought of this thread
It’s probably spent the last 25 years since RHM Agriculture sold it pottering about a farm at harvest time. The alloy body looks sound.
DAF 6-wheeler curtain-sider in rank Hovis livery. Note one of Clive Warcup’s in the background. Based near Driffield, Warcup’s specialise in grain and agri-industry haulage including animal feeds and bulk flour.
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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.
I can remember something similar to this and I think, a demo silo at the Spillers Newcastle mill about 1982
Ranks Hovis Seddon Atkinson curtain-sider
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Ison’s was a animal feeds merchant based at Cambridge and two of their AECs were posed at Spillers’ Foster Mills, Cambridge, a few years before I joined Spillers. I’ve included this photo because this was the exact view I had from my office window when I worked at Cambridge.
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Ison’s was a animal feeds merchant based at Cambridge and two of their AECs were posed at Spillers’ Foster Mills, Cambridge, a few years before I joined Spillers. I’ve included this photo because this was the exact view I had from my office window when I worked at Cambridge.0
That’s another grand photo Graham. Have you got another one of the MK5 in the picture?
No, sorry Chris, I had a photo of Ison’s Mk. III, but I passed all of my AEC photo collection on to Robert Harris, who is starting a newsletter for AEC fans.
Returning to the view from my office at Cambridge I looked out on to the grain intake at the mill and well into the 1980s there were lorries up to 15 years old making regular deliveries, particularly around harvest time and the autumn months, when “farm lorries” were taxed for 6-months or so. I should have taken more photos, but then again, I wouldn’t have got much work done! I remember one AEC Marshal on a 1968 F-plate that was a frequent visitor from a local farmer and it would make three deliveries a day, always well loaded with the tipper sides bulging. I last saw it in 1985 when I was going home one evening, following what I thought was this old AEC because I recognised the number plate on the back, I overtook it only to discover that it was now a farm trailer, the farmer having cut the cab and front axle off it. Vandals!!
Coming into the more recent times with Rank Hovis Volvo FM
Rank Hovis Scania doing its thing. This was from the time when Ranks had contracted out its bulk transport to TDG.
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Rank Hovis Scania doing its thing. This was from the time when Ranks had contracted out its bulk transport to TDG.
Hiya Graham just a slight correction Rank Hovis Never had TDG doing their transport it was Tankfreight
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Rank Hovis Scania doing its thing. This was from the time when Ranks had contracted out its bulk transport to TDG.Hiya Graham just a slight correction Rank Hovis Never had TDG doing their transport it was Tankfreight
Sorry Chris, you are correct.
After Rank Hovis had bought the Spillers’ mills following the demise of Dalgety, Spillers’ parent company, the referral to the Monopolies Commission ruled that Rank Hovis had to dispose of some mills. In 1998 ADM of the USA stepped in and bought the former Spillers mills at Tilbury, Avonmouth, Newcastle and Liverpool (Wilson King). Former Spillers mills at Gainsborough and Birstwith were sold to Kerry Foods. ADM later bought some more mills from the Allied Mills Group. These were at Tewkesbury, Corby, Liverpool (Seaforth), Knottingley, Castleford and Edinburgh (Leith). Since then several mills have been closed by ADM in a rationalisation programme. Today ADM operates the two Liverpool mills and those at Edinburgh, Knottingley, Corby, Tilbury, and Avonmouth.
Further to the above post, what is now the ADM Chancelot mill at Leith, Edinburgh, was an Allied Mills site, but the old Chancelot Mill was a Scottish CWS mill, and the new mill was built to replace it. This AEC Mammoth Minor was in service with Chancelot Mill in the late 1960s.
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1159jrh:
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Rank Hovis Scania doing its thing. This was from the time when Ranks had contracted out its bulk transport to TDG.Hiya Graham just a slight correction Rank Hovis Never had TDG doing their transport it was Tankfreight
Sorry Chris, you are correct.
When Rank Hovis went out to contract in the early 90s (IIRC) they split the country using Glugston, Wincanton, Ryder and Tankfreight, not sure if there were any smaller local hauliers though, they went through various tender processes over the years, eventually awarding all to Tankfreight (DHL as it is today)
Great Photos of great motors, & not to forget great drivers that drove them in those good old days, Its a pity that the job in this era was made very difficult for the drivers by the tossers that were in charge of the mills, It happened all over the UK, I have been into a lot of these mills in my time, & I have got old a bloody lot quicker than I skould have done like lots of my old mates, RIP Some of them, Some of these Mills were the pits In fact the job in those days wasnt worth a ■■■■, But It was a job & the gaffers I worked for allways paid good money in the haulage game & Im still here to remark about it, Regards Larry.
It’s not very common to see a 4-wheeler tanker in a miller’s fleet but ADM inherited a couple from Spillers and they were for deliveries to smaller users and supermarket in-store bakeries.
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Rank Hovis Scania doing its thing. This was from the time when Ranks had contracted out its bulk transport to TDG.Hiya Graham just a slight correction Rank Hovis Never had TDG doing their transport it was Tankfreight
CJA1:
Hi John 1159jrh yes you are quite correct TDG, never did the Logistics[TPT] for ranks? Regards CJA1= C.A. You will know the Initials, Drop me an e;mail or msg John be good to hear from you.
ADM curtain-sider for bagged loads. I like this livery and it’s much better than the anonymous factory white they use today.
