PH Alltoft motors, i remember seeing them about, whats the story regarding the Spitfire/Hurricane painted on the side?
The Hauton 143 is a beauty, shame it hasnt got the right year trailer behind it, very nice unit thou.
I think the plane on the lorries is a Lancaster bomber. If you ask graham I’m sure he’ll tell you more. grahamA
Yep its a Lancaster we have on the trucks.
My dad is interested in planes and as a private pilot license aswell. So some weekends you will get him flying from Wickenby airfield but only in a Cessna and not the Lanc . The Lancaster on the trucks as the same initials as my dad`s name PH-A (12 squadron) which was based at Wickenby in the war. Plus being in Bomber county it felt right to have it on the trucks
It went on to become C&G Concrete and then today to Breedon Aggregates.
I have posted a few pics of some earlier lorries but will put some more on later and I hope other people have some also. In some of these photos is a driver (later weighbridge and machine operator) that is Kev Goodhand who is due to retire in June this year after giving over 40 loyal years service to this company. Working through all the changes of company ownership, Kev has gone about his business in his usual calm manor, moving off the lorries in the late nineties to help run the Kettleby quarry near Brigg. Regular drivers who visit the quarry will all tell you how he’ll always have time to talk lorries and reflect on the old days of haulage with regular reference to Gardner engines. I hope this true “haulage man” has a long and happy retirement coming back to help out whenever possible or when he feels like it.
Nice photos of Hurdisses thank you . My late uncle Aubrey Smith drove for them until about 2002 , Kev Goodhand was a real good mate to him when he was taken ill . Ron Baker had an S/A TEE 828 T was that ex Hurlin ? . Geoff
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Nice photos of Hurdisses thank you . My late uncle Aubrey Smith drove for them until about 2002 , Kev Goodhand was a real good mate to him when he was taken ill . Ron Baker had an S/A TEE 828 T was that ex Hurlin ? . Geoff
Hi Geoff, I don’t know if 828T was ex Hurdiss but if I remember correctly Ron Baker did have some ex TH Brown Atkinson & Seddon Atkinson.
I think all Rons lorries were bought second hand apart from his Foden G206 STL . No one would believe he was getting it until it was parked in his yard . Geoff
. The Lancaster on the trucks as the same initials as my dad`s name PH-A (12 squadron) which was based at Wickenby in the war. Plus being in Bomber county it felt right to have it on the trucks
