I photographed these Traction Engines at the Steam Rally at Grappenhall near Warrington about 20 years ago.
Click on pictures twice for a better image.Ray Smyth.
These lorries arriving in Liverpool via the Mersey Tunnel have been loaded with American fighter aircraft
which have crossed the Atlantic Ocean from USA and loaded on these trailers at Birkenhead Docks.
They will travel the 12 miles to USAAF, United States Army & Airforce base at Burtonwood, near Warrington
for completion and made ready for action. The 2 strange structures on the top of the tunnel entrance are
gun emplacements. The M62 Motorway section to the west of the M6 passes right through what was the
large American base at Burtonwood, close to where Burtonwood Services is in the present day.
I am trying to identify the lorries, I think they are Royal Air Force or Army. NMP.
Ray Smyth.
Thanks to DEANB, pyewacket947v, Buzzer and Ray Smyth for the pics 
don’t have a clue about the RAF lorries Ray other than a guess at Morris Commercial MOD build.
This Bedford MWD would have started off as a canvas cab top.
Oily
oiltreader:
Thanks to DEANB, pyewacket947v, Buzzer and Ray Smyth for the pics
This Bedford MWD would have started off as a canvas cab top.
Oily
Most of the ex mod lorries round our neck of the woods had a circle welded in the cab roof where the passenger machine gun mount had been removed .
The WWII vehicles transporting the planes are Fordson tractor units, the angled shaped front wings gives them away, the RAF seemed to use these makes more than the Army. These two pics show them in different modes. Franky.
Frankydobo:
The WWII vehicles transporting the planes are Fordson tractor units, the angled shaped front wings gives them away, the RAF seemed to use these makes more than the Army. These two pics show them in different modes. Franky.
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Franky, Thank you for the Fordson information, I imagine that they probably had the V8 side valve petrol engine. Cheers, Ray.
26 November 1984
Sainsburys Goods reception
Grosvenor Centre
Northfield, Birmingham.
Wide cab Bedford TM delivering ambient goods
Subbie operating for Vangen Services out of Blackpole Worcs
Camera flash obliterated the reg number. The TM still looks good near 30 years on.
This must have been quite the tool back in the day…?
pv83:
Any thoughts about this contraption…?
Looks like a hedge trimmer
pv83:
This must have been quite the tool back in the day…?
A grand looking tool.
Am I showing my age when I say I remember Breedon wagons displaying "Breedon and Cloud Hill " on the doors.I can’t remember when it just when to Breedon.I used to stay with my auntie in Diseworth near Castle Donington in 40s and 50s,that’s when I used to see their tackle.
oiltreader:
Buzzer:
Something different to trucks but going back so a bit of Industrial today, note the old cars outside probably managements, Buzzer.Early 50s Buzzer, the Pantherella factory Leicester now H J Hall, I’ve been a customer since the 60s they made a work sock called the Indestructible and they literally were.
Oily
H J Hall, now there is a name that rings a bell. We used to run a sort of bus service for all types of livestock, basically anywhere from John O’ Groats to Land’s End and everywhere in between. Well some time about 1972/3, I delivered a horse, (do not remember where from) to an extremely smart property in Leicestershire, well as was quite common I was offered a cup of tea, well next thing a housekeeper appears in the yard with a tea tray. Then the gentleman says, “Do you wear out many socks in your job? Because I make socks, please have some.” He then presented me with a handful of Halls Indestructible socks. Different sort of tip, but very welcome, thank you Mr Hall.
Peter
Chris Webb:
pv83:
This must have been quite the tool back in the day…?A grand looking tool.
Am I showing my age when I say I remember Breedon wagons displaying "Breedon and Cloud Hill " on the doors.I can’t remember when it just when to Breedon.I used to stay with my auntie in Diseworth near Castle Donington in 40s and 50s,that’s when I used to see their tackle.
I did many loads out of Cloud Hill back in 2001 Chris but that steamer had gone by then! 
Breedon quarry itself wasn’t producing much stone by that time, it had all moved across the road to Cloud Hill. I think it was just BREEDON in the 70’s when I moved up here, they had a fleet of Foden S80’s etc. Ennstone-Breedon now of course and it had a tarmac plant installed after I finished in 2002.
Pete.
windrush:
Chris Webb:
pv83:
This must have been quite the tool back in the day…?A grand looking tool.
Am I showing my age when I say I remember Breedon wagons displaying "Breedon and Cloud Hill " on the doors.I can’t remember when it just when to Breedon.I used to stay with my auntie in Diseworth near Castle Donington in 40s and 50s,that’s when I used to see their tackle.I did many loads out of Cloud Hill back in 2001 Chris but that steamer had gone by then!
Pete.
I remember being told at school that Charnwood Forest in Leics. was one of the oldest granite rock outcrops in UK. I believe a lot is used for railway ballast via a siding at Mountsorrel.
DEANB:
oiltreader:
Thanks to pyewacket947v and Buzzer for the pics
Oily1963 Albion Chieftain brochure in the care of the Blue Mountains Library, NSW. Couple of clicks to get the detail.
Heres an advert from 1965.
Ayup pete the bagging plant was situated in the bottom of breedon quarry the last time I was in in 2016 they filled bulk bags of various aggregate
pv83:
This must have been quite the tool back in the day…?
Couldn’t this be a Sentinel or Foden steam-powered truck?
phop:
Ayup pete the bagging plant was situated in the bottom of breedon quarry the last time I was in in 2016 they filled bulk bags of various aggregate
They are possibly still producing that ‘Golden’ stone from Breedon quarry itself that was used all around the country by the National Trust and Royal Residents then? It would go in bags these days. I never carted any but I know one lad who took two tonnes of it down to a private house in Newton Abbot on a six wheeler which must have been expensive for the customer.
PeteT
I saw this 15 year old Foden 8 wheeler in Market Street, Wigan, earlier today.
The driver had just unloaded some pallets of building blocks with his Moffatt Mounty.
He told me that the Foden has exceeded 1,000,000 miles and still runs as sweet as a nut.
I think he said it had a ■■■■■■■ 380 in it . Yates of Clitheroe have owned the Foden from new.
Ray Smyth.
