Spanners have operated some of the most impressive mixers around.
Here’s a small selection from over the years…
As seen in this weeks Commercial Motor, Hiltons have just acquired 3 DAFs on contract hire from Ryder.
H.E.Musgrove have been mentioned earlier on here.
Here’s a selection from their beautiful, traditional fleet.
Found this today, elsewhere on t’internet.
MRM are based at Yaxley, Peterborough, and run a fleet of low-loaders.
Here’s another one, from their own website.
Nice Foden of Cade Brothers, Ramsey.
Looks like it’s just about to be delivered.
Reference Mitchell Engineering… Was one of two subsequently unconnected Peterborough companies, who’s speciality was power station boilers and coal handling plant, overhead power lines and the like, with worldwide operations, and hence the London head office. Their yard was in Glebe Road, adjacent to the football ground. The other was Mitchell Construction, who were one of the largest civil engineering contractors in the UK at that time (1960/70’s), with offices in Oundle Road, now the university building. They had a plant yard over at Fengate, opposite BRS, another at the rear of the Oundle Road office, accessed via Wharf Road, plus London Road, Carmyle, Glasgow, and Gelderd Road, Leeds. There was also a plant hire subsidiary, Anglo Scottish Plant, which hired out their plant, when not in use on current contracts.
Originally, but not latterly I think, there was some connection between the two firms, through the founder of Mitchell Construction, Mr D.D.Morrell, who had a green Bentley ! Doug Purcell was the transport supervisor at Construction, and Mary Bate at Engineering.
Both companies subsequently went into receivership. Engineering was first, different aspects of their work being set up, and sold off, as ME Boilers, ME Mechanical Handling etc. Both traded in Peterborough for a some time thereafter. Construction got into difficulties with a contract to build a hydro-electric power station on the Kariba River,in Africa, which they took on, after unexpectedly not getting the Anchor Steelworks, Scunthorpe project. Mr Morrell wrote a book about it all, ‘‘Endictment’’, which tells the whole story. After receivership, the company was purchased by the Tarmac Group, and the operations in Peterborough ceased.
I’m sat in Lithuania, killing time while I wait for my double-driver to fly in, prior to heading to Moscow.
Anyway, browsing through various sites, I found this photo from the Hotpoint fleet.
daf3300:
nobody has mentioned R, BAXTERS from eye , happy memories from the sixties playing on there traction engines,i have seen one picture from bubbleman a foden , always had KEEP SMILING across the front
tony willis of yaxley had an ex baxters keep smiling wagon
gb1:
I’m sat in Lithuania, killing time while I wait for my double-driver to fly in, prior to heading to Moscow.
Anyway, browsing through various sites, I found this photo from the Hotpoint fleet.0
Didnt they use to trunk to the factory at Llandudno junction ? very interesting thread this thank you Trevor .
ye how could you forget muppets 
specially when lots of em perkd at the ids /the pub bourg en bresse oh lovely weekends /oh don’t forget carisio Italy
gb1:
Another one from the East of England Show 1977.
This one from the Peterborough Heavy Haulage fleet.
And this is it at work 
Found this on another site. Don’t know what the story is behind the picture, but it’s a PETERBOROUGH HAULIER,
so it gets in!
gb1:
Found this today, elsewhere on t’internet.
MRM are based at Yaxley, Peterborough, and run a fleet of low-loaders.0
Glad ive seen this photo,i overtook one of these fellas at about 10.30 near leeds on the m62 today,i didnt get the reg but when i was half way past me he was wobbling all over the place and took me into the outside lane twice,as i got at the side of him he was a phone in one hand ,writing on a notepad on the steering with the other,i blasted my horn but he took no notice and carried on weaving all over the mway,he had a yellow forklift on a lowloader ,im not a snitch one bit but he was being totally stupid he will kill somebody or himself doing stunts like that 
Found these today on a Facebook site - “Old lost haulier memories” (Well worth a look at)
I remember Murdens - always smart - green and cream paintwork.
Here’s one from the Lewis fleet, of Mereside. Pity it wasn’t painted in their traditional livery.
As it’s Peterborough registered, i’d guess it was supplied by PM Trucks at Kings Delph - the area’s Ford dealer.
PM Trucks site was eventually taken over by Murfitts, which later became Norfolk Line.