Remember Tyburn have a very tidy and well maintained fleet , has anyone out there any photos , information , etc it would very welcome .
I can’t remember them ,but I think it was A Turnbull iam thinking of down the bottom end of tyburn rd by spaghetti ?
There is reference to Tyburn in the Calor and its transport thread on here.
shugg:
Remember Tyburn have a very tidy and well maintained fleet , has anyone out there any photos , information , etc it would very welcome .
Hi shugg, Think If u try the tanker Thread u Mite get Lucky? Cheers Chris.
Next door neighbour drove for them in the 60s, but cant for the life of me remember his name, drove an A.E.C and used
to park in our street when he was home in Preston, I used to think his motor was awesome. Bit of useless info but every little helps. 
Jakdaw:
Next door neighbour drove for them in the 60s, but cant for the life of me remember his name, drove an A.E.C and used
to park in our street when he was home in Preston, I used to think his motor was awesome. Bit of useless info but every little helps.
It could have been my Dad , Jack Cousins, he used to park his Tyburn Tanker on Queens Road off Plungington road, Preston in the 1960s?
shugg:
Remember Tyburn have a very tidy and well maintained fleet , has anyone out there any photos , information , etc it would very welcome .
I will need to dig it out, but I have an article about Tyburn and its history, printed in an edition of Atkinson’s house magazine. c.1967, when the owner had become a non-executive director of Atkinson Lorries (Holdings) Limited. Mr. G.M. le Gosselin apparently had Preston connections, and his family had previously run a well-known haulage business, H Viney & Sons.
I think that, at some time, some elements of a Viney logo and slogan were carried forward to Tyburn. He sold Tyburn to Powell Duffryn, and the fleet took on the PD blue and white livery, although it was later sold on to Calor Transport, and I’ve seen one photo of a Tyburn motor in PD colours, but with a Calor sticker on the door!
Meanwhile, here are some links to Tyburn motors on Flickr:
AEC & TYBURN High Pressure Tanker ( 8517 KX ) by Graham Newell, on Flickr
1966 AEC Mammoth Minor Tyburn Tanker by Colin Pickett, on Flickr
Tyburn Atkinson Tanker by Graham Newell, on Flickr
ATKINSON LORRY DOOR by TruckerPat, on Flic
And a nice scan of a Tyburn advert, after the PD takeover:
flickr.com/photos/135720044 … jCp-vPBGg6
And the Atki with the Calor sticker:
Finally, a survivor from the Tyburn fleet:
TBH 974E - BMS by Adam Floyd, on Flickr
adr:
This who you’re looking for? Regards Chris
My dad worked for Tyburn,s out of there depot in Aston-in Makerfield, and also drove one the same as the photo ( AEC chinese 6 ). I can remember going with him delivering Petrol for MOBIL, he would load up in Ellsmere port just down the road from Bowaters !!
There are a few photos of Tyburn motors on the ’ Hauliers in the Ashton in Makerfield area ’ thread shugg, unless you’ve already seen them of course.
Ruskinian:
Jakdaw:
Next door neighbour drove for them in the 60s, but cant for the life of me remember his name, drove an A.E.C and used
to park in our street when he was home in Preston, I used to think his motor was awesome. Bit of useless info but every little helps.It could have been my Dad , Jack Cousins, he used to park his Tyburn Tanker on Queens Road off Plungington road, Preston in the 1960s?
Hiya mate just seen your post the guy I`m on about lived in the maisonettes in Harrington St, off Adelphi.
My late Father drove tankers for Tyburn in the 60’s and 70’s - Malcolm Davies - he was only little - about 5’4". We lived in Chorley. He left briefly for Harold Woods but went back to Tyburn until 1977. Initially, they were based in Humphrey Road off Seymour Grove in Manchester, then relocated to Ashton-in-Makerfield adjacent to the M6. He was best mates with Bob Brooks - one of the fitters - and Depot Manager, Ray Grimes. There was another fitter who I remember called Arthur - he had a souped-up Ford Anglia - purple it was. There was another driver in the 70’s called Keith Drysdale who lived a few doors down from us, and when down south, we used to stay at one of the other drivers - Nobby Sewell and his wife, Vera. When other drivers were up in our neck of the woods, they used to bunk down with us (and others) - I think they all used to stay at each others houses but claim bed & breakfast expenses from the company.
Apart from Bob Brooks, the last time I saw any of the others was when I went to pick my Dad up from a Tyburn reunion do at what is now called the Preston / Leyland Hotel at Junction 28 (Leyland) of the M6 - that would be in the mid-to-late eighties I think.
I used to go all over the place with him during school holidays - and no motorways in those days - mind, there was nothing like the volume of traffic there is nowadays.
Best place was the old Burtons sweet factory in Blackpool - it was always a late evening delivery. Would come away from there with shopping bags full of all different kinds of sweets, plus the steel buckets full of chocolate from emptying the pipes once the tanker was empty…
Just thought I’d post this…
Glyn Davies
Tyburn Road Tanks , Based at Woburn Green nr High Wycombe.