Dad's BRS & Pickfords photo's -Birmingham Repair Depot

WYH901 and PUC474 to add to the list.

Some extra details from Dad to share:

Pickford’s heavy haulage depot was Wood Lane in Birmingham. ‘Iron Fairy’ was state of the art for its day and was being used to load the bespoke packing blocks for the heavy haulage.


The Wilkins and Mitchell press was going into Servis washing machines.


PUC 474 is moving a penicillin fermenter over the Chester road roundabout. From memory PUC 472/3/4 were Scammell constructors all based at Wood Lane. Dad remembers the driver (who were known as Millwrights and were drivers / team leaders for the heavy haulage) blasting on the horn going through a red light as it wouldn’t have re-started on a the hill if it stopped. All very exciting in the cab at about 12mph !


The ‘Crane’ trailer was at the time the heaviest load trailer in the country being pulled by a Scammell Superconstructor WYH901.


James


*happy to share but still dads copyright for anything commercial.

That is indeed Birmingham, the domed building is the hall of memory.

With Baskerville house.

Very interesting, thanks James.

Regent road Bootle unloading palm oil and flour in Aintree ain't nothing new really

















James

Really enjoying the photos, echo the sentiment when I say thanks for sharing. Funnily enough me and Corbs were just discussing the Bhcc Iron Fairy cranes as I have just got one of the old Matchbox ones to dress up for my industrial yard 00 railway layout

Think the Dunlop Scammell's would have been old wagons then ?
Love the contract fleet one with the broken headlight, doing a job. Also find it interesting how many of the wagons have a fog light fitted - nasty fog / smog must have been more of a thing and headlights poorer.
James

Some of these photos would be great to replicate on a 00 gauge railway layout.
Shame I had to dismantle mine when I moved house, so much inspiration.

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Fantastic dockside photos, I spent many a happy hour at Preston Docks with my Dad fuelling the ships their with AEC's also!
As for the Dunlop Scammells perhaps they did the same as some of the big companies of the day and completely stripped and rebuilt their vehicles, my Dad used to tell that this happened with their tankers. A lot of the fuel terminals had many "old" vehicles running along side the new stuff.
Fantastic collection of photographs, I only wish I had some to share, film and processing was expensive in those days or so I was told

A quick edit for ya Truck needs weathering but it also needs it's nameplate transfers too.