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Scrapyard
Scrapyard
Photo: DTease
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Item #: 31578
Rear of Bill Taylor’s scrapyard, Wood’s Road, Aspull after closure.
No sign of Ozy’s Crane in this picture but that blue box is the back of a White Star Carriers lorry.

Comment by: . Ozy . on 7th October 2019 at 22:06

That's the place DTease . Immaculately maintained even to this day , but you'd need to pan a little more to the right to capture an image of the elusive Ruston Bucyrus . ( I do realise that it may be a little late in the day to address this oversight unfortunately ) although in all fairness, the jib was down, or may well have even been detached, and the thing's partially sheeted over, or at least it was , the last time that I went past, so it is a bit difficult to identify.
I'll try to nip up there one day this week ( if this interminable rain ever lets up ) , on my new steam powered bicycle.....Have I mentioned my steam powered velocipede previously DTease ? ....No?.....Well.....this contraption functions along similar lines to those of my AGA ... I may quite well have inadvertently mentioned my AGA in previous posts, .... But I just fill the thing with steam from my AGA, and we're good for at least 50 miles .
( prevailing winds permitting of course ).
I'll endeavour to take a couple of shots of the place and put the best one on P.A.D.
Always assuming of course that admin will entertain my offerings.

All the best mate. Ozy.

Comment by: walt ( North Yorks ) on 8th October 2019 at 07:44

Dtease, the White Star van body in the picture was the same one fitted to the first Ford Thames Trader lorry registration MBN 190 operated by them, see -- work ----White Star Carriers, first from right, built 1958/9 by Arthur Pilkington owner and Bill Calderbank fitter. The van body had been placed here by Bill Taylor and used as a storage box when it came to the end of its working life. I wonder if its still there, if you or Ozzy gets the opportunity take a look.

Comment by: . Ozy . on 8th October 2019 at 15:21

The White Star body's still there Walt, as is the RB. In fact there appear to be at least two RBs on the site as well as another couple of unidentified cranes. I really need to try to get up there one afternoon when Billy's about.

Comment by: walt ( North Yorks ) on 8th October 2019 at 19:13

Thanks Ozy, its over sixty years since that van body was first fitted to a lorry chassis, I remember as a sixteen year old back in 1963 delivering with the then driver, the one and only Kenny Miller, brilliant chap he was, and his second mate Byrom (taffy) Morris. Many great memories of my time at White Star.

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