I've dug out a handful of fantastic old dray pictures, and could really do with some help identifying a couple of the trucks before I put the photos in Truck & Driver magazine.
The North London Garage comes to the rescue of A.Probyn & Co's stricken dray. 'It's a case of sheared gears,' reads the caption on the back of this 1921 photograph. the question is, does anybody know what either of the two vehicles are?
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A 1937 Albion 3.5-tonner pulls out of Thomas Usher & Son's Park Brewery in Edinburgh.
Albion Motors and the Usher Brewery are two historic Scottish names to suffer a similar fate. The brewery was taken over by Vaux in 1959, and then by Allied Breweries in 1980. The Park Brewery ceased brewing in 1981.
Albion on the other hand was swallowed up by Leyland Motors in 1951, and the name was dropped in the early 1970s.
Liverpool's Wrexham Lager Beer Co took delivery of this 3-ton Halley in 1916. Presumably the photo was taken some time after that, because it seems to have picked up quite a few battle scars.
Wrexham started brewing in 1882, and continued to do so for close to 120 years. Glaswegian truck-builder Halley on the other hand lasted only 29 years (1906 - 1935).
Here's another one that I'm really struggling with. This busy Whitbread depot has three different types of lorry in it - but what are they? I'm especially intrigued by those flat-fronted wagons.
The Probyn dray could be an early AEC possibly a B type. It may have been an old LGOC (via the War Office?)bus that had been rebodied as a lorry
In the final picture the bonneted trucks are by Dennis (probably a Pax of some form), I have no idea what the truck with what looks like early Trilex wheels at the far end is and the flat fronted trucks look like Walker Electrics which were also used in van form by Harrods.
The lorry with the split wheels looks like a Swiss Saurer, I believe those were imported into the UK in the 1920's (and later even built under licence, by Armstrong Whitworth).
Will
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The Boss
I see these old models at first time. Thanks