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VINTAGE ROADSCENE 6 Durham County’s Ambulances 41 50 Years Since Weymann Closed –
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The original brief caption for this picture says: ‘Telehoist bale loader on 1954 Bedford’. It shows a bale ROAD HAULAGE ARCHIVE
or sack lifter in action, fi tted beneath the side rave of the Perkins diesel-engined Bedford TA of George A LIFE WITH LORRIES
Askew, Hay Straw and Chaff Merchant, of Buckhurst Hill, Essex. The gent in the smart hat and coat on the
laerfotu (nisd i ts oMmr Aewskheewr eo, rb tuhte t hmea cnh farpom on T etoleph iosi gste?t)t dinidgn q’tu pituet a t hloea bda olen toon t thhee 5 l-otaodnenre, rt,h wehreic mh uissnt’ tb eev oetnh edrosw n CATTLE TRUCKS • GENERAL HAULAGE • TIPPERS
on the rear springs at all yet. That’s an impressive platform over the cab, with stays down to the front
wings. So now we know how such a loader worked... (Stevens-Stratten Vintage Roadscene Picture Library)
F
irstly, let me wish everybody a Merry of our friend, Graham Newell, who has all sorts
Christmas and a Happy New Year. of great pictures on his ‘flickr’ pages, if you are
The January issue seems to come into that sort of thing, and our publisher, Steve
round ever faster, but let’s hope 2017 Wright, to both of whom we are most grateful
has plenty in store to keep us happy, for their help, as well as our brilliant designer,
even as we continue to look back on other times Rob Terry, who regularly works wonders with our
we remember enjoying. At least, I assume we material both ’Roadscene and the bookazines.
enjoyed them, otherwise why would we be So, taking Malcolm’s words in his article in
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Road Haulage Archive series is now available, pictures, I hope, even if they’re only little ‘snaps’,
as you can see on this page. ‘A Life with Lorries’ of your days on the road and in the transport
looks back at Neil Johnston’s varied career in industry. Remember, sitting in his office, the RVINTAGEE
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transport. I think you will enjoy reading his story transport clerk or manager might not have www.roadscene.com
as much as I enjoyed putting it together. I must been enjoying all of the ‘romance of the road’, 00O1 Cover Life in LorriNes.indd 1 THE COVER...15/11/2016 16:39
apologise for a few of my errors which crept into but I know from my limited experience in such
our preview in the last issue, which could not a role, there are plenty of tales to tell – some of
be corrected before the publication deadline. them even printable in a magazine like this one!
Hopefully, the ‘bookazine’ will set the record So please get in touch, post or e-mail (get the
straight. grandchildren to help, they always seem pleased
In the next issue, Malcolm Bates will be looking to get involved).
at tankers – all sorts of different specialised bulk While we were looking for the tanker pictures,
liquid carriers. When we were searching through we came across the picture seen above. I’ve
the Stevens-Stratten Vintage Roadscene Picture always been fascinated by those attachments
Library (sorry, that’s a rather grand name for seen under the platform of agricultural haulage
several battered old filing cabinets, but they vehicle in particular. If you have too, now you
are full of some great stuff) for tanker pictures, know what they looked like in action. Yes, we’re This month our ‘Scenes Past’ feature looks
we found some really great ones, so there’s all still learning something new every day. at roadworks, renewing the worn out
road surface, either by spreading tar and
something to look forward to in the New Year... I hope you enjoy the contents of this issue,
‘loose chippings’, nobody’s favourite, or
The pictures in the current ‘RHA’ issue were there’s plenty more to come, but please let us with new Tarmacadam, as seen here, with
nearly all taken from old ‘127’ negatives or prints, know your transport stories. As you’ll see in the Gloucestershire Highways Leyland Comet
tipping ‘the black stuff’ into the hopper of
approximately 2½ by 1½ inches. They look as letters pages, one often leads to another, as
the paver, one of a series of pictures from the
good as they do, thanks to the scanning skills those memories come flooding back... ‘Stilltime’ Collection. (CHC abh119)
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DURHAM COUNTY’S AMBULANCES
Ron Henderson looks at the development of the ambulance fl eet serving this part of the North-east.
Above: This 1930 Armstrong Siddeley ambulance of the Consett Home Collieries Ambulance Welfare Scheme was typical of the pre-war ambulances
incorporated into the new Durham County Ambulance Service fl eet upon its formation in 1948.
D
urham County Ambulance
Service was formed on April
1st, 1948, when Section 27 of
the National Health Service
Act required Local Authority
county and county borough councils to set
up public ambulance services, to provide
free ambulance transport for accident,
emergency and sudden illness cases,
together with the transport for the mentally
ill, general infirmity and maternity cases.
Prior to the implementation of this act,
ambulances in Durham, in particular,
were operated by a multitude of agencies
operating services on a fee paying basis or
via an annual subscription scheme. The Coal
Board operated its own ambulances from
46 different depots, to attend to accidents
in the collieries, and there were 28 Miners
Lodge and Welfare ambulance schemes run
Above: The early fl eet also featured ambulances based on Commer/Karrier chassis, such as this 1½
on a subscription basis through deductions ton forward control ambulance with Lomas bodywork that dated from 1954.
from colliers’ wages, which permitted the
families of miners to use the ambulances plus 27 ambulances from the volunteer more common Austin, Ford and Morris
when required as well. In all, 54 separate agencies and colliery welfare schemes vehicles. They ranged in date from 1913 to
services were operated by local councils, were incorporated into the new county 1945.
while another 28 were operated by local ambulance scheme. The vehicles included a The unification of these services was a
industries and voluntary agencies. vast assortment of makes, such as Armstrong massive undertaking and an urgent priority
From these separate authorities, 29 council Siddeley, Bean, Berliet, Buick, Cadillac, La was new vehicles, ideally with some degree
services, with a total of 61 ambulances, Salle, Lanchester and Rolls Royce, plus the of standardisation. New vehicles were
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Above: A 1952 line-up of fi ve Bedford K-Lomas ambulances, fi nished in the original dark green and black livery. The drivers of the time were formally
dressed in chauffeur’s uniforms and, in that era, were employed for their driving aptitude rather than their academic abilities.
in short supply, with all of the new NHS featuring another livery change, this time to coach body was also provided to ferry
services facing similar problems, but initial all white. The council stayed loyal to BMC/ psychiatric patients to clinics in mid-
batches of Commer Q25s and Spurling- Leyland and commenced ordering more Durham. Ambulances from various outposts
bodied Bedford ambulances were delivered, Wadhams ambulances, but now based on would feed into the hospital where the bus
finished in the council’s dark green livery the bigger EA chassis. was stationed and the bus would transport
with black mudguards. For special long By 1975, the entire fleet of LDs had been the patients together to the clinic. The only
distance journeys, five Humber Super Snipes replaced by the EA ambulances, with an other non-standard vehicles were three
and one Daimler Super Six were used. almost wholly standardised fleet, apart from Commer mini-buses. These were originally
By the end of 1952, 37 additional Bedford K the odd exception. Weardale Ambulance ordered by Durham Constabulary, but when
Series vehicles with Lomas bodies had been Station at St John’s Chapel, in the south west deemed surplus to requirements, they were
delivered, supplemented by smaller Bedford of the county, was very remote and had a transferred to the ambulance service and
CA vehicles and some forward control need for a 4x4 vehicle, so an Austin Gypsy used as sitting case vehicles, retaining their
Commers, also with Lomas bodies. In 1954, ambulance was bought specially for that blue livery throughout their service.
the fleet stood at 100 vehicles, mainly district. It was replaced in 1972 by a Range In 1974, Local Government Re-organisation
Bedford-based, and when the Bedford TA Rover with Wadhams bodywork. saw four Durham ambulance stations
series was introduced, the county council One large Leyland FG with a Wadhams transferred to Tyne & Wear, but the County
bought an initial batch of nine A2Z/Lomas
ambulances, followed by a further batch of
eleven of which seven had diesel engines.
The experiment with diesel engines for
ambulance work was not popular. The
noise of the engines disturbed patients in
hospital, they were smelly with diesel fumes
and there were problems with vibration. In
summary, they were claimed to have been
‘an embarrassment to ambulancemen’.
In 1960, the last Bedfords were ordered,
then a complete departure occurred. Later
in the same year, ten Austin 152 (equivalent
of the Morris J2), fitted with Kennings
bodywork, were ordered. Another major
change was the replacement of the dark
green livery with a new pale yellow Harvest
Gold scheme with light brown trim.
In 1964, a batch of Wadham’s bodied Morris
LD ambulances was ordered and these
became the standard ambulance in County
Above: In the 1960s, the entire Durham County Ambulance fl eet was made up of Morris LD vehicles
Durham. By 1970, the entire fleet was made
with Wadhams coachwork. This one features the second livery of Harvest Gold with brown trim
up of these vehicles, with the last batches and dates from 1965.
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Only a small batch of these basic-looking Wadhams-
bodied Bedford CF dual-purpose ambulances, devoid of
any refl ective striping, were delivered before the fl eet was
standardised on Hanlon-bodied vehicles.
Borough of Darlington’s ambulances
transferred into the county authority. The
non-standard fleet of Morris FG ambulances
and one luxury Austin Princess Vanden
Plas ambulance was soon disposed of and
replaced by Wadhams Leyland EA vehicles.
In 1975, with no other suitable vehicle from
Leyland to provide the next generation of
ambulances, a return to Bedford was made,
with a small batch of Wadhams-bodied
CF vehicles. However, in the same year, a
new contender in the market, Hanlon Ltd,
Right: One of the exceptions in the Durham
ambulance fl eet was this sole Wadhams-
bodied Leyland FG coach. Dating from 1972,
it could carry 22 people and was used to
transport psychiatric patients to and from
day unit clinics. Special drivers were assigned
purely to this vehicle.
of Longford in Ireland, began to infiltrate
the market in a big way, with a series of
attractive and functional ambulances
mounted onto Bedford CF and Ford Transit
chassis.
Within a very short time, Hanlon had
cornered most of the United Kingdom
market. Durham County was no exception
and, within a few years, the entire fleet of
Wadhams ambulances had been replaced by
Hanlon Hi-Line ambulances on Bedford CF
chassis.
Thereafter, as British motor manufacturing
industries progressively closed down, the
service bought a few Ford Transits, Leyland
DAFs and Talbots, before standardising on
foreign chassis from Mercedes and Renault.
In 1999, the Service amalgamated with
Northumbria Ambulance Service, marking
Above: This 1972 Range Rover/Wadhams ambulance was another exception in the Durham fl eet.
the end of 51 years of the Durham county
Based at St John’s Chapel, near Stanhope, it was fully-manned during the day, but at night the
crews were called in from their homes. ambulance service fleet.
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The Heath - Part 3
Allan Bedford brings us a third and fi nal selection of pictures of fairground and circus transport, seen at events held on
Blackheath over the last 40-odd years.
T
he large open space of liveries, disguising their origins to a greater recent types.
Blackheath in South-east or lesser extent. Allan has been visiting Blackheath and its
London, has been a regular As well as the fairgrounds, there are also a fun fairs for many years, taking photographs
venue for many travelling fun number of travelling circuses, which usually from 1970, until recent years, which he has
fairs and, increasingly in recent run equally interesting lorries, to transport been sharing with us in these pages.
years, circuses. These follow a long tradition their tents and paraphernalia around from ● We are planning an issue showing circus
of historic gatherings over the centuries, site to site, and this time we have pictures of vehicles during the next year in our Road
offering entertainment and an exciting day more of these vehicles, as well as some more Haulage Archive series.
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the sights, sounds and, yes, the smells of the
fairground.
For enthusiasts interested in lorries,
especially older types, the fairgrounds offer
the sight of the type of vehicle we like to
see, still working for a living, tending to be
second-hand older types, often adapted for
their new role, pulling trailers or caravans,
and nicely painted in interesting new
Top: Although perhaps rather bland-
looking, it is important that we recall the
visit of this still quite smart eleven year
old AWD, J188 JPO, which travelled with
Zippos Circus to its Easter 2002 show.
Right: Another familiar name is carried
on this Bedford TK Luton van, EWE 377V
(Sheffi eld, late 1979) which served Bibby’s
well and is seen at Blackheath at Easter,
2003.
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