DAF01LL - Bernard Hunter
Established in 1946, the family business of Bernard Hunter quickly became
a recognised name within the Crane Hire, Scrap Metal Processing and Machinery
Movement industry within Edinburgh. Bernard Hunter Ltd currently owns some
of the most modern equipment within its industry, ranging from Scotland's
first mobile tower crane to machinery for recycling various electrical cables
that would have normally gone to landfill. This 150-tonne DAF XF105 was
designed to carry the ballast plates for their mighty 250 tonne Liebherr
crane on a Nooteboom trailer. The 6x4 FTT XF105 has the most powerful 510hp
rated MX 13-litre engine and a 16-speed ZF gearbox with a ZF intarder. It's
got two bunks and just to round things off a little, leather seats with
armrests.
Available now @ .... £18.95
SCA02LL - Edition 2,000
McIntosh Plant Hire
McIntosh is a family run company, with a combined experience of more than
100 years in the industry, undertaking work from straightforward topsoil
supplies to major earthwork projects, ensuring a first class service is
delivered on time, every time with the use of the company’s vast and
modern fleet. The company also extends its services to the heavy and abnormal
haulage sector. The fleet of rear-steer state-of-the-art low loaders can
carry loads up to 96 tonnes capacity – anywhere within the UK.
Available
now @ .... £18.95
DAF09CS - Edition 2,000
Owens logistics
Brothers Huw and Eurof launched their light haulage operations from Llanelli,
South Wales, with one van in 1970. They carried furniture, kitchens and
piano parts, they soon acquired two small lorries. Seven years later the
flourishing company became Owens Road Services. Its blue-liveried trucks
becoming a familiar sight on the roads of Wales. The fleet grew taking automotive
loads onto the European mainland.
In 1995 a warehouse operation was launched and it clinched its first major distribution deal with a supermarket, before joining the Palletforce network. The workforce grew to over 500, in recent years it has won major contracts - one to distribute goods used in building a huge new UK fuel pipeline, the other with global online retailer Amazon. Storage and warehousing improved with the acquisition of a large facility close to the M4 in Port Talbot. Expansion continued with the opening of Owens' first English depot - in strategically important Droitwich, Worcs
Available now @ .... £18.95
DAF07CS - Edition 2,000
Long of Leeds
The Leeds based Company, J Long and Sons (Haulage) Ltd, has been hauling
all manner of goods around the country since the days of the horse and cart.
In 1918 Joe Long returned home to Holbeck in Leeds after serving in the
first world war in which he had been wounded, taken prisoner and spent time
in a German Hospital undergoing serious operations to save his life, resulting
in him being left with only one lung. On his return he resumed his business
as a coal merchant and general carrier with horse and carts and later with
the first of the motor wagons. He could not have foreseen the success that
lay on the long road ahead.
In the early days of the company’s history, Joe carried out all the
work on his own with the help of his trusty horses and carts which he kept
in stables near to his home in Chetwynd Street. The business continued to
grow in this manner until 1933 when it became the second firm to be registered
for the sale of coal by Leeds Weights and Measures.
Available
now @ .... £17.95
