FROM TWO DIFFERENT SOURCES WE HAVE SOME PHOTOS & ADVERTISEMENTS FROM THE BH EUCLID YEARS.
Firstly, from Country Life magazine of 1947, we have 3 advertisements found recently on eBay, all promoting the Companys wares, featuring the obvious Euclid one, but also showing two of the lesser known B.H. franchises of the time…….
….very simplistic, but quite powerful images, getting straight to the point, although the "4 months from order" availability seems more akin with todays deliveries than those far off days, and note the "11, Berkeley Street" address, as against 25, Berkeley Square, that earlier office mentioned firstly in the contribution we received from Charles Samek, when describing his father Bert`s first appointment in BH, which was very near to the production time of this advert…….
….and the classic Marion face shovel, biggest in the world at this time, worked on back then by such colourful and well-remembered people as Jack Johnson, Fred Head, and Bill Cross, and also note the addition of B.H. Ireland in this one……..
…and lastly the strangely named La Plant-Chaote, a US built towed scraper marketed by the Company in the days prior to Euclid producing their own overhung version.
On a slightly different wavelength now, a couple of images from the late1960`s & early 1970`s, supplied by Roy Mead, of Leicester, who during his early life as a student, and later at work, never missed an opportunity to click his camera at something unusal in transport, and luckily for us, he managed a couple of Euclid images during that time…..firstly, we have a shot of a couple of Euc TS14A`s, standing in King George Dock in Kingston upon Hull, pre Immingham days we imagine, with no idea where they were going, but looking the part as ever….
and secondly, is what we hope may be a brilliant coincidence, but unfortunately will never be able to prove, with a shot of an R-15 standing in the yard of the quarry at Mount Sorrell, Leicestershire, in 1967 Roy thinks……..
…….now of course for you old ones who still retain the memory, they will remember that in 1977, the year of G.M.`s Silver Jubilee in Britain, on their behalf, HML went looking for serial number B1, the first truck to be built at Newhouse in 1951, but failing to find it, found the oldest one around, B5 at Mount Sorrell, bought it, and sent it to Scotland, and which is now residing at Rushden Historical Transport Museum ! No distinguishing marks in this photo that identifies it as the present day Rushden resident, but it could be B5…….. you never know !!
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