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Morris Coal Lorry

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Coal Lorry
Coal Lorry
Photo: Ray
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Item #: 33681
This Morris coal lorry has on it a Wigan number plate, EK 2373.
Does anyone recall the name of the coal merchant from long ago ?.

Comment by: Garry on 25th April 2022 at 12:14

Looks like a Morris T-type and was run by Dick Evans of Haydock.

Comment by: Pw on 25th April 2022 at 16:33

Did you drive one Garry?Nice to hear from you.

Comment by: Ray on 25th April 2022 at 17:59

Garry, Thank you for your info of the Morris lorry. I reckon it would
have been new in the 1920s, and was capable of carrying about 1 ton.

Comment by: Garry on 25th April 2022 at 19:50

Thanks gents.
At my time as a street coal delivery man I've driven Austin k4, Austin FG (threepenny bit), Bedford TK. Hard work but loved it. Now, almost a dead trade.

Comment by: Ray on 25th April 2022 at 22:01

Thank you Garry for your kind comments. You mentioned an Austin K4,
my Dad drove one of these in the late 1950s for Liverpool Co-op Dairies
and when we got on to the former M.O.D ammunitions factory opposite
Kirkby railway station, Dad would put me behind the wheel until we got
to the exit, I was about 14 at the time. Just 3 years later, after my 17th
birthday, I joined the Territorial Army, and soon after, I passed my driving
test on an Army vehicle. I never attended a driving school, and I drove
HGV lorries from the age of 21 until I was 71, including 2 years on Ribble
buses in the late 1960s when I emigrated to Wigan. I am still in Wigan.
Cheers, Ray.

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