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Originally Posted by keith
Inthe period 1955/65 the national coal board transport based at altham garage next to the coke works had a 8wheeler tanker whose sole job was delivering tar made there at the coke works the main customer was the lancashire tar distillers who I think took metcalfs over the driver of the tar tanker was nicked named by all the other drivers and the coke works staff tar billy and lived in hopwood street accrington His normal daily deliveries were 2loads down to church and then either the lancashire tar preston or lancashire tar at litherland close to liverpool docks
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I had a pint with a chap much older than me or Keith, so he says and he remembers Tar Billy driving a little three wheel Scammell with an articulated tanker trailer before he got an eight wheeler, the chap worked with Tar Billy.. They Scammells were called Scarabs or mechanical horses like the railways had.
What Keith is saying was confirmed by my drinking partner.
Gremlin R.T.