question Brockhouse Trailer....??

[PeteCritch]

Any help much appreciated...

 

I have recently bought a trailer which I was told was a Sankey.

It was painted in several coats of green paint and a few coats of brown underneath.

Having read various posts on the HMV Forum it appears to be a Brockhouse trailer.

I have not been able to find a chasis no. but there are other numbers :-

 

Assembly no. FV7408(then possibly a 9) 0. This ID is stamped on a small plate riveted to the front n/s body.

Brake assembly cover plate. FV109257A. This ID is stamped on the cover plate of the brake assembly.

And finally there was a plate riveted to the side of the 'A Bar'... William Press & Son Ltd. 22 Queen Annes Gate London. SW1. Whitehall 5731. Plant no. TL870

 

If anyone knows anything about this trailer or could point me in the direction of somewhere I can find out more I would be most grateful.

It is in the process of being renovated and I will post pictures once completed.

 

Pete.

[N.O.S.]

I'm very confident the William Press plate refers to its later service with the civil engineering company who used lots of stuff like this on their contracts - typically the large North Sea gas distribution pipelines which ran across East Anglia in the '70's/'80s. I remember loads of MJs running around. It was so wet at times and ran so deep you can still unwittingly drop a tractor into the filled trenches all these years later!

[PeteCritch]

Thanks N.O.S.

That would tie in with the trailer being picked up from a farm in Essex not far from East Anglia.

 

Pete.

[G506]

I used to work for AMEC, the construction group who swallowed up Press. I was talking to one of their former engineers who told me back in the sixties they had a number of US half tracks for pipeline work!