STEAM WAGONS in the RED ROSE COUNTY
The county of Lancashire was very heavily industrialised over several decades and therefore was the home of many businesses associated with activities such as cotton processing and manufacture together with transporting not only the raw materials but also the finished products. In addition, collieries produced coal to provide steam for powering the cotton mills. There was also machinery manufactured that was used in these huge buildings that were to be found in many places in and around the county.
Not only were there a large number of traction engines involved in such activities but also steam wagons and, inevitably, steam rollers which maintained the roads used by these vehicles.
Haulage contractors feature very strongly in the RLS Lancashire records, especially in Liverpool, where there was so much incoming and outgoing traffic associated with the docks there.
Jonas Graham of Jamaica Street and then Collingwood Street, ran three Yorkshire wagons which they had new in September 1920. A posed image of this trio [], apparently a works photo taken in Leeds close to the manufacturer’s premises, indicates something of an anomaly in that the works numbers and the registration numbers for some reason don’t show the expected consecutive sequences for vehicles supplied within the
