SOME LONDON HAULAGE CONTRACTORS

Names such as Rudd, Hickey, Coulson and Ward worked around the city demonstrating their skills and expertise in managing large engines and sometimes not such large engines with heavy loads.

Perhaps the best-known London haulage contractors were Hickeys who were based in Richmond, Surrey. They were established in 1881 as boiler repairers. They soon became boiler makers and machinery dealers and were involved in the haulage of machinery using teams of horses which later gave way to steam power. Their first large haulage engine was a Clayton & Shuttleworth compound road engine named Goliath of which little is known.

In 1914 Hickeys purchased a secondhand Burrell engine. This was 8nhp No 2701 named which had been supplied to timber merchant