and Bristol on a trunk run. Trailers were loaded, roped and sheeted and dropped ready for the night drivers to pick up. Ted Parker, the manager, got on well with Charles and later went on to ACT (Associated Container Transport), which helped Charles again. A brand new Foden was purchased from Sandbach in the same year with a 180 Gardner engine and a 12-speed gearbox for a Ready-Mix contract. When the contract fell through, the Foden was converted to a six-wheel unit. It was very fast and the driver turned it over on a night run to Bristol. A Dodge six-wheel rigid was also purchased to run on a Durox block contract but this was written off in 1964.
In 1965 two Guy Invincible units with 220 Cummins engines and ten-speed Fuller gearboxes were purchased from Maston Motors in Seven Sisters Road. These units were dark blue (Durox livery) and had CEB on the headboard. Twelve Foden tippers were also purchased from Hovenham’s HQ at Nottingham. John Elsdon, the chief engineer, went with Charles to buy these and the Guys.
The company now had four units to start the general side of the business, which was called Brain Haulage Co. Ltd. The first jobs were for Ferrymasters, where Jack Clifford was the transport manager. Other vehicles purchased were Leyland Comets, Super Comets, Dodge (LAD cabs) and two Leyland Beavers. One of these was an export model with a seven-speed gearbox, a 680 Leyland engine and 1100 tyres all round, which was a cancelled order.
Tankard Transport was a small company based at Brimsdown, Enfield, with a yard and garage in the front when Brains bought it. It had an ERF A series unit with a Gardner engine and some Foden units, all in Tankard’s livery of dark green.
CE Dormer had three Atkinson eight-wheel tankers, one Atkinson and two Bedfords flat rigids. Charles purchased this company for the ten O licences only and the vehicles were sold on.
Fuller’s Transport was based at Brentwood, Essex, and Mr Fuller only had two licences with two vehicles (unknown). Olley’s Transport had two vehicles (unknown) and Paddocks Transport, based in Southampton, had three Bedfords.
In February 1967, Commercial Motor featured Brains and another tipper company complaining about fly tipping by non-registered tipper companies and owner drivers in an article titled ‘Pirates in the Industry’ (RHA).
John and Carol Brain were now adults working for the company. John was running it with Charles while Carol was the finance and administration director. Charles had purchased his last company in 1969, Ipswich-based Corbett & Miller, which had two Guy Big Js with Cummins 240 engines, LAD-cabbed Leyland Beavers, two ERF A series and some AECs and Bedford units, some of which went into service with Brains for a while. Although the name had changed to Brain Haulage Co. Ltd., the Corbett & Miller name was still on the vehicles until 1972.
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