STEAM AGE
Page 35
If you've noticed an error in this article please click here to report it so we can fix it.
Steam has long been a major part of the Preston story. Richard's father Richard senior • set up as a threshing contractor in 1936 and by the mid-1940s was operating six steam engines on similar contracting work. During the 1957 Suez crisis (when road fuel was in very short supply), the steam engine Lightening II was brought out of retirement and spent three months delivering bricks for the local Crossley concern. And it was these efforts that launched Richard into road haulage Lghtening II was also to bring Richard and Anne together in 1957: He was stood with Lghtening at Stokesley Show," Anne recalls. He was fantastic-looking like a film star so I just went up to hen and asked it the engine was his."
The chat up line worked and 53 years later. Richard, Anne and Lightening II still very much enjoy being together.