COVERING THE COUNTRY
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The firm’s signature Devon to Scotland service can be traced back to 1947, when Jerry Harris and Sam Miners were offered a test load to Glasgow of Devon Grate fire surrounds, manufactured by a local firm, Candy and Company of Heathfield. The experiment was to prove whether road transport was quicker than the railway service that Candy had used for some time. The subsequent haulage trip took the best part of a week and started a business relationship that was to last 50 years. As Harris & Miners expanded, it would go on to shift a huge range of goods north of the border including agricultural equipment, oil field supplies and industrial heaters to name but a few commodities. The mid-80s saw a peak in Anglo-Scottish trading and Brian Harris reported he could regularly send away 18 artics every Sunday morning, to a wide range of destinations in the central Lowlands or Highlands.