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Re your letter from Mr E.G. Taylor (April 15) about Garner: I well remember this make built by Henry Garner Ltd, of Tysley, Birmingham, and taken over by Sentinel of Shrewsbury about 1937.
Sentinel continued to build them under the new name of Sentinel-Garner fitting them with a new cab similar in shape to the ".S" type steam waggon and an Austin 20 hp engine.
Regarding the other names he mentions such as Guildford, this should be Gilford, well known at the time for the air suspension fitted to their coaches, they also produced a lorry just before World War 11 fitted with a producer gas unit of which a firm at Leeds (I believe the name was T. W. Nightingale) ran on trunk service to London.
I also well remember Hallfords, Halley, Garford, Burford, Manchester, Overland, Bean, Napier, Pierce-Arrow, Peerless, Pagefield, BAT, Star, AJS, Straker, Squire, Riker, Kerr Stuart, with McLaren diesel engine. Shefflex (fitted with three cyl Gardner) and mid-Twenties Berliet tippers, that had wire ropes and pulley to tip the body, operated by L. F. Briggs of Liverpool and the American Army "Liberty" lorries with the letters USA on the radiator with their vertical steering columns, many operated by Pratts petrol Co (now Esso); and also the "Bell" which I believe was built by the CWS at Manchester.
KEN MILLER Director, Ken Miller (Wheelton) Ltd, Wheelton, near Chorley.
All right: we surrender. Here's a picture (Courtesy Old Motor magazine) of a Garner three-ton tipper lorry 1936/7 vintage, but we still can't find space for a regular column on "These you have lovedso this will be the last old vehicle, outside of rallies, to be seen in CM's pages for a long time. However, Old Motor, Volume 8, No. 5, had a whole article on the marque, so well known in haulage circles for 30 years.