History
The Bracewell family have been involved in road transport from the early 1900’s. They had a wood yard by the canal in Clayton Le Moors and, after processing, the wood was loaded onto a wooden cart, then taken to customers.
In time, small flat bed wagons replaced the carts and these were used to deliver coal to local industry and households. After the war, road and house building increased rapidly and tipper wagons were purchased to supply the large amounts of ash and stone required. The work was very labour intensive; all vehicles were loaded by hand or with large mechanical shovels.
The garage was built in 1949 and has always been primarily used for vehicle maintenance.
In 1979, Alan Bracewell and his son Robin started a road haulage company from the same premises, making local and long distance deliveries. Initially flatbed transportation was used but the introduction of curtain sided trucks made palletised distribution easier and more efficient.
