Image ID: 09429

Ransome and Marles Ball and Roller Bearing Factory, New Delivery Lorry, 1969

Courtesy of NSK Europe, Ltd.

Northern Road
Newark on Trent
England

Pictured are: driver Eric Newton, appointed chauffeur to Managing Director of RHP General Bearings Division; Ken Layle, Transport Manager, checking headlamps and Ernie Dolman, Forman of Transport loading, checking the security of tarpaulin. Picture taken from the Newark Advertiser, 15th March 1969. The article accompanying the picture tells about the new lorry's final checks before it made its first trip to Paris, into the new Common Market territory. The company had established a subsidiary sales company in France and were stocking it with goods from the Newark and Annfield Plain factories. Other subsidiary companies abroad already included those in: Australia, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa and Zambia.

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