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Bulk haulage
The Volvo F10 in the foreground was my daily steed for 2 years during the ‘80’s.
The Scania 111 belonged to I.M Transport from Thurton near Norwich.
We can be seen here waiting to unload sugar beet pulp nuts into a temporary store in Thetford.
Notice both wagons are on 4 axles at 32 tons so this was pre 1983 when the gross weight went up to 38 tonnes.
The store was a dismantled and stripped out former chipboard factory.
The facility wasn’t ideal for storing bulk products but, storage building was at a premium at the time.
This was caused by the massive grain storage programme at the time.
You may remember at the time the EU were operating an ‘intervention’ food over production programme resulting in grain, beef, butter etc.‘mountains’.
All available grain stores were full to the rafters for a year or more until the programme fizzled out.
British Sugar makes far more pulp nuts animal feed than can be consumed in the short production season so excess pulp nuts have to be transported away from the factory into normally unused grain stores.
So, this is why we are unloading here amongst all the old factory rubbish.
Bulk haulage
The Volvo F10 in the foreground was my daily steed for 2 years during the ‘80’s.
The Scania 111 belonged to I.M Transport from Thurton near Norwich.
We can be seen here waiting to unload sugar beet pulp nuts into a temporary store in Thetford.
Notice both wagons are on 4 axles at 32 tons so this was pre 1983 when the gross weight went up to 38 tonnes.
The store was a dismantled and stripped out former chipboard factory.
The facility wasn’t ideal for storing bulk products but, storage building was at a premium at the time.
This was caused by the massive grain storage programme at the time.
You may remember at the time the EU were operating an ‘intervention’ food over production programme resulting in grain, beef, butter etc.‘mountains’.
All available grain stores were full to the rafters for a year or more until the programme fizzled out.
British Sugar makes far more pulp nuts animal feed than can be consumed in the short production season so excess pulp nuts have to be transported away from the factory into normally unused grain stores.
So, this is why we are unloading here amongst all the old factory rubbish.