Timber loading in Morayshire Forest
Photograph courtesy of David Foot, Surrey.
This is a follow up to photograph recorded in Picture No 3330 which operation involves a FC lorry loading a contractor’s timber lorry with what could be 3m timber lengths indicating a possible load for the Pulp mill at Corpach, Fort William.
The lorry registrations are for the FC NHV597E indicating registration in 1967 and the timber lorry as BXB635C registered in 1965. The Speymouth Forest annual report for 1965 listed on their machine inventory a 7 ton lorry with 2 ton Hiab loader and a 5 ton lorry with 1 ton Hiab loader but other forests in the Morayshire area could also have had similar vehicles.
The contract timber Atkinson lorry has been identified by Norman Ross as belonging to Wm Ogilvie of Muir of Ord. The driver is more clearly visible in this image. Can he be named – see large photograph?
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Comment left on 06 January 2020 at 21:27 by Norman ross