29-04-2021, 08:31 AM
(29-04-2021, 08:21 AM)Duncan Grimmond Wrote: I remember that distinctive Nidd Vale Motors breakdown truck very well. Unmistakeable, and though we didn't own a car in the 1950s we passed the garage on bus routes regularly.
Am I correct in thinking it was still in use in the late 1960s /early1970s or is that selective nostalgia?
We lived on the main road, less than a hundred yards down from the garage. That truck was not used into the seventies Duncan, it was parked up in that yard certainly from 1969, probably earlier. But then in about 1974 it went to Finkle Street motors and they used it for a while, but it didn't last long.
I know someone who started as an apprentice at Nidd Vale in 1956 and worked there over twenty years. Will ask him next time I see him.