bicc transport firm

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TRYING TO FIND THE NAME OF THE PRESCOT TRANSPORT FIRM THAT TRANSPORTED ALL THE BICC CABLE DRUMS, I SEEM TO REMEMBER THE WAGONS WERE GREEN WITH YELLOW WRITING ON THEM.

[stephen nulty]

Holt Lane Transport ?

[RATTY]

I would have said that too, Holt Lane

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Although they were blue in this image, or maybe they were once green ?

 

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Later BI had their own ERFs orange, brown and white

[philthespark]

Here's a link to several films about the B I, in one of them it shows the wagons leaving the works.

 

[Alan]

I seem to remember that when I was a child, BI was called BICC which I think was an abbreviation of British Insulated Callander Cables. As Callander is up in Jockland, does this imply that the BI origins were Scottish?

[philthespark]

1 hour ago, Alan said:

I seem to remember that when I was a child, BI was called BICC which I think was an abbreviation of British Insulated Callander Cables. As Callander is up in Jockland, does this imply that the BI origins were Scottish?

No, it was to do with the manufacturing process, calendering was part of it used I believe, to apply certain types of insulation, Although it's correct name was BICC, it was known as "the B I" to most of the workers,

[Parrdog]

Callender was the name of one of the parent companies that formed BICC, Callender Cable.

[philthespark]

7 minutes ago, Parrdog said:

Callender was the name of one of the parent companies that formed BICC, Callender Cable.

Oh, I stand corrected then. lol

[GeoffB]

I think you could call that a draw

Calendaring is the process - BIC acquired the Scottish company Callenders of Erith who callendered cables

If I remember correctly

[FRANK]

I first came across 'calendering' when I worked as engineer for Honeywell Computers. We were getting excessive error rates on a particular batch of reels of 2400 foot half inch wide computer tapes from BASF. After some investigation, I found that there was a repeating pattern on the surface of the recording side of the tapes every 17 inches or so. After consultation with BASF technical people, it turned out that the 17 inches was the circumference of one of the rolls used in the callendering process which was intended to put a smooth fine finish on the surface of the tape. They inspected their production machine and did indeed find a damaged roller. They thanked me and replaced the entire library of tapes original supplied.

[gervassutti]

On the 29th July 1945 the British Insulated Cables Ltd of Prescot & Helsby was merged with Callender's Cable and Construction Company to form a new electric cable group to be known as British Insulated Callender's Cables Ltd.