Garrett Trailers

Garrett Wagon and Trailer

Works No. 16470

3-4 ton trailer

Date: 1924

The above trailer was built in 1924 by Richard Garrett & Sons Ltd. as the prototype of a new range of trailers for use with steam wagons. Garretts used it for demonstration purposes as shown in the above photograph with lorry number 34371. In January 1926 the trailer was sold with second-hand lorry number 34181 to Blackstone & Co. of Stamford, Lincolnshire, a fellow member of Agricultural & General Engineers Ltd. Blackstones sold the lorry in 1934 to the Derbyshire Carriage and Wagon Company who converted it into a railway locomotive. However, they kept the trailer and it was spotted, by Terry Lee of Leicester, in 1989 still at work carrying diesel engine castings. Terry passed the information about the trailer on to me and when the opportunity arose I visited Blackstone's works and was able to purchase the trailer for preservation. The trailer had been modified slightly during its working life, but these modifications have been rectified and the trailer is now being restored for use behind Garrett steam lorry 34841.

Garrett Works photograph of one of the prototype trailers either the 6 ton 16461 or the 4 ton 16470.
(Click on picture to see larger view.)

A number of similar Garrett trailers have survived in preservation and I am attempting to make a register of the survivors. If you have any information or photographs of Garrett trailers I would be pleased to receive details.

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