1967 Atkinson 'Silver Knight'

This was one of the entrants in the Greater Manchester Transport Society's Trans Lancs Historic Vehicle Rally at Heaton Park, Manchester in September 1993.

It's a 1967 Atkinson 'Silver Knight' which has a Gardner 6LXB diesel engine and is not listed in the programme of the event. It was there in 1995, though, when the programme of the event said this about it:

Atkinson "Silver Knight" T3046XB, 1967                                                  GBV759E

Entered by    C.J.Gardner for W.H.Bowker Limited, Bamber Bridge, Preston

Owned by the Company since new, this much travelled vehicle remains in original condition, the last engine overhaul having been undertaken in 1978.

1967 Atkinson 'Silver Knight'

This was one of the entrants in the Greater Manchester Transport Society's Trans Lancs Historic Vehicle Rally at Heaton Park, Manchester in September 1995.

It's a 1967 Atkinson 'Silver Knight' which has a Gardner 6LXB diesel engine. The programme of the event said this about the vehicle:

Atkinson "Silver Knight" T3046XB, 1967                                                  GBV759E

Entered by    C.J.Gardner for W.H.Bowker Limited, Bamber Bridge, Preston

Owned by the Company since new, this much travelled vehicle remains in original condition, the last engine overhaul having been undertaken in 1978.

W H Bowker Ltd

When I went to the Trans Lancs Historic Vehicle Rallies at Heaton Park, Manchester in the 1980s & 90s there were usually one or two lorries present bearing the name 'W H Bowker Ltd'. 1998 was no exception and here's a photograph I took at the rally in September of that year.

There's little information in the programme of the event about these lorries, other than that they were both entered in the rally by C J Gardner of Oswaldtwistle, Lancs. The one on the left is a 1967 Atkinson Silver Knight with a Gardner 6LXB diesel engine of 10½ litres producing 180hp. The lorry on the right is a 1934 Leyland Beaver TSC9.