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History of contractors that operated the Bristol L's.

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  G Abbott, Liverpool
  Alderglen Manufacturing Company, Alton
  Amalgamated Roadstone Corporation, London W1
  Amey, Sutton Courtenay
  H O Andrews, Leeds
  Arden, Glentworth
  G Armitage, Rothwell
  Sir W Arrol, Drax
  Norman C Ashton Limited, Leeds
  Atomic Power Constructions Limited, Dungeness
  Avonmouth Engineering Company, Avonmouth
  Avonmouth Plant & Construction Company, Avonmouth
  Bailey, Ilkley
  Robert B Bainbridge, Stockton-on-Tees
  Balfour Beatty & Company Limited, London EC4
Barlow, Oldham
  Barrett, Hull
  J Batty & Company, Morpeth
  Baxter Brothers, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
  Bechtel, Pembroke
  Bell, Doncaster
  Bell, Leeds
  Bell, Musselburgh
  John T Bell & Company Limited, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
  Benfield & Loxley, Oxford
Benson Brothers (Bristol) Limited, Bristol
  Berry, Heywood
  Bicknell, Bristol
  J Billig & Sons, Norwich
  Walter G Birch Limited, Harrogate
  Bitumastic, Horsforth
  R Blackett, Charlton & Company, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
  Blanch-Lely Limited, Crudwell
  P Blythe, Manchester
  Henry Boot, Dronfield
  M A Boswell, Wolverhampton
Bovis Construction Limited, Harrow
  Bradley, York
  Bradgate Granite Quary, Nunny
  Marshall Branson, Blaydon
  Brazier & Son Limited, Southampton
  Brennan & Murphy Limited, Birmingham
  Brignall, Cambridge
  Brims & Company Limited, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne
  British Metal Crate Company
British Oxygen Company, Port Talbot
British Railways, London
  British Road Services, Norwich
John Brown Limited, Stevenage
  Buckley's Cleaning Services, Northwich
Business Vehicles, York
  Buxted Chicken Company Limited, Dalton
  Buxted Hatchery, Horstead Keynes
  Calton Concrete Company Limited, Bristol
  Campbell, Redcar
  Car Hire & Supplies, York
  Carlyle, Manchester
  Simon Carves, Stockport
  Castle Brick Company Limited, Northop
  Cawood Wharton Limited, Harrogate
  Cementation Capag
  Chown, Kingsthrope
  Christiani-Shand, Derby
  City & County Borough of Norwich, Norwich
  City Contractors & Fleet Plant Hire Company, Belfast
  Cheshire Constabulary
  Clugston, Scunthorpe
  Codd & Trafford, Scunthorpe
  Collier & Catley, Reading
  H E & P Company, Birmingham
  Concrete Design & Construction Limited, Birmingham
  B E Conlin, Bridlington
  Construction Plant Hire
  Cooper and Wood Limited, Wakefield
  Cooper Bros & J Clayton Limited, Macclesfield
  Coopers Removals, Leicester
  Cork Insulation and Asbestos Company, York
Costain (Westminster) Plant Company Limited, London
  Cottam, Southampton
  County Borough of Bootle Welfare Department, Bootle
  Coventry Corporations Waterworks Department, Coventry
  Coward, Chelmsford
  Cox, Cannock
  Derek Crouch (Contractors) Limited, Eye
  Cubar Construction, Manchester
  Cubitt, London
  Cussins, Gosforth
  C Davies, Swansea
  Denham Heating, Manchester
  Derby Engineering, Derby
  Derriff Concrete Aggregates, Canklow
  Peter Devine, Ossett
  G Dew & Company Limited, Oldham
  Dickinson, Bolton
  M Dickenson, Cambridge
  J & H E Doherty Limited, Coleraine
  Dorr-Olivier Company Limited, Croydon
  Robert M Douglas (Contractor) Limited, Birmingham
  J Dove, Plaistow
  Dow-Mac (Products) Limited, Tallington
  Downer & Bailey, Downton
  Dowsett Engineering, Harrogate
  Doxford & Sunderland Shipbuilding & Engineering Company, Wolsingham
  Drury (Northern) Limited, Huddersfield
  Gordon Durham & Company, Boldon
  Dyson, Bradford
  Eastwoods Limited, London EC1
  Eccleshare, Lincoln
  Edison Plant
  Edward Hanson Limited, Yaddlethorpe
  Edwards, Cefn-y-Bedd, Wrexham
  Edwards, Flint
  Egerton, Denton
  D J Elliott, Bristol
  Emery Construction Company, Manchester
  English China Clays, Par
  Enston Precast Products Limited, Caernarvon
  Erkulis Bros, Leeds
  Erwin, Leeds
  F R Evans (Leeds) Limited, Leeds
  Evans, Sunderland
  Express Office Cleaning, Manchester
  Harry Fairclough Limited, Warrington
  Fell, Wakefield
  Felnex, Durham
  Ferrybridge Salvage Company, Ferrybridge
  H Field & Sons Limited, Hull
  S Fielding
  Findus Foods Limited, Cleethorpes
  Finnegan, Sheffield
  Firth, Doncaster
  J W Flather Limited, Ellesmere Port
  Eric C Flower, Leeds
  Fordy, Wingate
  A & B M Foster, Ellesmere Port
  Fowlers Limited, Harrogate
  R Fox & Son, Bristol
  Fram-Gerrard, Swinton
  Galliford & Sons, Wolvey
  J Gerrard & Sons, Swinton
  Giblert Ash
  Gee, Walker & Slater Limited, Derby
  Golightly, Coxhoe
  Grady, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
  Grahams Concrete, Middlesbrough
  Grant-Lyon, Scunthorpe
  W Green, Warrington
  Green, Workington
  Green & Hopton, Leeds
  Greensitt & Barrett, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
  Hadsphaltic Construction Company, London
  Alexander Hall & Son (Builders) Limited, Aberdeen
  P Hassell Limited, Sheffield
  Hawker Siddeley Aviation Limited, Boughton
  Hawkins Brothers (Gosport) Limited, Gosport (contractor)
  W Hawley & Sons, Derby
  Hawthorne Leslie Limited, Newcastle
  Hebburn-on-Tyne Urban District Council
  Heslop & Hall, West Hartlepool
  High Fidelity Sound Limited, Leeds
  Hindley Industrial Co-Operative Society, Hindley
  Holloway Brothers (London) Limited, London SW1
  Holmes, Gorleston
  Holst & Company Limited
  Holton Power Farmers, Holton Beckington
  Hoover, ?, South Africa
  Geo Houlton & Sons Limited, Hull
  John Howard Limited, Glasgow
  Howie, Dunlop
  Bill Humphries
  Husband's Shipyard, Marchwood (contractor)
  Huyton-with-Roby District Council, Huyton-with-Roby
  E Ireland, Bath
  James & Crockeren, Durrington
  Janes, Slough
  Jackson, Malton
  Jaycee Furniture Limited, Rottingham
  Jefferies, Hedge End
  J Jeffrey, Claxby
  W Jones, Saltney
  Kelney, Ipswich
  Kennedy, Coleraine
  D Kenyon Limited, Rotherham
  Kew
  G A Laing, Greenford
  John Laing Construction Limited, London NW7
  Lamb, South Milford
  Lancashire Repetition Company Limited, St Helens
  Laporte Chemicals Limited, Warrington
  Latimer & Company Limited, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
  Lawson, Darlington
  F T Lee, Lathon
  William Leech & Company Limited, Newcastle-upon-Tyne (contractor)
  Leggatt, Barrhead
  Lehane, Mackenzie & Shand Limited, Matlock
  Leyden Brothers, London N5
  Limmer & Trinidad Lake Asphalt Company Limited, London
  Lobitos Oilfields Limited, Ellesmere Port
  London Brick Company, Stewartby
  London County Council Fire Brigade, London
Aubrey Long, Torpoint
  D Lord, Lostock Hall
  Lozenby, Ferryhill
J T Mackley, Shoreham
  Macfarlane, Glasgow
  Murdoch Mackenzie, Motherwell
  Mallinson, Huddersfield
  Manchester Corporation Waterworks, Great Harwood
  Marshall, Elland
  Mason, Mansfield
  Matthews, Manchester
  Maunders, Sale
  Sir Alfred McAlpine & Sons Limited, Hooton
  McGregor, Chesterfield
  McLauchlan (Knottingley) Limited, Knottingley
  McLaughlin & Harvey, Belfast
  Mears Brothers (Contractors) Limited, London SE26
  Medwood Cartage, ?, South Africa
  Mee Wah Auto Reconditioning, Hong Kong
  Metnor, North Shields
  Midcon
  Middlemass & Gould, Hartlepool
  Miller, Northumberland
  Mills Scaffolding, Blaydon
  Minter, Belfast
  F G Minter, London
  Mitchell Construction Company, Peterborough
  Mockridge Labels, Ashton-under-Lyne
  A Monk & Company Limited, Warrington
  Monte, Washington
  Moore & Cartridge Limited, Norton-on-Tees
  J V Murphy, Chester
  N & M Plant Hire Limited, Nottingham
  National Coal Board
  J Newman, Hexham
  W T Nicholls, Cardiff
  Nicholls, Salisbury
  Nitrovit Limited, Dalton
Nor-West Construction Limited, Liverpool
  North Ray Farm Products Limited, North Thoresby
  North Sea Marine Engineers Limited, Teeside
  Northern Factory Developments Limited, Stockton
  Northern Ideal Homes Limited, Barnsley
  Nott, Bristol
  Numberland Whinstone Company Limited, Hexham
  Nott, Brodie & Company, Bristol
  Nuclear Civil Contractor Limited, Trawsfynydd
  Edmund Nuttall, Slough
  Whitby C Oliver, York
P D & B Limited, Salisbury
  Palethorpes, Market Drayton
  Parkinson & Company Limited
Sir Lindsay Parkinson
  J Parks Steelworks Limited, Northwich
  Parr & Company, Antrim
  C H Pearce & Sons, Bristol
  Pelican Engineering, Rothwell
  James Phillips (Plasterers), Leeds
  Pick, Deeping St Nicholas
  Picton Plant Hire, Skellingthorpe
  Pierce Bros, Borough Green
  Pindar's Circus
  Pipeweld, Manchester
  Pochins (Manchester) Limited,Middlewich
  W F Pointer & Sons Limited
  Polpak, Thrisk
  E C Portch, Liverpool
  W S Preddy, Wedmore
  Price, Doncaster
  Proctor, Grimsby
  Pumfrey, Gainsborough
  Pye Radio, Cambridge
  R W G, Tilbury
  Rackwood Colliery Company, Morley
  John Rainey (Plant) Portrush
  Ranken, Warrington
  Rattee & Kett (Contractors) Limited, Cambridge
  H B Raylor, York
  Redland Tiles, Clifton
  Reed & Millick Limited, Salisbury
  Reynard's (Excavations) Limited, Helperby
  Roberts, Bootle
  Roberts, Lincoln
  E S & A Robinson Limited, Bristol
  W Robinson (Briggs) Limited
  Rockfall Construction Company, Glasgow
  Ross Poultry Limited, Aberdeen
  Rowley, London N17
  Rowse, Mansfield
  Roy & Partners, Salford
  Salder Brothers, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
  Saunders, Long Itchington
  George L Scott Limited, Ellesmere Port
  J Searson, Sutton-in-Ashfield
Seddon, Bolton
  Shephard, Hill & Company Limited, Chesterfield
  Sheppard & Short, Wembley
Sherratt, Stockport
  Showerings Limited, Shepton Mallet
  Simplex, Cambridge
William Sindall Limited, Cambridge
  Slater, Darlington
  Derek A Smith Limited, Yeadon
  Smiths Crisps Limited, Nocton
  Snowden Brothers, Easington
  South Durham Steel & Iron Company, Middlesbrough
  Snape, Eccles
  Spong, Basildon
  St Helens Co-Operative Retail Society Limited, St Helens
  G Stephenson & Sons Limited, Bishop Auckland
  Stevenage Plants Services, Stevenage
  Stewart, Bury St Edmunds
  Stewart, Castle Dawson
  T C Stewart, Newmarket
  Stewart, Norwich
  Structural Painters Limited, Gateshead
  E Stone, Rotherham
  Stuttafords, ?, South Africa
Sutherland Hydraulic & Machinery Company Limited, Salisbury
  Sweeney & Palmer, Nottingham
  Swindon Corporation, Swindon
  T H Contractors, St Mary's Bay
  W & J Taggart, Portrush
  Tarmac Limited, Wolverhampton
  Tate & Holmes Limited, Benwell
  W G Taylor, Weymouth
  P E Taylor, Oldcoates
  Taylor Woodrow, Solihull
  Teleflex, London W1
  Tennet, Marske-by-the-Sea
  Tersons Limited, London N3
  Tetshill, Newquay
  W Thompson, Northallarton
  William Thornton & Sons Limited, Liverpool
  Tinsley, Peterborough
  Tinsley Prepacked Foods, Holbeach St Marks
  Townson, Bolton
  Trant, Hythe
  Thantham, London
  Percy Trentham
  G P Trentham, Cardiff
  Trentham, Gloucester
  Trentham, Stoke
  Trollope & Colls Limited, London EC2
  Trusoon, Stretford
  Tuckers Cartage, ?, South Africa
  Turner, Bury
  Vosper Thorneycroft Limited, Southampton
  E Ulliott, Flaxton
  Unidentified Owner
  Unidentified Owner, Ashton-under-Lyne
  Unidentified Owner, Atherton
  Unidentified Owner, Bidston
  Unidentified Owner, Bishop Auckland
  Unidentified Owner, Blackburn
  Unidentified Owner, Bradford
  Unidentified Owner, Claxton Hill
  Unidentified Owner, Colchester
  Unidentified Owner, Durham
  Unidentified Owner, Felthorpe
  Unidentified Owner, Gloucestershire
  Unidentified Owner, Grangetown
Unidentified Owner, Hertford
  Unidentified Owner, Liverpool
  Unidentified Owner, Manchester
  Unidentified Owner, Menai Bridge
  Unidentified Owner, Norwich
  Unidentified Owner, Nottingham
  Unidentified Owner, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
  Unidentified Owner, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
  Unidentified Owner, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
  Unidentified Owner, Salford
  Unidentified Owner, South Bank
  Unidentified Owner, South Elmsall
  Unidentified Owner, Weaste
  Unidentified Owner, Wellingborough
  Unidentified Owner, West Highlands
  Ventolite Blinds, Northampton
  Waddington, Wakefield
R L Wade & Sons Limited, St Helens, Auckland
  Wakefield Shirt Company, Wakefield
  Waldron & Heneghan, Batley
  E J Walker, Potters Bar
  Ward Construction (Medway) Limited, Gillingham
  Warner, Ipswich
  E J Warner & Partners
  Thomas Warrington & Sons Limited, Ellesmere Port
  Westinghouse Brake & Signal Company Limited, Chippenham
  Wheeler & Company, Scunthorpe
  B Whitehouse & Sons Limited, Birmingham
  White House Cleaning Services, Portsmouth
  Whitley Brothers Limited, Buckley
  Whitley Concrete, Wrexham
  William Press & Son Limited, Darlington
  R R & J Willan, Sale
  J A Willis, Newby Wiske
  Wimpenny, Prestwich
  George Wimpey Limited, Hammersmith
  L Wood, Blyth
  Wright, York
  Wrington Vale Nurseries, Buxton
  Yorkshire Poultry Packers Limited, Dalton
  C M Yuill, West Hartlepool