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Prestons of Potto was founded in 1936 as an agricultural contracting business by Richard Preston Snr, using steam engines for threshing and wood-sawing duties in the area around Potto. The transport side was started during the Suez Crisis in 1957 when a local brick manufacturer, who was running very short of diesel for his fleet of lorries asked Richard Preston if he would haul their bricks to keep the contracts supplied. Richard Preston bought two 10 ton trailers and used his Burrell engine, Lightning II to haul 20 tons of bricks from Darlington to Ampleforth for four months.

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  • Prestons of Potto was founded in 1936 as an agricultural contracting business by Richard Preston Snr, using steam engines for threshing and wood-sawing duties in the area around Potto. The transport side was started during the Suez Crisis in 1957 when a local brick manufacturer, who was running very short of diesel for his fleet of lorries asked Richard Preston if he would haul their bricks to keep the contracts supplied. Richard Preston bought two 10 ton trailers and used his Burrell engine, Lightning II to haul 20 tons of bricks from Darlington to Ampleforth for four months.
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  • Prestons of Potto was founded in 1936 as an agricultural contracting business by Richard Preston Snr, using steam engines for threshing and wood-sawing duties in the area around Potto. The transport side was started during the Suez Crisis in 1957 when a local brick manufacturer, who was running very short of diesel for his fleet of lorries asked Richard Preston if he would haul their bricks to keep the contracts supplied. Richard Preston bought two 10 ton trailers and used his Burrell engine, Lightning II to haul 20 tons of bricks from Darlington to Ampleforth for four months. Reaslising there was money in haulage he bought a lorry and latter gained contracts to move steel from the local steelworks on the Cleveland coast. The company has a specialist fleet of extending trailers for moving oversize steel beams by road. They can move beams and any long loads 60 m plus and 100 tons They have a fleet of self steering trailers and 150 ton tractors largest of witch is truck named Isambard Kingdom Brunel a 9 axle DAF Nooteboom outfit Operations today include; * Extending flatbeds for steel haulage * Curtain side bulk and pallet loads * Storage and distribution * Heavy haulage
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