Business cards used by Melia’s Transport and early BRS  

Ephemera

Surviving business related material from the 1920s, 1930s, 1940s and 1950s.

Card in use during the late 1930s. This one had a photograph of an eight-wheeler ERF with Thames Board branding  

Business cards in use during 1949 and 1950. The old Melias Transport card being over-stamped with British Road Services.  

1937 share certificate 

Above: Thomas Melia attending a Road Haulage Association dinner, probably in 1946. He is seated on table 19 in the centre of the five people closest to the bannister.

Left: Thomas Melia (right) accompanied by another RHA member attending a conference.

Below: Final cheque drawn on the Melias Transport Bolton Ltd account. Dated April 24th 1957. 

2013 recollections of Melia’s Transport by David Leeming, a former employee of the company. 

Dissolution of Melia and John Pilling partnership, reported in the London Gazette in June 1921.  

Clock presented to Austin Melia on his retirement from the Dart & Alexandra Mills, Bolton. 

Dobson & Barlow advert about 1920. A customer of Melia’s Transport.

Salmon & Taylor advert about 1920. These were the previous occupants of what Melias later named ‘Gilnow Garage. Occupied until the move to Musgrave Garage after WW2.

Thomas Ryder advert about 1920. A customer of Melia’s Transport.

Bolton Evening News

Bolton Evening News

David Jack, Bolton Wanderers F.C. Hero of 1923. First footballer to be transferred for more than £10,000 and first to score at Wembley in the 1923 FA Cup Final.

Booth’s Steelworks undertook chassis work for Melia’s Transport.

Possibly the last piece of promotional material used by the company, a 1949 calendar. The Barnsbury Park, London address was an administrative facility. Operational depots still remained on Crucifix Lane and North Finchley.   

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