A Palletways tractor unit with its forty foot trailer, one of the largest trucks on the road in the UK. Auriol Drive is one of the entrances to Greenford Park, on the former Lyons factory site. Tea barges used to land their cargoes at the Lyons dock on the Grand Union canal but these days freight arrives here on wheels rather than on water.

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29 Jun This entry was published on June 29, 2012 at 3:50 pm. It’s filed under Places and tagged blog, Ealing, Greenford, heritage, history, June 2012, local, London, photo365, photography, photos, postaday, road, society, trade, traffic, transport. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post.