Wrings

Sidney Joseph Wring, born on the 21st April 1902, formed the original Wrings Transport in 1927. He started with a horse and cart, delivering coal to hospitals and schools throughout the Bristol area, and then collecting the ashes from the same places to turn into mortar for resale to other customers. After his second horse died on its third day of work, he moved onto his first commercial vehicles: a solid – wheeled Vulcan and a model-T Ford, an example of which was held in Bristol Museum during the eighties. The original has been in dry storage ever since.

At the end of his working life, the group of companies totalled some 14 businesses, including transport, plant, demolition, scrap reclamation, quarrying, road building, waste transport, construction, concrete block making, and specialised tile production. Depots were based from South Wales to Bristol and Somerset.

Sidney’s death on the 28th December 1966, at the age of 64, left a wife, 4 sons, and 3 daughters, with around 100 vehicles. The Wring group of companies were purchased by Mixconcrete of Northampton around 1973. The photo is courtesy of and copyrighted to John Martin.

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