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The Proctor was developed by haulier Proctor Springwood Ltd of Mousehold, Norwich to improve their fleet's performance and after development work in North London (Edmonton or Enfield) the prototype was assembled, road tested and used to move all of the machinery lock, stock and barrel up to Norwich when production commenced.

The lightweight 6-7 ton payload dropside with Moss gearbox and rear axle and a Perkins diesel engine tipped the scales at less than three tons unladen weight, thus allowing it to travel at the relatively high speed of 30mph under the legislation of the time.

It is believed that only a couple of hundred or so were sold before the Norfolk factory closed
down in 1949 but their agent, Prails of Hereford, bought up all remaining parts and built more lorries themselves until the stocks were exhausted in 1952.

As a result, Hereford became a Proctor hot spot with most of the local hauliers that eventually joined British Road Services Hereford Group contributing at least one lorry of the marque.

Proctor lorries were also used by British Road Services in South Wales and Hull and by P. Warburton of Uttoxeter.

NTW 210 is the only remaining preserved example.

The Herefordshire HCJ 762 registration seen above ran from April to November 1950, while JE 9909 denotes the Isle of Ely in Cambridgeshire and DUX 981 of A.E. Smith of Bridgnorth would have been registered in Shropshire.