Smiths Renault tipper.
Possibly Wincanton ■■
W.H.Andrews Scania from Hereford.
Anyone recognise the Seddon Atkinson ■■
Moreton Cullimore Foden.
Burfords Iveco skip truck from Stroud.
Britannia DAF.
Not sure if we have had a Dorrington motor on before,anyone know where they are based ■■
NYK Line Scania.
Bath Demolition DAF roll on roll off.
Talking of Bath i see they have started a HGV emmision zone there today !
Good old shovel drivers ! 
Weren’t they just Dean ! The bugas had got us in their hands and they knew it. God knows what they’d got for brains ? I got trained up on a Cat 992, wild horses couldn’t have got me back onto the saddle again, without doubt the worst motor I ever drove. Cheers Coomsey
Dean B wrote: Thanks for the comments Pete. I suppose companies like Wimpey had contracts with Tilcon,so that had something
to do with trucks travelling further than seems sensible,when there must have been places closer they could have got the
same loads. Oxo cube !
Wimpeys had their own quarries and tar plants Dean, they didn’t rely on other companies supplying them. Then Tarmac took them over…nuff said! 
Of course at one time there wasn’t all these ‘satellite’ tar plants around the country that had to have all the raw materials fetched in so the quarries with tar plants covered a much larger area. Tilcon at Ballidon did a special tarmac for tennis courts so that was in demand, they also developed along with British Gas at Newcastle a material with a non combustible flux which was ideal for utility companies back filling trenches after cable and pipe laying. We took that as a split load on an eight wheeler (ten tonnes of 10mm and ten of 20mm) a long way from the quarry, St Clears in Wales was a full ten hour (plus! ) driving day and we had to carry five gallons of diesel in a drum (and with my ten year old Rolls 265Li a gallon of engine oil as well) with us to refuel or it was a long walk home!
Pete.
coomsey:
Upset this fella Dean n you’d have some serious shovelling off to do
You definately would not want to argue with him “coomsey”
Thats some machine ! Dwarf’s the roadtrain. I was watching a dvd a while back about a Swedish mine and they had
some huge loading shovels like that. I am sure they weighed around 200 tons and each tyre had chain’s on which each
weighed 5 tons !
Heres a Foden roadtrain from 1968.
Click on pages twice to read.
You mentioned erf poor traction Coomsey , Fodens went the same way . The s36 without diff lock would go anywhere but when Foden went over to Rockwell axles they just sat and bounced in the muck even though they had diff locks .
rigsby:
You mentioned erf poor traction Coomsey , Fodens went the same way . The s36 without diff lock would go anywhere but when Foden went over to Rockwell axles they just sat and bounced in the muck even though they had diff locks .
They could soon make a fool of you, most of us can manage that without the help of lorry manufacturers. Once they set off bouncing you’re bugard
One bad winter we were running road salt from Cheshire n I’m fairly sure they loaded us with a 992 ,one bucket, 20t loaded n off!
Interesting read on the road train Dean, they didn’t just buy a motor n hope for the best
I bet that Foden was an handful,12sp n I doubt he’d use half of em loaded. I recall Jimbo saying that side tippers weren’t up to much, when he sees this he’ll gen us up. Cheers Coomsey
Can someone tell me what model CAT this is?
Picture taken at Holme Hall Quarry Stainton after Tarmac took over Butlers in 1979.
coomsey:
… I recall Jimbo saying that side tippers weren’t up to much, when he sees this he’ll gen us up. Cheers Coomsey
youtube.com/watch?v=MF85rI9oyeM&t=398s
Those are side tippers in that video. There is a driver opening the gates from about 1:40. Considering the huge loads, they seem to do OK.
The Chinese are turning everything we think we know on its head. If you hadn’t seen the videos, would you have believed that 6-axle artics would carry well over 100tons, every day, in ordinary operation? The vehicles seem to survive but, on the other hand, most of the kit in those videos isn’t much more than a year old.
windrush:
Dean B wrote: Thanks for the comments Pete.
to do with trucks travelling further than seems sensible,when there must have been places closer they could have got the
same loads. Oxo cube !Wimpeys had their own quarries and tar plants Dean, they didn’t rely on other companies supplying them. Then Tarmac took them over…nuff said!
Pete.
Surprised you went that far Pete ! A gallon of oil !!
rigsby:
You mentioned erf poor traction Coomsey , Fodens went the same way . The s36 without diff lock would go anywhere but when Foden went over to Rockwell axles they just sat and bounced in the muck even though they had diff locks .
Intresting to read that Dave. You would have thought it would have been the other way round.
Did Foden build there own axle for the S36 or was it someone like Kirkstall ■■
coomsey:
One bad winter we were running road salt from Cheshire n I’m fairly sure they loaded us with a 992 ,one bucket, 20t loaded n off!
Interesting read on the road train Dean, they didn’t just buy a motor n hope for the best
I bet that Foden was an handful,12sp n I doubt he’d use half of em loaded. I recall Jimbo saying that side tippers weren’t up to much, when he sees this he’ll gen us up. Cheers Coomsey
Reckon your right about the gears “coomsey”.
paul motyka:
Can someone tell me what model CAT this is?
Picture taken at Holme Hall Quarry Stainton after Tarmac took over Butlers in 1979.
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Great pic Paul,thanks for posting it ! 
Sorry dont know exactly which model that is “coomsey” may know as he drove
various tonka toys and i think “essex pete” knows his loaders.
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anorak:coomsey:
… I recall Jimbo saying that side tippers weren’t up to much, when he sees this he’ll gen us up. Cheers Coomseyyoutube.com/watch?v=MF85rI9oyeM&t=398s
Those are side tippers in that video. There is a driver opening the gates from about 1:40. Considering the huge loads, they seem to do OK.The Chinese are turning everything we think we know on its head. If you hadn’t seen the videos, would you have believed that 6-axle artics would carry well over 100tons, every day, in ordinary operation? The vehicles seem to survive but, on the other hand, most of the kit in those videos isn’t much more than a year old.
Thanks for the link to the video “anorak”. If “Dig” looks in he may be able to comment as i expect he will know about
those side tippers.
The s39 and s80s were Fodens own worm and crown wheel axles , after the s83 they went with Rockwell which were useless for site work .
Some odds and sods.
Click on pages twice to read.
Mighty Scammell Contractors.
Chris Webb,some Atkinson tankers.
“finbarot” Drinkwater from 1971.
E.Macperson from Nottingham 1969.
G.E.Moore’s Mastiff’s from 1969.
Hawleys Bedford 1970.
The Scammell Routeman,Handyman and Trunker all shared the same glass fibre cab that was styled by the
Italian stylist Michelotti.
I had a Scammel on Tarmac not a bad bit of kit for all she was 10yr old,bet they were a buga to wash but in the 6 months I had her I never quite got round to it,no pay no work! Cheers Coomsey
PMP Logistics Scania.Anyone know where they are from ■■
G.H.Moreton MAN from South Wales.
Anyone know where the Roadways Container Scania is from ■■
Crisp Malting Group Volvo.
D.Jenkins Volvo.
Anyone recognise the Scania heavy haulier,looks like Winchester bypass.
Anyone know where the Port Xpress Iveco is from ■■
BTS Haulage Scania.
Dont think we have had a Mark Steadman motor on before.
Dont think we have had a Hollands motor on before,anyone know where they are from ■■
Hi Dean
the Drinkwater artic was nicknamed ‘the Barge’ or ‘the Queen Mary’. They were big news back in the day.
It was so big that when it was tipped near Heathrow airport , air traffic control had to be informed and after tipping the driver had to shovel the clouds out of the sheet box !!
