Hiya…just a small note…all the road traffic is moving forward and the rail traffic moving backwards as it has
untill now .whats left of it anyway.As you say i could walk right into the picture.on the first photo it
looks like the little standard is running on choke.I wounder if the quarry manager was off home early.
look for some more photo,s like that one. love it.
John
hi john you are not on about my uncle terry on davem plant are you ?
beany:
hi john you are not on about my uncle terry on davem plant are you ?
Hiya mate.thats a blast from the past. we can keep in touch now.i,did,nt do Davem plant with Terry it was with Nesca or Billy brindley.
Terry must have some pritty good photo,s some where. i can remember he always took photo,s of his trucks. he should have some morlocks
for the stoke site.I.ll send yo a PM
Cheer John
beany:
hi john you are not on about my uncle terry on davem plant are you ?
Hiya mate.thats a blast from the past. we can keep in touch now.i,did,nt do Davem plant with Terry it was with Nesca or Billy brindley.
Terry must have some pritty good photo,s some where. i can remember he always took photo,s of his trucks. he should have some morlocks
for the stoke site.I.ll send yo a PM
Cheer John
Hello John, I got your PM and here( hopefully) is the picture you requested taken by Mr. Jack Harrison in the mid '50s.
I somehow think though that it is the Buxton in Norfolk where that motor is from. It would have been a clue if you could see the rear number plate. Whenever I take a photo I always try to get the reg. in if at all possible. Regards, Haddy,GT.Yarmouth.
Another one of Topley Pike
Do you know when that photo was taken John ?
I read somewhere that Manchester Corporation were buying the quarry to turn into a landfill site.
Hi Paul.
Its seems they were taken around 2007.Heres a couple more
dont know the year of the 2nd two.
TIPIT:
Here it is John, what livery is your Mk 5 at the moment ? … Paul.
Hiya i was talking with a chap who,s worked with AEC,s/wimpey and motorway muck shifting all his life
tells me these AEC,s was fitted with AV760’s. the beaten up aec’s on the graveyard site could
well be some of EX callagans. i was getting some diffs for mine in the week and you could still see silver
on the chassis… wimpey colour…the AEC MK5 was on a J plate 1970
John
Is their any pics around of Ben Bennett Jnr fleet.Come on Bonkey I would bet on you having one or two.
Got this one from transportphotos.com
transportphotos.com/road/photo/JLC00150-1
I suppose that I should contribute to this thread, seeing how I was based at Ballidon Quarry, near Ashbourne, in Derbyshire!
First pic is the last new Foden tipper that Tilcon put into Ballidon, May 1986, and I drove it for 10 1/2 years. Pictured on the Carsington Water contract, R/R 265 Li engine and Fuller 9 speed g/box, the engine did around 700,000 MILES (not KM’s)without a spanner on it but eventually was using over 1 gallon of oil per day so was replaced by an engine from a scrapyard which was worse than the original one!!
Then in November 1996 I was given the Foden 3000 series new, had a few teething problems which were never sorted as the gaffer wasn’t interested really. R/R/ Perkins 335 engine and Fuller 13 speed g/box, very sluggish to pull away loaded and on some hill jobs I was unable to reverse up to the paver as the engine just died! Had it for a year and then jacked as I got a job with a local firm (still at Ballidon) on a D reg Foden 6 wheeler (ex Smiths of Bletchingdon) but that was camera shy. 
Pete.
Stanfield:
Is their any pics around of Ben Bennett Jnr fleet.Come on Bonkey I would bet on you having one or two.
This is the only one I have Stanny mate. Strange really as they used to be quite prominent this way on.
Two from Crich in the early to mid 70s. Would love an ID on the Sabrina in the 2nd pic.
John this was taken around September last year on Sheffield ring road " Ridgeway Road"
sammyopisite:
John this was taken around September last year on Sheffield ring road " Ridgeway Road"
Ridgeway Road has changed a lot Sammie.You could never fail to get a lift to Derby/Burton/Lichfield back to the wagon,anytime,night or day,from Gleadless Townend back in the dark ages. 
Chris there are building some more flats on the land behind the Ben Bennetts wagon so that looks different from when I tool that pic.
cheers Johnnie
Hiya donkey…did’nt know if you’d see this one…hope it works for you.
I did’nt talk to the owner so could’nt ask which depot it was from originally,
the owners a matlock area chap
this was out at llandudno 1st may and it looked like the first outing
John
