Hi dave,
Thanks for continuing to post the tipper pics.
Special thanks for the Sharples Fodens.
Pursy, lets have some more pics of that new MAN, looks pretty sharp.
Cheers
Mark
roadcommander2:
Hi dave,Thanks for continuing to post the tipper pics.
Special thanks for the Sharples Fodens.
Pursy, lets have some more pics of that new MAN, looks pretty sharp.
Cheers
Mark
Hi Mark,
Have plenty of new tipper pics to post, but struggling to get the old one’s, have got quite a few mates who are trying to find theirs. I have loads of all the cars that Ive owned, but never took any of the lorries, except the Dodge of Brisbanes.
Will put some old one’s on when I have some more.
Cheers Dave.
One of Ivor Duggans coming up the runway to the Strinds quarry for another load of lime.
Even the Rebel gets thirsty, Tony Roberts getting out for a brew at Letton snack van A438.
The Rebel has driven for Tony Lewis for over twenty five years, four, six and eight wheel tippers, also on long distance with a four wheeler curtainsider.
Dave the Renegade:
One of Ivor Duggans coming up the runway to the Strinds quarry for another load of lime.
Is Strinds a Limestone quarry then Dave, I only ask because Gore is very hard Welsh Gtitstone (Granite) and I thought they were close to one another? Mind you, in the Buxton area there were two Limestone quarries with a Black Basalt quarry between them! Not much lime spread around here nowadays, but Ballidon did a heck of a lot in the '60’s when farmers had a subsidy on it. The spreaders used to travel from Ashbourne down as far as Banbury and Warwick towed with Fergie tractors, before ramps were introduced the truck drivers had to handball the lime from their trucks into the spreaders, even non tippers used to carry lime as a tipper was no advantage! No fat truckers on that job!! Longcliffe quarries had spreaders up to a few years ago, they were about the last to do it on a regular basis.
Pete.
windrush:
Dave the Renegade:
One of Ivor Duggans coming up the runway to the Strinds quarry for another load of lime.Is Strinds a Limestone quarry then Dave, I only ask because Gore is very hard Welsh Gtitstone (Granite) and I thought they were close to one another? Mind you, in the Buxton area there were two Limestone quarries with a Black Basalt quarry between them! Not much lime spread around here nowadays, but Ballidon did a heck of a lot in the '60’s when farmers had a subsidy on it. The spreaders used to travel from Ashbourne down as far as Banbury and Warwick towed with Fergie tractors, before ramps were introduced the truck drivers had to handball the lime from their trucks into the spreaders, even non tippers used to carry lime as a tipper was no advantage! No fat truckers on that job!! Longcliffe quarries had spreaders up to a few years ago, they were about the last to do it on a regular basis.
Pete.
Hi Pete,
Yes Strinds and Dolyhir are both limestone quarries, both joined up now, as was the Nash quarry near Presteigne which is mothballed, but still has a license. Ivor Duggan is the biggest lime spreading operator in the Herefordshire-Welsh border area, spreading anything up to 400 ton a day,he has two Fendt tractors and a massey fergy spreading and three six and a eight wheel tipper hauling. There are a few more one man bands still doing it, but most of the others have packed it in. Gore and Strinds-Dolyhir are about half a mile apart, back edge of the Gore is now about 300yards from Dolyhir back edge as the crow flies.
Cheers Dave
One of Hereford lowloaders on the A4111 between Bollingham and Eardisley, with a load of road rollers.
John Rook, drives this eight wheeler for M A Evans, he has worked for them for over thirty years, always on a rigid, always a tidy one, but this was the first new lorry he ever had ( two years ago ) . Probably the last as he is a veteran trucker.
One of Kington operator Keith Miles mixers, pictured at Leominster lorry park.
The light was fading when this pic was took.
Here is MAN about to be collected from dealer September 2008.
Thats a nice moter Pursy, its a wonder Paul hasn’t had one of those to give the once over, or evaluate.
Not a tipper as you can see. Shane Hobsons Daf pictured at Knighton.
One of Tony Gough and sons, Knighton Haulage Scania’s pictured at their yard.
This Daf has had a few trips to the continent over the years, but now runs mainly uk.
Another of Tony Gough’s Scania’s.
Rebel impersonating a monkey, or perhaps, its the other way round. 
Early days of Ivor Duggans Business,Leyland Boxer and Dodge lined up with one of his sons in the foreground.
These pictures are courtesy of Ivor Duggan & Sons.
A young Ivor Duggan with the first lorry of his own.
First two again.
Ivor Duggan drove this F86 for Graham Sinclair, before setting up his own business.