Old earthmoving plant photos

[bigdigger77]

Hi
Whilst having a tidy up I came across some old photos given to me when a family friend passed away several years ago.
Some look like they are taken on the job and some maybe professional promotional.
Bit of history !

 

[bigdigger77]

Some more pictures

 

[bigdigger77]

more

 

[bigdigger77]

And more

 

[Bri963]

Top pictures there. It'd be good to know some of the stories behind them, especially the bottom dump with the upside down cab.

 

[LDK]

Nice to see some old tackle, thank you for sharing them

 

[Rob 210]

Cracking photo's
Any Idea what years they where taken

 

[bigdigger77]

Afraid I don’t know much about the photos. They came from the late Dennis Lean who was a large earthmoving contractor in the 50s 60s and 70s based in Warwickshire.
Was hoping by posting I could find out more about them myself

 

[modelman093]

A few from the 1960s
Hope that this is not crashing someone else's thread but cant see how to start one of my own.

 

[bigdigger77]

More old photos the better
Love the fact they use to drive the scrapers from job to job on the public highway

 

[LDK]

I think picture 1023 is was taken at either Wraysbury resevoir woring for Laings or maybe with W C French at Brentwood?
Are the tandem pushing 9’s Blackwells?

 

[modelman093]

More old photos the better
Love the fact they use to drive the scrapers from job to job on the public highway

Those particular ones were brand new on delivery to their first job but in those days scrapers were regularly "tramped" from job to job.

 

[modelman093]

I think picture 1023 is was taken at either Wraysbury resevoir woring for Laings or maybe with W C French at Brentwood?
Are the tandem pushing 9’s Blackwells?

That particular Le Tourneau pic was taken on the Brentwood by-pass but I have a bad image of it or another one taken at Wrasbury a couple of years later but with the cab over the centre bogie.
Yes, Blackwells D9s working with five 657s near Chesterfield. The 657 in my Avatar belonged to Pat Merriman.

 

[V8Druid]

my new dumper arrives tomorrow
re-purposed MAZ missile carrier/launcher .... if only ..... would slow the traccy boys down, meeting this bugger in the lanes

or its mate, the Mk II

 

[Bob]

Hi
Whilst having a tidy up I came across some old photos given to me when a family friend passed away several years ago.
Some look like they are taken on the job and some maybe professional promotional.
Bit of history !

By the look of the machines I would say just after 1961 as that was when the first D9G came out ,but some of the photos look a bit older with the Euclud dump trucks and DW20 and followed by the DW 21s lovely photos and the Aveling Barford grader this is the first and second photos the last photos some where in the 1970 with some of the machines in them

 

[craig]

Didn't know where to put these...
From local paper, these are/nearly are classics now

The Hitachi with the purple dipper and the R has got to be Ruttle plant
The Benati would have been a rare bird one for @barracane

www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/mysterious-railway-discovered-disappears-sea-21805572

 

[craig]

Something a bit older, same location

 

[Bri963]

Is that Druid in the saddle?

 

[V8Druid]

Is that Druid in the saddle?

my father was 3 in 1930

 

[Bri963]

my father was 3 in 1930

Mine was 4.