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How many of these old girls did Amey’s run!They ran a fair few when they started the owner driver racket.
Good old wagon for that work, the only problem with the old Michelotti/fin-face cab is they were like a sauna in summer & a fridge in winter!
Yeah they were good to drive, as you said they were a sauna/fridge, I packed the job in when we had to go owner driver, but I drove one for a mate who took one on, it did go very well.
I was an OD from 1984-93 out of Billing pit Northampton and on mobile plant Milton Keynes and Shrewsbury
the two Leyland were second hand the Fodens were new the wife drove the tipper out of Milton keynes and
Billing on black top
Mastif v8 Perkins
Cockney Rebel
cockney rebel:
I was an OD from 1984-93 out of Billing pit Northampton and on mobile plant Milton Keynes and Shrewsbury
the two Leyland were second hand the Fodens were new the wife drove the tipper out of Milton keynes and
Billing on black top
Mastif v8 Perkins
Cockney Rebel
Cockney Rebel --Welcome to the Amey forum ,the pics of the Premix trucks bring back memories but the S&P HD6 mixer units on the leylands were a disaster -how did you find them?— toshboy
found the Stothart and Pitt with donkey engine better than the wright mixer or PTO, had a bit of a weight penalty
but any breakdown you was safe
cockney rebel:
found the Stothart and Pitt with donkey engine better than the wright mixer or PTO, had a bit of a weight penalty
but any breakdown you was safe
Hi cockney rebel.
On a re-look at your mixer pics i can now see i was mistaken in the model.they are not HD6s but the much improved later (1980 onwards replacement ) model -the back end in particular -also i believe they had the italian built central direct drum drive gearbox --donkey/hydro ■■? -i would agree with your comments re donkey.-early full hydraulics/pto were a nightmare if a pipe burst by the time the slave units arrived and fixed the load had usually gone off !! happy days -call the fire brigade to pump out–!---------------- toshboy
Dorchester Premix
Sutton Courteney
Could this’ve been Browns’ Pit, as they ran red tippers?
This is meant to be “a quarry near Northleach”…Could it’ve been Whitehill near Burford? This was an Amey stone quarry… 
Muckaway:
Could this’ve been Browns’ Pit, as they ran red tippers?
I remember a firm called Dix I think they were from Freeland, they ran three Dodge 6 leggers in red like the one in the picture, out of Ameys at Claydon Pike Lechlade, they ran to Premix at Stratton St. Margaret Swindon. I don’t know if they had a pit that they sold to Amey’s but a few years ago I loaded recycled glass out of a closed down Amey pit, and it was known as Dix Pit.
Muckaway:
Dorchester Premix
Hi Nathan, I last saw this pic in the Amey publicity office at Wootton before the Almagated Roadstone takeover --they got “lost” in the merger! nice to see them again–any more??. The Dorchester plant was built in 1954 and loose cement was delivered in tippers from cmc kidlington (cherwell) into a ground hopper and bucket elevated to top of plant into silo !!!
The Premix plant is the first on the left .aggs also bucketed to top ------------------- toshboy
Muckaway:
This is meant to be “a quarry near Northleach”…Could it’ve been Whitehill near Burford? This was an Amey stone quarry…
Hi Nathan,i dont recognize this one --the only stone quarry i knew was Ameys Witney Stone but that was at Northleigh
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Muckaway:
Could this’ve been Browns’ Pit, as they ran red tippers?I remember a firm called Dix I think they were from Freeland, they ran three Dodge 6 leggers in red like the one in the picture, out of Ameys at Claydon Pike Lechlade, they ran to Premix at Stratton St. Margaret Swindon. I don’t know if they had a pit that they sold to Amey’s but a few years ago I loaded recycled glass out of a closed down Amey pit, and it was known as Dix Pit.
Hi Altitude. I cannot tell whose pit the pic shows ,but Ameys took over dix and browns around the same time I believe there was a seperate dix tipper fleet operated by a dix family member after the take over .one of the dix drivers (tony?) later moved to Cassington Smiths concrete plant as a mixer driver -----toshboy
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Muckaway:
Could this’ve been Browns’ Pit, as they ran red tippers?I remember a firm called Dix I think they were from Freeland, they ran three Dodge 6 leggers in red like the one in the picture, out of Ameys at Claydon Pike Lechlade, they ran to Premix at Stratton St. Margaret Swindon. I don’t know if they had a pit that they sold to Amey’s but a few years ago I loaded recycled glass out of a closed down Amey pit, and it was known as Dix Pit.
Hi Altitude. I cannot tell whose pit the pic shows ,but Ameys took over dix and browns around the same time I believe there was a seperate dix tipper fleet operated by a dix family member after the take over .one of the dix drivers (tony?) later moved to Cassington Smiths concrete plant as a mixer driver -----toshboy
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Muckaway:
Could this’ve been Browns’ Pit, as they ran red tippers?I remember a firm called Dix I think they were from Freeland, they ran three Dodge 6 leggers in red like the one in the picture, out of Ameys at Claydon Pike Lechlade, they ran to Premix at Stratton St. Margaret Swindon. I don’t know if they had a pit that they sold to Amey’s but a few years ago I loaded recycled glass out of a closed down Amey pit, and it was known as Dix Pit.
Hi Altitude. I cannot tell whose pit the pic shows ,but Ameys took over dix and browns around the same time I believe there was a seperate dix tipper fleet operated by a dix family member after the take over .one of the dix drivers (tony?) later moved to Cassington Smiths concrete plant as a mixer driver -----toshboy
Hi toshboy
I think it’s the seperate Dix tippers I’m thinking of, I’m sure on the doors it said ? ? Dix. Freeland. Oxon, can’t remember the letters befor Dix, It’s a long time ago now but the old boy that drove one of the three and seemed to be in charge, was a big old boy I think his name was Roy, the other two were brothers I think one of them emigrated to Oz, and thinking about it now the Dodges were maroon not red.
cheers
John.
Muckaway:
Sutton Courteney
This is a superb evocative photo, many thanks for posting it.
The Leyland under the tar plant closest to the camera certainly has a low sided body! Also liking the ergo cabbed Leyland (?) waiting in line. Body not insulated on that one!
Also liking the other tar plant in the distance. But what are the dark looking things to the right of it?
toshboy:
Muckaway:
This is meant to be “a quarry near Northleach”…Could it’ve been Whitehill near Burford? This was an Amey stone quarry…Hi Nathan,i dont recognize this one --the only stone quarry i knew was Ameys Witney Stone but that was at Northleigh
It is Northleigh 
I asked a couple of drivers at work; they remember it as Ameys not Witney Stone but that could’ve been before their time 
The Goodmans used to haul out of there and used it as a tip after quarrying ended.
The pit at Quarry Road, Witney (where Quarry Road housing estate now is) was Haines’ pit. Haines also owned Whitehill (at the Widford turn A40), plus one at Worsham Bottom between Worsham Mill and Asthall Crossroads. I’ve been told Haines worked out the one where Lotus Renault now are between Enstone and Kiddington (Washingtons). Haines also had a gravel pit at Hardwick where Cemex are now and were taken over by Kingston Minerals…who became part of ARC/Hansons.
BonkeyDollocks:
Muckaway:
Sutton CourteneyThis is a superb evocative photo, many thanks for posting it.
The Leyland under the tar plant closest to the camera certainly has a low sided body! Also liking the ergo cabbed Leyland (?) waiting in line. Body not insulated on that one!
Also liking the other tar plant in the distance. But what are the dark looking things to the right of it?
Hi Bonkey Dollocks,
Tar plants were not my forte apart from getting loaded but i think the heated tanks were for different type/grades of bitumen ,they do have chimneys and of course would have to have been continually fired----toshboy
Having posted the following on Old Firms in Oxford area, now to the “home” thread.
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Some more.
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