I’ve still got a brass token from Northern United. Will that do?
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I’ve still got a brass token from Northern United. Will that do?
Hi ROF, Does it still shine !! . regards Keith .
One of Gordon Gilder`s Scania artics , loading breeding lambs at Hawes Auction Mart , September 2013.
Cheers , cattle wagon man.
I remember Winget dumpers (the product). They were rear steered as opposed to Benford-Thwaites which were articulated. I think Winget merged with Sanderson, who were associated with Priestman (of the Lion dragline fame).
Talking of construction stuff, any memories of Kingston Minerals? They had a pit between Lechlade and Fairford, with offices behind the Shell garage. I remembered them today as my boss’ Dad used to haul for them when he started up in the early '80s. (Alan Cleaver, RIP)
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I’ve still got a brass token from Northern United. Will that do?Hi ROF, Does it still shine !! . regards Keith .
It never did in my ownership. I found it in the mud when clearing scrap from the old site.
Just spotted the name, “Dennis” on another thread and it reminded me that there was a firm based in Sharpness Docks who ran Dennis artics in the 1960s with, I seem to recall, Perkins V8 engines. Anyone remind me of their name and what sort of livery they had?
Muir Hill also made tarmac spreaders and shovel loaders although I think someone up Uttoxeter way beat them at the shovel loaders.
The Spreaders were delivered with an ex council four in line low loader (ratchet jacks with long handles to pump it up with, none of this new fangled hydraulicly stuff) For the bucket loaders we had a brand new Andover beavertailed stepframe with spring loaded ramps. (I knew the job was too good to last. 
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The worst job I had with the low loader was a spreader to Aberystwyth University where I hap to tip in on a sloping road whilst it persistently precipitated. To get the back wheels out each jack had to be pumped up in turn until the wheel pairs dropped out of their clamps, of course being in pairs you had to watch they didn’t go roll about. Then a pair of steel ladder ramps had be blocked up with sleepers before you could drive the spreader off (Not the best time to learn how to drive one) I ended up knackered and soaked to the skin. Yeh, the good ol’ days 
The shovel loaders would often go to council yards and you could get two on the trailer, much easier to tip and sometimes I needed to stay all day while they tried them out then bring them back. One even went up to Highgrove House but that stayed a while before I brought it back.
Edit> Having just woke up I think the spreaders may have been under the Babcox (sp) label but they all came out through the same door.
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Just spotted the name, “Dennis” on another thread and it reminded me that there was a firm based in Sharpness Docks who ran Dennis artics in the 1960s with, I seem to recall, Perkins V8 engines. Anyone remind me of their name and what sort of livery they had?
Hi Rof, Dennis artics are you sure, 
Les.
Trent Wharfage maybe?
Hi, Les. Absolutely! Still got a few marbles left although they don’t work as well, or as often, as they used to.
Paul, Give that man a Yorkie! Trent Wharfage, of course. Now for the livery- light blue comes to mind. Anyone confirm or deny?
And didn’t they run Fodens on the bulk side of the business?
Talking of plant, anyone remember Bray at Tetbury? From what I remember, they went a bit like Hymac- overtaken by better foreign made machinery. Smiths switched from Bray to Volvo for loading shovels, far better product. Bray were taken over in the end by Matbro and for a while were Matbro-Bray. TBH I haven’t seen Matbro kit around for a while.
That’s the ones. It may be the colour in the photo but I seem to think it was a bit more blue than green.
Or is it just me?
Trent Wharfage had a fair few depots around the country, mostly in the Eastern part, but the Sharpness fleet were the first I had seen as a newbie driver.
Me.Paul.101:
What about this for a cab?0
That’s not a cab Paul…that’s a bloody shed. 
Didn’t Trent Wharfage virtually run Sharpness docks? There was also Vallance the Devon based company there as well who also had a warehouse up on the Moreton Vallance airfield, handy for the odd bag of Egyptian new spuds when in season 
Me.Paul.101:
What about this for a cab?0
That cab would have been a ■■■■ sight better than the nest boxes that Jennings made!
Sorry, John, I know you weren’t on the design team!
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Didn’t Trent Wharfage virtually run Sharpness docks? There was also Vallance the Devon based company there as well who also had a warehouse up on the Moreton Vallance airfield, handy for the odd bag of Egyptian new spuds when in season
Bh freight aka benny hill Brooke hogden
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Me.Paul.101:
What about this for a cab?0That cab would have been a ■■■■ sight better than the nest boxes that Jennings made!
Sorry, John, I know you weren’t on the design team!
I’m sure they would have nailed a pidgeon loft on the back of the cabs but I think space was an issue…
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Me.Paul.101:
What about this for a cab?0That cab would have been a ■■■■ sight better than the nest boxes that Jennings made!
Sorry, John, I know you weren’t on the design team!
i thought the sleeper extensions on these Fodens were made by Jennings??, they done the sleeper conversions on the narrow 3000 cab and earlier S10 Haulmaster and Fleetmaster cabs, pretty certain that the S80-type was a jennings item. Looked huge in sleeper form, but think the design works well with that cab.
Chris.