unfortunately it’s times like this when the " SCUM" rises to the top, i’m sure the good people came to her aid…
Here is an E R F tractor unit running for Bardon concrete. Around 1970 to 71. My brother on the step.
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ERF bardon
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I think the ERF 26tonne gross.it had a single axle trailer .Gardener 150 David brown gearbox. I think this was one of the few vehicles they bought second hand. When Bardon first started concrete slab production in the late 60s they had 2 new AEC mercury Tractor units F reg with York twin axle trailers.also a. Dodge K1050 16ton 4 wheeler flat bed.
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Think they had the ERF in midd 70s.
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Bardon quarry Foden steam lorry’s
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This is a Vulcan at Bardon tipping into a pegsons jaw crusher . This was the main primary crusher until the early 60s when they brought the French Babit a lot bigger.They had quite a few Vucans working internally, alongside some 8 wheeler’s all ex road lorry’s.These could not feed the Babit so Euclid’s dump trucks replaced them ,the Vulcans carried on for a number of years stocking.I think Newline plant and transport ran Vulcans well into the late 60s on the road.
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Great Photos Nick I liked the vulcans heater stuck in the radiator…my dad never had a heater inidcator lights were installed after the lorry was several years old. I remember getting a lift out of west london with a bardon concrete lorry…about 1965 it was a aec mercury with a four in line trailer…lots of hard work in those days unloading by hand
Yes Bardon had lorry’s contacted to a company on there site called Industrial Concrete Products.4 AEC mercury’s Park Royal cabs.with 4 inline Highway trailers .2 Commers 1 maxiload 1 12 toner l Dodge Kew artic with AEC engine and gearbox as I mentioned earlier.later 2AEC mercury eganomic cabs with York 2axle trailer’s They were owned by Steer Plant which a was a Bardon company. We looked after them when I was in the garage. The one you went in would have been one of the Park Royal cab .they were B regs . This gets the memory working. BFP 102B to 105 I think.?
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I think driver comfort was way down the list then.
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part of the Babit crusher loaded in France ready for transportation to Bardon.
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Thats a rare sight a normal control tractor must have been french. The aec artic I came from london in had a one piece windshield and was very new and very fast I had a mate with me so we were a bit crushed in the cab.I wouldnt want to take that vulcan on the alaska highway !!
Yes they did have a one piece windscreen.I have pictures of Pickford’s drawing the trailer back in England .Will find them out and post them.When in 1968 the road traffic act said that they had to have 3 line bracking we had all 4 AEC tractors fitted with double diaphragms. Commanly know as the dead man in those days. Now the secondary brake.
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The new handle in the cab had not for parking written on it I you used it to park when the air went down the brakes would come off. still had the cable park brake.
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nick lambden:
Yes they did have a one piece windscreen.I have pictures of Pickford’s drawing the trailer back in England .Will find them out and post them.When in 1968 the road traffic act said that they had to have 3 line bracking we had all 4 AEC tractors fitted with double diaphragms. Commanly know as the dead man in those days. Now the secondary brake.Sent from my FIG-LX1 using Tapatalk
Yes, I remember, the dead man’s handle, a term borrowed from the railways I believe and a misnomer. A true ‘dead man’ is a lever that has to be held in a certain position to keep the brakes off. If the driver passes out and releases pressure, the vehicle stops. As long as he doesn’t fall on the lever of course. 
Again from a perhaps shaky memory, didn’t we also use them to check if the brake lights were working and to hold the trailer when giving the 5th wheel jaws a security tug ? 
Yes that’s correct, funny how deep memory’s are brought out.
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CF yeti put me right on this guy, I think, but he may as well told my dog,cos I’ve forgotten
This is one of Roger Bown,s Fodens a 350 ■■■■■■■■ with a twin splitter box ,it replaced a Sed Aki and was the first new Foden tractor he bought.
Here are a few of 1964 commer TNH272 owned by the whitwick granite company of Leicestershire. My dad drove TNH265
How many did they buy. By the reg numbers that’s 7 . I suppose they were 12 toners although that didn’t matter much in those day’s.We had 2 Commers flats at Bardon running for industrial concrete products.1 was a 16 tonne maxiload and a 12 tonne it had a 24 foot body so they used to fill it up ,way over weight.We were always relining the brakes ,it took one or two lampposts out trying to stop.
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Sorry about the pictures I have no way of correcting them. There were 12 commers tnh 265 to 276 …they came in 1964 and lasted about 5 years I dont know if they were sold off or scrapped then I never saw one again a couple were destroyed in the garage fire of 1967 . They ran at 14 ton gross payload about 9 ton payload I think. The AEC/maudesley lorries which preceded them all were scrapped . Its amazing how memory fades I always thought the exhaust was under the front bumper and the body was a lot deeper than it appeared the wheels looked very large for such a small lorry. They bought a handful of E reg commers after that with a slightly different grill.