Some great photos there gurty, who drove the 8 wheeler FL that was tarted up a bit it had a full set of coach wheeltrims on it, have you any more older ones of the F7s,
f7sidd:
Some great photos there gurty, who drove the 8 wheeler FL that was tarted up a bit it had a full set of coach wheeltrims on it, have you any more older ones of the F7s,
A lad called Adrian Dovey, nick named “Scud”!. He went on to work in the transfer station then the skip office and after we sold up, he drove my artic tipper on hire to Banks.
hello gurty
some good photos their mate, last time i seen your dad was down the doctors at the burn was going to ask if he had any photos but you found the site, i am just down the road from him at mulberry park.
seeing some of the older motors is nice i used to live at herrington.
regards
mark
gurty:
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Defo well boss 
What happened to the 86 lying over to the N/S and where was the FL on its side near the railway crossing,loving the F7 pic i can recall youngys having some of those CregLNLs painted light blue so no one knew whos they were during the miners strike 
f7sidd:
What happened to the 86 lying over to the N/S and where was the FL on its side near the railway crossing,loving the F7 pic i can recall youngys having some of those CregLNLs painted light blue so no one knew whos they were during the miners strike
I think the 86 broke a rear spring? The FL was just along from the Ashington workshops NCB, he took the bend a little too hard!! I don’t have many F7 photos to hand but i’ll keep searching. I can remember those ones of Youngys. They had no name on so they could cross the picket lines…but everybody knew whos they were!! The other FL went over on Burnhills landfill site. The gaffers on the site were not very helpfull that day…but thats health and safety i suppose. We soon had it back on its feet and away for repair !!
Hi gurty i remember as a boy about 83ish i think, i would run home put the cb on and catch your lads running threw Throckley heading for motherwell i believe, i remember one as mitchyrig and another as diesel burner
thechink1968:
Hi gurty i remember as a boy about 83ish i think, i would run home put the cb on and catch your lads running threw Throckley heading for motherwell i believe, i remember one as mitchyrig and another as diesel burner
Michey rig was called Davey Lewis, he ended up comeing off the road and going into the garage then eventually retiring, i can’t remember diesel burner though. Maybe someone on here can help?
marcus 22:
hello gurtysome good photos their mate, last time i seen your dad was down the doctors at the burn was going to ask if he had any photos but you found the site, i am just down the road from him at mulberry park.
seeing some of the older motors is nice i used to live at herrington.
regards
mark
Hi Mark,
I’ve told him about the site but with him being over 70, he’s not computer literate. If your chatting, don’t tell him which ones ive put on especially the smashed up Thames Trader as he was the driver!!!
Regards,
Andrew.
f7sidd:
night shift bri:
f7sid have you any info or pics of Geordie Bamborough’s from Chester le Street used to run tippers. I believe they ended up running out of Portobello Ind. Est. but used to be based under the viaduct at Cheater years ago. I had a cousin called Raymond Hodgson worked as a fitter for them, believe he commited suicide, or so I was told.ive found this one, dont know where i got it from and i cant remember them to be homest, must of been before my time, when did they pack in. do you or anyone else remember another small tipper firm from chester le street whalton a father and two sons running out of arc houghton le spring in the early 80s the father was called harry i think and he had a 4 wheeler daf and the sons had 6 wheeler hinos new at the time, they were painted green
The vehicle in the photot is an AEC Marshall Eight. the first of which were built for George Bambrough with Marshall Mechanics and a Mammomth Major Chassis, which gave a payload of 16 1/2 tons which was at least a. ton more than was possible on most eight wheelers at the time
gurty:
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Have no photos of Bamborough’s but well remember the company and George. They did run from under the viaduct at Chester ( where the Tesco car park is now. Had mostly AEC 8 wheelers with a few Fodens. I went to the Washington Grammar school on Spout Lane in the sixties which backed onto the F pit which had one of the biggest spoil heaps in the area. At about the same time the motorway from the Tyne Tunnel up to the A1 M was being built and Bamborough’s shifted just about the whole heap up to the section that runs up past Springwell Village.
They were eventually bought out by Harry Marsh (Marsh Group) and moved up to Portobello. Marsh Group closed down in the late seventies.
tyneside:
Not strictly wagons but it’s Peacock’s before any of us were born
dont know if you remember me but i used to drive one of your dads old albions when ever i was on leave from the army. i lived on beacon lough east it would have been from about 1969 after a while i used to get one of the 4 wheeler rigids and do spillers or stone blocks out of springwell it was a good way of earning a bit of extra pocket money then cos the army didn,t pay that well
BIGJEFF:
tyneside:
Not strictly wagons but it’s Peacock’s before any of us were borndont know if you remember me but i used to drive one of your dads old albions when ever i was on leave from the army. i lived on beacon lough east it would have been from about 1969 after a while i used to get one of the 4 wheeler rigids and do spillers or stone blocks out of springwell it was a good way of earning a bit of extra pocket money then cos the army didn,t pay that well
Think I can remember, but it’s a longtime ago now. Did you know that my Dad died just last year, one day after his 90th birthday