AEC Marshal of Catto… showing a TIR plate, did it go into Europe?
ISTR they always had TIR plates - I guess they must have had a drivers depot in Glasgow for TIR work
Only Jimmy(s) would be able to sleep in that 
gingerfold:
AEC Marshal of Catto… showing a TIR plate, did it go into Europe?
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T&M Catto certainly did Europe so I expect some poor bugger took it there
Bruce is still knocking about drove for tarmac at middle peak then finished on refuse carts out of tansley Matlock
Bruce is still knocking about drove for tarmac at middle peak then finished on refuse carts out of tansley Matlock
tyneside:
From Face Book Tyneside
Car in front is a Victor, not a Cresta. It is a BMC product behind. Those Victors rusted away at an amazing pace…
David Battiye pic of his f in law 33/34 a bit of a looker
5 October 1984
M4 East bound nr Cardiff, CYM
Something i tried to avoid where possible…
Getting caught up in a coal convoy, ease off and let 'em go…
My wife and I were on holiday in britain in 1984…we saw several convoys GB …never seen anything like it before or since …hgv drivers with crash helmets on…things had certainly changed since I bailed out in the mid 1970 s.
Don’t remember seeing them at all, and I was heavily involved during that time. Was it from non-striking pits, or what?
I grew up in coalville leicestershire I didnt see much activity around there we did a tour of wales in our hire car and saw lots of activity in south wales then again up in northern notts and south yorks . My dad had a friend T Glover (who coomsey once drove for) based in ravenstone he had a fleet of tippers several of those were kitted out for the strike. I was pleased to get back into tranquil western canada
I were on the opencast by the time of the strike. Still had doings getting to work for all Leicestershire voted not to strike n we weren’t in the NUM
Buzzers pic of the Peak Mining, Matlock, tipper has been on various sites over the years and nobody has a clue about either the company or the maker of the vehicle? I have a larger and clearer pic and it appears to be outside what was possibly either the supplier or body manufacturer. The vehicle has solid tyres but with the holes to give a softer ride, the French used those. It has an exposed radiator and a starting handle behind the ‘bumper’ and also a differential instead of the more usual chain drive. Speed limit 12 mph, plenty fast enough I think! 
One chap blew the pic up and the rams appear to be hydraulic but as to which maker produced it is still a mystery and nobody in my area who know local history can find anything out about the firm either! I do know that I wouldn’t have been keen launching myself in it down the old Slack Hill between Matlock and Chesterfield though!! 
Maybe the much older Trucknet experts like Harry Gill or Bewick actually met it on the road and can give us more info? 
Pete.
windrush:
Buzzers pic of the Peak Mining, Matlock, tipper has been on various sites over the years and nobody has a clue about either the company or the maker of the vehicle? I have a larger and clearer pic and it appears to be outside what was possibly either the supplier or body manufacturer. The vehicle has solid tyres but with the holes to give a softer ride, the French used those. It has an exposed radiator and a starting handle behind the ‘bumper’ and also a differential instead of the more usual chain drive. Speed limit 12 mph, plenty fast enough I think!Pete.
Hold me back “H” hold me back !! or I’ll give him a" knucle buttie" so help me the cheeky young Bugger !
windrush:
Buzzers pic of the Peak Mining, Matlock, tipper has been on various sites over the years and nobody has a clue about either the company or the maker of the vehicle? I have a larger and clearer pic and it appears to be outside what was possibly either the supplier or body manufacturer. The vehicle has solid tyres but with the holes to give a softer ride, the French used those. It has an exposed radiator and a starting handle behind the ‘bumper’ and also a differential instead of the more usual chain drive. Speed limit 12 mph, plenty fast enough I think!Pete.
With the wisdom of age Master Pete I can tell you that Edwards Brothers of Bolton perfected the hydraulic tipping ram just before WW1, and they became market leaders with their various companies, Edbro, Bromilow and Edwards, and Pilot Works. When I was given a tour of the works, (which was Edbro), about 12 years ago, some 70% of their output was exported. Tipping ram steel was imported from USA, there isn’t a British or European steelworks that can make the specification of steel needed.