One of Firmins smart XFs heading north up the A6 through Darley Dale towards the Peak District.Mike. 
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A couple of Dodge trucks restored in Peak District haulierās livery from the past and present by the same owner. Pics taken at this years Cromford rally.
Pete.
Dan Punchard:
Is anyone going to the Darley Dale transport festival at Friden September 20/21st either on foot or exhibiting?
I normally exhibit there Dan but as they have altered the date this year I am booked elsewhere. I hope that the new venue works out OK for everyone, and dont forget the low bridge at Friden! 
Pete.
Iām just waiting for some bright spark to organise a rally at Froghall in the middle of winter. 
Retired Old ā ā ā ā :
Iām just waiting for some bright spark to organise a rally at Froghall in the middle of winter.
Hiya the copper crusers club. down hill all the way. easy entrance no way out. stay as long as you want.well untill the summer comes.
it may just take off.
John
Now maybe the time to ask if that AEC has double drive!
Retired Old ā ā ā ā :
Now maybe the time to ask if that AEC has double drive!
Hiya to right she has. top fed diffs with diff locks. sheās a 60 ton train weight. god knows how.
if sheād had a lighter backend iād have cut her down to a 4x2 unit.
John
B J Waters of Darley Dale. R reg AEC Mercury.transportphotos.com
3300John:
Retired Old ā ā ā ā :
Now maybe the time to ask if that AEC has double drive!Hiya to right she has. top fed diffs with diff locks. sheās a 60 ton train weight. god knows how.
if sheād had a lighter backend iād have cut her down to a 4x2 unit.
John
About ten tons in the back & she should be able to tow the others out of Froghall!
rigsby:
that green and yellow scammel under the plant looks like one of the grin quarry motors , they were painted in limmer and trinidad colours when tarmac took them over . when grin had them new they had super singles on the drive axles , horrible ride and skittish in the wet .
Thanks for that Rigsby mate. Any idea on the Routeman in the last pic? Looks to be in Allinson colours though I thoughts they had AECs at that time?
Dan Punchard:
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Dan, one rolled in similar circumstances the week I got married, we were in the garden and watched it all happen! That would be March 1975, think that it was a Guy Big J, I guess the driver couldnāt control the Gardner 240 power?
Pete.
Keep it down! Youāll get him out from under his stone again.
Fine pics there Moose!! Took me a while to get my bearings in that first pic, I guess the plant in the bottom left is what became I 4 for loading tankerās? I do remember when the agg lime shed etc was where the new weighbridge is now, and the conveyer going past the rear of the bottom garage. Way before my time, but I heard tales about that Trojan van and the little Muir-Hill dumpers from some of the old lads, you can hardly believe that it became about the second largest quarry in Derbyshire. Would love to go back and see it now but Iām afraid the present management wouldnāt allow that, I nipped up to Dales garage a year or two ago and was surrounded by security staff as soon as I got out of the van! 
Then again I only worked there for 27 yearsā¦ Any more pics about?
Pete.
not got a lot of pics myself, i remember the old tar plant as when I was a kid it was used to load wet mix, my grandfather used to drive the rb on the face or the dragline taking off the overburden
my dad thinks these pics date from around 1955/9 as my grandfather set up with a 4 wheeler soon after
I was just thinking they used to drop a good few thousand ton in I go, then set about moving it with muir hill dumpers!
Moose:
not got a lot of pics myself, i remember the old tar plant as when I was a kid it was used to load wet mix, my grandfather used to drive the rb on the face or the dragline taking off the overburden
my dad thinks these pics date from around 1955/9 as my grandfather set up with a 4 wheeler soon after
I was just thinking they used to drop a good few thousand ton in I go, then set about moving it with muir hill dumpers!
Carted plenty of wetmix Moose, Clarence Weston could gauge it spot on for weight! One of the last jobs we did with it was the track at Don Valley Stadium as Tarmacs wetmix didnāt meet the required standard. We also took it to a few depots around Brum for trench filling, it was good stuff and some surfacing gangs used it as basecourse through paver. Then it suddenly went out of fashion!
Pete.
Snapped a little while ago in the Harper Hill elephantās graveyard
ERF EC11 W623WGG (I think) - latterly of SB Transport of Longcliffe.
Simon Brown.
Dan Punchard:
Simon Brown.
Thanks