Dan Punchard:
Wasn’t ivonbrook or dowlow Redlands at one time ?
Redland was at top of the hill dan don’t know if it’s still going haven’t been up Buxton for yrs now. Used to be Redland then ici then peakstones at the bottom were the road through harpurhill comes out, if I remember right
red land did own dowlow quarry for a while , something to do with steetley and red land merging / buy out . the bloke that made the signs on the gate certainly had a regular job . peakstone was owed by staveley industries until they sold it to the french .
Stanfield:
So Peakstone was the trading name for Staveley.
Not quite, Peakstone was the name given to the former Staveley Lime Products works at both Hindlow and Dove Holes by RMC following its acquisition of both from Staveley Industries. The Dove Holes works were later sold to CEMEX and the Hindlow works operated under the name RMC Industrial Minerals.
Following its severe financial difficulties associated with the purchase of Rugby Cement, RMC had to dispose of its more liquid assets fairly quickly. Hindlow with its pure lime was one such asset and was quickly snapped up by Belgium firm Lhoist, operating as Lhoist UK.
The own account haulage fleet that had operated for decades was tendered out and Turners of Soham gained a two year contact only to be ousted by Abbey Roadtanks earlier this year.
Thanks for that Limey.It was just that the livery on some of Peakstones motors was very much like my old company John Biesty who was bought out by Staveley Industries in 73.
Photo supplied by BonkeyDollocks
Back in the '70’s when I started at Ballidon Doveholes/Peakstone quarry was known as ‘Biesty’s’ by some of our older driver’s John. I always assumed that they owned it, but it appears not! 
Pete.
Hi Pete.No they didnt own it,what happened was in 1973 Staveley were wanting to base vehicles in the Hope Street rail yard at Salford and were unable to get the licences I believe, so the next best thing was to buy out a company already based in Manchester and Biestys fitted the bill has they were already moving stone from hope street which came in by rail from Buxton.At the time Biesty was running a mixed fleet of Scammell Routemans,Albion Riever (LAD & EGRO) Leyland S/Comets (LAD & EGRO) all on Stone/Salt/Coal and about 6 D series fords on local daywork around the foundries in manchester.When Staveley took over they started a replacement programe allocating AECs and then Fodens.I was working in the garage for Biesty at the time and had been there about 5yrs when made redundent by Staveley on the closure of the rochdale road depot in collyhurst Manchester 
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Thank’s for that John, it gets confusing all this chopping and changing of ownership! I sometimes used to phone Doveholes for a load when RMC owned it but drew a blank each time, never went in Hope Street either as we occasionally worked from Tilcons plant at Mode Wheel Road, Weaste, if we were in the area instead.
Pete.
One for the Limester. His old man has the reg plate off this on his Discovery.
BonkeyDollocks:
One for the Limester. His old man has the reg plate off this on his Discovery.
Wasn’t that once a Longcliffe tanker?
Pete.
If it wasn’t they certainly had some other STO X regs .
From memory STO4X & STO5X were ECC tankers in the blue livery. Both were day cabs with the Haulmaster split screen Mk1 cab and Gardner LXC 201’s in them. STO5X was recabbed with a Mk2 Haulmaster / Fleetmaster sleeper cab and uprated to a 230 Turbo charged Gardner, this operated as a tank. STO4X had the later Mk3 cab fitted and again had the 230 Gardner LXCT upgrade. The tank operated on roofing stone usually within the M25 and worked well especially on MPG. Most of the rebuild including paint was done outside in Harpur, amazing that they looked as good as they did.
This photo was taken at Harpur, the frame on the tank was for the “donkey head” which was used to fill the wheel barrows of the roofers.
CabacS80:
This photo was taken at Harpur, the frame on the tank was for the “donkey head” which was used to fill the wheel barrows of the roofers.
Hiya…now there,s a Graham special…one minute a clever chap next second numpty.
that contraption on the tank could have been for getting chipping straight onto flat roof,s
it also worked with a conveyor idea for high buildings.
i worked for him in the 80,s for 3 years, good job, left me alone and payed well.
that man has made so many silly mistakes you’d never believe… i could write a book about him.
in the few years i spent time with him…he always liked his Foden,s nice to see his older lorries
what ever it said on the door.
John
ERF during the 60s at Tunstead
This one may have been on before (haven’t looked) apologies if so
![Hillhead_Quarries_Foden[1].JPG](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/uploads/trucknetuk/original/2X/e/eb2852dbc80aa0a33ad7acaf0de1b4e326b42524.jpeg)
BonkeyDollocks:
One for the Limester. His old man has the reg plate off this on his Discovery.
4X looking a little worse for wear there, the drop side tipper body was bought from Barlow for £1500. The Gardner 350 badge came from C835 FWT, the vehicle below, seen before its curtains were sign written and before the Gardner had to be replaced by a decent engine. Surprisingly or perhaps astonishingly, FWT appears to have survived as I have seen a recentish picture of it on the road, with a single sleeper cab fitted, and the DVLA shows it as taxed right through to December of this year. Not bad for at least two engines, three cabs and a very hard life.
a bit like triggers broom then that foden
