ovlov:
I must have known your dad mate as I first came into contact with Egertons in 1971 as a 17 yr old my brother worked there driving and that Dodge you speak of was the first motor I drove for them early in 1976 when I was 21. I’ve been sat here with a mate pondering over it since your last post I would have definately known him but cant remember him I’m afraid
I had a photo of Him & Wagon somewhere but I think my sister as it now I will ask her for it.His name was Harold Stanfield.
Can any of you remember a tipper firm called Brown’s on Cherry Tree Lane Stockport. I cant remember there colours but seem to think they were similar to Crabtree’s. They had 8 wheeler Foden’s with 2 strokes, and a few Dodge’s before changing to Guy Big J’s.
The main thing that sticks in my mind about them was they carried some kind of (bright turquoise powder on their tippers.) I never did find out what it could be, but they also carried stone from the Buxton quarries
TIPIT:
Is that John Stanfield, one of Lamb’s mechanics?
Yes I remember Tommy Lamb’s, I’ve been trying to find someone that knew of them, but apart from one old fella from Gorton who remembered them with horses, I kept drawing a blank.
My dad Eddie Hartley drove for them for about 10 years, he got one of the first of the two 500 series they got in 1966. Two 6 wheelers with ■■■■■■■ V8’s that were brush painted maroon in the new garage. Then just before they finished in '68, those two 6 wheelers got traded in at Gordon’s Stockport, against three D1000’s and he took one of them over as an owner driver. This is the only photo I’ve got of their old wagons taken in 1960, did you get any, or of the Dormobile?
This was the last of the ex Lamb’s tippers.
And a photo of the new garage they had built at the back, in 1964 / 65.
This is taking me back a bit now
I drove for Tommy Lamb for a while back in the early sixties on a 6 wheeler Dodge the old shape cab with a P6 Perkins in it as I remember hauling “crusher” from Dove Holes down to the Mancunian Way construction
Old Iguana:
TIPIT:
Is that John Stanfield, one of Lamb’s mechanics?
Yes I remember Tommy Lamb’s, I’ve been trying to find someone that knew of them, but apart from one old fella from Gorton who remembered them with horses, I kept drawing a blank.
My dad Eddie Hartley drove for them for about 10 years, he got one of the first of the two 500 series they got in 1966. Two 6 wheelers with ■■■■■■■ V8’s that were brush painted maroon in the new garage. Then just before they finished in '68, those two 6 wheelers got traded in at Gordon’s Stockport, against three D1000’s and he took one of them over as an owner driver. This is the only photo I’ve got of their old wagons taken in 1960, did you get any, or of the Dormobile?
This was the last of the ex Lamb’s tippers.
And a photo of the new garage they had built at the back, in 1964 / 65.
This is taking me back a bit now
I drove for Tommy Lamb for a while back in the early sixties on a 6 wheeler Dodge the old shape cab with a P6 Perkins in it as I remember hauling “crusher” from Dove Holes down to the Mancunian Way construction
Hi Old Iguana.You mean the LAD cabbed Dodge.I can’t remember the full reg but SBA— had a leyland engine fitted and the other PBA or PRJ— that had the 6.354 perkins.who do you remember working there at the time?
Hi Stanfield
Names escape these days have to think hard…I rember well a big lad been a bit of a boxer we all called him Lofty because of his height… I remember the other six wheeler with Leyland engine had a rounded tipper body at the bottom and the driver was smallish and always wore a flat cap and a big belt
Old Iguana:
Hi Stanfield
Names escape these days have to think hard…I rember well a big lad been a bit of a boxer we all called him Lofty because of his height… I remember the other six wheeler with Leyland engine had a rounded tipper body at the bottom and the driver was smallish and always wore a flat cap and a big belt
Hi Old Iguana.Whats your name then.Can you remember George Slinger. Ted Mason .Billy Gittens .Eddie Hartley.Jimmy Hammond. Wilf (fingers) Kenyon. Harry White .Harold Stanfield.Eddie (bullwinkle)Nuttall + mechanics Dave Lund. Alf Inman.John Stanfield .Jimmy Roberts .John Cary.and the gaffer Bernard Mulvaney.I vagley remember a lad who was a bit of a boxer (he had a flat nose )he’d been hit a few time he was there around 66/67 he could be one of the lads what bought a wagon off Lambs when they sold them to the drivers.I bet TIPIT will know his name.
Some more names has anybody got any pictures
Connel And Finnegan of Ardwick then moved to Wharf Street Dukinfield TK’s all with Leyland engines
Robinsons from the bottom of Ashton Old Road had Leyland Bears 6x4’s
O’Sullivan Brothers Store Street Ancoats moved to Denton also had orange Belaz like Egerton
Mc Guiness still trading
Briggs, yard was behind Waddacor’s ran Green Morris /Austin’s on coal work
Thomas Neild I think from Poynton traded in ashes
Stan Hamlett who was a fitter at Hills Garages in Ancoats set up on his own in Droylsden and ran a few motors on stone out of Buxton I think his son might still be operating in machinery removals
ovlov:
Some more names has anybody got any pictures
Connel And Finnegan of Ardwick then moved to Wharf Street Dukinfield TK’s all with Leyland engines
Robinsons from the bottom of Ashton Old Road had Leyland Bears 6x4’s
O’Sullivan Brothers Store Street Ancoats moved to Denton also had orange Belaz like Egerton
Mc Guiness still trading
Briggs, yard was behind Waddacor’s ran Green Morris /Austin’s on coal work
Thomas Neild I think from Poynton traded in ashes
Stan Hamlett who was a fitter at Hills Garages in Ancoats set up on his own in Droylsden and ran a few motors on stone out of Buxton I think his son might still be operating in machinery removals
Yes I remember Hamletts they were based near the halfway house pub off ashton new rd droylsden blue wagons if I remember right.Connell & Finnegans all green wern’t they?Did they have the yard on wharf street where Chartrange are based now?.O’Sullivan Brothers blue in livery.Their was also one run from middleton during the 60s Jimmy Bacon I think most off his work was round the manchester area similar to Tommy Maidens type of work.McGuiness are still trading as you say last I saw of them they had a yard at the ancoats end of Ashton new Rd or is that Beswick.
Bacon’s were in Blackley village mate the motors were red as I remember. Did you ask your sister over that picture of your dad. When I see Bob again I’ll ask him if he’s got any of Egertons. I’m not sure if Chartrange didn’t evolve from C&F. C&F must have demolished half of Manchester in the 60’s then they went big into plant also. If I’m not mistaken they had Ruston Bucyrus excavotors etc out on barges in the north sea at one point. We’ll have to get Tipit to re-name the thread 
Showing TK’s from Connell & Finnegan and Peck’s, taken in 1965 when Piccadilly Station was being altered. Didn’t Peck’s get a few Bedford TM 4 wheelers just before moving from Hyde Road, (that were left hand drive) and had low sided tipper bodies fitted, or was it just the high cabs making them seem odd.
It’s a great thread Tipit that you have started here with some brilliant photo’s. Maybe you should rename Tipit’s Manchester Tipper Thread 
. My short spell on tipper work was with Patrick O’ Dwyer who had lime green coloured Ford D series.
I am hoping that Bob Lad might have a photo or two .
Well done Tipit…where did you get that picture from!!! Excellent. Oh and the Connell and Finnegans all had Eaton 2 Speed axles too didn’t half march along!!!
ovlov…I found that photo on the Manchester City Council photo Archives, it’s an interresting place. Go on www.images.manchester.gov.uk to get it, they took pictures of every street and road around Manchester before the main demolition program by the look of it. Just type in the name of the road/street you want to find, (I put lorry in the find box) and it instantly tracks down any lorry found in photos that they took. It looks like that poor photographer was given an old pedal bike to tour around on, because you can spot the same old bike propped up against walls in the pictures
mushroomman…I didn’t realize these threads travelled out to Austalia untill now. 
TIPIT:
ovlov…I found that photo on the Manchester City Council photo Archives, it’s an interresting place. Go on www.images.manchester.gov.uk to get it, they took pictures of every street and road around Manchester before the main demolition program by the look of it. Just type in the name of the road/street you want to find, (I put lorry in the find box) and it instantly tracks down any lorry found in photos that they took. It looks like that poor photographer was given an old pedal bike to tour around on, because you can spot the same old bike propped up against walls in the pictures
mushroomman…I didn’t realize these threads travelled out to Austalia untill now.
Fantastic site, Tipit lad. 
I found a pic that drew an admiring gasp ! 
I’m nigh on certain it’s from Topley Pike or maybe Waterswallows. Could be Agecroft plant, I guess, but unsure if they had their own fleet there at that time. It’s just a pity the fleet number / area code can’t be made out.
Oh, and I remember Len Shields quite well. Remember him running a P reg Sed Ak eight legger and he was on the concrete depots with a fixed contract. The tipper IIRC was dark blue with a bit of red on it, not too disimilar to the Beisty tippers when they were owned by Staveley Lime Products.
Think he retired around 1986 and passed the wagon over to his lad Peter who promptly slapped a load of tin around the sides and took the lorry on black. He used to take chippings and dust from Dove Holes down to Hope Street Salford and go running out of there all day on tarmac.
Oh and I’m making it my lifes ambition to try and get a picture of a Biesty Routeman. I remember one still being at Dove Holes around 1982 used on internal duties emptying filler out of Via Nova and Bristowes tar plants. I think the reg was an L plate, though I can’t confirm this.
Hey Bonkey…I was starting to get worried mate, having not seen any posts from you in what seems ages. Only too glad to be of assistance to the God of the Tipper pic’s
hia mushroomman not heard from etch for a bit , ive not got any pics of p.o’dwyer i do remember him tho he bought georgie bests state of the art house and he ran a fleet of tidy fords big into top soil , was his yard at the back of birch services , got a few pics of c & f at the duky base i used to move there plant , geo robinsons demolition of crane st pin mill brow , osullivan bro then windmill dem , pat m’guinness moved from holt town to ashton rd nr chatfields john kennedy of chartrange was in dalberg st ardwick nr pecks then wharf st , pp o’connor were in a big way at cornbrook and any one remember the duffys of hulme cheers bob
bob-lad… Where were James O’Grady’s based, as I can remember seeing dark blue TK tippers of theirs running around West Gorton, on excavation work around 1965.
sorry tipit dont know them mate prob before my time
Some more names
P Molloy last based in Paddy Mangans old yard on Ashton New road Clayton
P J Stephens Burnage Green motors with black bodies did all the fly ash from Partington amongst other things
John Stephens Wilmslow A Scania low loader running round now with the name on
Wilmslow Plant Hire also
