hiya,
thanks for that windrush, iv’e written before about biggish motors some of them articulated being powered or should that be underpowered with gardner 4 lw engines,walshy heavy haulage had two or three of them, i know worked there a couple of times and always got lumbered with one of the things.
thanks harry long retired.
Cressy’s Grains of Alderley Edge.
And thanks to Stanfield a couple more pics taken just a few days ago of the ones they currently run, it will be interresting to see what they replace these with when the time comes, I don’t think they have yet ran any non British make. Around the time they were running those BMC FF’s I can remember them with TK’s and Reiver’s, then moving to ergo cab AEC’s. Can anyone else out there add any more info about this firm, or other makes they’ve had ?
Just come across a few more pics of Edward Beck from Reddish.
does anyone remember Percy Bowker from Ashton?? he had some ex army dodges on coal and clearing the ashes by handball from the Texas mill{ now burned down} I worked as a drivers mate about 1958/59 using a no 10 Banjo{shovel}
What about SL Robinsons from Cheadle Hulme,excavations and haulage,they converted ex army 6 wheelers,had a couple of Dodges IIR?
George ? used to drive the Scammell Constructor also a Matilda wrecker,gosh this takes me back a few decades!
TIPIT:
Anyone remember these from Cheadle Hulme, sent in by Stanfield.
Yes Stanfield,I do remember Moores,the LL driver left and went driving for SL Robinsons excavations in Cheadle Hulme who I was working for.
Hi 5th wheel, is this one of S.L. Robinsons, and can you tell me if this units an ERF KV or a Foden S20 ?
Paul.
Good thread this, don’t go into Manchester since the recession bit but recognise some names and trucks (i.e. Mahers etc).
Hi hammer, your probably one of the tipper drivers I was envious of around North Wales back in 2003. I use to deliver occasionaly to Denbigh Ind Est then park up for dinner on the St Asaph - Rhuddlan road watching the tippers going passed, thinking how nice it must be running around that area all day.
This was my wagon parked up on the St Asaph Road lay by back then.
Paul.
Tipit
Thats one of Tommy Lambs Dodge D308 tippers turning right in front of the Robinsons wagon.Spot it a mile off with the slopeing body.
Thanks John I had a suspicion it might have been.
By the way can you, (or anyone else on here) help me out with this quandary. What are these 2 switches marked T and P for, next to the ignition key on one of those Dodge’s. I 've asked my dad and he can 't remember there use. Except the others on the engine cover were, cold start, stop pull and starter button.
Paul.
Hi TIPIT
The button with the P on was for the dash panel lights The T at this moment unable to remember but it will come to me shortly.
Tipit, ask your Dad if it was a hand throttle or it could be a choke if it were a petrol engine 
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TIPIT:
Hi hammer, your probably one of the tipper drivers I was envious of around North Wales back in 2003. I use to deliver occasionaly to Denbigh Ind Est then park up for dinner on the St Asaph - Rhuddlan road watching the tippers going passed, thinking how nice it must be running around that area all day.
This was my wagon parked up on the St Asaph Road lay by back then.
Paul.
Hello TIPIT, I had just started on the tippers in 03’. Its a nice place to drive a truck and no mistake (when its nice weather anyway).
We don’t do much driving anywhere now unfortunately. 
TIPIT:
Hi 5th wheel, is this one of S.L. Robinsons, and can you tell me if this units an ERF KV or a Foden S20 ?Paul.
Hi Paul,
Yes that’s them,I think it would have been an ERF I dont recall SLR’s having a Foden,you really do have eyes LSHR[I’m sure you can work that one out!!!]
Good on you Paul
Rgds,
David
TIPIT:
Thanks John I had a suspicion it might have been.
By the way can you, (or anyone else on here) help me out with this quandary. What are these 2 switches marked T and P for, next to the ignition key on one of those Dodge’s. I 've asked my dad and he can 't remember there use. Except the others on the engine cover were, cold start, stop pull and starter button.Paul.
Hi Paul going back to the button with T on if you look close you will see that the fitting doe’s not have a lock nut on the outside of the dash like the P button which tells me that it is a cable type pull that worked the hand throttle.The P button is just a pull and push type for the dash lights (if my memory from working on them is right)
Thanks for clearing that John, those 2 buttons have bugged me for years.
Just come across this photo of one of Joseph Hoyles, revealing Johnson’s Wire as it’s last owner.
(One knicked from Bubblemans Scrapbook.)
I remember seeing them around Trafford Park in the 70s, but what became of them ? and what did the J.B. stand for ?
Am I right in thinking they ran mainly 4 wheel rigid flats in their earlier days, KM’s and D1000’s working out of Kellogg’s.
And does anyone remember anything of a couple of o/d’s from Salford in the 70’s.
(Mac Ben) who started out with a blue Foden S36 unit.
(Norman Marsden) with a maroon TK flat, what a character. He’d spend all week away cabbing it along with a couple of teenagers to help him handballing, how did 3 people sleep in a standard TK. Young Alec Sharples use to refer to him as “Marsden International” for the amount of work he could get done with that one 12 tonner.
Hi Tipit
Just seeing if we can keep this thread going a little longer.Do you or anyone else remember a company running around Manchester in th 60s called PETER ANDREWS coke & coal contractors? if I remember right they ran Thames Trader tippers in a similar livery as E F Beattie,in fact they may well have been taken over at somtime by Beattie although I dont know if this is right or not your dad may remember Paul.
John