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BonkeyDollocks:
This is a brilliant photo, very atmospheric.
Is this spaghetti junction? Perhaps Southbound heading towards where the RAC building is?
Yes, it is, from a 1971 Tarmac brochure, I love the lack of PPE, and a chipping machine too, a very rare site these days, most gangs have forgot how to use them !
BonkeyDollocks:
Another batch for all you TarmacHeads out there !
The albion 8 wheeler was owned by my father its an albion cameronion basically a riever with a extra steer axle very short wheelbase shortbody with high sides good for keeping tarmac hot unlike the aec marshall long wheelbase low body tar was nearly cold on a long run ,my father used the albion as a towing in lorry and did many recovery jobs for the tarmac workshops ,we operated from corby depot as did 550 JRE the AEC Mammoth Major , dad started off with 4 and 6 wheel traders going on to an aec marshall ,ford d series wjw …j, a dodge k series ew from brookside motors ,later on dad operated the low lowder from corby starting with an aec then a number of scammells over the years . my grandfather started with tarmac in 1955 and my father and brother worked there until its closure in the early 1990s , the last tipper we ran was a leyland riever KUE 508V which had the albion badge from the cameronion on it !
TARMAC:
This was a view from the Coated Plant at Tarmac Corby, about 1988 of the Weighbridge area, Corby Works was closed about 1994 after we had finished building the A14 A1/M1 Link…
Brings back memories spent most of my school holidays and weekends here before the world went mad with health and safety, leyland octopus owned by JA Wright and sons who are still operating in the corby area . if you could smell this picture it would be a mixture of hot tar and ■■■■ as the corby sewer plant was behind the works .corby used the slag from the nearby steelworks as the aggregate for the tarmac it was delivered in tippler waggons on a railway situated on the top yard near the garage it was tipped off down the bank to the lower coating plant in semi molten form where it was broken up by a navvy with an ingot on its rope like a wrecking ball then transported to the crusher screen then onto the coating plant or stockpiles this picture brings happy memories of my late father i remember riding sidesaddle on the bonnet of various tippers with dad telling us to move out of the way of the mirrors all the way to the job then waiting to tip when we got there the good old days !
phantom309:
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TARMAC:
Here’s some of the Bayston Hill trucks from a few years ago…
This was part of a photo shoot for Tarmac World, i organised, featuring some of the best of our trucks at the time…
Hello TARMAC, how many of these lads are still operating? I used to go to Bayston now and again, bringing stuff back for Pant. Haven’t been down there in ages.
kev castle is still operating tippers and i think fred dulson is still running
kev castle and fred dulson are still operating
wazzy-porter:
phantom309:
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TARMAC:
Here’s some of the Bayston Hill trucks from a few years ago…
This was part of a photo shoot for Tarmac World, i organised, featuring some of the best of our trucks at the time…
Hello TARMAC, how many of these lads are still operating? I used to go to Bayston now and again, bringing stuff back for Pant. Haven’t been down there in ages.
kev castle is still operating tippers and i think fred dulson is still running
kev castle and fred dulson are still operating
pritchard isnt and jim clark is still runing
Here’s a better one of Alan’s truck, this was his last one…
This was part of an Ebbro Tipping gear photo shoot, this was Dave Pink’s truck (also left BH,now a Central Heating Engineer), by the Old Wash Plant at Baston Hill, from about 2004
Fred Dulson’s current truck, A483 - Welshpool…
Some good pictures and info there lads, thanks for that.
Overall, has the Bayston Hill fleet suffered with the recession? Up here the contracts are not busy but keeping going, although a few are in some difficulty (see this weeks Commercial motor, page 10…) but a couple have even had new ones recently.
TARMAC:
Fred Dulson’s current truck, A483 - Welshpool…
Cracking pics again TARMAC,you had better be on your guard the ex gaffer is back at the game now,as you probably know.
Cheers Dave…
hammer:
Some good pictures and info there lads, thanks for that.Overall, has the Bayston Hill fleet suffered with the recession? Up here the contracts are not busy but keeping going, although a few are in some difficulty (see this weeks Commercial motor, page 10…) but a couple have even had new ones recently.
This was Alan Pritchard’s earlier Volvo, pictured at the Midlands Festival of Transport 2001, at Weston Park, Staffordshire, the “cow catcher” was only fitted for truck show weekends, in those days, you could pick your number plate from Harshornes, as 580 was Tarmac’s Depot number for Bayston Hill…
From 2004, Andy Hamlet & Graham Cooper’s Volvo’s in the old Transport workshop, (then used as a sheeting bay, demolished in 2007) at Bayston Hill Quarry.
Taken from the top of the Coated Plant at Ampthill, Bedfordshire, in 1988 (its closed down now), the Owner Drivers are parked up for the evening…
Sid Bradshaw - EUM351Y, Derek Honeybourne - B475TNA, Lionel Bradshaw - A678JWU and F121TBD - cant remember now ! Ampthill closed due to the restricted hours imposed on them (no nights or weekends), as the work pattern of suplying asphalt has changed over the 20 years since it opened. Now there is a JV between Lafarge / Tarmac working from Elstow,near Bedford.
TARMAC:
Taken from the top the Coated Plant at Ampthill, Bedfordshire, in 1988 (its closed down now), the Owner Drivers are parked up for the evening…
Sid Bradshaw - EUM351Y, Derek Honeybourne - B475TNA, Lionel Bradshaw - A678JWU and F121TBD - cant remember now ! Ampthill closed due to the restricted hours imposed on them (no nights or weekends), as the work pattern of suplying asphalt has changed over the 20 years since it opened. Now there is a JV between Lafarge / Tarmac working from Elstow,near Bedford.
That’s a cracking shot mate!
The six wheel Foden on an A plate, would the cab have been an S106 and no a Haulmaster for the age of the reg? (1983)
bonky and tarmac your pulling up some blinders now!
That’s what we’re in the game for mate. 
Great photos Lads 
Cheers
John
Another from the past…Berwyn Granite was a joint venture between Johnston / Tarmac from 1966, that quarried Leaton Quarry near Telford, Tarmac administered the Owner Driver Scheme, thats why the familiar livery, this was one of Bayston Hill’s O/D Lorries passed onto a Berwyn O/D, picture taken at Midland Festival of Transport, Weston Park, 1999 ish. Ennstone eventually bought Tarmac’s share, then owned 100%, before their problems of last year, and now its owned by Breedon Agregates (who have some equally nice looking lorries)
