FmTipper:
Great photos Lads
Cheers
John
Thank You, plenty more to come yet, just wished I took more picturs in my earlier days…
TARMAC:
FmTipper:
Great photos Lads
Cheers
JohnThank You, plenty more to come yet, just wished I took more picturs in my earlier days…
Look forward to it.
This was the “Jocktrotter”, X4DMH in its 4th or 5th re-incarnation, circa 2005, with the Globetrotter cabs,at Bayston Hill we had the “Tipptrotter”, “Tubtrotter” and this the “Jocktrotter”…
Take a few lights off of that and you could get a couple of hundredweight more payload! 
Pete.
TARMAC:
This was the “Jocktrotter”, X4DMH in its 4th or 5th re-incarnation, circa 2005, with the Globetrotter cabs,at Bayston Hill we had the “Tipptrotter”, “Tubtrotter” and this the “Jocktrotter”…
Is this wagon facing the weighbridge office? If so, that shed must be demolished and is now a car park? I’ve only been to BH once or twice in the last 18months so I might be wrong.
TARMAC:
hammer:
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.
Fred Dulson is still here (runs an 8 wheeler Volvo now, the artic went to Stowfield), AKP & Tony Pugh went a few years ago, Kev Castle now has 4x at Bayston, Dave Pink is a Central Heating Engineer, Martin Kelly in TAR931 is, as is Jim Clark…lorries are not as nice as they were in this era !
Jim Clarkes old truck is still working everyday in minffordd quarry
hammer:
TARMAC:
This was the “Jocktrotter”, X4DMH in its 4th or 5th re-incarnation, circa 2005, with the Globetrotter cabs,at Bayston Hill we had the “Tipptrotter”, “Tubtrotter” and this the “Jocktrotter”…
Is this wagon facing the weighbridge office? If so, that shed must be demolished and is now a car park? I’ve only been to BH once or twice in the last 18months so I might be wrong.
Yes, it is, its in front of our main offices, and yes, that was the old transport garage (from the days when Tarmac owned their own fleet), it was taken down about three years ago, and this year, a new car park put there…
So, where do they park the trucks at B.Hill these days TARMAC?
hammer:
So, where do they park the trucks at B.Hill these days TARMAC?
On the top of the mound behind the offices, if you are ever on the A5 passing the quarry at night, you’ll see the floodlights, must be one of the highest places around Shrewsbury…
This one’s a bit topical, as the last Formula 1 race of the season was last weekend, picture below is of Tarmac laying the actual Grand Prix track surface in September 2009, and the stone for this, came all the way from Bayston Hill, via lorry, ship, and lorry…
I take it they checked it thoroughly for ‘mudstone’ before laying it?
of course we did !! 
TARMAC:
This one’s a bit topical, as the last Formula 1 race of the season was last weekend, picture below is of Tarmac laying the actual Grand Prix track surface in September 2009, and the stone for this, came all the way from Bayston Hill, via lorry, ship, and lorry…
Did some of the gritstone for that job,come from the Gore 
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No, Mr Tilke (who is the track designer) went to Dolyhir / Gore first, then to Bayston Hill , and liked the qualities of the stone their better, thats why both the Dubai and Abbu Dhabi F1 tracks had stone from Bayston HIll,…
TARMAC:
No, Mr Tilke (who is the track designer) went to Dolyhir / Gore first, then to Bayston Hill , and liked the qualities of the stone their better, thats why both the Dubai and Abbu Dhabi F1 tracks had stone from Bayston HIll,…
But not laid by insulated tippers apparently!
They still operating in the seventies out there! 
This one was the “Daddy” of Bayston Hill trucks in its day, T4TPT was seen in this condition at all times, and usually with T4AKP following in close convoy, equally as clean…this was the last in the line of Tony Pugh’s trucks, this one being new on a Y plate, circa 2002. It was re registered as T12TAW later with its second owner, and then back to its original Y plate with its third owner, still working out of Bayston Hill…
Thanks for posting those excellent pics Tarmac, keep em coming!
Is the Volvo FH eight wheeler still running around?
Cheers
Mark
roadcommander2:
Thanks for posting those excellent pics Tarmac, keep em coming!Is the Volvo FH eight wheeler still running around?
Cheers
Mark
Which one ? T4 TPT ? That one was back on its old plates Y672KUX, but think it caught fire a few months ago, and we guess was scrapped, as the driver had a newer wagon after that…
roadcommander2:
Thanks for posting those excellent pics Tarmac, keep em coming!Is the Volvo FH eight wheeler still running around?
Cheers
Mark
Which one ? T4 TPT ? That one was back on its old plates Y672KUX, but think it caught fire a few months ago, and we guess was scrapped, as the driver had a newer wagon after that…
Tarmac’s Ampthill Coated Plant in Bedfordshire, 1988, A381KHD Andy Darrington’s DAF departs the Coated Plant for the Weighbridge, behind is the Clean Out Lorry, a white Magirus Deutz still in its Hoveringham livery.