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Blackwell scrapers at Sunderland in 1984.

At Carraig Gheal Wind Farm in late 2012.

More from Sunderland in 1984

Blackwells in 2012 at Carraig Gheal Wind Farm in Scotland.

Blackwell in Sunderland in 1984

Here is my contribution - a Weldex machine photographed in the late 90's in a storage yard they had near Inverness.

Great photographs - my favourite is the NCK crawler in Christiani & Nielsen colours.

The definitive Tarmac livery is always good to see on a crawler crane and I am guessing that these were part of the fleet acquired by Weldex many moons ago when they were buying up the main contractors cranes.

Any information and photographs on Alexander Sutherland Limited of Golspie in Northern Scotland would be very interesting to see. Sutherlands were a major building and civil engineering company working across Northern Scotland until 1977 (or 79) when they were taken over by Morrisons of Tain and the...

Anyone have any information, anecdotes and photographs to share on a long forgotten Scottish contractor who will have run a sizable plant fleet in Central Scotland during the 60s and 70s. As usual there is not a lot to be found on the internet. Wights were taken over by Morrison Construction in 1981...

Blackwells are making good progress in Scotland and are undertaking a number of wind farm and earthworks led projects and they have acquired a specialist demolition company in Grangemouth called Mastertons. To my knowledge they are a relatively new entrant to the Scottish market. Can anyone recall i...