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by mertrakron
Thu Feb 08, 2018 2:43 am
Forum: Companies
Topic: Richards and Wallington
Replies: 61
Views: 51832
Flag: Great Britain

Re: Richards and Wallington

Richards and Wellington used 4 631b,s and a d9g pusher to cut the Basingstoke ring road north section. That was 1967. All chalk with huge flints which tore up tyres no end. Add for watts tyres on those scrapers was on cover of muck shifter mag at that time. I have photos of them and the d9 and remem...
by mertrakron
Thu Feb 08, 2018 2:25 am
Forum: Scrapers
Topic: ts14b scraper
Replies: 7
Views: 7635
Flag: Great Britain

Re: ts14b scraper

Really good model. Well done
by mertrakron
Wed Sep 13, 2017 6:46 pm
Forum: Companies
Topic: Dick Hampton
Replies: 201
Views: 139174
Flag: Great Britain

Re: Dick Hampton/ classic plant.

The area I live in is crawling with Ex Hampton drivers, most of them started off on the Stock Cars, or D7/8s pulling rollers etc for a few months untill getting put up into a Motor Scraper or D8-box, the opening of the M5 turned the town of Tewkesbury on the A38, from a car/truck night-mare with ta...
by mertrakron
Sun May 21, 2017 5:27 pm
Forum: Scrapers
Topic: ts14b scraper
Replies: 7
Views: 7635
Flag: Great Britain

Re: ts14b scraper

Thats BRILL. Just seen a video of his 24 and is a coal scraper version but all the critical dims could be taken off that unit. Its best to make a working model of a unit which can be seen physically . It would be an awful lot easier to make a cat scraper as they are still easier to find in the uk th...
by mertrakron
Sat May 13, 2017 4:22 pm
Forum: Scrapers
Topic: ts14b scraper
Replies: 7
Views: 7635
Flag: Great Britain

ts14b scraper

Hi everyone, Does anyone know if a ts14 ,ts14b or a ts24 scraper exists anywhere in the uk still? Plan to make a largish model and would be great if i could get some dims of the basic bowl and tractor chassis parts etc off the real thing. I have purchased service and repair and parts manuals for bot...

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