The Classic Machinery Network

I was driving a 631 at Tonbridge when the two 631 scrapers collided. The one fully laden going downhill flat out, driven by Ron from Rochester way, was pushed nearly over the side by the empty scraper coming up the hill behind me. Neither machine moved after the impact, all rams sheared, and the box...

When I was ganging for Dick Hampton at Tonbridge, Latrobe had some Dw21s at the Quarry Hill end of the job and they were more often broken down than working. At the Sevenoaks end there were 4 TS14s with Leyland engines, always blowing up engines and one scraper even broke in half when the swan-neck'...