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A Benati 610 with demolition equipment sold to an English company by the subsidiary Benati English .. note the name given to Beattie 'excavator! It's a SCOTTISH company :D That machine belonged to George Beattie, who has surely the best address ever for a demolition contractor - Auchinvole Castle! ...

FOWLER MAN wrote: but I will post it if anyone is interested.

Fred.

I can assure you, we certainly are interested!



Dave. S.

Blaw Knox grader pic, but no further info on this one at the moment though.

Dave. S.

They had individual chain drive to each rear wheel, which I doubt would be completely reliable in site conditions

Dave. S.

They were mounted on Dennis 'Jubilant' truck chassis which was also unusual. The only Dennis crane chassis I know of. I'm amazed that they used Dennis chassis. I always associated them with municipal vehicles - fire engines and dustcarts. :roll: I have the honour of appearing in a Dennis/Alexanders...

Hi Dave S, Heres the other end of your 4.25 yd. Chaseside dumper.The rather nice overloader is a Platypus PD2 Bulloader. Taken 1955. Great picture Fred, that loader is another machine that you wouldn't want to do too many hours on! I unearthed a leaflet on the dumpers, and it shows the 'production ...

What about B-K scraper boxes? :?: Dozeron mentioned a B-K motor scraper in his post? :?: Hi Fred, Craig posted some old B-K advertising, and I posted a pic of the motor scraper in this thread: http://www.classicmachinery.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=49&t=2991&start=10 Dave. S.

Here's a B-K 50 truck mount.

Dave. S.

Hi Fred,

Truck mounted B-K rope excavators were used by the Royal Engineers, certainly an unusual setup for the UK!

I'll have a look for some details.

Dave. S.

Wullie,

The pics were originally posted on the DHS board by Tim Twitchel (TimT).

I hope that helps.

Dave. S.