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Interesting find there Ian its truly amazing what machines do still survive and escape the cutters torch, lets hope somebody preserves it?

Jeremy

B100 LOADER wrote:Jeremy,did you take a photo of that German loco that the dutch boys brought over ?
Martyn

I did see it but I don't think I got a shot of it, I will have a look tonight when I resize and post more pics.

Jeremy

Hi all I'm just going to post a few truck pics for this evening, some machines that are rarely seen even at events like this.
I will post more plant pics too when the chance presents itself.

Jeremy

Brilliant truck pictures What is the Marathon badged with AEC? The rounded ERF was smart looking truck in its day. Thanks Pete the Marathon is the mk1 version and probably carries the AEC badges as a tribute to AEC as much of the design work on the Marathon was done by AEC, I seam to recall that th...

B100 LOADER wrote:The Mack rig looked very impressive
Martyn

Yes Martyn I think it was part of a group of trucks all from the Netherlands.

Jeremy

Last set of pics for tonight as I'm going cross eyed :lol: The ERF in the first pic is quite probably an ex-Calor transport motor as I fitted re-con 250 Cummins engine into its sister vehicle reg no DTF422V :geek: many moons ago when I worked for H Fellows Tpt, the vehicle in question was being used...

Thanks for that link IBH first time I've had chance to watch it, but very interesting.
The Hymacs that are in the clips are; 1290 face shovel, 890 face shovel and a very quick glimpse of a 580C back acter.

Jeremy

Here's a few of the many truck pics that I took, I will post more as I re-size them, also I will post a working sequence of shots of the RB dragline that was in operation. Yes Steve the weather stayed dry but only just, it was threatening rain as I drove off so I reckon that was timed just right. :l...

Well I finally made the effort to get to this event and thought it was well worth the effort too. There was no as much plant there as I would of wanted to see but alas its good that there was some working plant on display. There was a vast array of preserved trucks there, which I will post pictures ...

Well I just got back from the Great Dorset Steam Fair I met up with Martyn Williams which was nice to meet up with at last, whilst we were wandering round I came across this and thought that looks like the one Steve saw when he was on his holiday? :shock: Yep well it didn't come back by speed boat :...