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As a kid i remember a wiggins scammell getting a puncture outside the engineers arms , i helped or hindered :lol: the driver in getting the wheel off and the tube fixed , got a can of pop out of it so must have done something right ,could you see a driver doing it today :o It might have been one of...

Great pics Tim. :thumbup: Was it not Berry Wiggins :?: or something like that at one time. No I think Berry Wiggins is a different company Steve,Wiggins Transport have been around a long time,I remember seeing their LAD cabbed Albion Reivers and Scammell Routemans in the late 1960's and 70's. WT5.j...

Nice pics Steve-Wiggins always had 6 wheel skip lorries years ago but I think they've packed up skips now.I think the Scania(ex Gibbs Metals) was the last one.

Neversweat wrote:Tim there are 4 x C Range mixers working out of the concrete plant at Aldershot - Lynchford Lane ? Lafarge.

I'll look out for them when I'm back in circulation Steve,we go past it to a regular job.
Tim

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Nice pics Steve-what size engine do the Hazel & Jeffries tippers have please?

don10.jpg tt3.jpg tbl3.jpg mgm1.jpg aw3.jpg Some Magirus Deutz 232's at work. Around in the late 1970's and early 1980's the 232's were popular with the muckaway contractors with their high ground clearance and good off road traction.Personally I used to like the distinctive sound of the air-cooled...

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Nice to see the pic of John Hardwicks Foden Steve-He ran two of these-firstly on contract to ABC in their livery before running under his own name.

Is the mixer in the last photo an AEC or Scammell or neither! Thanks guys for all the great photos of yesteryear. This style of dumptruck was it appears was moved around the various names in the Leyland Group.Originally named the AEC 690 Dumptruck in 1964 it was moved to Aveling Barford in 1970 bef...

So how do you tell a Reiver from a Mastiff (not a riddle :D ) Spelt differently :D :oops: Visually the Reiver has the air cleaner behind the cab and fuel tank on the offside.The Super Mastiff has the header tank behind the cab off side and the fuel tank nearside. brmastiffpic.jpg greenham reiver3.j...

FOWLER MAN wrote:Hi Steve,
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Nice to see the Russell of Denny Fodens Fred-big contractors in their time apparently-here's an early Magirus-Deutz 8 wheeler of theirs