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Does anyone have memories / pics of the earth moving company Dick Hampton which was based at Bentley in Hampshire. In the 60s and 70s they were to be found all over the country withe their fleet of aged D8s and boxes but I have seen very little written about them. I would like to put together a bit ...

Was about to post asking for Dick Hampton memories/ pics when I saw your posting re UMO. You were not far off the mark with the KGB thing. I can't remember the year but GB had a major diplomatic row with the USSR over activities of their embassy and commercial personnel that were "not in keepin...

Here is a Le Tourneau electric digger working on the Wrasebury reservoir in about 1965. To the best of my knowledge it was one of two brought into the UK by Thomas Ward. I have hard copy pics of the other one working on the Brentwood by-pass a couple of years earlier but that one had the driver's ca...

Does anyone know/ know the whereabouts of Terry Quadling who was my boss when I joined Caterpillar in 1965. He left Cat and joined Levertons. I know that he was still with them when they were taken over by Unilever but I lost track of him when I left Cats. It may, of course, be too late. If anyone h...

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That's it - promise!

Here are some pics of CJ Pryor stripping overburden from the gravel pit at Roxwell near Chelmsford. Apologies for the poor quality - I was doing my own black and white processing at the time and the negs have been lying around for ages!
Angus

Could be some JDs going cheap - heard a whisper that a Russian order for 600 had been canceled!

Hi Richard - sure that if you have set your heart on a plasma you will get one but before you do stick Henrob 2000 into Google and have a read! I believe that this torch is still available direct from Oz. If you can find the right site (which I couldn't just now!) it has a video of the Henrob being ...

Mixed bag from the "Golden Age"!

Hello Angus Any more photos of that project. Looks like a big RB was used to place the rocks. Martyn Regret no - I was a 20 something year old management trainee with Cat based at the Glasgow factory and was doing the rounds of some sites with the area managers and never got nearer to the action th...