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Sweet pair of 769B's. Are these machines still in use today for Blackwell? Does anyone have anymore pics of them?

Regards

Mike D550

P.S I take no credit for these photos, authur unknown!

Look like old trucks probs gone now

i was driving them trucks 24 years ago for merriman a good truck aswell

I did abit on them for Levacks.Good trucks and very sweet engines

i could be wrong, but i believe that Weldon plant bought 4 769Bs from blackwells around ten years back. they are still around but do not see regular use. i'll take a couple of pics next time i take the dog up that way!

I believe Dick and Chris blackwell bought at least 12 brand new 769 dump trucks for use on the clevedon section of M5 motorway.They were used to pull out 2 million tonnes of rock and deposit in the valley below.It was left to settle the ground for a year or so,picked up put through crushers and put down again by pirate tippers,my dad Bill Conway had that contract.THe project manager for Laings pulled Dick blackwell out of his roller when the contract got behind schdule.THe job was flooded with about 50x hired dump trucks ,many came from umo plant,these russian dumptrucks,were constantly breaking down the russian fitters spent most of the time under them.It was the early seventies i was about 20.

conway wrote:,my dad Bill Conway had that contract.

Hi Colin,
Was your dad the Conway who had 657s stripping the overburden off the cement chalk pits at Swanscombe near Dartford, Kent - mid to late 60s?
Angus

Angus,my dad did not get involved in the big stuff.He made alot of dough on the first 4 sections of the m1 for Laings he had about 25 trucks theand 200 or so sub contracted to him.Went on to build a fleet of 50 or so with 22 rbs to load them went broke started again on the m5 at Clevedon.interesting blog about him and those times on google knock in aec mammoth major motorway muckshiting bill conway Colin

seen some work in their time i'm sure.

Drove a 769B for Public Works at Keilder Dam many moons ago.
Great truck.