Blaw Knox excavators & graders

[FOWLER MAN]

Hollo
Anyone got any photos or spec. on Blaw Knox rope excavators?
I worked on one in the 60's. It was a BK50 1/2 yd machine with a Perkins P6 engine. It belonged to a company called Wm. Pepper, they were a Yorkshire firm, part of the Hargreaves Group. The only others I have seen were two working alongside the railway between Newport and Gloucester in the 1950's. They were new, and I think they were owned by BR. There was also an Osgood and a Linkbelt (both American machines) and Platypus and TD6 dozers.

Still on Blaw Knox . There were BK motor graders in the 50's. The BK12 (Leyland engine I think) and at least one other model. Any information please?

Fred

[DaveS]

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.

[BulldozerD11]

Hollo
Anyone got any photos or spec. on Blaw Knox rope excavators?
I worked on one in the 60's. It was a BK50 1/2 yd machine with a Perkins P6 engine. It belonged to a company called Wm. Pepper, they were a Yorkshire firm, part of the Hargreaves Group. The only others I have seen were two working alongside the railway between Newport and Gloucester in the 1950's. They were new, and I think they were owned by BR. There was also an Osgood and a Linkbelt (both American machines) and Platypus and TD6 dozers.

Still on Blaw Knox . There were BK motor graders in the 50's. The BK12 (Leyland engine I think) and at least one other model. Any information please?

Fred

Hi fred Think there was a BK excavator (rope) in SE Davis yard , Boom is lying by the hedge in long grasss behind the line of shovels and draglines. Sorry but canot find photo yet.

Heres a Platypus seen at Llandudno in 08, think there are a couple of other restored ones about.




Dave

[DaveS]

Here's a B-K 50 truck mount.

Dave. S.

[XS650]

They were mounted on Dennis 'Jubilant' truck chassis which was also unusual. The only Dennis crane chassis I know of.

[FOWLER MAN]

Hi Everyone,
Thanks for posting. The photo. brings back memories, Inever saw a truck-mount version. Surprised to hear its a Dennis carrier. Reminds me of the John Allen truck-mount of the period.
Heres a Platypus 30 with blade.

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[BulldozerD11]

Hi Everyone,
Thanks for posting. The photo. brings back memories, Inever saw a truck-mount version. Surprised to hear its a Dennis carrier. Reminds me of the John Allen truck-mount of the period.
Heres a Platypus 30 with blade.

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Cheers Fred

so thats 4 then that survive - I'd not seen one with a blade yet but some strip them off for ease.

Heres a Blaw-Knox blade on a Fowler VF


URL of the original image: http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/tractors/images/4/46/Fowler_VF_and_Blaw-Knox_Blade_no._171_at_Belvoir_08_-_P5180397.jpg

Dave

[FOWLER MAN]

Cheers Dave.
Platypus was in Devon in 1992.
To continue the Blaw Knox thread , I know this is an excavator forum but I asked about B-K graders too.
I found this photo posted by Dozeron with a B-K grader in the background.
Sorry about poor quality. I tried to zoom in on it.
What about B-K scraper boxes? Dozeron mentioned a B-K motor scraper in his post?

Fred

[DaveS]

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:
sterling B695 towed scraper

Dave. S.

[FOWLER MAN]

HI dave S
Thanks, very interesting. The Goliath Scraper is an ugly brute as someone said. First I've seen.
Wonder if they were any good?

Fred