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Hi Steve, brings back memories of the Le Tourneau scraper's. I worked for T W Ward in the sixties and worked on both of those machines assembling one in Titan Works in Grays Essex and and the other one at Laings site Wraysbury. At that time I was operating a 30 tonne Smith's strut jib truck mounted ...

Hi Angus, You are correct about Laden's Directors. I worked for them from 1982 until they were taken over by G W S 1988, They were a good company to work for,They had a good range of Cranes from 10 to 200Tonnes and most of the work was in the London area.Although I did go to Germany France and the C...

Hi Tim .The crane in the picture is a Canadian built mobile tower crane called a G C I,a subsidary of Grove's, I operated that crane for Laden's for two or three years it was a very versatile machine athough when operating it from the cab which at full height was 140 feet it used to scare the living...

The Priestman looks like a 30 tonne Bison, the same crane was mounted on a Foden lowline carrier in the 60's. B C H C had 2 or 3 three of them. I think they were new to Mobile Lifting Services before B C H C brought them out.A very good lifter they were too They out lifted the Smith's on the same Fo...

The N C K Crawler Crane looks like a C34B Pennine. It looks new but they can do a very good refurb these day's
Regards Brian Crowther.

Hi Tim, I worked for Laden 1982 until they were sold to Grayston White & Sparrow in 1988.You are right about Laden's
running Locomo crane's,they had two 90 tonner's and about four 25's plus a 20 tonne rough terrain crane, good cranes
but a bit short on boom lenth. Regards Brian.

I remember in the 1970's Bedfordia Plant having a depot in Hoo Kent. at that time I worked for T W Ward operating a 30tonne Smith's tele. I had to report to their depot as they were running an identical crane and were having a lot of gearbox trouble I went on a road test with the operator to try to ...

The St Mary's crane when new STM3.jpg :thumbup: Tim St Mary's Coles L H 1000/110 tonne crane was purchased with a number of other mobile's by Laden lifting Dartford Kent When St Mary's ceased trading in the early 1980's.The Coles 110Twas in the hire fleet for 2 or 3 years when it written off in a a...

Gordon Wil wrote:few bigger ones to look at.........

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