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by conway
Sat Feb 21, 2015 10:31 am
Forum: Scrapers
Topic: George Wimpey Motor Scrapers
Replies: 7
Views: 5215

Re: George Wimpey Motor Scrapers

great and moving story about the willen lake job built by wimpeys in the early seventies it is in a book by ultan cowley called the men who built britain
by conway
Sat Jul 24, 2010 12:11 pm
Forum: Companies
Topic: George Wimpey (Plant)
Replies: 52
Views: 52676

Re: George Wimpey (Plant)

Hi, Nice to see folk still discussing Wimpey Plant. My Father Andy Mitchell was Plant and labour Manager for Wimpey from before WW2 till 1963, when he died suddenly aged 53. Dad was involved in contracts worldwide, including Aden, Iraq, Turkey, Borneo, south america etc etc that involved the shippi...
by conway
Wed Dec 30, 2009 8:14 am
Forum: Companies
Topic: George Wimpey (Plant)
Replies: 52
Views: 52676

Re: George Wimpey (Plant)

Mark, I worked for wimpeys as a commercial trainee,fortunate to be sent to sites all over the country my last year with them was spent on a huge resevoir job in Milton Keynes,3o odd scrapers ,mainly ts 24 ,d8 d9.Some of the d8s,came from Motorways plant.Part of my job was to check the timesheets ,yo...
by conway
Sun Jun 21, 2009 11:45 am
Forum: Companies
Topic: Dick Hampton
Replies: 201
Views: 139130

Re: Dick Hampton

Gorden2,I was working in South Wales as a commercial trainee with George Wimpey, it was the summer of 1972 on the weekends,i would drive over to the laing section of the m5 motorway between clevedon and western super mare and drive wagons for my dad Bill conway who had the contract to shift crushed ...
by conway
Sun Jun 07, 2009 4:59 am
Forum: Scrapers
Topic: More muck shifting 1960's style
Replies: 44
Views: 20926

Re: More muck shifting 1960's style

robbie guy wrote:does anybody know the whereabouts of this motley bunch of plant fitters taken winter, 1969 midland links motorway Catthorpe,with Blackwells
by conway
Sun Jun 07, 2009 4:52 am
Forum: Haulers/Dump Trucks
Topic: Blackwell 769B's
Replies: 18
Views: 44409

Re: Blackwell 769B's

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...
by conway
Sat May 23, 2009 9:50 am
Forum: Haulers/Dump Trucks
Topic: Blackwell 769B's
Replies: 18
Views: 44409

Re: Blackwell 769B's

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 ...
by conway
Sun May 17, 2009 2:20 pm
Forum: Scrapers
Topic: Motorway muckshifting...again
Replies: 23
Views: 11202

Re: Motorway muckshifting...again

I got my first job in muckshifting with blackwells on the midland links motorway at rugby ,they had at least 10 657,15 brand new 631s and associated d9s and other gear.I recognise some of those fitters one was a german who fought in the second world war.THe foreman fitter was called gerry box i thin...

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