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it certainly looks like datchet, loading a 631b with gready boards. one of the problems with the anderson was the cab being on the right. hard lumps of clay or stone would flick of the bucket and hit the screen. i think it also had engine problems. it spent most of the time parked up. the o & k ...

the names for the faces came to me over the weekend. ronnie barker was driving the crane, can't remember wether it was an rb or an nck. when i first started there the rb walker was parked up by the haul road.wether it was the same one that is in the photo, i don't know. they also had an anderson mav...

shared a bunk hut with ivan, i remember carlos[spanish onion] always eating raw onions. ginger george was a hard taskmaster. always on my case when i was on the 951. paddy the tyre fitter, mad as a bag of nails. billy tindall, in charge of the workshop. i am sure peter and billy done well out of tha...

great firm to work for, everything was black & white including the wet weather gear. worked on the datchet resourvoir for a few years. peter thompson was the gf. his brother malcom, lovely geezer, was a slasher. a few names i remember. dick gaffney, trever marshell, jack sharp, tommy leach, maur...

i never worked for micky pearce, but i remember the yellow dodge tippers. they sounded gorgeous with the air filters taken out. loaded loads with an mf200.
i did a stint for peter dalton,on the whitney by pass, driving a b100 and a d4. cushtiest job ever. made a fortune loading topsoil on the side.

downgraded to shawnee poole's after driving 631 b's for w & c french and dick hampton's. far more character than a volvo 861, but not as much as a moxy d16 b. i would drive one tomorrow if i had a chance. lots of good memories with buckingham plant on one.

i must have been a real ace driver. on the m11 i was promoted from a 631b to a 22a with a pusher plate and a set of rollers after upsetting alex skepper. i was made to look a right prat push loading c j pryors 68a's and box's. by the time i had changed gear, yhey were pulling out of the cut. happy d...