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Great looking tractor
Russ

Peter Kendall was at my dads 80th birthday party about 4 years ago, a very interesting man to talk to. I enjoyed hearing about his earthwork experiences in Malaysia. When Peter came off machines and went up north as a foreman in or around 1968, my father took over on the D9G that Peter had been on a...

Hedgehog, Great seeing your photos, I will be showing them to my father when I get back next week, that 71RB will attract his attention for sure… strange that it didn't get the black and white stripe colour scheme. As a company they really did have a hell of a lot of equipment. Do remember any of th...

Great pictures, thank you.

Hello, Looking forward to hearing more about your time with WC French.
Russ

Hi, I have run a couple of 14's like the one in the first picture, I am not sure but I think they where "FD"14 models. I didn't think they where a bad tractor, one of them had the tilt on a separate lever which I didn't like. They both had manual angle blades. Angling the blade is a quick ...

Tracshovel, Going on the date I would say it has to be Datchet.

I remember hearing at that time that one of the bucket wheels had electrical problems but sorry I don't remember which.

Martin, I just spoke with my dad and he said the right hand man your thinking about would be Derek Clark. A few more names Tony Jacklin on an 8 and box, Jimmy Wynn on a 9 pushing, Angus and Ian Sutherland where on scrapers at one stage. John Pooley a ganger. John Pooley I take it that payslip Poole...

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 th...

Ray Parker was the carpenter. I will ask my father about Thompson's right hand man ( he was trying to remember his name a couple of months back)