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A BOMAG BW213 DH-5 fitted with a pad foot drum compacting earthworks fill.

I could not find a thread for Hamm or its products.
Here are photographs of a new Hamm H20i single soil compactor fitted with a padfoot drum designed to compact clay soil ('cohesive fill').

According to the 1983 Annual Report for NEI PLC available on the Companies House website, NEI payed a "consideration of approximately £1.8m" to "purchase the business and certain related assets of Hymac Ltd" from the Receivers of Hymac.

According to Peter Grimshaw's books Hymas(Hydrauliske maskiner) were a Norweigan firm dating back to 1904 that was involved in cconstruction equipment from 1955 originally specialising in tractor or truck-mounted cranes, hydraulic backhoe attachments and dental chairs. Hymac offered the 7.5t '82-R' ...

1st NEI Hymac 1984.jpg The book The Magic of a Name: The Rolls-Royce Story. Part Three: A Family of Engines by Peter Pugh contains a concise and informative history of Northern Engineering Industries (NEI) PLC, its acquisition by Rolls-Royce and subsequent life after being integrated into R-R. It a...

A Kubota KX71-3 Alpha with the less often seen canopy option giving it an operating of approximately 2.7 tonnes. The machine belongs to the Rothen Group (see https://www.therothengroup.co.uk/ ) and was used by the Canal and River Trust to replace a section of canal wash wall using galvanised sheet p...

A JCB 2CX Airmaster used to carry a boat cradle/launcher in Weymouth, photographed in 2021.
Also a 2CX belonging to Cox Hire with a Vogele Super 1803-3i asphalt paver.

A lovely row of Hymacs taken from a brochure for Norwest Holst Soil Engineering Limited of 1980s vintage for its grouting services. One of them bares the name Gordon Anderson Plant (now GAP Group). They are fitted with rotary drilling masts (possibly from Halco) and top-drive rotary hammers to drive...

I stumbled across a photo of a Jones crawler crane belonging to Morrison Construction on Flickr.
Original source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/56550223@N04/5603276252

Ammann entered the pavers market in 2009 by buying the rights to the Antec/Italian Road Machinery range of pavers. https://www.khl.com/news/ammann-acquires-italy-s-antec/1042854.article and http://www.classicmachinery.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3256 The below unit belongs to Pro-Tech.