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Nice paint job I have seen similar before, here's one I found on the net some time ago that looks like its got measels.

Jeremy

Nice pics Steve, its been a while since I've seen the inside of a paintshop, always used to love seeing a freshly painted wagon come out of the paintshop, can still smell the Tekaloid paint drying one em now.

Jeremy

Hi Simon, Welcome to CMN thanks for posting the crane pics, very interesting although I am no crane expert I'm sure there are members who can enlighten us all on the cranes in these pics. Are Beck & Pollitzer a national company or just a Midlands company? I do still see trucks in your livery in ...

Yes they did make excavators and when they became part of the IBH group some of their machines were marketed over here as Hymac, there should be some pics of them in the Hymac thread if you wade through it, I'm sure I posted a couple of pics in there.

Jeremy

I spotted these at a Truckfest show.

Jeremy

Great pics there

Jeremy

Kawasaki Heavy Industries have had their fingers in many pies so as to speak and did manufacture a range of wheeled loaders, so they may also have had input into the one off SMEC 4500 front shovel that was operated in an Australian open cast mine for a few years (mid eighties I think). Other than th...

Here's a Sennebogen that was being used on a demolition job back in late 2005/early 2006.
The first time I saw these machines was back in 1976 when they were the main stay of J.T.Broadhurst & Sons scrap metal recycling yard, they had about 13 of them.

Jeremy

Nice pics Steve this is indeed a very rare beast, the only ones I have ever come across have been materials handlers although I was aware that they had made a few excavators.

Jeremy

There's some great pics posted here, a big thanks too all for posting

Jeremy