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PS to above......there was a plant hire outfit from Durham somewhere around then called 'Cataplant' all their mounts had heaters in & on the odd occasion I came across one the operators were quite clearly more relaxed & comfortable than those of us lucky enough to have a mount in winter

What were the no-cab versions like to drive in the winter?

No winter cab anythings were appalling most times especially on the cumberland sections of the M6, Alfred Mac & his henchman 'Ted Whittle drift through the mists of youthful long gone memory as well as Hamptons A1M on the eastern side.

bigkit
but this bloody site wont let me upload them! I'm fed up

DC
If you download a program called 'Video pad editor' you can convert them (any still) into video form@ upoald to youtube.Vid pad gives appx 14 days free then you must buy.
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Hamptons local chancers spent 4 out of 5 shifts threading ropes they broke every other tip

rockstar91 Whoa, I never heard of this company, how did you come across this equipment? They were very, very common here in UK in 1960's, the TD6 was the smallest, had a 4 in 1 bucket, quite a bit smaller than a cat955 of that period & nowhere near as robust as cats. International also made some...

Fowlerman
Dowsetts D9 was working in a borrow pit on a Motorway extension in Yorkshire.

DC
Was this on the Barnsley section of the M1 around 1967 or maybe 68 Trevor??
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John Penfold wrote: I found a rake of them in a box in the shed,from as early Port Talbot days, circa 1963 DC That draws back a few curtains to a window on the past, Chris Chaplin was agent on that job, that was about the 'rockiest' road I ever traveled in those days, plain hard rock scraped up in a...