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Post #461 by 70's steve » Sun Apr 27, 2014 12:00 pm

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Post #462 by Hutch » Sat May 03, 2014 9:21 pm

Hi All

Slightly off topic but can anyone remember a roller hire company called David Meek and what became of them.They appeared in the early ninties with a dark blue and yellow paint scheme and specialised in dead weight rollers having all new Aveling Barford rollers with the fifty pence piece shaped cab with rear access door.Tarmac also purchased one of these rollers and it was probably one of the worst rollers they owned and maybe contributed to Meeks demise.Amey seemed to use this company a lot.

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Post #463 by widget » Sun May 04, 2014 12:39 am

Hi Paul,
I found the following......not a bad pension :roll:


Rank: 69 David Meek Group
Recovered from near-bankruptcy to sell for £21m in 1999

A £21m management buy-in in 1999 allowed David Meek to retire from his plant hire business at 58 with £11m in his pocket. Paxcourt, trading as David Meek Group, was originally founded to supply equipment to the construction industry. However, over-reliance on a few road-building clients in the early 1990s led to a dangerous shrink in profits during the recession. In 1992 the Bristol-based company relaunched itself as a supplier of commercial cranes. The cranes offer a safe, quick alternative to scaffolding and ladders and are already widely used in the US for construction and industrial cleaning projects, when people need to work up to 100 feet above the ground. For example, recent hygiene laws mean food wholesalers are required to regularly clean rafters in warehouses. Early entry into this growth market has yielded high margins. David Meek's profits grew by 43% pa, from £1.2m in 1996 to £3.3m in 1999, while sales rose 21% pa to reach £9.3m.
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Re: Blaw Knox Pavers

Post #464 by ruston » Mon May 05, 2014 3:30 pm

Some cracking pics there chaps! Tilcon laying, it appears, wet-mix which probably came from our Ballidon quarry, my pal Tony Fox with his Clydesdale when he was a Tarmac O/D, surfacing Slack Hill (did that again many years later from Ballidon) and one of those small Barber Greene's on tracks which will not take 20 ton of material no matter how hard some of our driver's tried! ;)

Was it only Tarmac who used those extra fuel tanks, they were the only firm I ever recall seeing with them?

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Re: Blaw Knox Pavers

Post #465 by tarmac » Tue May 06, 2014 10:33 pm

widget wrote:
tarmac wrote:Try again .......I worked at Old Cliffe Hill then Stud Farm, 87 onwards, remember Malc in his Ford Cargo with all those models, John Harris too when he was based at Tarmac Ampthill too (I was in the lab their too when it opened) Any one remember "Cobblers" from Northampton, who did the NDM Gauge work ? Happy memories of Tarmac Corby too.....26 years later, still with Tarmac, in National Contracting at Ettingshall.....


Hi Andy.....Part of the old Ampthill mob :wave: (pic below)

I can remember surfacing some of the site when it was new back in the mid 80's. long time ago now,I think it was next to a scrap yard :think:

I can only remember two NDM guys, but not there names. One of them looked like Mick Hucknell from simply red and the other looked like Christopher biggins :lol:

Long old shift 26 years :dizzy:


Steve......I have had a nose on the facebook page........some good stuff :thumbup:
I even saw a couple of pics of a good looking young chap on his trusty machine :think: the dates are wrong tho..m40 1993.....it was1987ish :lol:


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Re: Blaw Knox Pavers

Post #466 by tarmac » Tue May 06, 2014 10:37 pm

Glad you like my Tarmac FB page, think we must have about 3000 pictures up now, I was at Corby too in the early 90's, and Ampthill from the start, yes originally the scrap yard of L.Vass, if you google Vass Ampthill you will find some more of my pictures of the yard.....

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Re: Blaw Knox Pavers

Post #467 by 70's steve » Sat Jun 14, 2014 10:12 am

Hi all
Few more pics from the Facebook group
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Re: Blaw Knox Pavers

Post #468 by mick h » Tue Jun 17, 2014 8:24 pm

Good pictures of the ever faithful BKs. I remember them big comfy seats with the fold up fold down armrests, I've had many a catnap sat in those waiting for the mac to turn up.


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Re: Blaw Knox Pavers

Post #469 by DRB » Sat Jul 12, 2014 12:25 am

New here,
Subscribed because I like old equipment and stories, didn't realize the stories would be about the same, just different countries. I worked in the asphalt here in the US from the fifty's to 90's. From shoveler to owner, loved it all. Though I would attach some pictures, at least I hope so to show what we were doing in the early years.

The pictures of the Blaw Knox was taken in 1964 in Hells Canyon Idaho, I was the operator. We also had a PF90 that we used part time, I was about the only one who would run it. One stick tiller steering and foot augers, sorry no pictures.

I know that this is a Blaw Knox forum but thought I would sneak in a Barber Green picture. Taken about 1961 in Colorado, I was driving the truck but also ran the paver, two hand clutch/brake steering and foot augers, not a easy paver to learn, but did a great job

Hope you like the pictures.

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Re: Blaw Knox Pavers

Post #470 by Jeremy Rowland » Sat Jul 12, 2014 8:57 pm

Hi Ray and welcome :wave: thank you for sharing the photos I am sure that you will have much to share with other CMN members of your time working in that particular section of the construction industry. :thumbup:

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