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Any VHE ex-men

Did 5 years back in 87 on wards
regards
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I did used to occassionally go into VHE's yard at Wombwell around 1990-93 used to return re-worked engine blocks and crankshafts to the workshop and pick other work up from there.
I can clearly see the line up of Terex scrapers in their yard, VHE were involved in building the "Black Country" by pass by where I live around the same time period.

Jeremy

Was on hire to them with a D135(D8 size) in about 1998 in a land fill tip in Wrexham area.Also was on hire to them in about 2000 ish at manchester airport on a D155.Lots of TS14's and 24's on that job.I went to an auction of theirs in about 2001/2 to look at their D8's but they were only selling the junk.All the good kit was on the other side of the fence.

Here a wee pic of one of VHE's D9H ripping near Glasgow.

I worked for them twice, Leabrooke Rd/Black country route, camp on site tin tent, decent shillings, few characters ,,,,!!, plenty of tackle, long hours

Steve Jackson works for Stokey now and ex VHE fitter Mark Guilfoyle is Product Support manager for Bell UK.

SB

do they still run any scrapers?

I saw these machines on the A14 near Molesworth so had to stop and take some photos - hope they are of interest.

Steve Waddington

Cracking pics there Steve thanks for sharing.

Jeremy

68a wrote:do they still run any scrapers?

VHE stopped running scrapers about 10 years or so ago? had a big auction at their Shafton workshops and sold off the big tackle.
They run smaller stuff at the moment but not much, tend to hire stuff in these days?