Dick Hampton

[Holger]

Very welcome Steve!
Thank you for sharing the memories!

[Luke Simmonds]

My father was a welder dickhampton on the Tonbridge bypass A21 in the late 60s early 70s

[Luke Simmonds]

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[bigkit]

Hi Luke

Are you any relation to Chris Simmonds who works for Clancy Docwra?

Clive

[Luke Simmonds]

Hi Clive

Yes he's my older brother
Luke

[bigkit]

Well I'm blowed Luke, your brothers told me a few tales of the Hamptons days!

[duncan]

Duncan McInnes 1962 -65 I worked as a fitter for Dick Hampton at Bentley,in the plant workshop foreman was Lofty (Norman Dowding ) Bert manager workshop and tweedie Harris Plant Manager .It was a great place to work 55 hours the standard week in the shop and more on site always had Saturday off if you were in Bentley other people I remember Harold Penn Peter Charlton ,4 Furey brothers .I met up with Harold,& lofty,in Bentley,2008 they were both going fine and still live in the area .like the web site and hope to hear from anyone who thinks I can help with information on Hampton's Duncan (blondie) Mcinnes Ps My Brother in law Gus Bloor also worked there before going Australia

[CatD8H]

Hi Guys, Just joined the site, thought you might like to hear about my memories of Dick Hampton Earthmoving from the mid 60's ..I dont have time to go through it all just now, but got a good few lines with memories and facts about the company from my youth days when they were involed in the muckshifting work on the new M74/Bothwell to Maryville section...have to go right now..hope to catch up with you guys soon and fill you in.

[CatD8H]

Hi Guys, Well,when I was a lad back in 1964, I was fascinated by trucks, and when Dick Hampton started working on the final section of the M74..me and my mates would go down after school and watch the machines at work, If my memory serves me right,the fleet consisted of C and D reg, Leyland/LAD Comets 6x4,Bedford TK's 4x2, Ford Thames Traders,4X2 And my favourite truck at that time, the Guy Warrior,6x4..What was unique about these Tippers was that all the trucks had Scow end Dump truck bodies with Cab protection and no tailgates, obviously for safety and fast dumping on the site, I think there were around 50 trucks in total. They also had 2-3 old Scammell Low loaders,and a couple of old Bedford fuel bowsers, The tractors were mainly Caterpillar D8's..most of the scrapers were pulled by the tractor..and I think there were a couple of Motor Scrapers too, he also had a couple of Ruston Bucyrus excavating cranes..not sure which models, and a couple of old Coaches used at various points for tea breaks etc..Their Workshop and Depot were only a Half a mile away from where i stayed at the time..in fact an old Scraper lies buried there on the now landscaped site...thats all for now, but more to come soon. cheers!!

[XS650]

Just the sort of stuff i like to see pics of