TAYLOR WOODROW O.C.MINING SOUTH WALES.

[IBH]

Great Pictures! Thank you!
img220.jpg and img221.jpg: what is that?

Priestman VC20 Variable Counterbalance long reach excavator belonging to George Law Ltd of Kidderminster, Worcestershire who were/still are involved in civil engineering and plant hire.

[Mark Williams]

Hello Noel,
Thanks for the recognition.
Ian,Jim long was a general foreman with us,I never worked with him personally.
He is I believe one of the directors with a group of ex Taylor Woodrow men who have formed a civil engineering company down in Wales called Daunus Civil Engineering.
It has taken on the building of the coal disposal plant for Miller Argent at Ffos Y Frahn O.C.C.S I believe.
Regards,
Mark.

[Renaultman]

Can you tell me what crane that is please and what is that flatbed with the hiab. I see a DJB D25 and the backend of a Sanderson forklift.

[Mark Williams]

Hello Geraint,
I can't see a crane in the pictures,sorry.I think you might be mistaking the drill rig by the side of the Demag H285s for a crane.We had 2 of them, Compair Holmans, with Cat 3406 engines in them.
The flat bed lorry was an ex falklands Scammell Landtrain,with a Cummins nt855 engine and hiab crane mounted behind the cab.Whenever you got to use it you could be guaranteed of having a wet arse because nobody could get the window to go all the way up.That hiab would easily lift a transmission and diff out of a Cat 777.There was an abundance of those Landtrains about after the war,there was a small fleet of them used by a contractor to take the the coal out of the cut at Budges East Pit site.
Hope this is some help,
Regards,
Mark Williams.

[big soup]

was part of the team from east west heavy haulage ltd that moved 26 777 trucks ,graders, face shovels, dozers etc from bryn hellys to avon mouth docks for onward shipment ,big charlie the geordie fitter was very helpful getting all the old plant ready to go , beeby plant had the job of stripping down the face shovels and washing down the old plant .

[Renaultman]

was part of the team from east west heavy haulage ltd that moved 26 777 trucks ,graders, face shovels, dozers etc from bryn hellys to avon mouth docks for onward shipment ,big charlie the geordie fitter was very helpful getting all the old plant ready to go , beeby plant had the job of stripping down the face shovels and washing down the old plant .

Are those the pics on the East West website.

[big soup]

yes that is the pics on the web site

[charlie miller]

I remember it well , Proper plant, not like this new stuff, not a computer in site.
The good old days. Gained a few pounds since the people , never mind !!!!!!!!!

[charlie miller]

Flat bed was a leyland land train with a 1265 hiab , Mark is correct ex falklands, Drill rigs were Compair Holman RBH 30;s And the crane is a Coles super Truck 25 tonner , we also had a We also had a Grove RT600 (not in the photo's)

[plantman]

Hi Charlie. good to here from you, hope you are keeping well, thanks for a great day at Taylor Woodrow. Are you working overseas? Good luck, Noel.