Priestman Excavators

[Nick Drew]

Nick these photos were taken yesterday in co tyrone N I with a cheap camera and while they they lack the quality and expert touch of many of our posters,they demostrate that anyone can participate in this forum, so i appeal to the 100,s of members yet to post,just make a simple comment or post a photo.
ps. old action shots particularly welcome.

Hey Brian,

Do you have anymore shots of that first machine the 220 mustang ?? different angles ?

Would love to see more of them I just loved those machines

Nick

[pk1200]

Nick sorry for not replying sooner,but went by today and took some more cheap shots for us to enjoy.

[Nick Drew]

Cracking stuff Brian!!!

I cant believe that old girl is just lying around like that !! It looks in pretty good shape for its age

I would love to know more about it

I guess that there must be something seriously wrong with it mechanically to be lying around like it is

Nick

[Nick Drew]

If I had the time and spare cash I would love to buy it an do it up !!!

I have plenty of room for her down here !!

[pk1200]

Nick
I don,t know what the story is with this machine,but no other machine has come onto the site to replace it.But i agree that it looks in fair condition for it's age.What was the production run for this model?

[Nick Drew]

Nick
I don,t know what the story is with this machine,but no other machine has come onto the site to replace it.But i agree that it looks in fair condition for it's age.What was the production run for this model?

Sadly I am not sure of the production run of this machine !! Maybe Jeremy Rowland will know ??

I just have fond memorys of operating a 220 when I was about 13 yrs old and loving it !!

Used to do a couple of hours every night backfilling with one when I came out of school in the good old days !!

Nick

[pk1200]

here's a photo of another little Priestman in trouble and may well have reached it's last working days.

[Nick Drew]

here's a photo of another little Priestman in trouble and may well have reached it's last working days.

Yet another great shot Brian

That looks like an old Mustang 120 that has had a respray and been given decals from the Sanderson/Priestman era

She sure looks to be in a bad way with a double track off scenario

Nick

[Jeremy Rowland]

Hi there Nick and Brian, well I must say that I'm no expert on Priestman production numbers and whilst I have seen many Mustang 120's in my time and there's a 108S just down the road from where I live, I can't give you a production numbers for the 220 all I can say is that they are as rare as hens teeth so Nick if you want to save one I would pretty soon before they are consigned to the history books.

Jeremy

[IBH]

The Sanderson colour scheme of the Mustang above could well be original, as I'm failry sure there was a period after Sanderson bought Priestman were they were still building the old style Mustang's before the later designs with VC cabs were introduced.