Re: Classic pictures Updated 22/04/2018
Posted: Sun Apr 22, 2018 7:21 pm
HI Steve,
Great pics as ever. Thank you.
The second pic. in your last post brings back memories for me.
The pic was taken at Nantgarw Coke Ovens, South Wales circa 1964/5.
The Contractor was Yorkshire based Wm. Pepper Ltd. who were part of the Hargreaves Group. I know because I was their foreman fitter covering their three sites in South Wales. At that time, at the Nantgarw site, we were screening coke onto rail for export to Portugal via Cardiff Docks.
I was doubling as foreman fitter and site foreman then, working six 12 hour day shifts then six 12 hour nights every other week. I worked through 36 hours without going home more than once.
Though a fitters, (tradesman's),rate then was 6 shillings and 3 old pence per hour and you were lucky to take home £22 my take home wages were usually a little more than £56. I never minded the hours come payday.
We had eleven 22RBs on site feeding five screening plants. The screens were by Parker and Niagra and all but one were electricaly powered by by generators with Dorman, AEC and two with Sentinel engines.
We also had a Case 1000 and two Case 800 loaders a Cat 955 and a Weatherill LC61 wheel loader on site together with at least a dozen 4, 6, and 8 wheel site tippers. The Albion CH13 in the pic was one of four Albions Ex Hargreaves own fleet.
Fred
Great pics as ever. Thank you.
The second pic. in your last post brings back memories for me.
The pic was taken at Nantgarw Coke Ovens, South Wales circa 1964/5.
The Contractor was Yorkshire based Wm. Pepper Ltd. who were part of the Hargreaves Group. I know because I was their foreman fitter covering their three sites in South Wales. At that time, at the Nantgarw site, we were screening coke onto rail for export to Portugal via Cardiff Docks.
I was doubling as foreman fitter and site foreman then, working six 12 hour day shifts then six 12 hour nights every other week. I worked through 36 hours without going home more than once.
Though a fitters, (tradesman's),rate then was 6 shillings and 3 old pence per hour and you were lucky to take home £22 my take home wages were usually a little more than £56. I never minded the hours come payday.
We had eleven 22RBs on site feeding five screening plants. The screens were by Parker and Niagra and all but one were electricaly powered by by generators with Dorman, AEC and two with Sentinel engines.
We also had a Case 1000 and two Case 800 loaders a Cat 955 and a Weatherill LC61 wheel loader on site together with at least a dozen 4, 6, and 8 wheel site tippers. The Albion CH13 in the pic was one of four Albions Ex Hargreaves own fleet.
Fred