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Steve

5th pic, 2 shoppers casually wandering through, and a Nash metropolitan in the last one.

The 5th Pic very interesting, a Hymac 580BT with an air-cooled Dorman engine and a two piece boom.

Jeremy

Has the boom an extra pivot or is it a slide out job? How do you know that is a Dorman? Not doubting our Hymac expert, just asking.

essexpete wrote:Has the boom an extra pivot or is it a slide out job? How do you know that is a Dorman? Not doubting our Hymac expert, just asking.

The boom was a multi-position boom but not powered, if you look closely at the engine canopy, you can see that it is higher than the standard ones and that there is part which sticks out the back, this was a cooling duct for the air-cooled Dorman engine. These engines were more popular in the MOD machines so perhaps this is an ex-MOD digger?

Jeremy

Steve

The AEC tipper is similar to one of your previous posts, the body looks too long. Maybe a trend for that era perhaps.

I remember watching the work at Robin Hoods Bay.
Contractor was using an XWD Austin K9 4x4 truck which I knew from my Matchbox toys !

Craig

mechman wrote:

essexpete wrote:

Jeremy Rowland wrote:

essexpete wrote:

mechman wrote:Hi all
Unusual bucket arrangement on the tracked loader, second last pic.
Norm.

Looking at the bucket teeth, it must load over?

It does look like it loads over, bet the operator had a sore neck after a shift on that.

Jeremy

Proper nasty but better than a shovel!

JUST.

The loader in the photograph appears in the Olysager Auto Library book 'Earthmoving Vehicles'. The caption says it was by "The Anderson Brothers, of Port Richmond", was developed in early 1932, based on a Caterpillar 'Fifteen' crawler tractor and had a half cubic yard capacity.

The D.Brant Hymac 590C in the black and white picture (page 284 of this thread, post number 2838) still exists.
My late father bought it in the mid 1980s to use for car dismantling.
It's still in the yard, but been out of action for a while now.
The hydraulic hammer in the picture didn't do the boom much good, somebody had to repair some cracking.