Based on reversed Fordson Major , but what is it ?...........
Mystery machine
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Hi Craig,
I'm not sure what it is either, but I remember one very simmullar to it with a grab attatched working in a coalyard near us.
It was working allongside , and doing the same job as my cousins Neal Pellican. I'm not sure after all this time, ( 50 years), but the name Taylor seems to ring a bell.
Fred
I'm not sure what it is either, but I remember one very simmullar to it with a grab attatched working in a coalyard near us.
It was working allongside , and doing the same job as my cousins Neal Pellican. I'm not sure after all this time, ( 50 years), but the name Taylor seems to ring a bell.
Fred
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Hi Craig It's not a JCB loadover by any chance. There were only few made and as the name implies they could pick up a load at the front and tip it at the rear. Ian
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gah1950 wrote:hello fred.
you mentioned a neil pelican,are you related to the arnold brothers?.
graham.
Hi Graham,
Yes the Arnold Bros were my cousins, "what characters", Gwynne who you probably knew best was my favourite. What a great guy!
Fred
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hello fred.
back around 1974 there was a fuel shortage as you will know,barry would send some of the tippers up to mabon road garage to save his own stocks.One day a few lorries went up to royce for a fill up and gwynne happened to be one of them,but a few weeks earlier royce and gwynne had a bit of a fall out and as gwynne s turn came for some juice royce turned round and said if you think you are having any you can think again and so gwynne left with an empty tank.
.good old days.
graham.
back around 1974 there was a fuel shortage as you will know,barry would send some of the tippers up to mabon road garage to save his own stocks.One day a few lorries went up to royce for a fill up and gwynne happened to be one of them,but a few weeks earlier royce and gwynne had a bit of a fall out and as gwynne s turn came for some juice royce turned round and said if you think you are having any you can think again and so gwynne left with an empty tank.
.good old days.graham.
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FOWLER MAN wrote:Hi Craig,
I'm not sure what it is either, but I remember one very simmullar to it with a grab attatched working in a coalyard near us.
It was working allongside , and doing the same job as my cousins Neal Pellican. I'm not sure after all this time, ( 50 years), but the name Taylor seems to ring a bell.
Fred
When I worked for Beck and Pollitzer in the late sixty's we ran a Taylor hydro mobile crane similar to the 360 degree slewing Iron Fairies (Garnet and Topaz?) . I think that it used Ford D800/1000 truck components and was a pig to drive on the road!
Angus
Just found this
www.gracesguide.co.uk/wiki/F._Taylor_and_Sons
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