Blast from the past

[FOWLER MAN]

Hi,
I was given these pics. by a local dealer.
They are machines I once owned which he photographed when they went through his hands years after I sold them. Theres a Thwaites Giant dumper behind the Komatsu too.
Fred

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[diggerjones]

i like the 3rd pic, what is it. it looks a fair machine

[FOWLER MAN]

i like the 3rd pic, what is it. it looks a fair machine

Hi Digger,
Thats a Ruston Dynahoe, Its an American design, but this is the British made RB version. The american versionhad a GM engine, but this British version was powered by the Ruston 6YDA air cooled engine like the 22RB.
Powerfull centre kingpost backactor with amazing reach and usefull front end as you can see.
Not much good in a tight site though.
Fred

[Ianto36]

hi Fred it's Ian with the K Series Dodge, I am sure BJ plant had one of those Rustons and it was four wheel drive? Always remember seeing it heading towards Tonyrefail in the early 80 s and the driver was always wearing a pair of ear defenders as he bounced along the road whilst driving it!

[FOWLER MAN]

hi Fred it's Ian with the K Series Dodge, I am sure BJ plant had one of those Rustons and it was four wheel drive? Always remember seeing it heading towards Tonyrefail in the early 80 s and the driver was always wearing a pair of ear defenders as he bounced along the road whilst driving it!

Hi Ian,
Bit late now to welcome you on here, I missed your first post in Feb.
What about some pics of that Dodge
Your quite right about BJ having those Dynahoes, I think they had four.
The driver would have needed the ear defenders sitting behind the old Ruston 6YDA engine. They were noisy beasts.
Fred

[Ianto36]

Hi Fred, how do you post photos on this site? Do you have to upload from photobucket like trucknetuk? Ian

[Ianto36]

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[Ianto36]

Here she is Fred with one side of the tipper body restored and paintstripped back to the aluminium. The body is 1970 Edbro vintage off an old AEC Marshall from British Dredging and has calibration wights on it? which i bought off Jeff Way, stripped off the old side rails and vertical supports which were bent a distorted and replaced with new! refurbished the tailboard and put new tailboard lugs, bar and pins. Now to strip the paint on he other side, eat the elepant in small chunks as they say?!




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[tim]

hi Fred it's Ian with the K Series Dodge, I am sure BJ plant had one of those Rustons and it was four wheel drive? Always remember seeing it heading towards Tonyrefail in the early 80 s and the driver was always wearing a pair of ear defenders as he bounced along the road whilst driving it!

Hi Ian,
Bit late now to welcome you on here, I missed your first post in Feb.
What about some pics of that Dodge
Your quite right about BJ having those Dynahoes, I think they had four.
The driver would have needed the ear defenders sitting behind the old Ruston 6YDA engine. They were noisy beasts.
Fred

Is this the same company?

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[Ianto36]

hi Fred it's Ian with the K Series Dodge, I am sure BJ plant had one of those Rustons and it was four wheel drive? Always remember seeing it heading towards Tonyrefail in the early 80 s and the driver was always wearing a pair of ear defenders as he bounced along the road whilst driving it!

Hi Ian,
Bit late now to welcome you on here, I missed your first post in Feb.
What about some pics of that Dodge
Your quite right about BJ having those Dynahoes, I think they had four.
The driver would have needed the ear defenders sitting behind the old Ruston 6YDA engine. They were noisy beasts.
Fred

Is this the same company?

rbd1.jpg

Hi Tim,

that's the one, I can remember seeing that photo while trawling the web some time ago, tried to find it again and couldn't! thanks for posting it. brings back some memories, quite an awesome machine for its day and looked the part then and now