The Classic Machinery Network

hey tc . could it be reg Hopkins ??????

wow ,great to see this post. my ole man brian davis god bless him was out on this project briefly as a fitter,and my old boss mr john moore as service manager both with bowmakers out of melksham. happy days

im not sure but I think john ogbournes bitton plant hire use to run a couple of biggish hd's ,usually found in arc tytherington and chipping sodbury

great pics of the old 8 and box. think c&p use to run about a dozen of them in there hey day . the company I work for (REEDS construction & engineering) moved into the old c&p yard about 10 years ago,so were keeping the theme of the yard going so to speak,and we have the old c&p plan...

Got some old pics as well when i was at Brown and Mason demo. 245 ME with La Bounty shear. Think we had about 10 of them. Will post if i can find them. Image (9).jpg Image (10).jpg top pictures there robert can you remember the cat 977k or L that brown and mason had ? we rebuilt the engine on it wh...

heres another converted d9h on its way from our workshops back up to roger brookhouses depot

hi geoff glad to hear your plenty busy,have you anything in the pipeline for australia ?i see a few of the scottish pipeline operators are out there on a project. all the best

hi geoff,its mark here from arthur reeds,hows things going up at bidford,does ketchup still work for roger ? have any of the d9 conversions gone to work yet mate.hope alls well

tc the only guy i can remember called reg was reg bray who my old man use 2 work with,they both left bowmakers at melksham before bowies relocated to highbridge,reg's son david bray use to work for kelston sparkes before he emigrated out asia way after working on the hong kong airport project.

d9h pipelayer conversion (2011)