Hi All,
Came on this pic of a Dowset muck-shift which dates to the era when I first got involved with plant and lorries.
The Bedford tippers are theTD6 model which was introduced in 1957 and discontinued early in 1959 when the TJ was introduced. They could have been petrol or diesel powered back then.
The TD was the first to be powered by Bedford's own diesel, (the 300). The later TJ6 s used the much improved Bedford 330 engines.
In the pic is also a BMC (Austin) 6 tonner which would have had the BMC 5.1 litre engine.
I worked on all these trucks, so a picture full of memories for me.
![Image](http://www.classicmachinery.net/forum/images/userpix/2600_1Q2CSCRTXAH5L1583265951.jpg)
It would only have taken three buckets from the 38 RB to fill these trucks so they would have been busy.
I believe the motor scraper on top of the cut is a 15 yard Blaw-Knox Goliath. These were powered by an AEC 11.3 litre engine.
Whatever happened to British engineering and manufacture
Fred