Post #6 by conway » Sat May 23, 2009 9:50 am
I believe Dick and Chris blackwell bought at least 12 brand new 769 dump trucks for use on the clevedon section of M5 motorway.They were used to pull out 2 million tonnes of rock and deposit in the valley below.It was left to settle the ground for a year or so,picked up put through crushers and put down again by pirate tippers,my dad Bill Conway had that contract.THe project manager for Laings pulled Dick blackwell out of his roller when the contract got behind schdule.THe job was flooded with about 50x hired dump trucks ,many came from umo plant,these russian dumptrucks,were constantly breaking down the russian fitters spent most of the time under them.It was the early seventies i was about 20.