1960's side tippers
Hello Les,
Thats just a bit before my time. I forget who made that paving machine, but Fitzpatrick had an almost identical one in their yard in about 1985.
They also used side ti dump trucks. When the Laing consortium built the Falklands airstrip in the 1980's they bought Man 6x4 side tippers for the concrete.
Those were sold off in the UK after the job finished. Fitzpatrick operated several. I think they then passed through several hands, and only two or three months ago, I thought I saw those same Man trucks on the Baldock bypass.
Construction companies were issued with hundreds of trucks during the war, and then bought thousands more.
Regards
Nick Balmer
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