FROM BH NEWS 1979 AGAIN, A REPORT OF THE FIRST FLEET OF SIX NEW TEREX R-50B`S DELIVERED INTO SCOTLAND, SOLD TO DARNGAVIL BRICKWORKS, AN OPENCAST MINING COMPANY RUN BY `DREW ANDERSON, A MIGRANT FROM THE EAST MIDLANDS(?).
FOR THOSE THAT CANNOT REMEMBER, (WHICH WE ARE SURE IS NONE OF YOU), THE R-50B WAS A SOUPED UP VERSION OF THE R-45/R-50, WHEREBY IT HAD FRONT COIL SUSPENSION INSTEAD OF LEAF SPRINGS, MUCH LIKE THE R-35B, AND IT PROVED JUST AS MUCH OF AN EARNER IN IT`S SHORTISH PRODUCTION LIFE AS ITS OLDER BRETHREN HAD BEEN, BUT WAS TRUTHFULLY BEHIND THE COMPETITION OF THE TIME IN CERTAIN WAYS, LIKE AVELING BARFORD, CAT & EUCLID, WHO HAD ALL MOVED ONTO INDEPENDENT CYLINDER TYPE SUSPENSION IN ALL 4 CORNERS SOME TIME BEFORE.
POSSIBLY EVEN THE SUCCESS OF THE R-50/50B DELAYED THE INTRODUCTION OF THE 33 SERIES INTO THE UK MARKET, WHICH HAD BEEN ON THE USA SCENE SINCE THE EARLY 1970`S IN THE FORM OF THE 33-05 & 33-07. THERE WAS EVEN CHAT AT THE TIME THAT BH HAD ASKED GM TO DO EXACTLY THAT, BUT WHETHER TRUE OR NOT, WE CAN ONLY CONJECTURE…OR DOES SOMEBODY KNOW ????
THE LAST NEW ONES WERE SOLD AS LATE AS 1984 (WE THINK), AND WIMPEYS EVEN BOUGHT SOME SEMI-REBUILDS FROM H.M.L. IN THE MID 1980`s WHEN THERE WERE NO MORE NEW ONES TO HAVE.
IT WOULD BE INTERESTING TO KNOW WHO SOLD THEM TO DARNGAVIL !!
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