BRIAN REDMAN….WITHOUT HIM, THERE WOULDN`T BE AN EASTERN REGION !!
Brian is currently making some jottings of his 17 years at the Hodge (in 3 sessions !), but he keeps feeding us some more photos for publication, so we have to keep updating his region.
All of these images cover his early time as a service engineer, with firstly on duty at CEGB Northfleet, late 1960`s probably, paying a visit to their Euc TC-12 on coal duty…..looks like you had a few pistons & liners to change on that one Brian………..
……next a bunch of photos taken at the M.V.E.E !! You know what that is dont you ?? No ?? The Military Vehicle Experimental Establishment at Hurn, near Bournemouth ….. thought everybody knew that !! Brian reckons it was a bit of a "Hillhead" of its day, which was 1966, and some tasty Eucs on view….an R-45, what we think is an 82-30, must be a very early model, pulling a tracked command post (??), an 82-40 & a 72-41, both first produced in 1966, some TS-14A`s (not that they were A`s then), and a couple of tantalising half pictures of the TTS-14. Did nobody ever get a proper picture of that machine !!!! 
….and lastly in 1968 or 1969, Brian is sent to London Docks (they still had them then, no high rise appartments in those days !!) to assist the loading of some exports, namely B4LOT Cummins powered TS-24`s for Costain, maybe to Nigeria ?? Would anybody know ?? Fine photo anyway.
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