WE COME TO 1958, THE FIRST OF OUR REPORTS, SUPPLIED BY ROB BROWN, WHICH DOESN`T HAVE ONE OF OUR FAVOURITE "PAINTINGS" ON THE FRONT COVER, JUST A COMMON OR GARDEN PHOTO !!
But never mind, it is crammed full of more photos of the Euclid machines "of the hour", and updates on The Company`s progress around its "Empire", so without further ado, 1958……..
…..and a TC-12 with S blade & multi-shank ripper heralds the commencement of the years results…..
…followed, not by a world map, or styalised version of same, but a slightly mundane list of companies with which we will have to make do……doesn`t quite have the same effect…..
…followed by a bit of cribbing of items from years gone by, the Boardroom in The Bungalow from 1957, but now with the main men (and lady) added, and a general view of 25, first seen 2 years earlier, now accompanied by some UK depot shots….the editor was a little lazy that year !!
The overseas territories as ever are not left out, and we have 3 countries represented, all part of that "other" Empire as well……
….all three showing various products, contracts & contractors prominent at that time in those countries.
Back to UK now, and in 1958, the phenomenum that we now call our motorway system, was in its infancy, and J.B.H. supplied R-25`s & S-21## single engine scrapers were at the forefront of the muckshifting….
## NB: Newhouse built the S-18 (B3LOT/B4SH) from 1956, but the next generation, with a B6SH scraper, was 21 cu yd struck, and 29 cu yd heaped, so was initially called the S-21, as seen below, but as no such designation had appeared in the USA, the scraper eventually reverted to S-18 to give worldwide uniformity. For all you DD fanatics, both models were fitted with the Cummins NRT0-6 320 hp lump……
…we assume that Mr George Sheppard is the gentleman in the photo, although that is a company we are not familiar with…also note the Gradall doing its stuff at Hendon.
General shots to finish off 1958, from UK and abroad….note Wimpeys name on the TS-24,in 1958, not long on the market, in fact Wimpey still owned B10LOT`s in the early 1990`s…thats a long relationship in our business….also some Newhouse images of tractor production, various overseas photos, and lastly……Public Works, see last shot below……
….probably Earls Court, possibly our older brethren would confirm or not….the name on the scraper swan neck provokes images of Northampton & Eastern Region salesmen & managers counting their commissions…Paddy & Hughie Murphy, the Murphy Brothers whose hard working fleets of Euc scrapers & reardumps dominated muckshifting in many areas for quite a while. Taken over around the mid 1980`s (??), the name disappeared, along with many famous others.
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