JUST LIKE BUSES, NO SOONER THAN ONE DIRECTORS REPORT COMES ALONG, BUT THERE`S ANOTHER FOLLOWING !!
Looking to put something else on quickly, 1962`s Directors Report seemed a good enough subject, so off we go.
Across-the-pond scene, the relatively new Euclid L-30, slightly under-working, loading a small pick-up…….
…for a change, just a reminder of who was in charge, and who added it all up & banked it……
…40 ton Euc bottom dump on the Mangla Dam. Looks suspiciously like one of Clancy`s fotos…….
…part of a consignment of 9 Euc C-6`s, in Natal Province, S.A……
……what a shot, some of the finest workhouse ever built lined up to go to work for Our George, Euc R-45`s with the orginal style cab fitted, shot in Northampton, and ready for the off to a South Wales O.C.C.S., and at this time, they would have been USA built machines, as Newhouse production did not start until 1964, with DD powered serial number B5259……..
…one of BH Dublin`s agency`s, a John Deere-Lanz crawler loader, owned by J.McCabe, but as our Jimmy M was in Northampton at the time, it must have been a close relation……
….big so & so this time, a Marion 5323, owned by The United Steel Companies Limited, somewhere in England, the largest stripping shovel outside of the USA, weighing in at 3 million good old Imperial pounds, which in equally proper tons, is 1339…..
…lets not forget our Canadian cousins, a Cedar Rapids set-up in deepest Ontario……
….another familiar image, we have had this already from Brian Redman, shows Euc TS-24`s on the Marampa Mine, for S.L.D.C. Corporation, Sierra Leone……
….not sure which continent this is, could even be UK….anybody help with this ??
Lastly, showing the Aussies all at sea (nothing changes….1-0 !!), the largest cray-fishing boat they had at the time, powered by twin Cummins 300hp marine enigines, and fitted with underwater television (dont know who supplied that, Channel 9 or Kerry Packer ??)…deck looks about 22 yards long, perhaps they practised whilst at sea……te-he, didnt do them much good, did it !!
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