MATTHEWS` MEMORIES.

WE MOSTLY GET HODGITES REMINISCENCES IN WORD FORM, WITH A FEW IMAGES.

THIS CONTRIBUTION IS AN EXCEPTION, AS AT THE TIME OF PUBLISHING, WE ONLY HAVE A LARGE COLLECTION OF KEITH MATTHEWS` FOTOS WITHOUT ANY WRITTEN MATERIAL, WHICH WE HOPE KEITH WILL PUT RIGHT EVENTUALLY.

THIS CONTRIBUTION IS LODGED IN THE NORTHAMPTON SECTION, BECAUSE ALTHOUGH IT DOES HAVE FORAYS INTO OTHER AREAS, IT IS MOSTLY A PHOTOGHRAPHIC RECORD IN THE MAIN DEPOT.

We are starting with the b&w images, some very old, some not so old, spiced with a little commentry, and we shall probably have to do this article in 3 or 4 episodes, as there are over 90 fotos to add, and we do get so easily tired at our age !!

So here we go……

…..dont know the boy, looks a little like a very young Jimmy McCabe, but probably not, so any body know who it is…….

….Bill Crane & Danny Young…..the land behind them eventually became Transport…..

…dont know the significance of this one, so open to any suggestions…..

….we have this shot elsewhere on BHM, but never too much to have another look at Monty & Bill Stewart, outside the Welding Shop……

…we reckon the two Bills here, Stewart & Cross in the Yard…..

 

….. couple of a Carlisle at work or on test, on site though this time…….

….strange accessory, a snow blade on an R15, probably for use on Euclid Avenue in the depth of winter……..

……C6 with a massive coal blade, again on site somewhere…….

…..front page of a Euclid accessories publication……

….KM & Monty in the fancy headgear, but who are the others……..

…….early L or 72 series loader on demo maybe……..

….a BH favourite these, but we aint got the After this time……

 

…..R35S parked down the side of the Chassis Shop…………..

…..TS36 or 40, its a Euc coal scraper, so pre 1969…….

 

……..Terex version this time, so 1969+………

……another unknown crane job, no familiar faces…..
……….and again……..

…..early stuff again, dark green livery, R35S`s, and are they waste trucks, if so for UK or overseas……
….and a close-up, note early automatic opening tailgate……….

……Hydrocon in the Paint Shop, Brian Heasman kneeling right…..

…..a couple from the Pump Shop……

…..several from the Chassis Shop….

…..Dave Coleman centre with ????…………..

…must be foreman Brian Reynolds in the smock…….

…from the Welding Shop…..

….Miscellaneous………..

…..Engine Shop, possibly "Uggy" near the forklift…..

….Machine Shop, Don Brown still in charge, with his successor Phil Townsend left front…..

……and last for now Transmission Bay, with Ken George and ???

That`s all for now…be back soon.