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SX 596 a Leyland Constructor eight wheel tipper dating from January 1990 was parked up on Agiou Georgiou in Ayia Napa, Cyprus on June 2nd 2018. It was apparently owned by Sofianos Constructions & Renovations Ltd.
The Scammell Constructor succeeded the Pioneer in heavy haulage work; but whereas the former was principally a military model, the Constructor was less commonly used as such. The British Army acquired some to tow 20-ton low-loading trailers. The large ballast box carried tools, equipment and ballast. This is a digitally-coloured version of an original monochrome version in the collection of Graham Newell, who has been very helpful in making his material available to me (23-Jun-18).
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Preserved Leyland Constructor Q131 SES masquerading as Dundee Corporation Transport Dept. 38 was an unusual exhibit at the Horsham Bus Rally which was held on September 3rd 2017. This vehicle was new in 1984 to the Royal Air Force (RAF). It passed from the RAF to a dealer in Wisbech who installed the current heavy-duty towing equipment in 1991. They sold it to Baldoukie Motors of Tannadice, near Forfar, who sold it on in 2006. The vehicle is powered by a Rolls-Royce Eagle 265 engine.
This seems to doubling as a timber lorry and instruction vehicle. ATX 774X was seen in Dunstable in July 1986; new in 1982, it would only last until 1990.
Pentax K1000/50mm
Ilford FP4
Leyland Constructor 8 wheeler F228GND.
Run for the last 20 or so years by an owner driver, this lorry is now in the care of a skip firm. It is still in use and undergoing "tidying". It is on it's third engine and second cab - also its third body and second set of rear axles.
The current engine is a Rolls 340 TX which is a little asthmatic. The previous engine was a 325 which despite persistent water problems, pulled extremely well. Prior to this the lorry was fitted with a 270 which suffered a broken crankshaft.
The Rockwell rear axles are from a Foden - fitted due to their cross-locks -- if this gets stuck on a tip then the rest of the vehicles stand no chance!
The Leyland has also been fitted with rubber suspension to counteract the excessive rolling found with the steel suspension when travelling over bumpy ground. This also eliminates the numerous breakages found with the original installation.
The body was homemade around 10 years ago and was fitted when the chassis was lengthened.
The cab came from a Roadtrain found in Skegness -- the doors were cut down to fit.
Rolls-Royce powered Constructor six-wheeled tipper 'Donnie Brasco' charges to the crusher with a full load of stone at Ven Ven's/Rainbow Mix quarry on Malta. Confined to quarry work only and now somewhat battered and reduced to a rigid six-wheeler, she was, nonetheless, still 'doing the business' causing dust clouds a few years ago.
Constructores, Builders, a mural by José Clemente Orozco in the stairway of the Antiguo Colegio de San Ildefonso.
Dunstable, 18 October 2007; this 1984 Leyland Constructor of Travers Environmental Services was to remain on the road for another two years.
Well-looked after Leyland Constructor 30.30 eight wheeled tipper from the nomadic fleet of Regis Aggregates Ltd, then based at Cradley Heath. An early M-registered Leyland-Daf 75 eight wheeled tipper brings up the rear. The company finished some years ago now.
Believed to have now been cut-up in a Maltese scrapyard, Zahra Ltd's narrow-cabbed Leyland Constructor eight-wheeled mixer is seen in happier times when still working in 2008.
A rare 30.19 Leyland Constructor with Gardner 201 engine from the Tarmac fleet. Seen in Ripple Lane in Barking Essex in 1982.
A great looking vehicle you must agree -there was another one owned by Hoyer but was in Hoyer Livery and was the usual full cab version...also sold off at the same time...
I did plenty of laps around the yard in this -i loved it!
And positioned it for best pics etc..
This 1988 Leyland Constructor mixer with conveyor, joined the Edworthy's fleet in 1994. She served with the firm for ten years before retirement in 2004.
There are not as many left working now so it was nice to capture this very tidy one Tipping at the top of the quarry.
Blue Circle Cement's Scammell Constructor 8-legger powder tanker, when nearly new at their depot at Whitlingham near Norwich. Note the Bedford KM behind with old railway container on board.
Leyland Constructor tipper in the ownership of Recycled Roadstone from the West Midlands. The Leyland was registered in Feb. 1987 and last on the road in 2000.
1989 Leyland Constructor 24-26 260 Turbo tar sprayer operated by Colas, Grantham.
Scan of a purchased slide.
Back to Tonys again and just a small sample of his extensive Leyland fleet around lying around his two yards and
some he has has made roadworthy just ready for a bit of Movie action!
Thank you Tony for making us Welcome!!
1990 Leyland Constructor 30-30 recovery truck operated by WFL Recovery, Cambridge.
DVLA have the colour as blue.
Some of you may have noticed that, unfortunately, owing to the fact that a certain person who sells truck photos on eBay commercially has been lifting my images from this album and selling them I have had to remove 2300 photos that didn't have a watermark. I have now run around 1700 through Lightroom and added a watermark with the intention of bulk uploading them again. Rather than watermark the existing (hidden) files in Flickr one at a time it will be easier to do it this way. I definitely won’t be adding individual tags with the make and model of each vehicle I will just add generic transport tags. Each photo is named after the vehicle and reg in any case. For anyone new to these images there is a chapter and verse explanation below. It is staggering how many times I get asked questions that a quick scan would answer or just as likely I can’t possibly answer – I didn’t take them, but, just to clarify-I do own the copyright- and I do pursue copyright theft.
This is a collection of scanned prints from a collection of photographs taken by the late Jim Taylor A number of years ago I was offered a large number of photographs taken by Jim Taylor, a transport photographer based in Huddersfield. The collection, 30,000 prints, 20,000 negatives – and copyright! – had been offered to me and one of the national transport magazines previously by a friend of Jim's, on behalf of Jim's wife. I initially turned them down, already having over 30,000 of my own prints filed away and taking space up. Several months later the prints were still for sale – at what was, apparently, the going rate. It was a lot of money and I deliberated for quite a while before deciding to buy them. I did however buy them directly from Jim’s wife and she delivered them personally – just to quash the occasional rumour from people who can’t mind their own business. Although some prints were sold elsewhere, particularly the popular big fleet stuff, I should have the negatives, unfortunately they came to me in a random mix, 1200 to a box, without any sort of indexing and as such it would be impossible to match negatives to prints, or, to even find a print of any particular vehicle. I have only ever looked at a handful myself unless I am scanning them. The prints are generally in excellent condition and I initially stored them in a bedroom without ever looking at any of them. In 2006 I built an extension and they had to be well protected from dust and moved a few times. Ultimately my former 6x7 box room office has become their (and my own work’s) permanent home.
I hope to avoid posting images that Jim had not taken his self, however should I inadvertently infringe another photographers copyright, please inform me by email and I will resolve the issue immediately. There are copyright issues with some of the photographs that were sold to me. A Flickr member from Scotland drew my attention to some of his own work amongst the first uploads of Jim’s work. I had a quick look through some of the 30 boxes of prints and decided that for the time being the safest thing for me to do was withdraw the majority of the earlier uploaded scans and deal with the problem – which I did. whilst the vast majority of the prints are Jims, there is a problem defining copyright of some of them, this is something that the seller did not make clear at the time. I am reasonably confident that I have since been successful in identifying Jims own work. His early work consists of many thousands of lustre 6x4 prints which are difficult to scan well, later work is almost entirely 7x5 glossy, much easier to scan. Not all of the prints are pin sharp but I can generally print successfully to A4 from a scan.
You may notice photographs being duplicated in this Album, unfortunately there are multiple copies of many prints (for swapping) and as I have to have a system of archiving and backing up I can only guess - using memory - if I have scanned a print before. The bigger fleets have so many similar vehicles and registration numbers that it is impossible to get it right all of the time. It is easier to scan and process a print than check my files - on three different PC’s - for duplicates. There has not been, nor will there ever be, any intention to knowingly breach anyone else's copyright. I have presented the Jim Taylor collection as exactly that-The Jim Taylor Collection- his work not mine, my own work is quite obviously mine.
Unfortunately, many truck spotters have swapped and traded their work without copyright marking it as theirs. These people never anticipated the ease with which images would be shared online in the future. I would guess that having swapped and traded photos for many years that it is almost impossible to control their future use. Anyone wanting to control the future use of their work would have been well advised to copyright mark their work (as many did) and would be well advised not to post them on photo sharing sites without a watermark as the whole point of these sites is to share the image, it is very easy for those that wish, to lift any image, despite security settings, indeed, Flickr itself, warns you that this is the case. It was this abuse and theft of my material that led me to watermark all of my later uploads. I may yet withdraw non-watermarked photos, I haven’t decided yet. (I did in the end)
To anyone reading the above it will be quite obvious that I can’t provide information regarding specific photos or potential future uploads – I didn’t take them! There are many vehicles that were well known to me as Jim only lived down the road from me (although I didn’t know him), however scanning, titling, tagging and uploading is laborious and time consuming enough, I do however provide a fair amount of information with my own transport (and other) photos. I am aware that there are requests from other Flickr users that are unanswered, I stumble across them months or years after they were posted, this isn’t deliberate. Some weekends one or two “enthusiasts” can add many hundreds of photos as favourites, this pushes requests that are in the comments section ten or twenty pages out of sight and I miss them. I also have notifications switched off, I receive around 50 emails a day through work and I don’t want even more from Flickr. Other requests, like many other things, I just plain forget – no excuses! Uploads of Jim’s photos will be infrequent as it is a boring pastime and I would much rather work on my own output.