Wimpey Plant & Transport (Archive Photos)

by Nick Drew | Wed 15 Feb 2017

Wimpey Plant & Transport (Archive Photos)

I recently received another batch of archive Wimpey photos from former long term employee of the once great company Peter Rosie and I am delighted to reproduce some of them here on the Digger Man Blog.

Peter was primarily involved in the transport department I believe and so a lot of these photos are transport related, but still of great interest to me as an ex Wimpey employee too. In this first shot we see the classic look of a Leyland Albion 6 wheeled tipper which judging by the number plate dates from around 1967. Wimpey were big customers of British built trucks, in fact British built anything in all honesty, with most of its excavators back in those days being sourced from the likes of Hymac, JCB and Priestman. They were certainly a very patriotic company from my experience with them.

Another Albion features in this old shot from 1965 which shows the tipper discharging some of its load of tarmac into the skip of a Blaw Knox road paver. Also of note in the background are the Mark 1 Ford Transit van and an unidentified roller.

Wimpey had a large fleet of heavy haulage lorries with at least one example being based in the regional depots. This Ford Transcontinental c/w King low loader is seen delivering a Caterpillar 977K/L tracked loading shovel to site.

These AEC on/off road scow end 6x6 tipper trucks were very popular on the many Wimpey contracts overseas and on muckshift and mining jobs in the UK.

It was crunch time for this Leyland Bison tipper as it came to grief on one of the sites in the UK. The shot would suggest it’s flipped over while trying to come up a sticky looking ramp out of the hole. No doubt it was returned to Central Transport to receive a new cab, lets hope the driver got out ok!

This shot shows a Leyland Landtrain 30-29 model which has been converted as a mobile service unit for overseas work. The lettering on the cab would suggest that it was part of the Wimpey –Taylor Woodrow joint venture. A sign of things to come later as the company trades today as Taylor Wimpey but mainly as a housebuilder with no plant of their own.

Finally in this batch another heavy haulage unit this time from the Foden stable. I have no idea what it is pulling out of a site with but it looked to be on the heavy side!

We thank Peter Rosie for sharing these classic shots with us here on the Digger Man Blog.

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