AEC Dump Trucks Maldon Road Chelmsford (A12 By-Pass Construction) 1986

[@firglenchainsaws]

Pure class! I drove them all. AEC swb Mammoth Major with 760 engine. Dump truck with 690 or 691 and Scammell routeman with Leyland 680...great memories. Thank you for sharing.

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

My pleasure. These AEC vehicles were certainly well built and put up with a lot of punishment!

[@AMK1000]

Love the first one that passes, no exhaust and covered in exhaust stains, like the roof of a well worked diesel loco. Great video 👍👍

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

They were certainly good, solid vehicles. At the end of their working life they just kept going even though they were worked hard!

[@paulcollings6783]

If a modern truck got like that it would have a hissy fit and refuse to go

[@janeeccleston9196]

I used to go with my dad to the quarries in somerset ,picking up loads for the m5 going through Bristol and Clevedon split level in the 70s..We’d often come out from the quarry ,turn right and go up the hill and come to a stop in his Albion reiver ,then have to rev the Knackers off it to go again whilst nearly burning the clutch out .My ears used to ring after a day in that truck 😁

[@dozerblade]

Great days before health and Safety came along and buggered up the fun!

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

Yes, i know exactly what you mean......

[@neilhurn2685]

And I bet construction got completed quicker then aswell

[@trainandbusfan5706]

Good to see the old battered trucks soldiering on I bet health and safety would have a field day today.I thought I have seen this before but worth another look.

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

There is another one up showing them at work at a different place on the building works + one of them at work on the A2 Relief Road at Eltham.

[@martinwebb1681]

Great to see this, I remember seeing them AECs doing this years ago. Nice to see the TMC Scammell and MAN 8 leggers at work also the Mid Essex Mercedes tipper.

[@andynixon2820]

I lived in Chelmsford at the time and the building of this bypass was one of the best things that ever happened . Just never realised it was done with such ancient equipment .

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

Funny to think this by-pass is the by-pass for the original by-pass that went by the Army & Navy roundabout. Can you imagine Chelmsford if it all went through the town centre on the original routing?.....

[@fatlad5090]

imagine health and safety nowadays watching this hahaha. This was proper back in day . I used to drive my dad's old Atkinsons stratos with Eaton twin splitter. on Immingham docks at 14 years old putting in a 15 hour shift in late 90s early 2000s. the best way to learn. not like today's culture.

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

Thanks for your memories..... I never had any trouble filming this, the lorries of course were all off road use by now, so were definately not legal

[@mcginleypn7388]

I left school at 13 went to work in the family transport company done 5 yrs in the workshop then onto a 7.5t passed class1 at 21 then done 10yr on international. My first trip was to Barcelona in a Volvo F10 6x2 & a tilt. Oh very happy days.

[@fatlad5090]

@@mcginleypn7388 yes going over water was good back then. Then the eu opened it all up for anybody to jump on job. back in day it was hard to get permits to do.the job only good companys had them. Like peter roff A1 transport ralph davies etc. when that ended every cowboy jumped on the job. Messed all rates up. then in early 2000s Eastern Europeans got involved that was end of it couldn't compete with them double maning and paying there men 200 quid a month. Willi betz was one of them.

[@eebygumful]

Derek Crouch ran a big fleet of 690s with coal body’s on in the 60s-70s on opencast sites in Northumberland , loved these trucks so much❤️❤️

[@paulcollings6783]

Reminds me of the m27 at nurseling as a kid we would get rides with the drivers during school hols , great times

[@matttangles2106]

Good to see TMC putting in a cameo ..... and a little Renault 4 van on another note health and safety wasn't quite so strict back in the day

[@petersmith4455]

i used to work at AEC ltd in the 70s.most of the mammoth major mk5s were sold to wimpeys, the ld55s were made at thornycrofts at that time, great memories of working there in chassis finishing until we closed in may 1979, but thats another story!

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

A sad end to a gret works. I have been in what was left of it at an AEC rally there, see it here kzbin.info/www/bejne/goupq2WZaNaLq6c and part 2 here kzbin.info/www/bejne/Y2SlhJmfpdmEes0

[@petersmith4455]

@@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus the rally would have been held in chassis park,which was next to the paint shop and the big building was chassis finishing,the office above was for the foreman and chargehands..a very sad day on the last day//a number of staff were kept on to complete orders. R.I P, AEC ltd.

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

@@petersmith4455 I believe even all that has gone now but i haven't been back for years.....

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

@@petersmith4455 Yes, the rest of the site was being re-developed. When in the 990s i worked on the railways, there was still the remains of the spur into what had been the west end of the site, it came off the Brentford branch just as you left Southall. Part of it took us into the rear of the old Southall shed which was being used as an electrification depot for wiring up Padd to Heathrow, from there you could see where it had carried on into the works.....

[@matthewhodder3029]

Marvellous video. What a timepiece

[@michaeloconnor7849]

If you had said that was colourised footage from the early 50s i would have believed it.

[@DKS225]

I like that even though these AEC Matadors and Mercury's were in their twilight years they worked like buggery right up to the very last breath Soi. You bring these trucks to today's young Truck drivers they'd whinge saying they are " Too much of a handful"

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

From what i remember the drivers worked hard with them but they get tromping on! Great vehicles.......

[@davidluck4608]

Great to,see some fine AEC workhorses😇

[@shaun5944]

Great video SB, thank you. Great old work horses. I remember when they cut through to make the A2 just outside Canterbury, I think in about 1981-2

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

Thanks for the info! They were solid old lorries these AECs.....

[@cliveprescott6650]

Aec could build a tough truck great vid 👍

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

I think all that AEC built stood the test of time, fire engines and Routemasters included....

[@nigelbranthwaite8471]

Blood brilliant video of AEC Dumptruck, you can beat the crap out of AEC and will still keep on going. Just as a matter of interest I see that Oxford are going to do a model of a AEC 690 Dumptruk in 1/76 Scale, the first one will be of Wimpy's.

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

I think all AEC vehicles were built to last, i have uploads on here of 1960s AEC fire engines still at work in the 1980s, and not forgetting the Routemasters in normal service until 2005.....

[@tl50camiva]

Superb footage as ever Soi, thanks again for sharing.

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

My pleaseure. I still have more lorry films to upload as time progresses......

[@jeremylewis3514]

fantastic just like real life hell drivers

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

Those old wagons certainly were worked hard!

[@ccjelley2390]

There's a little bit of this going on now between Sheering and Harlow with the J7A link road construction. Probably much less fun to watch. Mid Essex Gravel had AEC dump trucks in their pit at nearby Broomfield.

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

I remember the roads around Sheering and Hatfield Heath, all very peaceful in the days when i regularly went to White Roding. I wonder what chaos is going on now then?......

[@matthewhodder3029]

I remember seeing those old girls and wondering what became of them afterwards.

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

I imagine they have all been scrapped by now, they were rough back then although kept going!

[@octopus680]

Great footage and well worth seeing -more work worn than my MkV!

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

These vehicles only worked off road and were worked hard! But kept going.....solid machines....

[@AndreiTupolev]

This is fun! It's just like Mad Max isn't it. Or that old 50's film Hell Drivers. Some fantastic slogging. Fodens, Scammells, Caterpillar dozers, everything. That looks a slightly ... alarming angle 1:18. Leyland there 7:59 with the 500 series engine as used in the National. Is that a Renault 4 service van there 5:28? Golly.

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

This was the first time i had been along a road build. My mate was into the AEC vehicles (inc the fire engines) and got me out with my vid camera to film it all. We actually walked along the unbuilt road to film the lorries, no hard hats ect just in our everyday clothes....we did have permission though.....great days!

[@jamesfrench7299]

Liked the exhaust-less one at the beginning! Would have freed a couple of extra horses! Extra meaning for me seeing a MAN at work with the AECs. Deanes ran an AEC Swift with an 11.4 litre MAN D2566UH engine transplant with a Renk automatic in my local run at the time this was videoed! Fascinating vehicle. Years later I drove MANs with the D2566UH engine coupled to Voiths and a sole example Werth an Allison auto fitted.

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

Yes, some UK built vehicles managed to get to far flung places back in the day. I imagine you have a lot of asian motors in your part of the world now? Does Aus have a motor building industry?

[@jamesfrench7299]

@@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus No Ford, Holden (GM) and Toyota all hung up the towel between 2016 and 2017. Ford and Holden designed their own cars for Australian conditions using their parent company's design facilities and borrowing design elements worldwide when required. Toyota built Toyotas adapted for our unique conditions. Now the Asian makers dominate but the Korean cars suspensions are returned by Australian engineers to handle better as the Koreans don't value dynamics as much as us Anglos! A very unfortunate situation brought about by relaxed import tariff protections with a highly unionised workforce. Our Fords and Holdens were basically big engined executive saloons used as fleet and family cars here considered enormous to UK and European norms for a typical family hack. The final Ford Falcon had a 4.0 litre inline six cylinder DOHC for valves per cylinder!

[@DKS225]

@@jamesfrench7299 Even more sad is that GM has decided to pull the plug on Holden by 2021 and it's the same with all car companies that are part of GM yet produce Right hand-drive vehicles. This was announced during the past week. I hope that Vauxhall isn't on the hit list. Even so you're right about cars like The Falcon and The Commodore 30+ years later if you look hard enough you will see some of the classic Holdens and Fords

[@jamesfrench7299]

@@DKS225 that's the thanks this American bastard of a company gives for Holden retaining know how on rear drive vehicles after GM went front wheel drive across the board on all their passenger vehicles worldwide except for Holden who refused to relinquish rear drive. GM ended up using their sole division with rear drive to help revive some rear drive models they otherwise wouldn't have been able to do so cost effectively. GM I hope tippy go under you Yankee scumbucket of a company.

[@MGWilliams]

Absolutely brilliant video, so glad you posted it. I was only a little kid when mum n me used to ride in dad's lorry on a daily basis and I remember him getting confused at the three mile hill A12 junction as the new road had just opened. Funny the things you remember! is this filmed on maldon Road? I always remember a large white house there? It looks like you're looking down the A12 to Baddow Park bridge from West Hanningfield road. Very interesting videos, keep them up if you have more.

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

Yes, this one was in that area. earlier on that day i had been by the A130 and filmed there as well. It was my mate who wanted the film, he was into all AEC vehicles and drove me there as i couldn't drive then, so i sort of have to work out where we went from memory & Google Maps! See the other upload here kzbin.info/www/bejne/Y6fMd6N4rq15frc

[@shaun5944]

Nice story from your past Max, thanks for sharing. I used to like riding in my dad's lorry 👍🇬🇧👋

[@adwest68]

Respect

[@paulhurrell631]

John John is long gone I’ll see TMC still going

[@DaveGreeneramblingcarpenter]

You earned your wages in those, simpler times, if you could do the job you were kept,

[@paulthomas3841]

AEC built the Motorways in the 70s

[@WayneGoody-w9l]

Remember That Jct Being Constructed,,,,,On The Way To Danbury Doing Coal Deliveries For 'Charringtons Solid Fuels'

[@cummins4416]

Great footage

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

Thank you.....i should imagine they are all scrapped now.....

[@petersmith4455]

what happened to all these lorries when the a12 was built ?

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

They got moved on to the next job. Like the A2 Richester Way works at Eltham seen here kzbin.info/www/bejne/mYq9eWanZd-peNE

[@admiralcraddock464]

Reminds me of the film Hell Drivers.

[@eddkennedy6458]

Yeah it was a great film

[@tilerman]

How old would those lorries have been in 1986?

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

Around 15 to 20 years old.....

[@alanbest6765]

This is actually Malta 2019

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

Bit rough driving over there is it?......I thought things had improved in recent years?.....

[@JamesSchem]

All this kind of stuff has long gone. European and Japanese imports now.

[@londoncabby]

Wow! 😳

[@londoncabby]

H& S would have a heart attack nowadays! 😆👍🏼

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

Yes, it was a bit more 'basic' then. I doubt we would have even been allowed anywhere near them, apart from public roads where the works vehicles had to cross.

[@class8866]

After work ready for srap !

[@class8866]

Sorry scrap !

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

Yes, these jobs really were their last gasp......

[@daniel-ino]

what a complete disregard to driver comfort and space

[@simonspider]

Shut up soft boy

[@jamesfrench7299]

I'd have done it for free -don't tell anybody.

[@theessexhunter1305]

In your woke life then yes lol