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

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

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

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

And I bet construction got completed quicker then aswell

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.

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

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.

@@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.

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?.....

A sad end to a gret works. I have been in what was left of it at an AEC rally there, see it here ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-LZFz2c3qXuE.html and part 2 here ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE--3BSfiptQDk.html

@@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.

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

@@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.....

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

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

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?

@@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!

@@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

@@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.

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

Those old wagons certainly were worked hard!

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

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

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.....

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?......

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

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 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE--viFpByHFHU.html

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

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

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!

Yeah it was a great film

They got moved on to the next job. Like the A2 Richester Way works at Eltham seen here ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-cYZH3q0zvBo.html

Around 15 to 20 years old.....

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

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

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

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.

Sorry scrap !

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

Shut up soft boy

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

In your woke life then yes lol