AEC Dump Trucks/Mercury lorries A12 Chelmsford by-pass construction 1986
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- See AEC Mercury lorries at work on the construction of the A12 Chelmsford by-pass near the juction of the A130 back in 1986. They were only used off road and were somewhat rough & ready, definatly not road legal! If you liked the video please subscribe to my channel, there are lots more transport & quirky vids to upload!
Nice video, great seeing these old AEC tippers doing there thing. Also the TMC Scammell and man 8x4 tippers along with the Mid Essex Mercedes 6x4 tipper. Even a Volvo F7 artic thrown in for good measure. 👍
These AEC tippers came from.the M25 build all ex Wimpey there was some parked up in a yard and there's been one restored back as new in her original Wimpey livery don't know if any are still there .I drove a Ford D series V8 6 wheel tipper but she was totally finished after a few months on site work those AEC tippers were the toughest of the tough so were the drivers ....great post thanks
Nice to know their history and that one survived! AEC did indeed build some of the best vehicles on the road.
And have you seen my latest upload of these vehicles further along the worksite th-cam.com/video/oXnvhbC6UYE/w-d-xo.html
i remember making these aec trucks in the 1970s mainly for wimpey in southall.good old days at aec great.
They are Mammoth Major 6, not Mercuries.
Just discovered this one. The best one in my opinion after that ending!
Can't believe a Mercedes V series came to the party. I always thought their V6 engine note was very similar to the big AEC inline six diesels and here was a direct comparison that confirms it!
They were tough old workhorses these AEC beasts.....
@@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus more modern MAN Volvo and Mercedes working alongside several AECs. Great capture.
I was at the local comprehensive school and my school bus journey took me past this construction site everyday. The mid Essex gravel and tmc lorries used to thunder along the local road to a specially opened gravel pit near where I lived. I remember seeing lots of Renault 4 vans being used for communication vehicles around the site. (one can be seen in the video) Cementation construction was the company in overall charge of this stretch of road, hence the concrete carriageway. When I was studying construction at Colchester Institute a few years later one of my lecturers gave a slide show of a site visit they did during construction showing these big battered dump trucks ploughing their trade. Whilst on site my lecturer witnessed one of these trucks backing too far and falling in a big hole. Once they had pulled the driver out, since these vehicles were life expired, they couldn't be bothered to recover it so we were told they buried it instead. So if the story I was told as a student is correct somewhere under the A12 Chelmsford bypass is buried one of those massive old dump trucks!
Wow! That's interesting, one of AEC's finest is buried under the A12! Thanks for sharing your memories.....
Pure class! I drove both examples. Great wagons.
I remember these days out well, teking alongside the half built A12 Chelmsford By-Pass to film them. This is the second By-pass, the first one got so bust it was replaced by this one, although it's still busy around the Army & Navy round-a-bout.
Soi Buakhao what an old muck carter in Pattaya?lol
superb from start to finish!!
Great film thanks for posting enjoyed it
My pleaseure, there is more to come......
Rough and ready maybe. But they still worked and none of them appeared to be emitting diesel smoke.
They wern't street legal but they kept working away, we built solid vehicles back in the day before computer chips got in the way and shut things down if they're not happy! The vehicles moved between jobs on trade plates. I'm sure i have some others at work at Eltham on the A2 relief road that was built at the same time.
They were on the M25 before this and the Braintree by-pass after here. They used a low loader to move them 2 at a time.
Trade Plates might have been pushing it a bit! :)
Good loads in those days!
They certainly workewd the vehicles hard! I have just uploaded another one here th-cam.com/video/oXnvhbC6UYE/w-d-xo.html.
Great trucks!
Thank you. My mate loved all things AEC and took me out to film these. I do have another couple of truck vids uploaded here th-cam.com/video/cYZH3q0zvBo/w-d-xo.html and here th-cam.com/video/6wTHZyEAX6E/w-d-xo.html enjoy!
Nice to see you mid Essex Truck
AEC Mammoth Majors, tough old beasts, pre Ergo so got to be from the 60's.
The vehicles certainly were although this was filmed in 1986. Shows you how well made they were, the punishment road building puth them through and still they keep going.....
a commenter on another of Soi's vids says that AEC were still building dump trucks with Park Royal cabs into the early 70s.
@@ccjelley2390 I think you'll find those cabs were ergomatic. Park Royal built the upper half for Leyland.
Excellent 👍👍👍
Fabulous Video! :)
Thank you, there is a similar upload on its way, keep an eye out........
@@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus Excellent, I subscribed as soon as I saw this offering! :)
We need more of these vids
I still have some more to upload.....
Surely the rover shape AEC are not Mercury's, must be Mammoth Major's or Mandator chassis. Enjoyed the video.
Could well be....My mate was the lorry/AEC expert, he just collared me to film them all. I'm glad i did now, i imagine most of these are now scrapped!
Mammoth major ..the Mandator was a tractor unit
Not a hard hat or Hi-Viz in sight !!!
Great ….
How life was back in the day. We had permission to be there filming from the lorry operator but he wasn't in overall charge of the site but no-one bothered us.
Yeah just man and machine, no knobhead health n safety gobshites to stop progress,
Them were the days all the lads on Site had commonsense and more than two brain cells to rub...
We no longer see any of the British trucks and tractors, engines were brill now all German Swedish some Japanese, Why
Part of the elites plan back in the 1980s to de-industrialise the UK to a large extent. The UK component of the EU could have the financial services and tourist sector but not the manufacturing one!
@@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus great video!! What you have said there is so spot on!! Hopefully we will be able to produce vehicles like this again!!
I wonder if any of these made it to a motor museum?
@@derekporter7658 I doubt it! They were absolutely run into the ground.....
@@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus that's a pity! It would have been a good thing to have. Some museum stuffed full of British vehicle history!
@@derekporter7658 some AEC + other Lorie's are preserved just not the battered road works ones!
Not much air con in those days.
Well, ......the cab window opened didnt they?........You want more......lol
This is just down the road from me...;-))
I have more from this day out. It seems strange now to see this views and compare it to the busy road it is today! And Chelmsford is still busy with traffic, even with this by-pass open.....
@@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus Yes! The times I've been caught on that road, esp on a Friday evening returning from Southend!
Trying to figure out where the church in the background is?
This was filmed around where the A130 crosses the by-pass but back in 1986! It looks a bit different now.
bring back aec
Yes, good solid vehicles as this and my fire brigade vids show......