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Wed 20 Aug 2014

Wheeled loaders remembered

To start with a series of photos featuring a Hough H-400 Payloader at work down here in the South West during the mid to late 1960’s. First introduced in 1964 this machine was one of the company’s first articulated wheeled loading shovels and featured a 10-cubic yard (7.6-m3) bucket. The one in these photos was owned by South West Company Whites Plant Hire and is seen at work in one of the many clay pits in the South Devon area. Like so many manufacturers over the years, Hough was bought out in 1952 by one of the bigger players at the time, the International Harvester Company, who were keen to expand their portfolio of products, but with the Hough brand being so well known and respected at the time, the name was retained for many years after. In this shot another of Whites H-400’s is seen dispatching its load of overburden into a waiting truck. The H registration on the truck would date this photo around 1969. In this shot we see an early Chaseside 2000 loading shovel at work loading a battered old Foden tipper. Chaseside is another one of those companies that was taken over by a larger competitor, with Staffordshire based JCB purchasing them in 1968. Some 5 years later JCB launched the all-new 400 series of wheeled loaders. This official JCB photo from that era shows the smallest machine in the 400 range the 413 which featured four wheel drive and articulated frame. Finally in this batch a late 1960’s Allis-Chalmers 545B loading shovel. This machine would have carried a 1.5 cubic yard bucket and was powered by a six cylinder engine of some 102hp. Look out for more old classics from the archives on the Digger Man Blog soon.        

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