VEHICLES Dennis, anyone...?
By TIMOTHY BYRNE
Dennis initially sold
ANYONE in the waste management sector must surely be familiar with Dennis Eagle, the UK’s largest manufacturer of waste collection vehicles.
Manufacturing precision-made vehicles since 1907, the company – owned by Terberg RosRoca Group – has dominated the waste sector for several decades. In the 80’s and 90’s, it produced a wide range of waste collection vehicles, from the 2M narrow to the Phoenix (1) Series standard width units for national operators such as; BFI, Biffa, Cleanaway, Leigh Environmental, Shanks and Mc Ewan and Waste Management Ltd.
Dennis Eagle also supplied units to regional operators such as Fortress, W. Hemmings (Bristol) and Davidson Brothers Waste-South Wales to name but a few. These vehicles were provided in capacities from 8-28m3
were fitted onto Dennis Delta day and crew cab chassis and other third party
Above: Volvo FL10 8x4 30 tonne chassis fitted with a Phoenix (1) Series 28m3
REL 'Leigh Environmental Ltd'
4x2 16 tonne, 6x4 24 tonne and 8x4 30 tonne chassis.
The units were supplied in both open back configuration for collecting domestic waste on municipal waste collection contracts as well as being fitted with Dennis Eagle’s Alpha or Beta bin lift equipment. These lifters were fitted with girdle clamp paladin container lifting equipment to empty the wide range of containers used by private waste management contractors during this period, eg, 1.25 cubic yard cylindrical paladin containers and 120, 240, 360 two wheeled and 660, 1100 and 1280 litre four wheeled containers.
capacities and
Dennis Eagle also provided their waste collection vehicles prepped to receive third party bin lifting equipment such as the Zoeller high level lifter in this period which Biffa were a fond user of.
The company also offered a skip lift for industrial rear end loader container collection in the early 1980’s. This was originally known as the ‘Skip King’ and was initially fitted to Dennis Eagle Phoenix (1) Series 23m3
capacity units
Volvo FL7 6x4 24 tonne chassis fitted with a Phoenix (1) Series 23m3 REL for 'Hills of Swindon'
which were mounted onto a 6x4 24 tonne chassis. Dennis initially sold some ‘Skip King’ rear end loaders to Uttlesford District Council for the
By the mid 1980’s, Dennis Eagle was well established in the industrial rear end loader market and other national waste management companies such as Leigh
some ‘Skip King’ rear end loaders to Uttlesford District Council for the emptying of 2 cubic yard trunnion type skip containers.
emptying of 2 cubic yard trunnion type skip containers. The company also received an order from national waste management company Cleanaway for a Phoenix (1) Series 28m3
‘Skip King’ in
1984 which was mounted onto a Volvo F7 8x4 30 tonne chassis. The vehicle was exhibited on Dennis Eagle’s stand at the 1984 Institute of Wastes Management (IWM) Torbay exhibition.
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