WASTE NOSTALGIA BY TIMOTHY BYRNE
Hemmings ruled the roost in a glorious, bygone era
W. HEMMINGS (Waste Disposal) Limited was a family owned and managed regional waste disposal company based in Bristol, with a history dating back to the 19th century.
The company built their name and reputation on providing a professional and responsible waste disposal service to the industry on a large scale, using a wide variety of container and collection systems.
In the 1970s, Hemmings off ered the Powell Duff ryn Engineering Ltd Dempster Dumpster container system for industry and commerce. The Dempster Dumpster container had an 8 cubic yards capacity and was delivered and collected from customer premises using a Bedford TK 4x2 7.5 tonne Powell Duff ryn Dempster Dumpster 5S collection vehicle.
A conventional builders’ skip service was also available, which off ered clients a range of skip sizes from 2-16 cubic yard capacities. These were delivered and collected via a chain lift type skip loader vehicle.
Hemmings used the Sheppard Equipment Ltd Sheppard Meiller 8000 MK II, Telehoist Load Lugger and David Mackrill Engineering Ltd Maclift 16/19DA skip loader equipment. Some of the Maclift 16/19DA’s had a swivel head cross bar fi tted to the main torsion tube.
The Sheppard Meiller 8000 MK II skip loader units were mounted on to an Albion LAD cabbed 4x2 14 tonne chassis. The Telehoist Load Lugger and David Mackrill Engineering Maclift 16/19DA skip loader units were mounted on to Bedford KM and Leyland Clydesdale 4x2 16 tonne chassis.
The company also added a roll on/off hook lift container collection system to their fl eet. Containers with 24-40 cubic yards capacities were off ered, both open and closed.
Static compaction equipment was also an option for customers, where closed compaction containers were used - thus helping them achieve maximum waste densities.
Sheppard Meiller Rolonof (2) 24/6, Powell Duff ryn Rolonof (2) 24/6, and Reynolds Boughton Super ‘A’ 8.30 Ampliroll hook loader systems were acquired. The Sheppard Meiller Rolonof (2) 24/6 and the Powell Duff ryn Rolonof (2) 24/6 units were mounted
on to AEC Marshall Major, Leyland Bison and Leyland Bison (2) 6x4 24 tonne chassis.
The Reynolds Boughton Super ‘A’ 8.30 Ampliroll hook loader system was mounted on to a Leyland Octopus (2) 8x4 30 tonne chassis. These vehicles were used to deliver and collect roll on/off hook lift containers from the workplace.
The Dempster Dumpmaster front end loader container system, with containers of 2-10 cubic yards capacity, was provided to customers producing light packaging type compactable wastes. The advantage of this system was that the container remained on site all of the time.
It would be emptied by either a Powell Duff ryn Dempster Dumpmaster DB 27 (27 cubic yard), or a DB 30 (30 cubic yard) full pack front end loader, mounted on to either an AEC Marshall Major, Leyland Bison, or a Leyland Bison (2) 6x4 24 tonne chassis.
Largest private automated waste transfer station In the late 1970s, Hemmings built a new automated waste transfer station at St. Phillips in Bristol. The waste transfer station was built by Powell Duff ryn, and was the largest privately owned automated waste transfer station in Europe. The facility was built close to the M5 motorway, and the A4 and was close to the commercial and industrial areas of the city. The facility processed 400 tonnes of commercial and industrial waste delivered to the site daily. The waste transfer station consisted of two 50 tonne weighbridges, each 13 metres in length. Hemmings’ collection vehicles would proceed to a covered area to discharge loads into one of four compactor unloading apertures. The waste fell via gravity in to one of four Transpack 7 static compactors, and was then compressed into hermetically sealed 35 cubic yard roll on off hook lift containers for transport to a controlled landfi ll site. All compaction operations at the transfer station were operated from an elevated control module, where the operator had a view of both the front and rear loading bays. The fully loaded 35 cubic yard roll on/off containers were transported to controlled landfi ll sites, using the Leyland Octopus
A Leyland Octopus (2) 8x4 30 tonne Boughton ‘A’ type 8.30 hook loader (left), supplied to W.Hemmings (Waste Disposal) Ltd in the late 1970s. Above is a Bedford KM 4x2 16 tonne chassis, fi tted with a David Mackrill Engineering Maclift 16/19DA skip loader unit
52 SHM February, 2018
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