can anyone ID this piece of Engineer kit?

[Richard Farrant]

Originally posted by sapper740
Well, I'll be! They have a magazine for everything these days! I'll do a google search on skips and see what I come up with.

Derek,

I have had a lot of experience with "C" vehicles used by the RE and would put that machine down as an Aveling-Barford. There was also one made by Muir-Hill, which I think were base on running gear of the Fordson Standard tractor. Incidentally, skips are something else, these vehicles are known as Dumpers, where as the much larger versions would be dumptrucks.

(A skip in UK is an open container with hoooks on the side to be loaded on a specially equipped truck)