Wynns Archive Volume 17

DVD PAL

This programme starts with Diamond ‘T’
EDW 95 and trailer moving 303 moving an
80-ton turbo alternator from English
Electric, Stafford to Stourport Power
Station. The move took place in
November 1949 and was Wynns first move
for English Electric.
Two Scammell Contractors are shown
moving a 240-ton vessel over soft
ground at the Mobil refinery Coryton,
Essex. The vessel was 180 feet long
and was one of fourteen moved by Wynns
for Blaesbjorg UK.

In April 1975, at the whessoe Plant
Yard, Middlesborough, Wynns moved a
1400-ton North Sea Oil Rig module some
500 yards onto a floating pontoon. The
module was 232ft long, 43ft wide and
56ft high.

A Scammell Junior Contractor and a pair
of three-line bogies were used to move
a vessel from Danks Engineering,
Netheron to Liverpool docks. At 41.68m
long and weighing 65 tonnes it was the
longest vessel to be built by Danks.


A number of various moves featuring
Pacifics, 45-ton chain-driven Scammells
and Foden Drawbar tractor 112 are also
featured.

Commentary by John Wynn

• Running time 60 mins
• PAL DVD