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Priestman face shovel

Early Priestman face shovel

Priestman Dragline

Priestman dragline in British Waterways colours

Priestman Cub shovel

Priestman Backactor excavator

Priestman VC15

VC15 long reach excavator

Priestman Mustang

Priestman Mustang excavstor

Landrover LWB Priestman service 07 - DSCF0293

A Landrover LWB in Priestman Service van livery

Adrian Patterson, is a collector of Priestman machines, and several are on display at the Vintage Excavator Trusts Site at Threkeld in Cumbria.


Preserved Machines[]

  • Priestman Cub MK V drag shovel
  • Priestman Cub With side ditching gear
  • Priestman Cub with face shovel gear
  • Priestman Cub MkIII "Tic-Tic" with McLaren Ricardo 2-cylinder engine, fitted with Skimmer gear. (unusual timber cab) featured in Classic Plant & Machinery Magazine November 2007.
  • Priestman VC 15 - modern hydraulic machine with Variable Counter Weight system.
  • Priestman Mini Mustang - Hydraulic excavator
  • Priestman Mustang Mk III - Hydraulic excavator

Other machines;

  • A NCH 150 which were built by Newton Cahambers of Sheffield before they started building NCK machines. Based on a P & H 150. fitted with a Caterpillar D4400 diesel engine.[1]
  • Landrover LWB in Priestman service van colour scheme.

Several other machines are under restoration in his workshop facility at the Vintage Excavator Trust site a Threlkeld in Cumbria.

See also[]


References[]

  1. CP&M vol.1 No.10 June 2003, page 28
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