As regular CVC readers will know, Huddersfield-based Johnny Murphy has owned quite a few tippers and concrete mixers over the years. Mixers that have come and gone have included FFD332K, a 1972 Albion Reiver that was one of five mixers ordered by Ready Mix Concrete, but the order was cancelled so it was bought by Dudley Concrete, spending all of its working life in the Midlands. After restoration, this moved on to David Francis in April 2007 but has since returned to Huddersfield, now under the ownership of John Myers.
Johnny is also a past owner of KKE 668E, a two-stroke 1967 Foden S21 with Winget drum that is thought to have worked in the construction of the Thames Barrier. It was with Jack Docherty of Benfleet in Essex, before passing, via Johnny, to the late Thomas Babb of Stoke-on-Trent, and it
