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Picture Number417
Courtesy OfNorman Davidson
Year1986

22RB on road to Rosarie Quarry

Photograph courtesy of Douglas Archibald of Banchory.

A front loading shovel version of a 22RB (Ruston Bucyrus) operated by George Smith on his way to load lorries at Rosarie Quarry, Speyside Forest. No hydraulics on this machine the shovelling action being activated by the use of cables on winch drums. Note the drive chains for the tracks.

Picture Added on 02 December 2008.

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