Hell Drivers

[JamesM]

Sorry Alan, I thought you had intended the images to show in your post so I did the first one for you.

[DB7]

I've fixed a couple. Nice shots Alan.

[alan gowdy]

Originally Posted by DB7 I've fixed a couple. Nice shots Alan.

Thanks DB7. Still have not got round to resizing the others.. very busy weekend. Will do it soon as I can.

[alan gowdy]

I have those photos on Photobucket now in correct size (Imageshack would not accept uploads) but can't seem to get them to display in forum.


Second larger quarry nearby where drop might have been staged:


Two more views of turnoff to "shortcut" Firstly, wide showing distinctive aerials:


Close shot of turn off. Note that line of saplings is no more:


Nighty night all.

[Chili Palmer]

Hi Peeps!
I was looking through google for Hell Drivers & found you all here..
I am a truck driver & have loved this film ever since I was a sprog I watched it with my dad donks ago,
He was at the time a tipper truck driver for S,M Tidy's a firm working out of Brighton
& he used to go to the chalk pit regularly, It's at the back of shoreham, Off the A283 that leads to steyning via upper beeding..
The old Blue Circle Cement Works
The bit were Biffer was talking about Ford Airfield & warningcamp tying in sounds about right they are very close together very near to Arundel so that could tye in!

Copy & Paste
Google Earth ref to Chalk Pit Shoreham :"Chalk Pits Shorham" lat=50.8651773827, lon=-0.291934858551
Ford Airfield :"Ford" lat=50.823537, lon=-0.58079
Warningcamp :"Warningcamp" lat=50.853808, lon=-0.534758

PS
It is the 50th anniversary this year of the making

[DB7]

Originally Posted by alan gowdy I have those photos on Photobucket now in correct size (Imageshack would not accept uploads) but can't seem to get them to display in forum.

You were using a custom image profile. All sorted now.

[alan gowdy]

Originally Posted by DB7 You were using a custom image profile. All sorted now.

Excellent - thanks DB7

[krazy guy]

I must say a big thank you to all of you chaps who have uncovered so much info on this film,my dad took me to see this movie when i was only seven,I have watched this film so many times,dad has moved on to the great highway in the sky now but i have so many lovely memories of this film.with him and i enjoying so many reruns,the kew dodge,what can i say what a lovely looking truck so sad there is not one from the film left(start looking in barns),i am going to visit some of the scenes,kinda corny but will think of old Jimmer(my dad) when im there,the pictures where the final scenes were shot ?,if anyone had shown me that picture i would have said HELL DRIVERS !!!,gonna go to Trulleigh hill ,take a shot of me THERE !!,old jimmer will smile,im so sure of that.Again a big thanks to you all,oh by the way the pick up truck,i think im right in saying this was a standard vanguard?,lovely to meet you guys via this forum.

[spinalman]

here is an 1946 aerial of the radar site just prior to the bunker being excavated and hence providing a backdrop to the film. scan about and you may find the pit on adjacent sequential frames.

http://www.geog.sussex.ac.uk/grc/inf...40/13-5167.jpg bottom right of frame

and the google equivalent now:

Flash Earth ...satellite and aerial imagery of the Earth in Flash

and the chalk pit IIRC... Flash Earth ...satellite and aerial imagery of the Earth in Flash

(not as detailed by chilli below which is the unrelated cement works)

[Moor Larkin]

Originally Posted by spinalman here is an 1946 aerial of the radar site just prior to the bunker being excavated and hence providing a backdrop to the film. scan about and you may find the pit on adjacent sequential frames. and the google equivalent now: and the chalk pit IIRC...

Wowsers!!

I feel like God .....

[Terry]

Definitely Dark Green, WW Drinkwater tippers from Dudden Hill Lane, Willesden, West London.
They were running out of Rush Green Gravel pit, Hollybush Lane, Denham.
I used to work for them and so did 5 of my family members from an earlier generation when they were filming the sequences. The boss gave permission for his tippers to be used but nearly had a heart attack when he saw the film premier.

[Terry]

Most of Hell Drivers trucks were supplied by WWW Drinkwater, of Dudden Hill Lane, Willesden, West London. They ran out of Rush Green gravel pit, Hollybush Lane, Denham.
I used to work for them in the early seventies and knew most of the drivers that were used in the film sequences, although obviously not at the time of filming.
I have an older generation of family members who were working for WW Drinkwater at the time (5) and apparently the boss gave full permission for his tippers to be used, but when he saw how they had been used at the film premier, nearly had a heart attack and threatened to sue the film company!

[Automotivehistorian]

I have a Commercial Motor Show photo of a Drinkwater Cab-over-Engine Dodge 8 cu yard Tipper, probably in dark green, dating to 1960 I think. Phone numbers on trhe cab side are for GLAsgow..., DEN 2241 [Denham?], HOUnslow..., and Bushey Heath... I think Drinkwaters were at the gravel pits in Hounslow Heath as Greenhams were at Isleworth.

[Automotivehistorian]

As I said inthe other thread, the Dodge Tipper photo I have I am sure is dark green. Greenhams were also..green..but at some point went to light green. It seems that various tipper bodies were offered on the Kew Dodges of the type used in the film, judging by other photos I have collected.

[Moor Larkin]

Originally Posted by Terry Definitely Dark Green,

Racing Green surely??





Any idea why all the publicity shows them as burgundy/plum coloured?