can you identify this loader??

[rich]

hi , i have this ( ebay 301278228291 )loader on my 4610,
can anyone tell me its make / model please??
thanks, rich.

 

[DrDunc]

Link

http://m.ebay.co.uk/itm/301278228291

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I think it's a MIL, but it needs someone who actually knows to say for sure.

 

[nick...]

It is a MIL
Nick...

 

[Alf]

And more probably than not a
Mill Marquis

 

[multi power]

as said its a mill marquis, as far as im aware

i have one with ford brackets going cheap if anybody intrested

 

[Alf]

I like this game . More machines please !

 

[rich]

hi drdunc ta for setting up the link.
thanks to all for replies so far.
any specifications for the loader?
any ideas on date of manufacture?
ta, rich.

 

[multi power]

what happened to MIL? i think it was the last model of loader they made, early/mid eightys ? ? ?

 

[DaveJ]

what happened to MIL? i think it was the last model of loader they made, early/mid eightys ? ? ?

I had this conversation with someone a couple of months back. Used to have a County 4000-Four with a big MIL "Matchless" loader come to buckrake and load muck in the mid 80's. @Kevtherev 's dad (drainage and plant contractor) around the same time had a couple of tipping trailers badged "ETC-MIL" with the same logo. ETC were a large sawmill and steel fabricator from near Oswestry who I'm told went into administration in the early 80's (our big shed was one of their kits). We wondered if they bought out MIL and took the brand down with them?

 

[multi power]

I had this conversation with someone a couple of months back. Used to have a County 4000-Four with a big MIL "Matchless" loader come to buckrake and load muck in the mid 80's. @Kevtherev 's dad (drainage and plant contractor) around the same time had a couple of tipping trailers badged "ETC-MIL" with the same logo. ETC were a large sawmill and steel fabricator from near Oswestry who I'm told went into administration in the early 80's (our big shed was one of their kits). We wondered if they bought out MIL and took the brand down with them?

i remember the ETC MIL trailers, often wondered if they were to do with the loaders, were some of the trailers sort of brown n some green? there is a green trailer here pretty sure its ETC, will look in the morning what it says

 

[Alf]

i remember the ETC MIL trailers, often wondered if they were to do with the loaders, were some of the trailers sort of brown n some green? there is a green trailer here pretty sure its ETC, will look in the morning what it says

They made root chopping buckets as well

 

[DaveJ]

All the ETC MIL trailers I remember were mainly brown/gold in colour. I was pretty young in the early 80's...

Been having a clearout at home and found a couple of photos of that time. Lot of work done here on the drainage and road building grants. I'll have to fire up youngest Sister's scanner. Most frustrating thing is I know I've got a picture of that County in it's heyday somewhere and do you think I can find it?

 

[Kevtherev]

Yes @DaveJ clearly remember the county and mil loader.
Remember the ETC trailers too brown and black chassis tildsleys of Welshpool sold them then.
Neighbour had ETC silage trailers they may have been pale green.
Did either salop trailers or Griffiths trailers take on ETC??

 

[DaveJ]

Yes @DaveJ clearly remember the county and mil loader.
Remember the ETC trailers too brown and black chassis tildsleys of Welshpool sold them then.
Neighbour had ETC silage trailers they may have been pale green.
Did either salop trailers or Griffiths trailers take on ETC??

I've no idea about what happened to the ETC trailers. Buckleys still had the County until last year when they sold it to John Maes Y Graig for his collection. Apparently he's removed the loader and put a lot of time and money into restoring the tractor.

 

[Pan mixer]

Yes @DaveJ clearly remember the county and mil loader.
Remember the ETC trailers too brown and black chassis tildsleys of Welshpool sold them then.
Neighbour had ETC silage trailers they may have been pale green.
Did either salop trailers or Griffiths trailers take on ETC??

I have a dark green ETC triler from 1974 (that is what the plate says), my neighbour has a brown/black one that is 10 years newer I think he said.

 

[fraggle]

looks like a MIL marquis 500, think bomford took on the rights to the loaders, I know we got some brackets for ours when it moved off a MF35x on to a case in the late 80's

 

[Roy Stokes]

MIL stood for Midland Industries Limited and I think they were Wolverhampton based, as stated above ETC bought them out, but did ETC sell it's machinery manufacturing arm off ? and if so did the trailers become Dragon trailers, they certainly have a look of ETC about them ??

 

[fraggle]

MIL stood for Midland Industries Limited and I think they were Wolverhampton based, as stated above ETC bought them out, but did ETC sell it's machinery manufacturing arm off ? and if so did the trailers become Dragon trailers, they certainly have a look of ETC about them ??

Dragon and ETC trailer were both on the market at the same time, they did have a look of each other, so not sure if they came out of same factory. We still have an 8 ton and a 7 ton dragon trailers, been good trailers still regular use must be nearly 30 years old now

 

[Roy Stokes]

Dragon and ETC trailer were both on the market at the same time, they did have a look of each other, so not sure if they came out of same factory. We still have an 8 ton and a 7 ton dragon trailers, been good trailers still regular use must be nearly 30 years old now

Maybe being on the border up in Oswestry it was a marketing ploy by ETC/Dragon to sell trailers to the Welsh ??

 

[Forever Fendt]

as said ETC mill (elsemere trading company) made trailers spreaders ect and run a bid sawmill operation (mill) i dont think dragon trailers had anything to do with them i have still got etc mill leaflet and price list somewhere