Blackwell gets Bell kit on Heathrow T5 - until 2007

Earthmoving specialist CA Blackwell has a fleet of 60 ADTs on the T5 site - 52 of which are Bell C- and D-Series products. Building T5 on the former sewerage works and the associated work on the new M25 interchange involves moving 8.5million m3 of muck. Blackwell managing director Stuart Marston said: "We first looked at Bell ADTs in 1998 but were worried about back up. We conducted demos over a long period and the machines did what Bell told us they could do: they were efficient, robust and reliable and with a light footprint," said Marston. Blackwell has between 130 and 150 items of plant on T5, including 65t, 45t and 20t excavators, graders and compaction equipment. It operates 11 hours a day, five and a half days a week and will have plant on site until 2007. Of Bell's B50D, Marston said: "It looks right and we are awaiting technical specification. We will trial it, but it depends on how lightly it treads on the ground as we have to run on the material we shift."