Muir Hill, an engineering company established in the early 1920s in Manchester, England, specialized in products to convert the Fordson Tractor into bucket loaders, rail locomotives and dumpers. The early Muir Hill dumper, produced in the 1930s, had a seat mounted beside the engine facing what would have been the rear of the tractor, with a tipping bucket mounted over the drive wheels. Dumper production continued through WWII for the Ministry of Supply, and many of these models were converted after the war for agricultural use and sold as the Powercart. By the late 1940s, Muir Hill dumpers had both seat and controls that could be rotated to the front or back, and a range of models were produced, the larger of which had enclosed cabs. Various models of dumpers continued to be produced up to the 1970s.
The Matchbox Muir Hill Dumper was produced from 1961 to 1967 and had either Laing or (less commonly) Muir Hill decals. It has a red metal body, green metal dump bed and black plastic wheels – small wheels on the front, and large, heavily treaded tires on the back. This example of the Laing variation is another of my Wichita eBay finds.
The Matchbox Muir Hill Dumper features a tipping dump bed.
Matchbox | 1961 | #2 | Muir Hill Dumper | red with green dumper, Laing decals, green metal base | England | black plastic wheels
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