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w I remember when I was kid Blakeslee used to plow Pratt and Whitney's North Haven plant. I remember them using at least three DM' s with plows heading over there. I think they kept a couple loaders there too.

The garage on Waverly St. used to be called the "barn". That was originally where the horse and wagons where kept 100 years ago. Mixers and dump trucks where parked on Waverly St. and all the prestress trailers and horses where kept at Pine Rock. When a good friend of mine started working there he was #136 on the seniority list. They weren't at the Sargent Drive garage for very long before they moved the trucks to another garage on Middletown Ave. then eventually Rt.139 in Branford. By then Blakeslee Prestress and Blakeslee Arpaia Chapman where totally seperate. Suzio took over the concrete and operated Pine Rock and Chapel St. for a year before unloading all the property on Pine Rock Ave. and selling the asphalt plant to Tomasso. Suzio wound up with two Riteway mixers and about six DM mixers and I think one B61. Suzio also employed most of Blakeslee's mixer drivers as well. Blakeslee now is hardly a shadow of what they once where. I don't think they ran those quad steer A car's for long because my dad or the few guys I know that worked there don't remember them. My dad was a laborer at the Chapel St. prestress plant. He said they had at least two mixers assigned every day to that plant pouring single and double Tee's.

What's history behind this company? I remember years ago there was B&D construction from Branford, but those trucks where green and gold.

The first time I drove a mixer with air ride I almost crapped my pants. I got off a highway ramp and felt like I was going over. Off road I like the walking beam the best.

Family owned and operated going on 115 years. Almost unheard of these days!

There is a black LJ dump truck behind that DM800 in the second pic thats in pretty good condition. I always had a thing for that truck. I think Mick Jagger said it best, "you can't always get what you want"!

Looks like that CH in the background didn't make out very well!

I'm pretty sure Oand G's Bridgeport plant was Silliman Bros. Along with their quarry in Southbury. D' Addario's plant was on Seaview ave, if I remember correctly. When was Telesco taken over by O and G?

Very cool pic, I never heard of this company. Any info Bry?

Nice.....Lots of class!

That's sweet looking! Good luck with it.

I guess we can lay this one to rest.

Great pics Bry! Keep em coming. I forgot about them.

Where is this?

Suzio only had two R- Models. The trailer that's hooked to that tractor in the pic weren't normally paired together. The other trailer next to it was its mate. The trailer hooked to the R- Model was the first aluminum tub they bought and was pulled by a DM. All the Pete's are pretty much gone with the exception of the one that empties the asphalt plant at the end of the day. Those R- Models had 300' s and 5 speed transmissions. Not my favorite trannie by any means. You need a low hole in construction applications, especially when your driveway sits on top of a hill and and traffic is coming.

I never heard of it either . Some pics would be nice, and location.

This is my B-68T.

Two of these DM's are tri-drives. I bet they must have cornered great in the city!

A couple more.

A couple Suzio pics

I remember years ago we used to use this stuff called liquid gold, I can't remember the real name of it. It worked good for ungelling fuel and kept you from gelling up. We use Diesel 911 now as precautionary.

I think Midway wound up with some old Foxon stuff as well, but they cleaned up that mess awhile ago. The old man used to have a thing for old fire trucks at that point in time.

The body is in great shape!

Im pretty sure that plant in Newtown was Hi- Ho's back in the day. O and G's asphalt plant in Milford was also Hi- Ho's.

I work with a couple old Len-Crete guys, and they said that they're owner and D' Addario used to spec trucks together. They bought those quad- steers together. For whatever reason they used to call them gondolas. The first DM I drove was the same, down hill it did 55, but off the road it was an animal. It wrote the book on geared to the ground. Back in the early and mid eighties Hi- Ho was like O and G is now. They where everywhere. Back then Tilcon ran about 10 to 20 DM-800' s out of North Branford. For every Tilcon truck running out of North Branford I bet there where at least 3 Hi- Ho's. My favorite part of the summer as kid was the week I would spend in North Branford.