Corgi Trackside GUY Big J Tipper
- Amey Roadstone Launched in 1964 the Big J was ‘ Guy Motors’ last range of trucks before the company was taken over by Jaguar – which is why it received its name the ‘ Big J’. Amey’s history began in 1921 when William Amey started up a quarrying business & by WWII it was providing materials for the development of RAF Airfields. Later in the 1950s they were supplying the gravel for the London to Birmingham section of the M1 motorway. In 1972 the company was taken over by Hanson & was renamed Amey Roadstone Construction but in 1989 it changed names once more when the company returned to private ownership & became Amey again.