Now then what about Dh Jones of Ruabon and Allan Morris of Chester
At Dh Jones I can remember my dad having an old A Series unit with a 150 Gardner,and you could only dream of power steering,with the odd saturday trip out in the Hino 8 x 4
Then at Allan Morris Atki Borderer with a 220 ■■■■■■■ then a Foden with a ■■■■■■■ with the Giant single headlights then a B Series Erf with a 240 Gardner,more comfort but think he preferred the ■■■■■■■ for pulling power and outright speed.
We used to do the road salt out of Winsford,cracking sausage sandwich by the river,and then load coal back from south wales yorks etc etc.
Also Pritchard Bros. from Anglesey, B.Pritchard from Bangor,and the extremely tidy tippers that R.J.Roberts,Holyhead had when they were brown and cream,before the Rawcliffe’s green? Someone must have a few of these gathering dust somewhere.
Ressurecting an old post but a few North Wales ones… Some i’ve posted before elsewhere but sorry!!!.. In no particular order!!!
Baynes R500
Pritchard F16 and F12
Dads old 113 - L499 FFV, lasted a year in R J Roberts colours then re painted in Gwynedd Shipping colours and air kit retro fitted.
Bit of a tenuous link but an ex Gwynedd FH12 pulling for Bougheys!
Me c1986 campin with Dad at Ieuan Garns yard!
My FH12 with “YORK” in the DAF at Mostyn
Rob Pae’s Scania.
Dads old P-Cab 124-360 R39 GFF, God only knows why they got P cabs for trampers!!!
Me at Lymm (My 143 when i went to Cornwall for a year), Phil “ASH” in the GSL motor.
Me and Dad at Stafford Northbound, 2003.
Arthur Bachs Funeral, GOD BLESS HIM. One of my best mates on the road, did me more favours than i could ever repay him in a lifetime! Boy did that bloke have a nose for a Pub! Anywhere in the country he had it sussed! One of a kind, miss u mate!
Me loading Bricks, cant remember if it Hartelbury or Kingsbury■■? FM was a great little truck, in 2002 it was one of the very 1st I-Shifts in the country. As an aside Gwynedd Shipping had thhe first Version 2 FH in the country “V14 GSL” was in the magazines at the time as the first one.
Williams Bros(Ones with the red dragon logo)Wrexham used to be TDG… long gone
Dens Transport - Wrexham… long gone
Thomas Transport - Wrexham…long gone
S.E Jones - Acrefair Wrexham…long gone
Manor Transport - Wrexham…long gone
R.F Bellis - Wrexham
J.H Willis - Wrexham
F.Lloyd (Penley) - Wrexham
Mc Carthy Haulage - Wrexham
thomas transport now concentrate on removals and trade as britaniathomascasserlys and thomas bros and operate from gledrig industrial estate chirk
Just scanned a couple of old pics from my scrap book!!
Gwynfor “DUCK” in Mostyn, behaving the clown as usual!!!
Me in my 1st new Volvo, Note the MDF television box and DVD’s with PS2!!! This was 2002, pretty advanced for back then!!! Not sure if i’d just ■■■■ myself or what?!
Wyn “SGWAR/SQUARE” Lloyd and me enjoying a picnic at Kemira, INCE.
My old 113 on the day my new FH was delivered! 2002.
hammer:
Are they digging directly from Minffordd Jonmea?
yes the dumpers are taking stone from Minffordd to site. Jones bros have got 10 Volvo 40 ton dumpers on the job. The new bypass is going where the railway and weighbridge is now. the railway is being moved a bit and there is going to be a new entrance and weighbridge in the quarry.
hammer:
Are they digging directly from Minffordd Jonmea?
yes the dumpers are taking stone from Minffordd to site. Jones bros have got 10 Volvo 40 ton dumpers on the job. The new bypass is going where the railway and weighbridge is now. the railway is being moved a bit and there is going to be a new entrance and weighbridge in the quarry.
Bloody hell, they are gonna make a real mess then?!
Are you getting much on the job?
I would imagine one haulage firm local to you wanted lots of big yellow trucks on the job and he wasn’t thinking of 40tonne dumpers…
hiya,
Years since i used the A5 and used to see a lot of Hotpoint motors when i did a regular run to Flint in the late 60s were they in-house vehicles or contract vehicles and are they still running??.
thanks harry long retired.
harry_gill:
hiya,
Years since i used the A5 and used to see a lot of Hotpoint motors when i did a regular run to Flint in the late 60s were they in-house vehicles or contract vehicles and are they still running??.
thanks harry long retired.
Not sure Harry, although Hotpoint had a factory in Bodelwyddan that was closed about 2008.
harry_gill:
hiya,
Years since i used the A5 and used to see a lot of Hotpoint motors when i did a regular run to Flint in the late 60s were they in-house vehicles or contract vehicles and are they still running??.
thanks harry long retired.
I remember them as a Kid… Used to see the all day and night long up and down… Brown and cream IRC DAFS
There used to be a quite a few of them they were based in Llay Nr Wrexham they had a few Dafs aswell as Fodens with tipper trailers and a few flats on brickwork,also a few 8 leggers aswell.
They finished about 2 years ago when the economic downturn hit.
Funnily enough i saw one of there 03 plate Foden 6x2,s being used as a shunter in Kronospan only a week ago still sporting one of there plates i think it was JS03 JCS
welshflyer:
cons77:
Are they the white Fodens with the red bumpers and all there reg plates ended in JCS?
welshflyer:
Saw the Bagillt Trotters all lit up on the A55 one night last week gone midnight not seen them for a while.
Do the White artic Fodens still carry out of Halkyn as I’ve not seen them for ages either.
Does anyone have any pics of the 4 Wheeler Iveco Tippers AD Williams used to run?
Thats them… Seemed to be a few around at one point. There was an older looking one behind the Auctions at Ewloe for a while.
