I also heard that Hotpoint has opened again a few months back with some polish staff but only temporary.
Didn’t Morgan Freight pull for them aswell?
welshflyer:
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
Didn’t realise they were based in Wrexham… Someone said they had a few mixers aswell and were about to or had swapped a large part of the fleet to Hinos.
That’s correct they had a couple of hinos and a couple of mixers too.
welshflyer:
Didn’t realise they were based in Wrexham… Someone said they had a few mixers aswell and were about to or had swapped a large part of the fleet to Hinos.
cons77:
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.
I can see why they leave them boards in Mike, not much room for error driving on or off that pit. Nice pics, thanks Paul.
One of the firms I worked at was based in an old railway shed and there was a pit like that at the bottom of the building that we used for steam cleaning. One of the drivers with a six wheel AEC used to drive straight over unwatched and never missed but another driver (?) who saw this wanted to put his car over and tried the same. A Vauxhall Viva was not as wide as the AEC and went straight in.
