HI DAVE, DAI KINSEY DROVE AN ASERIES ERF.
daibootsy:
HI DAVE, DAI KINSEY DROVE AN ASERIES ERF.
Hi Dai,
He drove a B series for somebody down in Swansea because he rang me one night from the cab and he had the night heater roaring in the background.
Cheers Dave.
daibootsy:
HI DAVE, DAI KINSEY DROVE AN ASERIES ERF.
i remember Illtyd Thomas from the 60s and 70s.,
It’s funny,but I think that the six-wheeled LAD cabbed Albions and Leylands looked really smart when loaded like the one in the photo. They weren’t so bloody smart when driving them though,I had an early one with the 375 Leyland engine,trailing axle,air over hydraulic brakes,would spin empty on a weighbridge,but I loved it to bits - six - wheeler driver see! The later Reivers had the 400 engine I think but the cab was the same inside,the Leyland Comet/Retriever/Badger etc. cab was a bit more plush inside and a little bit quieter.
HI DAVE, THINK DAI KINSEY HAD ,A C SERIES ERF WITH A.T. MORGAN, KILLEY, BEFORE THAT HE WAS WITH TAYLORS OF MARTLEY, THEY HAD AN E SERIES, .
daibootsy:
HI DAVE, THINK DAI KINSEY HAD ,A C SERIES ERF WITH A.T. MORGAN, KILLEY, BEFORE THAT HE WAS WITH TAYLORS OF MARTLEY, THEY HAD AN E SERIES, .
He was with Taylors Dai.He moved down your way when he drove for Entress.Could have been A T Morgan that he was with when he had his accident at Alcan.
Cheers Dave.
ABERNANT TRANSPORT, SWANSEA.
bubbleman:
Hows about a few Atki’s.
Is this last one an early Aston Clinton Haulage Atki? — Yes Marc it is an early ACH Atki. My dad used to work at ACH in the early 70’s and says this trailer used to carry liquid aluminium from International Alloys, Aylesbury to Minworth in the Midlands. Never stuck in the snow or ice as it used to melt everything it parked next too!!
Cheers Marc.
THE EARLY DAYS 
Mr 141:
bubbleman:
Hows about a few Atki’s.
Any chance you could read the rest of that text please? I am interested in the name of the Philip Smith’s driver.
They were taken over by Bulkliner Ltd., part of the NCC group based in Ollerton and specialised in bulk containers for sending coal and coke south on the Freightliner service from Beeston (Nottingham) terminal. I went there for a job and was sat down in an office in which there were 2 managers facing each other across their 2 desks which were pushed together.
One of them, Frank Parker, started to interview me but alarm bells rang when he asked if I had a strong back as ‘these boiler sections are very heavy to heave around, you know.’ 
I realised he was the Smith’s manager and quickly said that I had come for the container job. So, without turning a hair he handed me over to the other bloke, Tony Rogers, the boss of Bulkliners who also had a vacancy. It was with a big sigh of relief that I got the job.
Frank Parker was a great bloke and not at all offended at my rejection. Years later, retired, he confided to me how bitter he was when later pushed out as Smith’s job began to disappear with the running down of Beeston Boiler.
Smith’s/Bulkliner’s small yard, office and repair bay is still there though the parking area across the road has long been built over. Also gone is Beeston Boiler. Houses are there now and one of them is lived in by my stepson and his wife where we often stay when in England.
But who is that Smith’s driver? He looks vaguely familar but the name escapes me. 
One of their older hands drove a 35cwt Bedford dropside used on express deliveries of spare parts. He was involved in that big pile up in the fog at J10 M1 Luton and was so badly injured internally that he never worked again. Can’t remember the year.
Hi Spardo if you right click on the image then select view image you will see the whole picture the driver incidentaly was Mr D G R Evans
Regards Pat
on the point of pics why are all the pics on this site now moved to the right so you cannot see all the pic is it a fault with the set up of this site its a pain in the proverbial when you want to see some interesting pics , to right click on every pic and select view image cannot surely be the way the pics should be viewed, cheers sorry for moaning fredm
Hi again,Fred…apologies for the messing about getting the pics up,I use Tinypic to resize the photos and to be honest they aint very good,you think you got a job to view the pics,it’ll take me half an hour to set the following 6 pics up to put on here…some days when I havent put things on is because its become a total waste of time so I give up.Its no good anyone saying use another picture resizer as I havent the PC knowledge to work out how to do it…I can drive a lorry ok but computers are still beyond me…ok todays stuff,staying with the Illtyd Thomas theme which Dai has shown us some of his good old photos then heres a few of mine.
What a great old company they were,a no nonsence way of doing things and getting every thing out of their equipment. 
Cheers Bubbs, 
fredm:
on the point of pics why are all the pics on this site now moved to the right so you cannot see all the pic is it a fault with the set up of this site its a pain in the proverbial when you want to see some interesting pics , to right click on every pic and select view image cannot surely be the way the pics should be viewed, cheers sorry for moaning fredm
Hi Fred try pressing the Ctrl button/key on the bottom left of your keypad at the same time pressing the - button just above p to the right it will reduce the page but at the same time reduces the size of the print. To increase again press Ctrl and +.
Regards Pat
ainacs:
Hi Spardo if you right click on the image then select view image you will see the whole picture the driver incidentaly was Mr D G R EvansRegards Pat
Thanks for that Pat, what a techowhizz you are 
Sadly, even the name doesn’t help, I remember the wagon but then, one like that would have been there for years, but can’t place the driver. ■■■■, I can’t even remember what year I was there I think it was late 60s but I was back in OZ in '67 so not long after that Atki was new.
I used to have a written out CV crib sheet of all the places I worked (very many ) for filling in application forms. I’ll have to go and see if I’ve still got it.
bubbleman:
Hi again,Fred…apologies for the messing about getting the pics up,I use Tinypic to resize the photos and to be honest they aint very good,you think you got a job to view the pics,it’ll take me half an hour to set the following 6 pics up to put on here…some days when I havent put things on is because its become a total waste of time so I give up.Its no good anyone saying use another picture resizer as I havent the PC knowledge to work out how to do it…I can drive a lorry ok but computers are still beyond me…ok todays stuff,staying with the Illtyd Thomas theme which Dai has shown us some of his good old photos then heres a few of mine.
What a great old company they were,a no nonsence way of doing things and getting every thing out of their equipment.
Cheers Bubbs,
I have been waiting to see a photo of that daf for nearly 20 years since i last seen it in swansea. My dad’s mate Eddie told him he broke down with it in leicester when it was still under waurentee and the daf dealer did not believe the age of the vehicle due to the amount of mileage and the state the vehicle was in, in such a little time. little did the know it was double shifted 7 days a week.
revman:
rear view
What a beast eh,fantastic not much on that lads regarding driver comforts.
regards dave
I think work weary motors are more photogenic than new and polished ones. A bit like steam locos; they look mote real when a bit grubby.
Muckaway:
I think work weary motors are more photogenic than new and polished ones. A bit like steam locos; they look mote real when a bit grubby.
A bit like the birds you used to knock off Nathan,before you found the “right one” and got married and settled down !!! Cheers Dennis.
Muckaway:
I think work weary motors are more photogenic than new and polished ones. A bit like steam locos; they look mote real when a bit grubby.
hiya,
“Muckaway” I was capable of and usually did get any motor new or old, looking work weary
within it’s first day of me driving it, no sat-nav’s in my day so never located the wash I was
payed to drive the things not molly-coddle them, cleaning them and acting as nightwatchman
wasn’t part of the deal with me, and I did get away with it all my driving career.
thanks harry long retired.