Well done Marcus,and all posters on this wonderful thread.
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Tony Byrnes RIP old Fiat.Mechanically sound but woah,what a cab! 
Marc (Bubbleman) have sent you a PM.
Guess where?
sorry,a bit big!
The Menai bridge!
Heading to Italia.
Took an artic across the Menai Bridge a couple of weeks ago, as I’d never been across it before. Couldn’t believe how tight it is, both mirrors folded in, and also can’t believe that is the diversion for when the Britannia Bridge is closed due to high winds!
Dieselcowboy:
Took an artic across the Menai Bridge a couple of weeks ago, as I’d never been across it before. Couldn’t believe how tight it is, both mirrors folded in, and also can’t believe that is the diversion for when the Britannia Bridge is closed due to high winds!
Hiya the Britannia bridge didn’t open until the 80s, before that everything for Ireland went across that bridge.the Britannia only looks
old as it was the rail bridge with plenty of head room. they sat the road bridge above the rail track. go idea really.
John
Only went across the Menai bridge once years ago when I worked for Vic Wild.
I had a load of wooden window frames on,(This was in the days before uPVC), and they were loaded stacked, and had started to slide so I had an overhang of a few inches either side. but that was enough to stop me, had to back off and spend a couple of hours knocking them back.
My only claim to fame.first truck across the britannia bridge with a paying load.went across with a mobile home for anglesey before it was finished , had to be there on a sunday morning, sometime during 1981 special permission , they had to ferry them over previously.
i reckon the westbound arch in conway was tighter then the menai bridge , i had to pull the mirror in otherwise there was only a couple of inches to spare . i was strolling round conway one evening when a paddy in a daf 3300 came through the arch, must have been doing 40 mph ( late for the boat ) took both mirrors off and never slowed down . there was always a pile of glass at he bottom of the arch .
Dave talking of the arch in Conway I had not been at Pickfords very long so it would have been 67 and I was mating the late Eric Glaves taking a new excavator to Anglesey ( tracks were transported separate ) and Eric was having a kip in a highwayman 
and I missed the turning for the route to miss the arch so when I came upon it I woke Eric and said this looks a bit tight 
so he got out and up onto the swan neck and told me ease forward and just dip the clutch if he shouted anyway it went through without a scratch but it was very tight but it taught me to read the route through after that. The Menai was also very tight but I learnt a lot as a 22 year old and did several trips after that one.
cheers Johnnie 
P S I should have put this in my mistakes
Can anybody still remember seeing the A.A. patrol man who used to stand next to the Menai Bridge in the 60’s. He used to salute all the cars that were displaying an A.A. badge. 
mushroomman:
Can anybody still remember seeing the A.A. patrol man who used to stand next to the Menai Bridge in the 60’s. He used to salute all the cars that were displaying an A.A. badge.
Funny is it not, when I was a kid and me old man took us out in the car for the day every time we saw an AA man and he saluted us I thought my dad knew them all personally, and that’s what he told me and me sisters cheers Buzzer.
