South Wales Hauliers sixties and seventies onwards (Part 1)

UK PROFESSIONAL DRIVERS FORUMS OLD TIME LORRIES, COMPANIES AND DRIVERS (INTERACT
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J.R BRIDGEND

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ianto:
Was reading in this weeks Commercial Motor that T.R. PHILLIPS were packing up

T.R Phillips went into liquidation on 8th August. :frowning: They been in business since the 1938 but been doing general haulage since the 1960’s.

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pete 359:

Hi Andrew, I was just wondering how this 2007 XF aint got the new style bit on it, ie: new type mirrors, fog lights and grill.
Cheers.
Mat

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T.R.PHILLIPS is a long est family owned company with over 60yrs experiance in the transport industry.
originally founded by Mr Thomas Phillips in 1938. The company was then taken in the direction of the
general haulage in the 1960 by the then manageing directer Ray Phillips.

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i think this was T.R.Phillips first k series Dodge 4 wheeler flat on hay and straw.

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T.R. PHILLIPS, K SERIES DODGE.

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pete 359:

noisy jake:

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Paul John:

pete 359:
Hi all,
A south wales firm I remember very well,Isaac caswell they were quite a big player in their day.this erf must be amongst one the last trucks they ran.seen here by m4dogwalker :sunglasses: .

Hi all,
Andrew iirc the last work Caswell’s were doing was out of Gillete exhausts to Fords at Dagenam. Looks a rather short wheelbase to me, and strange to see it as a tag axle.
A nice link, my sister arrives from Abergavenny later this afternoon.
One week from my triple by-pass and so far doing fine. Time to catch up on this fine site, boredom at home is going to be a bloody nightmare.

Regards Paul.

Hi Paul,
Didn’t Gillette later become bosal at tafarnaubach? I didn’t think that caswell were still running in the 90’s :blush: until I saw that photo.a Bristol reg? So I gues she was second hand,probably taken during 94/95.glad to hear your sister is going to stay,thanks for the pm,take it easy mate and get well soon Paul.
Regards Andrew.

Hi Andrew,if my memory serves me correctly,didnt Caswell run a smart fleet of F88’s in the seventies…along with a few Atkis?
Regards Mark

Hi mark,
Correct sir :sunglasses: .caswell ran guy,atki’s erf’s etc.during the late 60’s Isaac caswell was getting increasingly frustrated at the uk manufacturers lead times,so he bought a couple of early f86 volvo’s closely followed by some f88’s.one of the 88’s was featured in the Volvo brochure at the time :sunglasses: .i remember being in a steel drop in oldbury in the 70’s with j&m and queuing behind us was a caswell f88 with a kirkstall axle…fuller box and Gardner engine,a caswell hybrid.an Atki chassis and running gear with an f88 cab,I wish I had taken photos of that :exclamation:
Regards Andrew.

Hi Andrew,I had heard about that one a while back but thought it was just a myth!!! The mind boggles!lol
Regards Mark

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it was called the “caswell special” an atkinson with a damaged cab got re cabed with a new volvo cab and apparently volvo made them take the volvo badges off it was put together by they’re long time fitter called george

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Hi all,
Here’s a few from this weekend’s Carmarthen show :sunglasses: .

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The final Carmarthen show picture.

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pete 359:

hiya,
Didn’t this outfit run those horrible underpowered Scania 80 things in the past seem to remember them having them when I got lumbered with one way back in the late 60s, they did seem to get all over the UK, are they still knocking about?? or are the Catnic products carried by hauliers.
thanks harry, long retired.

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yes we did have loads of 80s but we plodded on and they gave us hardly any trouble atall and we all earned afab living out of them i went everywhere in mine bloody lovely truck bad luck sounds like you had a duff one regards rowland