South Wales Hauliers sixties and seventies onwards (Part 1)

UK PROFESSIONAL DRIVERS FORUMS OLD TIME LORRIES, COMPANIES AND DRIVERS (INTERACT
2561

From a flickr contact(Sth Wales) and previously posted on Past, Present and in Between, more "at home "on here if that’s ok.
oily

Mark Hobbs MAN Powell Heavy Haulage.jpg
Mark Hobbs MAN Powell Heavy Haulage.jpg800×478 191 KB

Mark Hobbs MAN Elliot.jpg
Mark Hobbs MAN Elliot.jpg800×553 229 KB

Mark Hobbs Foden Power Electrics WX55UJF.jpg

Mark Hobbs DAF CF Moreton C Cullimore.jpg

Mark Hobbs Foden Centenary MX05VFC.jpg
Mark Hobbs Foden Centenary MX05VFC.jpg800×716 182 KB

Mark Hobbs Volvo cc by-nd 2.0.jpg
Mark Hobbs Volvo cc by-nd 2.0.jpg800×517 178 KB

Mark Hobbs Foden J F Pearce WX06UDK.jpg
Mark Hobbs Foden J F Pearce WX06UDK.jpg800×549 219 KB

Mark Hobbs Foden Glanrhyd CE52OWW.jpg
Mark Hobbs Foden Glanrhyd CE52OWW.jpg800×595 219 KB

2562

Great to see the site is going from strength to strength lads, check on here every day! But alas no new photos for me to add of south Wales lorries.

Does anybody on here remember the haulier Denzil Edwards of Cross Inn? If I recall he used to operate AEC marshals? And used to carry pit rings for the NCB and had 8 wheeler AEC tippers. any photos would be great. thanks Ian

2563

yanto36:
Great to see the site is going from strength to strength lads, check on here every day! But alas no new photos for me to add of south Wales lorries.

Does anybody on here remember the haulier Denzil Edwards of Cross Inn? If I recall he used to operate AEC marshals? And used to carry pit rings for the NCB and had 8 wheeler AEC tippers. any photos would be great. thanks Ian

hi ian,
thanks for that.the firm i am thinking of ran f10’s in a combination of maroon and the volvo f series stripes,is that the one you mean?
oiltreader thanks very much your welsh flickr pictures are most welcome.
regards andrew.

2564

pete 359:

yanto36:
Great to see the site is going from strength to strength lads, check on here every day! But alas no new photos for me to add of south Wales lorries.

Does anybody on here remember the haulier Denzil Edwards of Cross Inn? If I recall he used to operate AEC marshals? And used to carry pit rings for the NCB and had 8 wheeler AEC tippers. any photos would be great. thanks Ian

hi ian,
thanks for that.the firm i am thinking of ran f10’s in a combination of maroon and the volvo f series stripes,is that the one you mean?
oiltreader thanks very much your welsh flickr pictures are most welcome.
regards andrew.

Hi Andrew
The firm I am thinking of were in cross inn nr llantrisant and the lorries were light blue, the yard is still there today as you drop down from llantrisant common to cross inn, I think they do mots nowadays. Cheers Ian

2565

yanto36:

pete 359:

yanto36:
Great to see the site is going from strength to strength lads, check on here every day! But alas no new photos for me to add of south Wales lorries.

Does anybody on here remember the haulier Denzil Edwards of Cross Inn? If I recall he used to operate AEC marshals? And used to carry pit rings for the NCB and had 8 wheeler AEC tippers. any photos would be great. thanks Ian

hi ian,
thanks for that.the firm i am thinking of ran f10’s in a combination of maroon and the volvo f series stripes,is that the one you mean?
oiltreader thanks very much your welsh flickr pictures are most welcome.
regards andrew.

Hi Andrew
The firm I am thinking of were in cross inn nr llantrisant and the lorries were light blue, the yard is still there today as you drop down from llantrisant common to cross inn, I think they do mots nowadays. Cheers Ian

hi ian,
my mate just rang and explained who that firm was.i don’t remember them,a bit before my time.
[album][/]

2566

yanto36:

pete 359:

yanto36:
Great to see the site is going from strength to strength lads, check on here every day! But alas no new photos for me to add of south Wales lorries.

Does anybody on here remember the haulier Denzil Edwards of Cross Inn? If I recall he used to operate AEC marshals? And used to carry pit rings for the NCB and had 8 wheeler AEC tippers. any photos would be great. thanks Ian

hi ian,
thanks for that.the firm i am thinking of ran f10’s in a combination of maroon and the volvo f series stripes,is that the one you mean?
oiltreader thanks very much your welsh flickr pictures are most welcome.
regards andrew.

Hi Andrew
The firm I am thinking of were in cross inn nr llantrisant and the lorries were light blue, the yard is still there today as you drop down from llantrisant common to cross inn, I think they do mots nowadays. Cheers Ian

Ian, not sure if I have the same firm in my mind, but I remember back in the mid 70s having to go to Llantrisant for MOTs if Pontypool was booked up. We would come through Beddau, and make a right turn there somewhere, up a hill and there was a garage on the left hand side that ran blue tippers.
I clipped a tree on one such visit, and cracked a mirror. Stopped in there and borrowed one for the MOT, actually took one off a motor that was being worked on.
Whats that hill around there that will drop you down into Treforest?, or am I lost.

Regards Paul.

2567

Paul John:

yanto36:

pete 359:

yanto36:
Great to see the site is going from strength to strength lads, check on here every day! But alas no new photos for me to add of south Wales lorries.

Does anybody on here remember the haulier Denzil Edwards of Cross Inn? If I recall he used to operate AEC marshals? And used to carry pit rings for the NCB and had 8 wheeler AEC tippers. any photos would be great. thanks Ian

hi ian,
thanks for that.the firm i am thinking of ran f10’s in a combination of maroon and the volvo f series stripes,is that the one you mean?
oiltreader thanks very much your welsh flickr pictures are most welcome.
regards andrew.

Hi Andrew
The firm I am thinking of were in cross inn nr llantrisant and the lorries were light blue, the yard is still there today as you drop down from llantrisant common to cross inn, I think they do mots nowadays. Cheers Ian

Ian, not sure if I have the same firm in my mind, but I remember back in the mid 70s having to go to Llantrisant for MOTs if Pontypool was booked up. We would come through Beddau, and make a right turn there somewhere, up a hill and there was a garage on the left hand side that ran blue tippers.
I clipped a tree on one such visit, and cracked a mirror. Stopped in there and borrowed one for the MOT, actually took one off a motor that was being worked on.
Whats that hill around there that will drop you down into Treforest?, or am I lost.

Regards Paul.

Hi Paul,
I can’t remember that firm.i think? The hill you refer to was power station hill,the road has all been changed around there now.
Regards Andrew.

2568

heading for swansea to be recycled :laughing: :laughing: :laughing: .
[album][/]

2569

[][/album]

2570

pete 359:

Paul John:

yanto36:

pete 359:

yanto36:
Great to see the site is going from strength to strength lads, check on here every day! But alas no new photos for me to add of south Wales lorries.

Does anybody on here remember the haulier Denzil Edwards of Cross Inn? If I recall he used to operate AEC marshals? And used to carry pit rings for the NCB and had 8 wheeler AEC tippers. any photos would be great. thanks Ian

hi ian,
thanks for that.the firm i am thinking of ran f10’s in a combination of maroon and the volvo f series stripes,is that the one you mean?
oiltreader thanks very much your welsh flickr pictures are most welcome.
regards andrew.

Hi Andrew
The firm I am thinking of were in cross inn nr llantrisant and the lorries were light blue, the yard is still there today as you drop down from llantrisant common to cross inn, I think they do mots nowadays. Cheers Ian

Ian, not sure if I have the same firm in my mind, but I remember back in the mid 70s having to go to Llantrisant for MOTs if Pontypool was booked up. We would come through Beddau, and make a right turn there somewhere, up a hill and there was a garage on the left hand side that ran blue tippers.
I clipped a tree on one such visit, and cracked a mirror. Stopped in there and borrowed one for the MOT, actually took one off a motor that was being worked on.
Whats that hill around there that will drop you down into Treforest?, or am I lost.

Regards Paul.

Hi Paul,
I can’t remember that firm.i think? The hill you refer to was power station hill,the road has all been changed around there now.
Regards Andrew.

Hi Andrew, power station hill that’s the one. I think the village name was Ton-Teg.

Thanks Paul.

2571

trucknet member yorkietaff an ex tony morgan driver kindly sent me these two images earlier this week.this is the scammell they had on loan whilst their s26 was being repaired.
[album][album]

2572

the mighty k-whopper :sunglasses: .
[album][/]

2573

Here are a couple of photo’s when my father drove for E.T. Adams & Sons of Cowbridge with a load of hay on bringing it " down home " as he would say to the old kennels Llandough possibly from Edward’s of Llysworney, that is also my Grand father in the 2nd photo

scan0001.jpg
scan0001.jpg713×818 117 KB

scan0003.jpg
scan0003.jpg718×688 114 KB

2574

Hi Andrew just a few Amercan truck pics from the circus in Shrewsbury . Tony








2575

Paul John:

pete 359:

Paul John:

yanto36:

pete 359:

yanto36:
Great to see the site is going from strength to strength lads, check on here every day! But alas no new photos for me to add of south Wales lorries.

Does anybody on here remember the haulier Denzil Edwards of Cross Inn? If I recall he used to operate AEC marshals? And used to carry pit rings for the NCB and had 8 wheeler AEC tippers. any photos would be great. thanks Ian

hi ian,
thanks for that.the firm i am thinking of ran f10’s in a combination of maroon and the volvo f series stripes,is that the one you mean?
oiltreader thanks very much your welsh flickr pictures are most welcome.
regards andrew.

Hi Andrew
The firm I am thinking of were in cross inn nr llantrisant and the lorries were light blue, the yard is still there today as you drop down from llantrisant common to cross inn, I think they do mots nowadays. Cheers Ian

Hello paul john.
I remember Denzil Edwards (D M Edwards) his yard was in southgate next to the Vauxhall dealers,if you came from the direction of the cross inn pub,under the 12, 6 bridge they were on the left as you went towards llantrisant,they were a dreary grey coloured fleet,they did run a few LAD cabbed albions and at one time were transporting large block stones from Graig yr Hesg quarry at pontypridd to the new deep water harbour at port talbot.
regards Graham.

Ian, not sure if I have the same firm in my mind, but I remember back in the mid 70s having to go to Llantrisant for MOTs if Pontypool was booked up. We would come through Beddau, and make a right turn there somewhere, up a hill and there was a garage on the left hand side that ran blue tippers.
I clipped a tree on one such visit, and cracked a mirror. Stopped in there and borrowed one for the MOT, actually took one off a motor that was being worked on.
Whats that hill around there that will drop you down into Treforest?, or am I lost.

Regards Paul.

Hi Paul,
I can’t remember that firm.i think? The hill you refer to was power station hill,the road has all been changed around there now.
Regards Andrew.

Hi Andrew, power station hill that’s the one. I think the village name was Ton-Teg.

Thanks Paul.

2576

Hi all,
I had this 110 down as being an ex Alan motor? Answers on a post card please :laughing: :laughing: :laughing:

2577

Some serious hardware from smith’s mechanical in bridgend :sunglasses: .

2578

pete 359:
Hi all,
I had this 110 down as being an ex Alan motor? Answers on a post card please :laughing: :laughing: :laughing:

Andrew, I think Scandretts may have been an early version of Alte express, I think their yard was in Risca. Tony Transcon will know more.
Neil.

2579

mechanic77:

pete 359:
Hi all,
I had this 110 down as being an ex Alan motor? Answers on a post card please :laughing: :laughing: :laughing:

Andrew, I think Scandretts may have been an early version of Alte express, I think their yard was in Risca. Tony Transcon will know more.
Neil.

Hi Neil,
I understand where you are coming from mate,a couple of welsh firms have been in the game for years,but have had more name changes than the electoral register :wink:

2580

mechanic77:

pete 359:
Hi all,
I had this 110 down as being an ex Alan motor? Answers on a post card please :laughing: :laughing: :laughing:

Andrew, I think Scandretts may have been an early version of Alte express, I think their yard was in Risca. Tony Transcon will know more.
Neil.

Hello Andrew/Neil
I think the scania is one of the old Alcan ones from nearby rogerstone site which has now gone itself. The photo looks to be taken in Risca/Pontymister , Ochrwyth is in the back ground. The yard was on the site of the old pontymister steelworks. The area has been redeveloped over the years industrial units and access roads to the new superstore on the site of the old foundry built after the steelworks went. I spent many times as a youngster sat on a large steel framework watching Alte express transconts coming and going in the yard , they had ‘r’ and ‘s’ regs ones, The yellow and brown livery standing out , my mates and I always referred to the name scandretts for the company.The entrance was off the main road in Risca past bird plant demolition and scrap , they had two volvo’s both f88’s I think but i not sure from memory, [one may have been an 89] , and a load of AEC’s. Then over a river bridge and the yard was on the left.The straight road by the side of the yard was usually full of loaded trailers with drainage castings out of the foundry waiting delivery which Clayton & sons another local operator pulled with a variety of lorrys ergo cab aec’s and scammell crusaders.
Many thanks for stirring some old memories just regret not taking any photos.
regards

Tony