South Wales Hauliers sixties and seventies onwards (Part 1)

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some keedwell pics

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south wales recyclers

[pete_359]

That’s the last of Owen evans tippers courtesy of m4dogwalker.though we have PLENTY more to come

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I used to drive this merc fairly regularly for its next owner, Farmseeds of Llanboidy (Whitland) - the tipper work was the fallback job they used to send me out on if trunking milk was quiet and there was no straw/hay to trudge off to the cotswolds/wiltshire/hampshire to collect. Varied job! Drove this with sand or scalpings, even feed once, only tipping work I’ve done and quite fun - this was quite gutsy at 26t with a 280 motor and a 12 speed splitter.

I wish I’d taken more pics when I worked at Farmseeds, my usual wagon was one of two mk1 Actros 530s with the low slung high roof cab running milk out of whitland - the big engines sounded impressive but the useless autobox robbed them of any real guts - 420 manual Scanias running from the same yard used to pass me on smaller hills with identical loads on! They had two newer 540 Actroses too, MP2s, but I was only there a year and wasn’t trusted in the ‘new’ lorries .

The most exotic machine they had, maybe still do, was a 1644 Merc drawbar flat (I think the reg was F605 SEE, must have been one of the last 1644s in the UK) - white cab and red wings, used to pull a long three axle a-frame drawbar which I’d fetch straw on. Quite fun to reverse! Bloody awful trying to get up slippery lanes out of farms with an EPS box - wouldn’t let you start in too high a gear, wouldn’t change quick, you’d just get some momentum going when revs would mean wheelspin or a gearchange so glacially slow it would lose you half the momentum again. Or, more often than not, rushed by the idiot driving it (me) leaving you in neutral again! Got pulled by tractors a lot in that motor - I know, poor workman blaming his tools etc.

This is the firm that had the straw lorry stopped on the level crossing at Whitland a couple of years back just when the express train was coming - thank god nobody was badly hurt.

[pete_359]

Hi all,
These cracking black and white images are all courtesy of m4dogwalker .

[pete_359]

Another view of a new foden for w.g. Davies landore .

[harry_gill]

pete 359:
Another view of a new foden for w.g. Davies landore .

hiya,
Put a drag on this and I bet I could still earn a bob or two,I have never
driven a Foden but this looks a canny bit of kit.
thanks harry, long retired.

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[gah1950]

pete 359:
Another view of a new foden for w.g. Davies landore .

hello all,
i can just see those two fodens climbing glynneath bank loaded with coil or tinplate,cracking pictures of a long gone scene,
graham.

[dave_the_renegade]

gah1950:

pete 359:
Another view of a new foden for w.g. Davies landore .

hello all,
i can just see those two fodens climbing glynneath bank loaded with coil or tinplate,cracking pictures of a long gone scene,
graham.

I used to climb Glynneath pitch with a Bedford TK loaded at 14 ton gross caring just under 10 ton of slag from Margam.
Only had a four speed gearbox,it was bloody hard going up there with a stream of traffic behind.
Cheers Dave.

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Dave the Renegade:

gah1950:

pete 359:
Another view of a new foden for w.g. Davies landore .

hello all,
i can just see those two fodens climbing glynneath bank loaded with coil or tinplate,cracking pictures of a long gone scene,
graham.

I used to climb Glynneath pitch with a Bedford TK loaded at 14 ton gross caring just under 10 ton of slag from Margam.
Only had a four speed gearbox,it was bloody hard going up there with a stream of traffic behind.
Cheers Dave.

Hi boys,
Brilliant pictures .seems a shame to backload this dropside with baled scrap!

[retired_old_fart]

O.K. as long as the idiot crane driver didn’t swing the bale against the side board! You could always put a sheet over the load to hide the scrap

[pete_359]

Hi all,
Here’s a question,ec14 should be able to tell us.what was/ if any the connection with this firm and what was later the massive firm of russel davies from the east coast.it was explained to me by my old boss at joint once many years ago.

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pete 359:
Hi all,
Here’s a question,ec14 should be able to tell us.what was/ if any the connection with this firm and what was later the massive firm of russel davies from the east coast.it was explained to me by my old boss at joint once many years ago.

hi andrew,one of tommy williams son is the manager of russell davies he left years ago

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komatsu 450:

it was very rare to c them parked up in the yard every driver took them home good old days when u had your truck home

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pete 359:
Hi all,
Here’s a question,ec14 should be able to tell us.what was/ if any the connection with this firm and what was later the massive firm of russel davies from the east coast.it was explained to me by my old boss at joint once many years ago.

Hi Andrew and Small coal,
Have a look at the Russell Davies forum page.- I have given a little story on there.
regards -Hywel.
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smallcoal:

pete 359:
Hi all,
Here’s a question,ec14 should be able to tell us.what was/ if any the connection with this firm and what was later the massive firm of russel davies from the east coast.it was explained to me by my old boss at joint once many years ago.

hi andrew,one of tommy williams son is the manager of russell davies he left years ago

I believe Tommy and Russell were cousins and John Williams went to work with Russell to get some experience before coming back to TD’s. This never happened and John is now the main man at Maritime. Haulage must run in the blood!

[pete_359]

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smallcoal:

pete 359:
Hi all,
Here’s a question,ec14 should be able to tell us.what was/ if any the connection with this firm and what was later the massive firm of russel davies from the east coast.it was explained to me by my old boss at joint once many years ago.

hi andrew,one of tommy williams son is the manager of russell davies he left years ago

I believe Tommy and Russell were cousins and John Williams went to work with Russell to get some experience before coming back to TD’s. This never happened and John is now the main man at Maritime. Haulage must run in the blood!

Hi all,
Tbh,I can’t remember exactly what I was told was it john Williams and glyn davies (russel’s son) were friends/relations? They moved to the east coast and got into container haulage…big time