oiltreader:
pete 359:
Sent to me by m4 dogwalker today.anyone know what it isI dont
Hi Andrew, it’s a Rowe Hillmaster built at Liskeard, Cornwall around the 1950s, they used Meadows engines.
Cheers
Oily
hi oily,
i wondered about rowe hillmaster?years ago there was a green/red one of those that used to come on the bournemouth to bath road run.i thought the grille was familiar to me.
regards andrew.
Hello dai,
I was wondering when morfa finished I don’t think they would have had any newer motors than that 400.i had forgotten illtyd bought the lorries 
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Regards andrew
yes, i chap cmae from down from somewhere to buy the gardners, but buy mistake went to thomas,s yard, he wanted to know where morfa transports yard was,he was sent the long way down, but too late to buy the gardners, thomas,s bought them all, Dai neman drove that lorry for thomas,s. he also drove for Morfa, when they had atki,s, i got one of rossers albion pic, but as a flat. this is the other sed atkinson from morfa.
neversweat1:
Hope this is o.k here1
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Steve
Evening Gentlemen, Welsh National Opera, two TR280s, two TF231s, (wonder who got the short straw)!! Handed over at a big do at the Royal Festival Hall, (why not in Cardif)? Then straight off on a tour, Berlin, Dresden,Leipzig.
Brian McMaster was the WNO man, regailed us with tales of how all parked trailers at their premises had to be locked…otherwise the Cardiff “ladies of the night” availed themselves of the facilities! The star Rita Hunter was also present, a real live wire, and not at all what you would expect an Opera star to be like. She won the hearts of my Italian clients who attended the hand over.
Nice shade of red those lorries, I recall seeing one TR280 at Ackers Jarrets yard in Walsall around 87ish, still in WNO livery , so they must have lasted!
Cheerio for now.
dont hear tin plate so much these days.
glyn john done lots of work for Aberdare cables if I remember rightly dai chains was on that job regards rowly
T.J.E Price, cardiff.
Rowley’s truck in Caerphilly.
pete 359:
Sent to me by m4 dogwalker today.anyone know what it is
Hello andrew,
Shame that the john portlock picture was not put on a couple of weeks ago ,as there was a gentleman in our local greengrocers that worked there most of his life,he sadly died recently,but i will ask his daughter if she remembers the lorry.
graham.
daibootsy:
not sure if illtyd thomas bought all the gardner 240s off morfa transport, this is one of them.
Hi daibootsy good to see some Morfa on this thread ,they had a few drivers in the Leominster area , one of them drove the Merc unit which was probably the first to be delivered to a S Wales haulier back in 1966 regards kk
kingswinford kit:
daibootsy:
not sure if illtyd thomas bought all the gardner 240s off morfa transport, this is one of them.Hi daibootsy good to see some Morfa on this thread ,they had a few drivers in the Leominster area , one of them drove the Merc unit which was probably the first to be delivered to a S Wales haulier back in 1966 regards kk
Gordon Underhill and John Watkins drove for Morfa,also Peter Lloyd from Kington and Wyndham ( Kimmo ) Habberly from Llandrindod Wells.
Cheers Dave.
Dave the Renegade:
kingswinford kit:
daibootsy:
not sure if illtyd thomas bought all the gardner 240s off morfa transport, this is one of them.Hi daibootsy good to see some Morfa on this thread ,they had a few drivers in the Leominster area , one of them drove the Merc unit which was probably the first to be delivered to a S Wales haulier back in 1966 regards kk
Gordon Underhill and John Watkins drove for Morfa,also Peter Lloyd from Kington and Wyndham ( Kimmo ) Habberly from Llandrindod Wells.
Cheers Dave.
Hi dave,
Isn’t there a black and white picture of that bonneted merc on your thread I seem to recall seeing that.
Regards andrew.
pete 359:
Dave the Renegade:
kingswinford kit:
daibootsy:
not sure if illtyd thomas bought all the gardner 240s off morfa transport, this is one of them.Hi daibootsy good to see some Morfa on this thread ,they had a few drivers in the Leominster area , one of them drove the Merc unit which was probably the first to be delivered to a S Wales haulier back in 1966 regards kk
Gordon Underhill and John Watkins drove for Morfa,also Peter Lloyd from Kington and Wyndham ( Kimmo ) Habberly from Llandrindod Wells.
Cheers Dave.Hi dave,
Isn’t there a black and white picture of that bonneted merc on your thread
Regards andrew.
Yes there is Andrew,it belonged to Llanelly Steel who were from Bilston,but ran down to South Wales everyday with it and back up to the Midlands.They had a couple of Guy’s,one a Big J and the other a Warrior,all double shifted,they parked at C M Philpotts yard who I drove for,he did the servicing etc on them.
Peter Lloyd with Andrew Stokes in the specs who drove the Merc and later the Renault below.
Dave the Renegade:
pete 359:
Dave the Renegade:
kingswinford kit:
daibootsy:
not sure if illtyd thomas bought all the gardner 240s off morfa transport, this is one of them.Hi daibootsy good to see some Morfa on this thread ,they had a few drivers in the Leominster area , one of them drove the Merc unit which was probably the first to be delivered to a S Wales haulier back in 1966 regards kk
Gordon Underhill and John Watkins drove for Morfa,also Peter Lloyd from Kington and Wyndham ( Kimmo ) Habberly from Llandrindod Wells.
Cheers Dave.Hi dave,
Isn’t there a black and white picture of that bonneted merc on your thread
Regards andrew.Yes there is Andrew,it belonged to Llanelly Steel who were from Bilston,but ran down to South Wales everyday with it and back up to the Midlands.They had a couple of Guy’s,one a Big J and the other a Warrior,all double shifted,they parked at C M Philpotts yard who I drove for,he did the servicing etc on them.
Peter Lloyd with Andrew Stokes in the specs who drove the Merc and later the Renault below.
hi dave,
thanks for the picture.i bet they didn’t sell many of them in south wales during the 60’s 
regards andrew.
