South Wales Hauliers sixties and seventies onwards (Part 1)

daibootsy · 20 July 2013 21:57

Metal Box 1950, the beer would have been Neath Ales & welsh brewers.

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pete_359 · 21 July 2013 10:11

pete_359 · 21 July 2013 17:22

Hi all,
Found this one of Gwynedd shipping’s having a night out in porthcawl last week.

pete_359 · 21 July 2013 19:39

A mate of a mate took this recently near Witney-ish I think it’s an ex John Raymond f10

jb1977 · 21 July 2013 20:29

pete 359:
A mate of a mate took this recently near Witney-ish I think it’s an ex John Raymond f10

that was one of paul barrows,bought it off john raymond when he went on his own,the reg has been changed but its either g150 htx or g833 gbo (if I remembered them right! )

pete_359 · 21 July 2013 20:32

Courtesy of m4 dogwalker.here are a few from ics who were based in protheroe’s old yard on the docks at port talbot.

pete_359 · 21 July 2013 21:30

Here are a few from yesterday’s porthcawl carnival,taken by the long suffering mrs. Cooper

paul_john · 22 July 2013 12:59

daibootsy:
Metal Box 1950, the beer would have been Neath Ales & welsh brewers.

Hi all, Dai wasn’t there a private brewery between Glyn Neath and Neath on the left side heading towards Swansea. I think they were bought out by Whitbread.
I was way to young to drink then, but remember my father putting tenders in for a few of their vehicles. Iirc it was a family name.
They ran Austin/Morris FF flatbed ridgids, brown in colour. I don’t think it was Neath Ales. Someone and Davies perhaps.
Great photo’s again.

Regards Paul.

daibootsy · 22 July 2013 16:41

Hi Paul John, the vale of neath brewery, was est in the 1830s, in cadoxton. in the late 1850s it was passed on to EVANS & EVANS Family. Later on in the years Whitbread Wales ltd took it over in 1967 and closed it down in 1972. that’s all I know for a minate, it could of been whitbread lorries?
thanks, Dai.

paul_john · 22 July 2013 17:22

daibootsy:
Hi Paul John, the vale of neath brewery, was est in the 1830s, in cadoxton. in the late 1850s it was passed on to EVANS & EVANS Family. Later on in the years Whitbread Wales ltd took it over in 1967 and closed it down in 1972. that’s all I know for a minate, it could of been whitbread lorries?
thanks, Dai.

That’s the name Dai. Well done. You are probably right about the lorrie’s being Whitbreads, as that brown colour was theirs.
We didn’t end up with any of their motors, but did get two from the Rhymney brewery around 1975.
Their motors were well maintained, and never really worked hard, although they kept them for many years. Sought after by many coal merchants, and small transport companies.

Thanks Paul.

charliemjp · 22 July 2013 19:31

HI ALL, PETE359. ENJOY all the photos as I spent a lot of time in south wales with trucks and family in killay. the white f 10 is our shunter at shrewsbury. we had it of hills shrewsbury but it could have been raymonds before. thanks charlie

daibootsy · 22 July 2013 20:18

just testing to see if this pic comes out better than the last one.

dave_the_renegade · 22 July 2013 20:35

Paul John:

daibootsy:
Hi Paul John, the vale of neath brewery, was est in the 1830s, in cadoxton. in the late 1850s it was passed on to EVANS & EVANS Family. Later on in the years Whitbread Wales ltd took it over in 1967 and closed it down in 1972. that’s all I know for a minate, it could of been whitbread lorries?
thanks, Dai.

That’s the name Dai. Well done. You are probably right about the lorrie’s being Whitbreads, as that brown colour was theirs.
We didn’t end up with any of their motors, but did get two from the Rhymney brewery around 1975.
Their motors were well maintained, and never really worked hard, although they kept them for many years. Sought after by many coal merchants, and small transport companies.

Thanks Paul.

They had a depot in Builth Wells Paul. I think they had their own lorries. I used to pass their brewery at Glynneath regularly in 1969 on my way back for Margam.
Cheers Dave.

paul_john · 22 July 2013 21:14

Dave the Renegade:

Paul John:

daibootsy:
Hi Paul John, the vale of neath brewery, was est in the 1830s, in cadoxton. in the late 1850s it was passed on to EVANS & EVANS Family. Later on in the years Whitbread Wales ltd took it over in 1967 and closed it down in 1972. that’s all I know for a minate, it could of been whitbread lorries?
thanks, Dai.

That’s the name Dai. Well done. You are probably right about the lorrie’s being Whitbreads, as that brown colour was theirs.
We didn’t end up with any of their motors, but did get two from the Rhymney brewery around 1975.
Their motors were well maintained, and never really worked hard, although they kept them for many years. Sought after by many coal merchants, and small transport companies.

Thanks Paul.

They had a depot in Builth Wells Paul. I think they had their own lorries. I used to pass their brewery at Glynneath regularly in 1969 on my way back for Margam.

Cheers Dave.

Hi Dave, its funny how your memory holds on to certain information.
As Dai said Evans & Evans were taken over by Whitbread’s, probably around the same time as Rhymney Brewers was and then closed and brewing transferred to Newport.
In Rhymney they knocked the old building and courtyard down, but kept the warehouses as a distribution centre for a few years after. I believe its been run out of Newport for years now.
My Father contracted to them through out the summer and major holiday’s, Xmas etc for many years. It was a good number, worked it myself when I was older. Kegs stacked two high, and cases even higher, sheeted and roped on a flatbed. No curtain siders or special bodies then.

Cliff is right, I think most of us got the driving lorry’s bug from our father’s. I will be back at it tomorrow, putting another 590 miles under my belt each day/night.

Regards Paul.