troy:
daibootsy:
Hazells.Didn’t Hazels become M D W owned by Martin Hazel running scrap from Llanwern and Trostre to Port Talbot steel works
hi troy,
hazell’s and mdw were one and the same company,ran in parallel with one another for many years.they hauled anything and everything in and out of all the welsh steel mills.
regards andrew.
I will be downloadin my photos later,as members cant see them, so I put them back on my self.
Illtyd Thomas.
hello all,
martin hazell is a very old name in road haulage in south wales ,but mdw is run by one of his sons mark,they are stabled just off spytty road newport.
hello all,
martin hazell is a very old name in road haulage in south wales ,but mdw is run by one of his sons mark,they are stabled just off spytty road newport.
hello all,
martin hazell is a very old name in road haulage in south wales ,but mdw is run by one of his sons mark,they are stabled just off spytty road newport.
hello all,
martin hazell is a very old name in road haulage in south wales ,but mdw is run by one of his sons mark,they are stabled just off spytty road newport.
.
Paul John:
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.
sorry to ■■■■ in,but the brewers were evans & bevans?.
gah1950:
hello all,
martin hazell is a very old name in road haulage in south wales ,but mdw is run by one of his sons mark,they are stabled just off spytty road newport.
I think Mark performs formula one racing as one of his hobbies . Hi Dai any chance of Hazells Marathons ? regards Keith
gah1950:
hello all,
martin hazell is a very old name in road haulage in south wales ,but mdw is run by one of his sons mark,they are stabled just off spytty road newport.
Evening all, Spytty Road Newport, now that is a well known name in South Wales Haulage circles.
Can anyone attempt a complete list of all the companies that ran from that address■■?
There must be some pretty good tales about some of them!!!
Cheerio for now.
Didn’t Hazells operate from their house at one time on Pye corner, my uncle had a dairy farm nearby at Saltmarsh lane and I delivered milk all round that area as a kid. I remember my dad and uncle going to old man Hazells funeral.
Trev_H:
Didn’t Hazells operate from their house at one time on Pye corner, my uncle had a dairy farm nearby at Saltmarsh lane and I delivered milk all round that area as a kid. I remember my dad and uncle going to old man Hazells funeral.
hi all,
a little while back,the “father” in the mdw and hazell’s business was featured on a tv programme about some of wales’ wealthiest people,gave a very good insight into the man,the business and the fortune that he had ammassed 
.the anorak in me loved the 80’s footage of the coal convoy 
regards andrew.
Hi all, daibootsy shame that the photo of GL Williams Forden is black and white, their two tone green livery was smart.
Iirc OWN 573Y was the first Roller to join the fleet all previous being Gardner powered. The owners son had that new, running from ARC Penderryn to Llanwern with stone dust, and sand from Dalimores back. Two loads a day, one on Saturday morning a sweet number back then. If the sand tonnage was down three loads of dust.
Graham, you’re not butting in, but you could be right.
Regards Paul.
Does anybody remember the weighbridge on Cardiff Road Newport,I used to stay in digs very close to it,in the early 70s. I never did find out what it was used for.
CLODES, Swansea Docks.
clodes
clodes.
