Hi all this bridge in swindon is popular with being hit jr a couple of months ago today this I was tipping on the estate 
I.Caswell, Abergavenny.
daibootsy:
You are a star man Daibach !! Great shot of the Albion,single drive axle,I wonder what engine was under the bonnet? a Leyland 350,375 or 400? it was probably only speccâd at 18 ton GVW with having 8 stud fronât wheels.So what do you reckon it would be able to carry,12 ton or so ? Cheers Dennis.
Bewick:
daibootsy:
You are a star man Daibach !! Great shot of the Albion,single drive axle,I wonder what engine was under the bonnet? a Leyland 350,375 or 400? it was probably only speccâd at 18 ton GVW with having 8 stud fronât wheels.So what do you reckon it would be able to carry,12 ton or so ? Cheers Dennis.
What an evocative photo.
Eight stud wheels and 9.00 x 20 tyres. 18ton gross? ULW 6 tons? Think your 12tons would be about right Dennis, but I have a vague suspicion it may have carried more occasionally!
Love the salesmanâs smile - I can tell you who got the best of that deal, and he ainât smiling!
Brilliant,
John
I think that Reiver would have had a 350 under the bonnet, as did ours. We had the double drive version, essential for farm deliveries which made up almost half of our work.
John West:
Bewick:
daibootsy:
You are a star man Daibach !! Great shot of the Albion,single drive axle,I wonder what engine was under the bonnet? a Leyland 350,375 or 400? it was probably only speccâd at 18 ton GVW with having 8 stud fronât wheels.So what do you reckon it would be able to carry,12 ton or so ? Cheers Dennis.
What an evocative photo.
Eight stud wheels and 9.00 x 20 tyres. 18ton gross? ULW 6 tons? Think your 12tons would be about right Dennis, but I have a vague suspicion it may have carried more occasionally!
Love the salesmanâs smile - I can tell you who got the best of that deal, and he ainât smiling!
Brilliant,
John
I was being polite John !!We work âlegalâ on this site,no dodgy running here mate 
You mention carrying a bit more from time to time well I recall in my early days with the D1000,1969 IIRC well it was a bank Holiday week and I was only doing one round trip to London and J & W Watts wanted me to clear up all the bits for home so I picked up more-or less everything so I had about 10 ton on when I had to put 4 pallets(4 ton) of barytes powder on for the Dolly Blue works, 
So I loaded it !I set off up the road early evening and was stood waiting at Backbarrow next morning ready to go on the weighbridge,20ton gross !!,I got tipped and weighed out legal at 16ton,the weighbridge bloke said âyou want locking up mateâ !! Then I set off down Ulverston and Barrow with the rest of the load.I had just peedled up steady during the night from London and you wouldnât have known I was at 20ton gross,the D1000 was as smooth as silk never batted an eyelid tyres never warmed up either ! Cheers Dennis.
daibootsy:
Gwynne Bowen new Foden.
What lovely wagons these were, in blue and red with gold leaf lettering. I cannot tell which one this is, as they had a number of S20-cabbed Foden eight leaguers, but the registrations were 690ATX, 540HTX, 958HNY, 959HNY, 433MTG, 267NNY and 974STX. Gwyn Bowenâs wagons were many and varied, starting with ex-BRS ones in 1954, but to me the S20 Fodens were the ones I most associated with them. 690ATX was saved just before the yard at Gorseinon was cleared in the mid-1980s, and passed to a restorer of lorries whose name I forget, but it was found to be in a bad way so ended up as a source of spares for other Fodens.
Hiya,
Welcome âAndrewPorterâ first post on a very interesting thread.
thanks harry, long retired.
harry_gill:
Hiya,
Welcome âAndrewPorterâ first post on a very interesting thread.
thanks harry, long retired.
Thanks Harry; Iâve been aware of this forum for a long time, occasionally looked in to see what was happening, and finally took the plunge as I now have a bit more time on my hands having finished full time work.
My background in road haulage is only as a bystander. My Dad worked for BRS Swansea (accounts office) in 1954, moving to a small Llanelli haulier in 1955 then on to Silver Roadways as traffic clerk in 1956 at Exchange Buildings, Swansea, moving to Penllergaer depot in the mid 1960s when it opened. He left in 1970 and started his own clearing house for hauliers, Porterloads Ltd., but that only lasted until 1975 when the collapse of a Liverpool-based haulier left him with a huge sum owing and nothing to pay it with. So that was the end of that.
As a result of exposure to lorries as a very young child, my interest in them started there and has stayed with me. After leaving school and spending some time wondering what to do, I took an office job in the insurance industry and found it no big mystery, so stuck at it for the next 38 years. In the 1980s I worked for a Swansea-based commercial insurance broker who seemed to hold the business of most of the haulage fleets in the area. Subsequent jobs saw me less involved with hauliers but I did occasionally look after such business.
I have taken plenty of pictures over the years, and gained a lot of information on the hauliers which interest me, some from official sources. I have tried lorry restoration and found it a time thief and a money pit, so I restrict such activity to 1:76 scale now, along with buses which is another interest.
Thanks for the welcome, and I hope to get some pictures up for your considered opinions soon.
All the best,
Andrew
690atx, iam sure this one was cut up in the yard. this one was the first 150 Gardner to come off the production line and went in this foden.
daibootsy:
690atx, iam sure this one was cut up in the yard. this one was the first 150 Gardner to come off the production line and went in this foden.
690ATX was purchased from Gorseinon yard by a mate of mine and taken to his yard elsewhere in south Wales. I took a pic of it (rather hemmed in by other lorries) as I had the idea of buying it off him. On learning that, when it had been dragged across the yard at Gorseinon, the wheels on the rear two axles were turning in opposite directions, I knocked that idea on the head. It lived in his yard for a year or so and was then collected by the person to whom he sold it - but I was told later that it had met its end due to insurmountable mechanical problems. So, 690ATX was broken up, but not at Gorseinon, or, for that matter, in Wales.
The in-service picture of 690ATX was taken by Roger Kenney. I do not have a note of the location, and the load of metal drums is different to the usual cable roll from the Aluminium Wire & Cable CoâŚ
daibootsy:
This E.R.F was new to Gwynne Bowen.
Lovely picture. FWN906 may well have been ordered by Gwynne Bowen (Transport) Ltd., but was actually delivered new to BRS, unit G17 at Oakfield Mews, Pontardulais. Gwynne Bowen became BRS unit G50 when they passed to the Road Haulage Executive on 04 May 1949. 3 Vulcan lorries were also on order at the same time and were delivered to BRS; these were FWN904, FWN905 and FWN838. These 3 plus another 9 lorries comprised the total fleet which passed to BRS, 12 lorries in all; interesting that FWN906 carries fleet number 13.
daibootsy:
E.Evans, Pontypool
Lovely Maudslay Meritor 15 ton capacity flat, delivered new to Emlyn Evans of Pontypool and operated on contract hire to Partridge Jones & John Paton Ltd⌠The firm was nationalised in 1949, all 5 lorries becoming part of BRS Newport Group.
Hi all,
I have been allowed to share some images and information about the mid 80âs South Wales iron ore convoy.firstly a photo of a Volvo,PERFection14,is that the 290 you drove for dai chains?
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