South Wales Hauliers sixties and seventies onwards (Part 1)

[kingswinford_kit]

pete smith:

kingswinford kit:

pete smith:
A shot of Monmouth Troy Station ( pic by Nick Catford ) would any body know who the haulier was, looks like a couple of Fodens, Transcon? and a DAF as well as the obvious Atki

That would be Eric Ward did mostly Alcan work ,using mainly Fodens but had one Atki Borderer .
Started haulage on local work , agriculture and potatoes , regards Keith .

Hi Keith, Did Eric Ward have a son named Stuart by any chance, he had a blue volvo gobstopper on an egg job then went on to flat work taking bales from Smethwick to Port Talbot, Cheers Pete

Hi Pete i have to say i would not know that one , Eric ran a very tidy fleet the Fodens in particular , some of them i belive ended up with Sam Bowkett down in Newport , regards Keith ,

[pete_359]

hi all,
courtesy of neil burris.the iveco he drove,many years ago for llewellyn of newport.

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This was in truck and driver hills mandator

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Hi rowly,here’s one for you this is in t&d still hauling logs Bob Carmichael is the owner

[pete_359]

[lance_biscomb]

Don’t forget about RAVENSCRAIG and YUILL and DODDS they hunt in packs . 142s 75 mph plus

[bazztrucker]

hi pete, I believe stuart ward was related to eric, but cant remember how. iused to know stuart ,back in the day,he ran two artics at one time, but haven’t seen him for afew years now . eric had a son called Robert who also ran his own lorry.

[pete_smith]

bazztrucker:
hi pete, I believe stuart ward was related to eric, but cant remember how. iused to know stuart ,back in the day,he ran two artics at one time, but haven’t seen him for afew years now . eric had a son called Robert who also ran his own lorry.

Hi Bazztrucker, Last motor Stuart ran was a Volvo FM and was pulling a tipping trailer on scrap, last time i saw him he had sold the truck and got a job driving for Tesco out of Chepstow, his Mrs and son used to work in Monmouth services North bound but as they have since knocked that down and i am now desk bound i don’t see anybody!!, Cheers Pete

[pete_359]

Lance Biscomb:
Don’t forget about RAVENSCRAIG and YUILL and DODDS they hunt in packs . 142s 75 mph plus

Hi lance,
They certainly did hunt in packs!yuill and dodds for me,are the astran of bulk haulage,legends.

[pete_359]

[john_west]

pete 359:
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The only trouble with that job is you’re a ‘nobody’ going back empty!

John

[pete_359]

Hi all,
Another courtesy of Neil Burris.llewellyn of Newport and a bling bling Maggie

[vanman99]

pete 359:
hi all,
courtesy of neil burris.the iveco he drove,many years ago for llewellyn of newport.

Hi Mate, When I first started on the road with Moveit from Gloucester, it was a Maggie / Iveco, wasnt a turbo star but someone decided a good idea to put the cover on the sleeper window to make it look like one, she was air cooled, went like the clappers, even when grossing at 38t, noisey as hell, cab was cold, more air holes than a hairdryer, but you never got left behind! Except when the b####d broke down, which was often, at least in Europe Iveco had a reasonable dealer backup, they needed it! I could do Cardiff to Dover in one hit, and that was when we had to use the A2 to get there

[jubbs]

pete 359:
Hi all,
Another courtesy of Neil Burris.llewellyn of Newport and a bling bling Maggie

can anyone remember a firm from crosshands way who run brown Maggie duetz’s out of mettoy Swansea, early1980s
might have been prees or price ■■?.

[andrewporter]

The only one I can think of at Cross Hands is D G Price (Transport) Ltd., of Heathfield, Thornhill Road, Cross Hands. The only Maggie Deutz arctic I have recorded to them is YWO935T. all the other antics listed are Leyland / Sed Atki / Mercedes / Atkinson / Fiat. I cannot recall their livery. They also had a number of box van rigids and a couple of tippers.

[jubbs]

AndrewPorter:
The only one I can think of at Cross Hands is D G Price (Transport) Ltd., of Heathfield, Thornhill Road, Cross Hands. The only Maggie Deutz arctic I have recorded to them is YWO935T. all the other antics listed are Leyland / Sed Atki / Mercedes / Atkinson / Fiat. I cannot recall their livery. They also had a number of box van rigids and a couple of tippers.

thanks for that Andrew, i’m sure that must be the outfit I was thinking about. Come to think about it I recall seeing box vans loading at Mettoy same colour ford d1000 ■■?. They looked as though they had been hand painted in a light brown !!! yuk !!! I don’t recall any other maggies down this neck of the woods.

[ec14]

Hi jubbs, you are correct the two tone brown lorries were D G Price Cross hands, had about 12 boxvans working for mettoy, also in later years had about 6 artics.a Leyland marathon 3well worn Atki borderer’s ex John Raymond, 2 Seddon Atki’s also for a while had a maggie deutz ex Ryans of Cardiff.I worked there in the workshop 1977 till1980.It’s where I had my class 1. Graham.

[pete_359]

ec14:
Hi jubbs, you are correct the two tone brown lorries were D G Price Cross hands, had about 12 boxvans working for mettoy, also in later years had about 6 artics.a Leyland marathon 3well worn Atki borderer’s ex John Raymond, 2 Seddon Atki’s also for a while had a maggie deutz ex Ryans of Cardiff.I worked there in the workshop 1977 till1980.It’s where I had my class 1. Graham.

Hi graham,
I thought about our resident west Wales expert when I first read the question.you have mentioned that company to me previously mate,thanks.
Regards andrew.

[pete_359]

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Blue line ERF & a joints marathon waiting in queue