South Wales Hauliers sixties and seventies onwards (Part 1)

kmills · 18 February 2016 06:04

pete 359:
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is it me, or is that a very long trailer?

pete_smith · 18 February 2016 06:11

DEANB:
Congratulations on reaching 600 pages !

A couple that may have already been posted on here before.

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Looks like they have Dunn Spencer Bulk Flo bodies fitted to them

steelboyf10 · 18 February 2016 18:19

kmills:

pete 359:
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is it me, or is that a very long trailer?

Long trailers…when we were on the steel we had trailers so long when you walk round to check the lights the battery had gone flat… eh Pete 359? Them were the days we worked nights LOL

pete_359 · 18 February 2016 22:18

steelboyf10:

kmills:

pete 359:

is it me, or is that a very long trailer?

Long trailers…when we were on the steel we had trailers so long when you walk round to check the lights the battery had gone flat… eh Pete 359? Them were the days we worked nights LOL

Hi m8,
“And I’ll tell you who he drove for! And you know em”. haulage yards always used to look like this.

ianto · 19 February 2016 10:44

The photo is of the old Albion Concrete yard in Llangadog with the old Crown Garage which was the stores in the background

pete_359 · 19 February 2016 19:45

Hi all,
A couple of crackers here courtesy of Gareth Thomas from Pembrokeshire.evans and Williams of letterston with a full shoot of handballed spuds,that lad cab was a real favourite of mine as a truck mad kid…

pete_359 · 19 February 2016 21:59

pete_359 · 20 February 2016 16:21

ianto_full_pelt · 20 February 2016 18:17

pete 359:
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Hi Pete I guess that might be custom house street I can remember tipping their with the old man early sixties first thing in the morning after running down from London during the night / no forklifts all handball . cheers Ian .

pete_359 · 20 February 2016 23:57

pete_359 · 21 February 2016 10:17

pete_359 · 21 February 2016 14:25

pete_359 · 21 February 2016 18:12

hi all,
here are a few i have found on Facebook.old south wales hauliers working in and around trostre and felindre steelworks years ago.i contacted the Facebook poster three times to request permission to share on truck net and received no response at all.That to me is immediately interpreted as a yes.these are the first three,with several more to follow.So if these are your images and you have the hump with them appearing on our thread. Tough,What ever you do ? DO NOT COMPLAIN TO ME!!!

rward · 21 February 2016 20:03

Well said andrew regards rowley

pete_359 · 21 February 2016 21:25

rward:
Well said andrew regards rowley

thanks rowland.here are the next two,ancient aec’s from rosser of pontlliw.

pete_359 · 22 February 2016 20:42

punchy_dan · 22 February 2016 20:51

^^^^^ Erf looks like a D-- HHM reg ex Bp Kingsbury pet regs ,front exhaust and telehoist oil auto lube mounted by the batteries .

smallcoal · 22 February 2016 22:32

pete 359:
hi all,
here are a few i have found on Facebook.old south wales hauliers working in and around trostre and felindre steelworks years ago.i contacted the Facebook poster three times to request permission to share on truck net and received no response at all.That to me is immediately interpreted as a yes.these are the first three,with several more to follow.So if these are your images and you have the hump with them appearing on our thread. Tough,What ever you do ? DO NOT COMPLAIN TO ME!!!

Well said Andrew,if he can’t be bothered after you trying then it’s tough on him

pete_smith · 23 February 2016 04:44

Punchy Dan:
^^^^^ Erf looks like a D-- HHM reg ex Bp Kingsbury pet regs ,front exhaust and telehoist oil auto lube mounted by the batteries .

It’s D50 Dan, Spencer Thomas ran it out of Trostre and it now lives half a mile up the road from me in Wednesfield, you were parked next to it at Kelsall!

daibootsy · 23 February 2016 10:59

some photos from my collection as well as on f/book, Vaughans, Bridgend.