South Wales Hauliers sixties and seventies onwards (Part 1)

[daibootsy]

Hoover, M.T

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Hoover,M.T

[pete_359]

Hi all,
This photo appeared on Facebook earlier today.for purely personal reasons it made my day Dny 997c was the first full time motor given to my then 25 year old father just after I was born in 1965,I cannot recall having seen this picture previously? I grew up with the tales of the miles and far flung places the old man went with it.in fact it’s this AEC is the very reason this thread has bored trucknet since 2009 over 601 pages.my heartfelt thanks go out to whoever it was that took it back then and enabled it to be seen here nearly 50 years later.i found the photo via regular trucknet contributor Chris Webb.

[rward]

Hi daibootsy I remember the Hoover fleet right at the back of que on a Sunday morning my old man made me and my brother sit and wait while he went into the union meetings for hours keys left in ignition of his old zephyr 4 taught myself to drive aged about ten we always had dozens of boxes of persil or daz that didn’t get delivered regards rowley

[daibootsy]

Hello rward,
Hope you keeping well here,s more Hoover from M.T.

[daibootsy]

Hoover. M.T.

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Hoover Van, M.T.

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pete 359:
Hi all,
This photo appeared on Facebook earlier today.for purely personal reasons it made my day Dny 997c was the first full time motor given to my then 25 year old father just after I was born in 1965,I cannot recall having seen this picture previously? I grew up with the tales of the miles and far flung places the old man went with it.in fact it’s this AEC is the very reason this thread has bored trucknet since 2009 over 601 pages.my heartfelt thanks go out to whoever it was that took it back then and enabled it to be seen here nearly 50 years later.i found the photo via regular trucknet contributor Chris Webb.

Hi Andrew,where did the wing design come from on the doors cheers John

[pete_359]

smallcoal:

pete 359:
Hi all,
This photo appeared on Facebook earlier today.for purely personal reasons it made my day Dny 997c was the first full time motor given to my then 25 year old father just after I was born in 1965,I cannot recall having seen this picture previously? I grew up with the tales of the miles and far flung places the old man went with it.in fact it’s this AEC is the very reason this thread has bored trucknet since 2009 over 601 pages.my heartfelt thanks go out to whoever it was that took it back then and enabled it to be seen here nearly 50 years later.i found the photo via regular trucknet contributor Chris Webb.

Hi Andrew,where did the wing design come from on the doors cheers John

hi john,
i was once told it was first used as a logo after the second world war.it signified quality travel back then.i salvaged this old door from a skip in the yard in 1982,its been on the wall at work ever since….

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pete 359:
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. Thanks for the info ,Malcolm cotterill scamell. In the pic is he still around he had a road train as well cheers John

[paul_east_cefn_coed]

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!!!

I didn’t see your share request on Facebook, I’m new on there still learning my way round, if I’d off seen your request I would have replied 100% to you, I’m glad you put them on here for everyone to see, that’s why put them on Facebook so everyone could see them !!!

[steelboyf10]

pete 359:

smallcoal:

pete 359:
Hi all,
This photo appeared on Facebook earlier today.for purely personal reasons it made my day Dny 997c was the first full time motor given to my then 25 year old father just after I was born in 1965,I cannot recall having seen this picture previously? I grew up with the tales of the miles and far flung places the old man went with it.in fact it’s this AEC is the very reason this thread has bored trucknet since 2009 over 601 pages.my heartfelt thanks go out to whoever it was that took it back then and enabled it to be seen here nearly 50 years later.i found the photo via regular trucknet contributor Chris Webb.

Hi Andrew,where did the wing design come from on the doors cheers John

hi john,
i was once told it was first used as a logo after the second world war.it signified quality travel back then.i salvaged this old door from a skip in the yard in 1982,its been on the wall at work ever since….

What a cracking find Andrew, bet the old chap was pleased to see the motor again, SBF10

[pete_359]

Paul, east cefn coed:

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!!!

I didn’t see your share request on Facebook, I’m new on there still learning my way round, if I’d off seen your request I would have replied 100% to you, I’m glad you put them on here for everyone to see, that’s why put them on Facebook so everyone could see them !!!

Hi Paul,
Thanks very much,for allowing us to see this brilliant photos on our thread…here are some more.

[paul_john]

Hi all. Andrew great story there on DNY. Chris Webb likes his AEC’s, great photo too.
Daibootsy, cracking photo’s of Hoovers fleet of AEC’s. Did anyone notice the reg number on the first one ended in MT.
I don’t remember those motors but do their replacements, ergo cabbed Mandators, grey and white, before being repainted blue and white. When they went out of service BRS took over the transport.
There is a possibility the AEC’s were contract motors, someone may have more information. Quite a fleet in its day though.

Regards Paul

[abtfinman]

Hi Paul
Drove for Hoovers from 1973 to 1979. They owned all of their motors. Only time they didn’t was towards the end and we had Volvo F7s on hire.Totally underpowered compared to the Mandators. They were run on the Scottish trunk. Fully freighted on the way home, slow but comfortable.

When AEC stopped making Mandators Hoovers bought a batch of Foden S83s. Massive cab and 2 small Smiths box heaters. Froze in those things in the winter. Demisters were useless and the windscreen was so far away you had to slide forward off the seat to wipe it.

My regular motor was a Mandator but if it was in the workshop you took whatever was available. Didn’t like those Fodens 1 bit.

[pete_359]

abtfinman:
Hi Paul
Drove for Hoovers from 1973 to 1979. They owned all of their motors. Only time they didn’t was towards the end and we had Volvo F7s on hire.Totally underpowered compared to the Mandators. They were run on the Scottish trunk. Fully freighted on the way home, slow but comfortable.

When AEC stopped making Mandators Hoovers bought a batch of Foden S83s. Massive cab and 2 small Smiths box heaters. Froze in those things in the winter. Demisters were useless and the windscreen was so far away you had to slide forward off the seat to wipe it.

My regular motor was a Mandator but if it was in the workshop you took whatever was available. Didn’t like those Fodens 1 bit.

hi alan,
i am waiting for permission to use four photos of the brs hoover scania’s.

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Hi Andrew, this is in classic truck is this outside your place cheers John