Hello Deputy Dog, funny how you remember things like that. Myself and Glyn Morgan were in 16 Bay office waiting for notes when the news broke, a very sad day.
Best Wishes
Mike
Mrsteel:
Harry Gill
Hi , re your post about Rosser Pontlliw they did tinplate out of Trostre & Velindre mainly to Swansea Dock and to Metal Box in Neath . They would sometimes be seen on proper long distance work to Cardiff Docks !!.
Regards , Allan, ( not so long retired )
Hiya,
Thanks Allan I thought I’d never seen them far from home someone
once told me they had some drivers there with multi years service.
Hi all
Re: the photo of Tony Morgans Atki, it was new to SLD Olding and was bought by D David / Blue Line along with a low loader trl:. They also bought an LV ERF powered by a 205 ■■■■■■■ ( TNK 199J ) which I drove there for a while. This came with a beaver tailed semi low loader and was cursed with abnormally heavy steering
Regards, Allan
oiltreader:
Cymru Metals pair, all credit to SCP for the photos.
Oily
Have you a link to the scp page plz
Hi all,
Thanks Oily,Courtesy of Pete Smith.Looks like Tony Morgan is changing a wheel on the Mighty MACK!
Hi all, doing a drop in alderney st Newport ,Cardiff transport garage,offices all flattened just a yard now with nothing in it
Hi all,
Here’s a few more random South Wales Motors.I think? the Saunders ERF is pictured @ the old Aust Services,taken by my old mate and truck legend Marcus (Bubbleman) Lester…
Hi all,
Some more welsh motors here:
An Owens ERF loading paper in Barcelona.
A Leyland Marathon From Memory Lane Cakes.
An early Blue Line Merc.
A Foden from long established H.Lewis from Egwlyswrw.
A Thornycroft? 8 wheeler from Price of Cardiff.
A Seddon from Graham Williams Transport? Anyone know anything about them? I really cannot recall the firm?
Hello Andrew. You mentioned Graham Williams, I may be wrong but I think he ran his operation from the house and yard at Coychurch before selling out to JR who took the property over. JR took on some of his drivers and sold the tractor units he didnt want, an LV cabbed ERF which Glyn Morgan bought and ran for quite a few years was one of them. This would have been about 1969/70. He sold the property to Tony Morgan when he moved to Waterton. Im sure somebody with more knowledge will correct me if this isn`t correct.
Best Wishes
Mike
pete 359:
Hi all,
Some more welsh motors here:
An Owens ERF loading paper in Barcelona.
A Leyland Marathon From Memory Lane Cakes.
An early Blue Line Merc.
A Foden from long established H.Lewis from Egwlyswrw.
A Thornycroft? 8 wheeler from Price of Cardiff.
A Seddon from Graham Williams Transport? Anyone know anything about them? I really cannot recall the firm?
HI ANDREW,
GRAHAM WILLIAMS WAS FROM BYEASTWOOD FARM COITY WHERE HIS NEPHEW STILL FARMS, HE STARTED FROM THE FARM AND AS MIKE SAID SOLD OUT TO JR IT WAS ALL ABOUT A AND B LICENCES NOT LORRYS SO MUCH,
HE LATER RAN CARDIFF SLAUGHTER HOUSE WITH HAROLD HAWKIN AND RAN A NEW H REG AEC CATTLE LORRY, EVERYTHING GRAHAM DID WAS ALWAYS TURNED OUT WELL,
GEOFF
The blue line Merc is a day cab which the passenger seat was taken out and a board with foam was put in as the boys used to tramp out in day cabs that most probably comedown from sheerness with pulp on ,that ended up shunting in the abbey
Geoff54
Hello, re: the post on Graham Williams, I remember him from when I was a young man ( i’me 74 now ).
I remember a guy known as H who drove a cattle wagon for H E Hawken but I am sure he drove an Albion Cheiftain so that would probably be before the Mercury. Did Graham operate at one time from a building on the Trading Estate in Bridgend as did some other Bridgend hauliers at the time or am I wrong on that one.
Also was he involved in Bridgend Tpt: & Warehousing with JR ?
It was all a long time ago so I could be confusing him with someone else but as you say his kit was always well turned out and I remember him as a gentleman
Regards, Allan
Mrsteel:
Geoff54
Hello, re: the post on Graham Williams, I remember him from when I was a young man ( i’me 74 now ).
I remember a guy known as H who drove a cattle wagon for H E Hawken but I am sure he drove an Albion Cheiftain so that would probably be before the Mercury. Did Graham operate at one time from a building on the Trading Estate in Bridgend as did some other Bridgend hauliers at the time or am I wrong on that one.
Also was he involved in Bridgend Tpt: & Warehousing with JR ?
It was all a long time ago so I could be confusing him with someone else but as you say his kit was always well turned out and I remember him as a gentleman
Regards, Allan
hi allan,
yes H drove for graham and harold hawkins for many years, the albion was before my time im only 65 
the mercury had a new thorns livestock body on it which survived with various hauliers til 10 year ago,i have suffered your young brothers company with several bridgend firms years ago good days geoff
Mrsteel:
Geoff54
Hello, re: the post on Graham Williams, I remember him from when I was a young man ( i’me 74 now ).
I remember a guy known as H who drove a cattle wagon for H E Hawken but I am sure he drove an Albion Cheiftain so that would probably be before the Mercury. Did Graham operate at one time from a building on the Trading Estate in Bridgend as did some other Bridgend hauliers at the time or am I wrong on that one.
Also was he involved in Bridgend Tpt: & Warehousing with JR ?
It was all a long time ago so I could be confusing him with someone else but as you say his kit was always well turned out and I remember him as a gentleman
Regards, Allan
Morning brother Graham had a workshop in one of the bomb storage tunnels which were in the central reservation near sony,s factory did not Noddy and graham Stevens as well as a few more come to JR when he bought the licences . I think the unit I mention became an ambulance training school .
Hello Ian
You are right about JR taking some of the drivers but I`m not sure about Graham (The Count of The Metal Box). I am sure that Terry Hughes (The Gulper), Noddy and I think little Gordon went along. I think Graham was working for JR already as he always maintained he was the oldest hand in the firm. Strange to think that it happened 50 years ago.
Best Wishes
Mike
Geoff54:
Mrsteel:
Geoff54
Hello, re: the post on Graham Williams, I remember him from when I was a young man ( i’me 74 now ).
I remember a guy known as H who drove a cattle wagon for H E Hawken but I am sure he drove an Albion Cheiftain so that would probably be before the Mercury. Did Graham operate at one time from a building on the Trading Estate in Bridgend as did some other Bridgend hauliers at the time or am I wrong on that one.
Also was he involved in Bridgend Tpt: & Warehousing with JR ?
It was all a long time ago so I could be confusing him with someone else but as you say his kit was always well turned out and I remember him as a gentleman
Regards, Allanhi allan,
yes H drove for graham and harold hawkins for many years, the albion was before my time im only 65
Hello Geoff / Sorry you had to put up with me all those years ago ! but just to re-cap on the Graham Williams story I have been informed by my younger brother who is of a more agricultural background that H used to live by Pontcanna playing fields where the lorry was always to be seen outside his house when he fininshed it was bought by Fred Tatchell , coal merchant and livestock haulier I can remember him as always having his cabs painted in a woodgrain effect TK , KM ,s Graham had a farm which was just past Parkwall on the A48 in Chepstow . Cheers Ianto .
