Hiya…I remember seeing that Volvo with the chefs head on it many times.I spy that yellow Ford its a Colas lorry that was a Shell owened company
but it got sold off to the French. iIwas driving for Colas building products that was taken over buy a management buy out = Laybond.Colas still have
depots at Warrington /Exeter/ Grantham and Inverness.I think DHL run Colas Bitumen tanker transport now.
John
3300John:
Hiya…I remember seeing that Volvo with the chefs head on it many times.I spy that yellow Ford its a Colas lorry that was a Shell owened company
but it got sold off to the French. iIwas driving for Colas building products that was taken over buy a management buy out = Laybond.Colas still have
depots at Warrington /Exeter/ Grantham and Inverness.I think DHL run Colas Bitumen tanker transport now.
John
Colas are in the Isle of Man as well John.They bought a company called Knivetons years ago.They have a quarry and a tarmac plant and the bitumen comes over regular by boat from Heysham.
Here’s a photo of one of their ERF/Steyr thingys courtesy of dieseldog123G.
And an ERF 6-legger from same source.
Chris…I’am so sorry I forgot you on the island. I was very good mates with a chap who come into Laybond usually on a Friday
He would pick up bitumen products on a short arsed trailer 28ft i think. it was over 8 years ago now since i finished full time.
were back to normal time on that Shell job. its start up this weekend. ive a pikky for you with a tank on the turntable (no rope and sheets)
its demin water for testing boilers but its your line of work. See how i think of you.
John.
3300John:
Chris…I’am so sorry I forgot you on the island. I was very good mates with a chap who come into Laybond usually on a Friday
He would pick up bitumen products on a short arsed trailer 28ft i think. it was over 8 years ago now since i finished full time.
were back to normal time on that Shell job. its start up this weekend. ive a pikky for you with a tank on the turntable (no rope and sheets)
its demin water for testing boilers but its your line of work. See how i think of you.
John.
Hey thanks John,no need to apologize.I see that bitumen tank at least once a week.It comes from Heysham on early 0215 sailing every wednesday,a sailing which is “haz freight” and they restrict car and foot passengers.I think Edmundsons/Manx Independent shunt it.
Looking forward to picture 
Hiya…oops this should have been more North Wales.I know its abit new but I’ve been playing around with it for the last few weeks and
the job is almost over. This was a MAN tank with 30,000 ltrs of demin water on board it was only a internal job.and yes the lid is open
I was’nt putting a bloody harness on to close and open it again.This pikky is for chris webb he likes his tanks hes pulled many of them.
John
PS it was Chicken curry for dinner on Friday Chris.
hiya,
3300 John please put me out of my misery i used to pull "polished water"from one power station to another this was totally pure water with no polluting metals and was used to flush the power station boiler tubes after completing a session of electricity generation is your “demin” water anything similar this was taken into a power station in Sheffield handier still for Chris, the power station was alongside the M1, Blackburn Meadows now demolished.
thanks harry long retired.
3300John:
Hiya…oops this should have been more North Wales.I know its abit new but I’ve been playing around with it for the last few weeks and
the job is almost over. This was a MAN tank with 30,000 ltrs of demin water on board it was only a internal job.and yes the lid is open
I was’nt putting a bloody harness on to close and open it again.This pikky is for chris webb he likes his tanks hes pulled many of them.
John
PS it was Chicken curry for dinner on Friday Chris.
Hi John.Thanks for the pic That CF is five years old,nearly a classic in this throwaway age.
A harness for closing the lid,why,is there not a ladder on tanks any more - ee I can’t get me breath 
And chicken curry for dinner as well as running with lids open,sounds like a good job that mate 
Hiya mate…There are two of them pop up rails that work from a handle on the ladder but you have to use a harness as well.
the bleeding rail you fasten to is a flimssy ally rail that if you fell the rail would land on your head.You know what its like in that place.
A hse chap droped in the other day.there was a 200 ton crane(brand new)with its jib rasied and was going to lift out a peice of equipment
but the riggers had not arrived. on two levels there was me working on scaffolding. as you know when we lift a whistle is blown and everyone
move out of the way.so this chap said he was’nt happy. If the jib broke off people would be hurt!!! it was’nt lifting anything just sitting there.
this other chap said if theres a earth quake we’ll all be down a big hole. The HSE guy was’nt impressed.
John
3300John:
Hiya mate…There are two of them pop up rails that work from a handle on the ladder but you have to use a harness as well.
the bleeding rail you fasten to is a flimssy ally rail that if you fell the rail would land on your head.You know what its like in that place.
A hse chap droped in the other day.there was a 200 ton crane(brand new)with its jib rasied and was going to lift out a peice of equipment
but the riggers had not arrived. on two levels there was me working on scaffolding. as you know when we lift a whistle is blown and everyone
move out of the way.so this chap said he was’nt happy. If the jib broke off people would be hurt!!! it was’nt lifting anything just sitting there.
this other chap said if theres a earth quake we’ll all be down a big hole. The HSE guy was’nt impressed.
John
I can believe that John.I hated going in the chemical side but petroleum site down Oil Sites Road was never a problem - unless you had a motor fitted with a tachograph around 1976/77 in which case you were refused loading.Shell drivers stuck it out to the death IIRC.
Hi, new to this, but just thought I’d come on and say how great it is to see these images from all over South Wales. After lurking in the background for some time I have now registered, I now only have to work out how to post some photos. Good thread lads.
hiya,
Welcome aboard evs 127, i too have to make do with just looking, i’m still in the steam age when it comes to computers but someone will put you in the pictures on here there’s a lot of canny lads.
thanks harry long retired.
Jump in mate have you been waiting long… You can still get a lift on this site welcome aboard EVS127.between us we’ve traveled the world.
John. and all.
Thanks for the kind words guys, I will work the pasting of photos soon!
I’ll try and post a photo of a good friends FH, this vehicle shares its time between hauling round timber out of the forests with delivering the finished products from the sawmill to their customers. I’m sure you’ll agree with me that it’s a credit to Bryn its driver. My thanks to my son for this photo.
hi lads,
me, the long suffering mrs. pete 359 and 4 friends have been on a children free cultural/p…s up in rome since last thursday.so i am now back with a vengance,this was one of only three trucks i saw all trip,i know it’s not welsh so sorry for straying off the thread,it’s good to see our thread has been looked after so well in my absence.
regards andrew
Heres a photo of one of Owens’ at the All Wales Truck show last year.
hi all,
here are some from daibootsy’s collection.good effort dai mate.
one of illtyd thomas’ many erf’s.
d.austin jones ran for many years.
pete 359:
hi lads,
me, the long suffering mrs. pete 359 and 4 friends have been on a children free cultural/p…s up in rome since last thursday.so i am now back with a vengance,this was one of only three trucks i saw all trip,i know it’s not welsh so sorry for straying off the thread,it’s good to see our thread has been looked after so well in my absence.
regards andrew
What did they use that for Andrew ? lifting your luggage at a guess !.Cheers Dennis.