South Wales Hauliers sixties and seventies onwards (Part 1)

UK PROFESSIONAL DRIVERS FORUMS OLD TIME LORRIES, COMPANIES AND DRIVERS (INTERACT
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pete 359:

Absolute magic Andrew I could cry at the sight of this line up !!Dennis.

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Bewick:

pete 359:
hi lads,
me, the long suffering mrs. pete 359 and 4 friends have been on a children free cultural/pā€¦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 itā€™s not welsh so sorry for straying off the thread,itā€™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.

hi dennis,
you really do make me laugh mate,thanks. :laughing: :laughing: :laughing:
regards andrew

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Bewick:

pete 359:
hi lads,
me, the long suffering mrs. pete 359 and 4 friends have been on a children free cultural/pā€¦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 itā€™s not welsh so sorry for straying off the thread,itā€™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.

Maybe trying to get those people down off the roof behind. :smiley:

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pete 359:

Bewick:

pete 359:
hi lads,
me, the long suffering mrs. pete 359 and 4 friends have been on a children free cultural/pā€¦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 itā€™s not welsh so sorry for straying off the thread,itā€™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.

hi dennis,
you really do make me laugh mate,thanks. :laughing: :laughing: :laughing:
regards andrew

Hiya Andrew pleased to here you enjoyed yourselves in Rome our son and his family were there during school half term just past ! anyway Boyo if I send you these 6 new trailers down can you paint them ? No1 Joseph Mason Signal Red. No2 Donā€™t thin the paint down so it is like p**sI want plenty on and am not fussed about orange peel finnish ! No3 Leave the wheels as they are (silver) DO NOT REMOVE as I donā€™t want them coming loose afterwards!!Dennis.

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Bewick:

pete 359:

Bewick:

pete 359:
hi lads,
me, the long suffering mrs. pete 359 and 4 friends have been on a children free cultural/pā€¦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 itā€™s not welsh so sorry for straying off the thread,itā€™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.

hi dennis,
you really do make me laugh mate,thanks. :laughing: :laughing: :laughing:
regards andrew

Hiya Andrew pleased to here you enjoyed yourselves in Rome our son and his family were there during school half term just past ! anyway Boyo if I send you these 6 new trailers down can you paint them ? No1 Joseph Mason Signal Red. No2 Donā€™t thin the paint down so it is like p**sI want plenty on and am not fussed about orange peel finnish ! No3 Leave the wheels as they are (silver) DO NOT REMOVE as I donā€™t want them coming loose afterwards!!Dennis.

This is a shot of the Task chassis we used to have specially built to take the Boalloy body ! Brought them down 3 at a time from ā– ā– ā– ā– ā– ā– ā– ā– ā– ā– ā–  to CongletonCheers Dennis

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Looking at the tri-stacks of flats I thought Bewick was about to corner the Anglo-Italian market !

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hi all,
dennis iā€™ve got to hand it to you mate,you bewick boys werenā€™t scared!what happened to boalloy?last i read was edward stobart bought them,then it all ended rather suddenly? :confused: back to the thread here is an erf i used to see alot on the show circuit in the mid- 90ā€™s,restored by steve seabourne from ross on wye.the welsh connection is that steve bought it from girling brakes in pontypool who owned it from new.seen at abergavenny steam fair in may 1996.
regards andrew

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cardiff international finished many years ago.hereā€™s an iron lung sk merc coming into dover during 1991.

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herā€™s one for mechanic77,good to see you today mate.lanes recovery from abergavenny.

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Howdy, yā€™all, this is a mighty fine looking engine!

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Evs127:
Howdy, yā€™all, this is a mighty fine looking engine!

thank you sir,youā€™ve made a happy man very old.god did it rain on saturday at carms. show last year :laughing:
hereā€™s my old 88 being collected by kelvin powell on april 15th 2000.

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then the cab fell off,it then looked like this. :laughing:

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Hi Andrew, those photos really show how much work went into preserving the F88.

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hi,
yes thank you.they were terrible for rust.modern manufacturing processā€™ and improvements with steel have made the cabs on modern trucks last much longer than the oldies that i have restored.hereā€™s a then, new atki. in jones motors yard in kenfig hill.they later became joint motorways port talbot.

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pete 359:
hi all,
dennis iā€™ve got to hand it to you mate,you bewick boys werenā€™t scared!what happened to boalloy?last i read was edward stobart bought them,then it all ended rather suddenly? :confused: back to the thread here is an erf i used to see alot on the show circuit in the mid- 90ā€™s,restored by steve seabourne from ross on wye.the welsh connection is that steve bought it from girling brakes in pontypool who owned it from new.seen at abergavenny steam fair in may 1996.
regards andrew

Hiya Andrew Boalloy were a super outfit to deal with in the 80s early 90s I was a personal friend ( as well as a good customer) of the MD & Sales Director as well as been well in with all the other senior men and various other staff from yard shunter to receptionist !! for many years I always was invited to join them at the award ceremonies in London and they were some celerbrations I can tell you !! the late Sir James Duncan was the Boalloy Chairman ( The bloke who built up the TDG Entress ect.) I lost touch with the Boalloy lads and I think they sold out to a Paddy outfit and it went down hill but the Boalloy quality bodies were untouchable when we dealt with them ! you try telling our lads that we were going to change to another supplier and they went mad !! We had upwards of 200 Tautliners I think in the later years as we converted many of the tri-axle Task flats as a lot of our traffic went over to Curtainsider ( Very heavy capital requirements) As for Fast Eddie he only took over the ridgid body builder division not the main factory that built the Tautliners at Congleton.Dennis.

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Bewick:

pete 359:
hi all,
dennis iā€™ve got to hand it to you mate,you bewick boys werenā€™t scared!what happened to boalloy?last i read was edward stobart bought them,then it all ended rather suddenly? :confused: back to the thread here is an erf i used to see alot on the show circuit in the mid- 90ā€™s,restored by steve seabourne from ross on wye.the welsh connection is that steve bought it from girling brakes in pontypool who owned it from new.seen at abergavenny steam fair in may 1996.
regards andrew

Hiya Andrew Boalloy were a super outfit to deal with in the 80s early 90s I was a personal friend ( as well as a good customer) of the MD & Sales Director as well as been well in with all the other senior men and various other staff from yard shunter to receptionist !! for many years I always was invited to join them at the award ceremonies in London and they were some celerbrations I can tell you !! the late Sir James Duncan was the Boalloy Chairman ( The bloke who built up the TDG Entress ect.) I lost touch with the Boalloy lads and I think they sold out to a Paddy outfit and it went down hill but the Boalloy quality bodies were untouchable when we dealt with them ! you try telling our lads that we were going to change to another supplier and they went mad !! We had upwards of 200 Tautliners I think in the later years as we converted many of the tri-axle Task flats as a lot of our traffic went over to Curtainsider ( Very heavy capital requirements) As for Fast Eddie he only took over the ridgid body builder division not the main factory that built the Tautliners at Congleton.Dennis.

hi dennis,
thanks for that information,i know many hauliers/drivers and friends have said the same about boalloy.gerald broadbent is a name that springs to mind? here is j&m transport subbie dai. beer in his transcon.pulling a gap tilt.

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pete 359:

Bewick:

pete 359:
hi all,
dennis iā€™ve got to hand it to you mate,you bewick boys werenā€™t scared!what happened to boalloy?last i read was edward stobart bought them,then it all ended rather suddenly? :confused: back to the thread here is an erf i used to see alot on the show circuit in the mid- 90ā€™s,restored by steve seabourne from ross on wye.the welsh connection is that steve bought it from girling brakes in pontypool who owned it from new.seen at abergavenny steam fair in may 1996.
regards andrew

Hiya Andrew Boalloy were a super outfit to deal with in the 80s early 90s I was a personal friend ( as well as a good customer) of the MD & Sales Director as well as been well in with all the other senior men and various other staff from yard shunter to receptionist !! for many years I always was invited to join them at the award ceremonies in London and they were some celerbrations I can tell you !! the late Sir James Duncan was the Boalloy Chairman ( The bloke who built up the TDG Entress ect.) I lost touch with the Boalloy lads and I think they sold out to a Paddy outfit and it went down hill but the Boalloy quality bodies were untouchable when we dealt with them ! you try telling our lads that we were going to change to another supplier and they went mad !! We had upwards of 200 Tautliners I think in the later years as we converted many of the tri-axle Task flats as a lot of our traffic went over to Curtainsider ( Very heavy capital requirements) As for Fast Eddie he only took over the ridgid body builder division not the main factory that built the Tautliners at Congleton.Dennis.

hi dennis,
thanks for that information,i know many hauliers/drivers and friends have said the same about boalloy.gerald broadbent is a name that springs to mind? here is j&m transport subbie dai. beer in his transcon.pulling a gap tilt.

ā– ā– ā– ā–  it Andrew I fogot to mention old Gerald I have a few shots of him as guest of honour at East Lancs Mill when we put the first liveried T/liners in in 1990 apparently when he was a lad he used to go to Radcliffe for his hols and his grandad worked in the mill and he was sent in with his lunch ! So when he found out we were having some T/liners built for the contract we couldnā€™t leave him out even though the boalloy guys didnā€™t really want him there as he had finnished by this time but I insisted and the directors at the mill made him very welcome ( he was after all the origional designer of the T/liner) he was in tears at one time with the nostalgia.Dennis.

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this smart atego tilt bed delivered a vehicle to us today.owned by gw recovery bridgend.

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pete 359:

Hiya Andrew hereā€™s a good shot of one of our F88s you wiil have to look at it with your head on your shoulder !!Dennis.

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Bewick:

pete 359:

Hiya Andrew hereā€™s a good shot of one of our F88s you wiil have to look at it with your head on your shoulder !!Dennis.

And hereā€™s one to calm you down Andrew!! have you changed your underwear after looking at the last pic ā– ā–  Dennis