pete 359:
everything in this photo was brand new.k222 jmh,jm11 and even the sheet over the coil.k222 was also based in shrewsbury and driven by foreman cliff ashley.this was the last 1735 joint’s bought,after this the 17 series became 18 series and the 35 was replaced with the 38.
smart looking outfit that andrew.
pete 359:
hi all,
here’s joint motorways driver trevor williams leaving the yard and heading for dover loaded with abbey coil.e235 vep was driven from new by peter lewis and then passed to trucknet member sammy dog.
trevor williams one of the nicest and helpful people i was fortunate to meet i was sent to osaltwistle as the driver phoned in sick so sammydog had to go alan sent trevor over to shepherd me home as i did nt have enough fuel to get back and no fuel card.
onother new 8 wheeler in the yard
new mercedes 6 wheeler in the yard
Chris Webb:
3300John:
Hiya…DD who was that firm from Penrith with F86 Volvos(green with a gold rope and a letter on the door)so I’ve cracked a head on my 290
■■■■■■■ and it boiling so into Dunkirk cafe and back to the round about and get thumb out. a Stoke lorry went passed wich would have done
Thud a Volvo went passed me and 8ft behind me was a coil on the verg THAT should have been on the Volvo.I never saw it come off but
was i lucky or what the next truck picked me up and i never saw the Volvo come back.Good old days.DD how long is it since the bypass
opened round whichurch please and if its more than15 years DON’'T reply please… please
JohnHi John,I’m butting in here but I’d go for Burnholme Contracts going by that desciption,they did a lot of coils.
Hiya chris webb… spot on with Burnholme tsp i coun’t of thought of them. but they must of had quite a few of them 86s.
John
3300John:
Chris Webb:
3300John:
Hiya…DD who was that firm from Penrith with F86 Volvos(green with a gold rope and a letter on the door)so I’ve cracked a head on my 290
■■■■■■■ and it boiling so into Dunkirk cafe and back to the round about and get thumb out. a Stoke lorry went passed wich would have done
Thud a Volvo went passed me and 8ft behind me was a coil on the verg THAT should have been on the Volvo.I never saw it come off but
was i lucky or what the next truck picked me up and i never saw the Volvo come back.Good old days.DD how long is it since the bypass
opened round whichurch please and if its more than15 years DON’'T reply please… please
JohnHi John,I’m butting in here but I’d go for Burnholme Contracts going by that desciption,they did a lot of coils.
Hiya chris webb… spot on with Burnholme tsp i coun’t of thought of them. but they must of had quite a few of them 86s.
John
There seemed to be hundreds of them John.I remember Rosser losing one on the A48 near Briton Ferry in the 70s,finished up in the middle of a roundabout 
sammy dog:
pete 359:
everything in this photo was brand new.k222 jmh,jm11 and even the sheet over the coil.k222 was also based in shrewsbury and driven by foreman cliff ashley.this was the last 1735 joint’s bought,after this the 17 series became 18 series and the 35 was replaced with the 38.smart looking outfit that andrew.
Now your shaping Andrew !! I knew I would get to you eventually ( they would have all been turned out like that if the Bewick team had been running Joints)Well done !now you know what standard we are striving for !!Cheers Dennis.
Bewick:
sammy dog:
pete 359:
everything in this photo was brand new.k222 jmh,jm11 and even the sheet over the coil.k222 was also based in shrewsbury and driven by foreman cliff ashley.this was the last 1735 joint’s bought,after this the 17 series became 18 series and the 35 was replaced with the 38.smart looking outfit that andrew.
Now your shaping Andrew !! I knew I would get to you eventually ( they would have all been turned out like that if the Bewick team had been running Joints)Well done !now you know what standard we are striving for !!Cheers Dennis.
what make was the coiler AHP/M & G ■■ Dennis.
Bewick:
sammy dog:
pete 359:
everything in this photo was brand new.k222 jmh,jm11 and even the sheet over the coil.k222 was also based in shrewsbury and driven by foreman cliff ashley.this was the last 1735 joint’s bought,after this the 17 series became 18 series and the 35 was replaced with the 38.smart looking outfit that andrew.
Now your shaping Andrew !! I knew I would get to you eventually ( they would have all been turned out like that if the Bewick team had been running Joints)Well done !now you know what standard we are striving for !!Cheers Dennis.
hi dennis,
i gotta disagree with you mate,the appearance may be good,but the joint motorways sheeting isn’t a patch on the bewick team.i give you boys 15 out of 10 for that 
regards andrew
hi dennis,
jm11 was an m&g,joint’s favoured them,good well built trailers,with a decent size swing well as i recall.unlike the majority of their trailers which were often old tandems,converted to tri-axle with a “hatchet split” size coil well.i suppose m&g are no longer with us?i seem to remember that they were next to a steel drop in the midlands,dudley i think?
regards andrew
sammy dog:
couple from the shillibier album
Sammy dog, was that F86 a 6 or 8 wheeler. If it was an 8 wheeler was it ex Jim Harkins Llanharan? Around 1983/84 they had a bunch of F7s, nice looking they were too.
Regards Paul
Paul John:
pete 359:
they bought this 2035 second hand from gullivers truck rental in cardiff,i painted it and it was given to long serving shrewsbury driver,warwick gittens.Hi Andrew, F372 was the last vehicle I closed a rental contract on at Gullivers. She had been with Scottish & Newcastle whilst theirs was being MOT’d. It was one of the first tractors to go into the Cardiff fleet when they were based off east tyndall st, along with Merc 814 box vans and Ford Cargo flatbeds. She looks nice there in her second life, where no doubt she earned her keep.
Cheers Paul
Andrew, F372 is the second motor I have seen that I had driven on TN.UK. It was Sept 1991 I last saw it, so it obviously brings back some memories. It was one of the tractors Gullivers Transport Services used pulling TIP fridges, prior to the new Powerliner 2 units on a G plate, and new length trailers arriving. As it happens back on rental service, she spent some time in Bridgend with the furniture boys, and Vaughan Logistics. Can you remember what year Joint acquired her?
We had photo’s of the GTS fleet all liveried up and they looked superb, how I wish I had carried a camera for my own album.
Regards Paul
Paul John:
sammy dog:
couple from the shillibier albumSammy dog, was that F86 a 6 or 8 wheeler. If it was an 8 wheeler was it ex Jim Harkins Llanharan? Around 1983/84 they had a bunch of F7s, nice looking they were too.
Regards Paul
hi paul i had just started with peter we had to go to griffin mill treforest to pick the truck up after them doing the g/box under warranty i remember peter saying he bought it as ex demo cheers martyn.
Paul John:
Paul John:
pete 359:
they bought this 2035 second hand from gullivers truck rental in cardiff,i painted it and it was given to long serving shrewsbury driver,warwick gittens.Hi Andrew, F372 was the last vehicle I closed a rental contract on at Gullivers. She had been with Scottish & Newcastle whilst theirs was being MOT’d. It was one of the first tractors to go into the Cardiff fleet when they were based off east tyndall st, along with Merc 814 box vans and Ford Cargo flatbeds. She looks nice there in her second life, where no doubt she earned her keep.
Cheers PaulAndrew, F372 is the second motor I have seen that I had driven on TN.UK. It was Sept 1991 I last saw it, so it obviously brings back some memories. It was one of the tractors Gullivers Transport Services used pulling TIP fridges, prior to the new Powerliner 2 units on a G plate, and new length trailers arriving. As it happens back on rental service, she spent some time in Bridgend with the furniture boys, and Vaughan Logistics. Can you remember what year Joint acquired her?
We had photo’s of the GTS fleet all liveried up and they looked superb, how I wish I had carried a camera for my own album.
Regards Paul
good morning,
as i remember,i painted f372 during november 1991.joints needed some 6 wheelers fairly quickly and bought that and an ex united transport 2033 merc,registered d588 xnh.everyone says about the photos they wish they took.it’s totally different now with us all having camera phones.i used to spend a fortune on developing film,now with digital imaging it’s all free.sammy dog,i am along with many others enjoying the old shillibier pictures,thanks.
regards andrew
pete 359:
3300John:
Hiya …Before the bypass was opened around Whichurch (15 years ago ish)someone chucked a coil off on the sharp bend/bridge and the coil rolled 15/20ft
down a embankment by the waterboard house no truck to be seen was that a Joint motor■■? Desert driver will remember it.
I had a coil on out of Runcorn dock one day. John Ofarrel booked me to do it (short trailer)this coil was 2ft 6ins wide and 7ft 9ins high 22 tons.
it was the days before you had wells by law. I had 2 irons and two 3ft long 6x6 timbers 4 dogs and chains wow did i take it easy Runcorn to Longton steel
in Stoke.
Johnhi john,
it could have been one of joint’s mis-haps.they moved a collosal amount of steel over the years.the only steel drop i remember in stoke,was james and tatton.
regards andrew
Hi Andrew .It was after your time at joints .Jeff passant RIP had a coil off in the Abbey.He was told too have a holiday !! for I think a month then he came back too work. Tony
Hi boys
Chris Webb:
3300John:
Hiya…DD who was that firm from Penrith with F86 Volvos(green with a gold rope and a letter on the door)so I’ve cracked a head on my 290
■■■■■■■ and it boiling so into Dunkirk cafe and back to the round about and get thumb out. a Stoke lorry went passed wich would have done
Thud a Volvo went passed me and 8ft behind me was a coil on the verg THAT should have been on the Volvo.I never saw it come off but
was i lucky or what the next truck picked me up and i never saw the Volvo come back.Good old days.DD how long is it since the bypass
opened round whichurch please and if its more than15 years DON’'T reply please… please
JohnHi John,I’m butting in here but I’d go for Burnholme Contracts going by that desciption,they did a lot of coils.
Chris, don’t apologise for butting in, I would never have rememberd Burnholme even like John said they were everywhere.
3300John:
dessert driver:
Hi boys
Sorry John was that at Sandford been quite a few incidents there.I remember a coil at the end of the moor on the A525 halfway between Ruthin and Wrexham.It was there for months. Also dos anyone remember a coil coming out of the side of a tilt just south of Chester on the A41 by the black dog pub killing the driver of an oncoming car.It had been loaded in Shotton with no well and blocked with timbers.This was the company that under cut our rate by 50% but took twice as long to do the job…Sorry still bitter after 25 yearsI remember that one Keith we had our trucks serviced at morrys at the back of the black dog.
Hi Keith…That coil came of at the Raven side of town.you know the duel carrigeway ended at the roudabout near the antiques place and you come straight into
town but wasen’t there a bend and the waterworks was on the left down an embankment before you come to that other roundabout where you turn left and
come out by the rocking hourse roundabout.
The last big one i remember at Sandford bridge was that Paddy waggon with the 25 ton of Muscles they was everywhere
That one was a mess remember the pig waggon going over just north of Grinley brook.
John
John, know exactly where you mean, as you come off the end of the duel carriageway and over the roundabout in towards town there is a left and right bend over the railway bridge then a drop on the left down to two cottages the first one is R and R roofing and the second a dog kennels.There used to be loads of accidents on that bridge before the bypass, plus since the old telephone exchange was converted into a private school they have been trying to reduce the speed in that area.
Regards Keith
Hiya first of all chris pop in any time. you know what a table full of drivers are like get a word in any where if you can.
ask for butting in DON’T be daft.
KEITH do you know where you said the telephone place was in Whichurch I always thought it was the waterboard.OH well.
I only run down the A41 for 18 years I must be a slow learner Ha Ha…never got a cafe mixed up lots of T
Cheers lads John
Hi All,
Great site this here’s three ex South Wales motors I have owned, does anyone know who had them from new ?
Regards Richard
MaggieD:
Hi All,
Great site this here’s three ex South Wales motors I have owned, does anyone know who had them from new ?
Regards Richard
Hi Richard,
That pic of the AEC six wheeler on timber shows how rough on a lorry that job is,it’s the only job thats harder on the kit than tipper work in my opinion.
Cheers Dave.
MaggieD:
Hi All,
Great site this here’s three ex South Wales motors I have owned, does anyone know who had them from new ?
Regards Richard
hi richard,
i am ashamed to say that i have no idea who used to own any of them,sorry. 
that’s a cracking maggie deutz photo on the blanc!thank you for sharing them with us.earlier today i had to collect my alloy’s from nantycaws based robert jones’ south wales polishers.a firm who i cannot recommend enough as they do an excellent job at a very reasonable cost.tel. 07884 185260.robert’s uncle richard runs these two very smart foden tippers.
regards andrew
