hello mike68.i hope pete and yourself will forgive my rudeness for jumping in like this but this cress carrier is owned by martin hazell of newport,i moved it for him around four years ago from llanwern into alpha steel where i believe it still is if my memory is correct i think it was around 22 ft in width and we moved it early on a sunday morning,as any one familiar with corporation road will know there is a 14ft-10ins bridge down the bottom so we unloaded it on the main road and tracked it into alpha steel.we had our breakfast paid for by mr hazell. if i can help you further let me know.
regards graham.
mike68:
pete 359:
Hi pete any more info on this photo?
hi mike68
sorry,no.graham emails the images to me and i post them.however i am sure that he will read this and tell us.
regards andrew
hello paul john.
you are quite right you have jogged my mind the building that was the deutz dealership is im sure on the right hand side heading for aberbargoed,i think it was later used by a crowd called david spear commercials selling vans and light vehicles and of course in those far off days the coal board had a massive transport pool at brittania colliery.
regards graham.
hello pete359.
yes the photo of the gippo combi crusher is in cornelly and the photo of the cat992 is as well,the shot of the komatsu pc450 was taken just before departure at pant quarry ewenny.
regards graham.
gah1950:
hello pete359.
yes the photo of the gippo combi crusher is in cornelly and the photo of the cat992 is as well,the shot of the komatsu pc450 was taken just before departure at pant quarry ewenny.
regards graham.
hi graham,
thanks for the information and more brilliant pictures.it has been a good 10 years since i have been inside south cornelly quarry,however i thought that i recognised the shed in the background. 
i donât suppose you have any pictures of your fh16 at work?please?
regards andrew
gah1950:
hello mike68.i hope pete and yourself will forgive my rudeness for jumping in like this but this cress carrier is owned by martin hazell of newport,i moved it for him around four years ago from llanwern into alpha steel where i believe it still is if my memory is correct i think it was around 22 ft in width and we moved it early on a sunday morning,as any one familiar with corporation road will know there is a 14ft-10ins bridge down the bottom so we unloaded it on the main road and tracked it into alpha steel.we had our breakfast paid for by mr hazell. if i can help you further let me know.
regards graham.
Spot on, after seeing it on here it jogged my memory this would have been around 2002 2003 after we had stopped using them when the heavy end closed at Llanwern, happy days, back on the road again now Doh 
look out boys,graham has sent even more gems,thanks for sharing them mate.
regards andrew
these are going back a few years.i think? a photo of this 142 coming through south cornelly was posted by me earlier on in the thread?
Regarding the dealership near Aberbargoed I certainly know the buildings and yard as its still there and is 10 minutes from my house. I can remember it being various car sales etc over the years [as well as David Spear vans as Graham said], seems to be split among smaller businesses now. The Maggies I canât remember but will ask my dad as he worked for the NCB at Brittannia motor pool in the early 80âs.
Neil.
mechanic77:
Regarding the dealership near Aberbargoed I certainly know the buildings and yard as its still there and is 10 minutes from my house. I can remember it being various car sales etc over the years [as well as David Spear vans as Graham said], seems to be split among smaller businesses now. The Maggies I canât remember but will ask my dad as he worked for the NCB at Brittannia motor pool in the early 80âs.
Neil.
Hi Neil, earlier I said it was the Cotton family that ran the Commer / Dodge dealership prior to RVM, I think it was the Button family as Johnny Button stayed on and worked for Tommy White. At the tme it was said the only person in the area who new more about Deutzâs than Johnny was Raymonnd Price, Alanâs son. Your father may well of known Johnny.
Paul
u"pete 359":
hi lads,
prails were i think? a hereford based company.they were atkinson dealers and dai bootsy took this photo of prails diamond t wrecker at their yard on carmarthen road,swansea.i remember seeing this motor around during the 80âs and i am sure the original hercules had been removed and a leyland or aec engine had been shoehorned in.
[quo/quote]hi its diesel doug first time on the forum,seeing that old truck again bring back happy memories. i used to work for praills in swansea and drove the wreaker alot.
hiya,
Nice to hear from you diesel doug and welcome i read this thread with interest some cracking stuff.
thanks harry long retired.
hello pete359.
the only photo i have come across so far of the bouncing bomb aka fh16 m827 jax is the one i e,mailed to you,however i am still rooting about here for some more shots.the one you have was taken again at ecc in st austell,we used to buy some top quality used kit from there years ago.i personally did not rate the bomb as a very good heavy hauler but john the regular driver did,it had a replacement engine at 100,000 kms it had a box at 140,000kms and had major surgery on one of the diffs at about 210,000kms,and then to put the top hat on everything it spontaneously combusted on the m4 around swansea west services and suffered the ultimate indignity of a suspended tow by a plastic pig F----N back to hirwaun hardly a glowing appraisal of a popular make of truck.
regards graham.
gah1950:
hello pete359.
the only photo i have come across so far of the bouncing bomb aka fh16 m827 jax is the one i e,mailed to you,however i am still rooting about here for some more shots.the one you have was taken again at ecc in st austell,we used to buy some top quality used kit from there years ago.i personally did not rate the bomb as a very good heavy hauler but john the regular driver did,it had a replacement engine at 100,000 kms it had a box at 140,000kms and had major surgery on one of the diffs at about 210,000kms,and then to put the top hat on everything it spontaneously combusted on the m4 around swansea west services and suffered the ultimate indignity of a suspended tow by a plastic pig F----N back to hirwaun hardly a glowing appraisal of a popular make of truck.
regards graham.
hi all,
thanks for the info. graham,also thanks for these images,sent tonight.the first one is of an unusual load for graham in that itâs not a monstrous item of plant,a heavily modified pic-up truck that was loaded in burry port after it had performed on the water!
regards andrew
seen through my windscreen as it left t.s.reesâ quarry in south cornelly yesterday,m&m greeneâs very smart 6x2 actros.
hi lads,
something slightly different,i took these photos in the trailer park of âthe abbeyâ during the mid-80âs.they are all shunters for various firms,everyone of these companies are no longer with us.first a blue line b series erf.
regards andrew
s.protheroe were a long established transport firm based in my hometown of porthcawl.they later moved to port talbot and were taken over by consolidated land services from scunthorpe.these were two of their mid-80âs abbey shunters.
these dafâs became very popular as shunters.i know that two of joints shunting dafs with certain coilers behind them could weigh out 28 tonne loads at a shade under the then 38 tonne gross limit.
HiyaâŚAndrew heres one for you.its poor quality photo. but was taken in Canada about 1983.they pulled 2 or 3 trailers
in them days.
John
3300John:
HiyaâŚAndrew heres one for you.its poor quality photo. but was taken in Canada about 1983.they pulled 2 or 3 trailers
in them days.
John
hi john,
thanks for sending that image.surely thatâs not triple drive?then in those days john?itâs actually the same model as mine,a pete 359.
regards andrew