3300John:
Hiya…Andrew 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 that’s not triple drive?then in those days john?it’s actually the same model as mine,a pete 359.
regards andrew
Hiya Andrew have you had a busy day? I’ve just remembered an incident that happened in 1974 and involved your favourite Atki ! It wasn’t funny at the time but it turned out ok in the end.We had started running a night trunk to Daventry and we employed a day man there to shunt into London and back.So this particular morning our driver Lloyd Jennings goes to his motor (480L) to run to London and the tractor is stood on bricks all 6 wheels gone ! thieving B******s ! Anyway we get 6 re-placements and that was that ! old bill was no help ! However a few weeks later we get a call to say the law had pulled a van in the Daventry area and it has 6 wheels in the back !could they be ours ? Our driver Lloyd I.D’ d them and we got them back!! So how was that for a bit of luck !Cheers Dennis.
3300John:
Hiya…Andrew 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 that’s not triple drive?then in those days john?it’s actually the same model as mine,a pete 359.
regards andrew
Hiya Andrew have you had a busy day? I’ve just remembered an incident that happened in 1974 and involved your favourite Atki ! It wasn’t funny at the time but it turned out ok in the end.We had started running a night trunk to Daventry and we employed a day man there to shunt into London and back.So this particular morning our driver Lloyd Jennings goes to his motor (480L) to run to London and the tractor is stood on bricks all 6 wheels gone ! thieving B******s ! Anyway we get 6 re-placements and that was that ! old bill was no help ! However a few weeks later we get a call to say the law had pulled a van in the Daventry area and it has 6 wheels in the back !could they be ours ? Our driver Lloyd I.D’ d them and we got them back!! So how was that for a bit of luck !Cheers Dennis.
hi dennis,
they say the rivers run to the sea.
regards andrew
hi lads,
retired haulier dai. davies came into see me today and very kindly gave me a disc with some long gone welsh firms on there.starting with d.david and sons tondu,later known as blueline transport.thanks dai.
regards andrew
t.j. ree,are based in llysworney near llandow.they used to take cattle abroad with a european cabbed erf wagon and drag when i was a kid in the 1970’s.this vulcan is obviously alot older than that.
pete 359:
t.j. ree,are based in llysworney near llandow.they used to take cattle abroad with a european cabbed erf wagon and drag when i was a kid in the 1970’s.this vulcan is obviously alot older than that.
Hi Andrew,
That Vulcan has an Hereford number,can you ask him if he bought it from Hereford or had it second hand from a firm from that way.
Cheers Dave.
Hiya pete359 cracking photo’s, I can remember T.J. REE & Son’s of Llysworney very well always loved their livery on their wagon’s, my father new the Ree family very well but drove for the enemy company at the time E.T. Adams & Son’s of Cowbridge, i’m not sure if John Ree is still operating a E.R.F artic from near Broughton and not to sure if he used to drive for Penllyne Haulage of Llandow
hello pete359.
just had a look at the latest additions and dave is quite correct about the hereford suffix,the truck was probably supplied by prails as they did supply a number of vulcans that were operated from brs dowlais depot.another make of truck that i believe prails used to supply was a truck called a proctor these of course would be back in the 1950s
regards graham.
pete 359:
t.j. ree,are based in llysworney near llandow.they used to take cattle abroad with a european cabbed erf wagon and drag when i was a kid in the 1970’s.this vulcan is obviously alot older than that.
hi all,
dai davies kindly rang me today to tell me that these two trucks,the vulcan and erf were the first two vehicles john raymond ran when he first started up his business many years ago.
regards andrew
hi pete 359
founds some more photos. got some of cloads international swansea. also photo of
sam jeffries 1937 chinees six box van . sam became foden dealers . fairwood. also
have photo of foden wrecker goliath. trever g philips atki 8wheeler flat. i am
going to glasgow easter weekend . going to visit w.h.malcolms new centre, and
visit the albion site. hopefully i will bump into mark knopler, get lucky .
daibootsy.
daibootsy:
hi pete 359
founds some more photos. got some of cloads international swansea. also photo of
sam jeffries 1937 chinees six box van . sam became foden dealers . fairwood. also
have photo of foden wrecker goliath. trever g philips atki 8wheeler flat. i am
going to glasgow easter weekend . going to visit w.h.malcolms new centre, and
visit the albion site. hopefully i will bump into mark knopler, get lucky .
daibootsy.
hi bootsy,
thanks for that mate.i have promised myself a visit to the malcolm heritage centre.have a great time,will arrange to see you soon.
regards andrew
hi dave,
yes iknew dai, he also worked for entress. its a bad accident he had, loading cable drums side by side
can be a tricky job to chain the load down. when dai worked for illtyd thomas , i used to see him
collect his trailer from cwmdu ind est. as a baker i use to give him fresh hot pies and pasties. i
was known then as dai the pie.
thanks daibootsy.
pete 359:
i don’t know where this is? blaengarw maybe? Image removed due to copyright
Wow…thats some photo Pete ? how many stories tales and moans are there in that yard.what year are we going for 1960 perhaps.
Is that the maintenance shed at the side of the Seddon,ther’ll not be many Snap on spanners in there i bet the doors have no lock.
Love that pikky…well done Andrew.
John
daibootsy:
hi dave,
yes iknew dai, he also worked for entress. its a bad accident he had, loading cable drums side by side
can be a tricky job to chain the load down. when dai worked for illtyd thomas , i used to see him
collect his trailer from cwmdu ind est. as a baker i use to give him fresh hot pies and pasties. i
was known then as dai the pie.
thanks daibootsy.
HI daibootsy,
Dai Kinsey and me both lived a couple of doors apart as kids,were the same age,drove for the same firm at one time,I moved to another firm had an accident ended up exactly the same as he did. Dai’s was twenty years after it happened to me,strange as we both came from a tiny village. Went to his funeral at Swansea,hadn’t seen him for a few years,did go to see him at Rookwood Hospital several times after his accident as I had been through the same scenario,only in my case I was in Gobowen Hospital near Oswestry. Good laugh was Dai,could tell you a few tales about what we got up to as kids and teenagers,fetched him home ■■■■■■ as a rat sometimes,at least he enjoyed life,me and another mate very often have a chat about him and laugh at some of his antics.
Cheers Dave.
