South Wales Hauliers sixties and seventies onwards (Part 1)

UK PROFESSIONAL DRIVERS FORUMS OLD TIME LORRIES, COMPANIES AND DRIVERS (INTERACT
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can you just imagine how some of our wonderful ? car and van drivers behave,when graham and the walters team take something like this down the road with no police present :open_mouth:

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CRACKING PHOTOS
THIS IS THE SAME SET UP THAT TURNED UP ON SITE A WHILE AGO, CANT REMEMBER THE FIRM WHITE WITH BLACK WRITING,
ANY WAY CROSS WIRES IN COMMS LED THEM TO BELIEVE THEY WERE PICKING UP A PILLING RIG OF LARGE DIMENSION ,
TURNED OUT TO WEIGH TWENTY TON DID I LAUGH :wink: :wink: :laughing: :laughing:

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:laughing: :imp: in the lat60s i drove for oswalds of ayr transport, blue mandater with a big silver crane box trailer on,
had to be at hoovers before 8 am, met up with a lot of steel comany of wales trucks heading for brum,
also briton ferry steel, gwynn bowen trucks as well,
i want to appologise for being a road runner but needs must,
to one of bowens driver, my mate ginger taff who ran you off the road never stopped worrying in case you got to him,
i took the job on just after that had happened,
i met one of bowens coming the other way near to clun,
he came close to running me off but i think at the last seconds he saw i was’nt “taff”,
all nearside wheels in the ditch and ■■■■ all up the side of my trailer,
my gaffer thought i’d had her on her side,
still those were the days,
ta-ta stan-the-man

it’s only a piece of metal
don’t fall in love with it :open_mouth: :arrow_right: :arrow_right:

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stan-the-man:
:lol: :imp: in the lat60s i drove for oswalds of ayr transport, blue mandater with a big silver crane box trailer on,
had to be at hoovers before 8 am, met up with a lot of steel comany of wales trucks heading for brum,
also briton ferry steel, gwynn bowen trucks as well,
i want to appologise for being a road runner but needs must,
to one of bowens driver, my mate ginger taff who ran you off the road never stopped worrying in case you got to him,
i took the job on just after that had happened,
i met one of bowens coming the other way near to clun,
he came close to running me off but i think at the last seconds he saw i was’nt “taff”,
all nearside wheels in the ditch and [zb] all up the side of my trailer,
my gaffer thought i’d had her on her side,
still those were the days,
ta-ta stan-the-man

it’s only a piece of metal
don’t fall in love with it :open_mouth: :arrow_right: :arrow_right:

Hi Stan,
One of Gwynne Bowen’s drivers lives at Bucknell which is not far from Clun,his name is John Davies,he drove for Glyn Bowen for many years running to Scotlland and back most weeks. He finished off driving a Volvo F88 artic for Pontrilas Sawmills hauling timber from the forests to the mill,he is now retired aged 80+ with a son and grandson both lorry drivers,so if it was him you had your close encounter with,you didn’t put him off.Knowing the roads around Clun its not easy to pass another lorry,as the roads are more suited to the Horse and Cart :laughing: …
Cheers Dave.

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pete 359:
in the back ground of this photo,is mason brothers foden,now owned by kbhs.

its great to see the foden again,i worked in fairwood and drove the foden alot.it did have a gardner 6lw engine but no starter motor so to start the engine we had to swing the starter handle.the lw burnt a big end bearing so a 150 lx engine went back in with a starter motor.apparently only two were built by foden and called Goliaths

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Id like to Thank Mervyn Williams from Hereford for the next few photo,s this was 1 of the marathons he drove for Morfa Transport

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Another 1 of Mervyns Willaims lorries with his 2 son,s one of which used to work with me Adrian

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Mervyn Williams parked by Mount Blanc

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This is a photo of a friend of meryn,s by the name of Yan Liveings proberly known as yanto but has sadly passed away now

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Sorry for going of the South Wales line but these next two pictures are of him on a russian trip whilst working for an Irish Firm

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Dave the Renegade:

stan-the-man:
:lol: :imp: in the lat60s i drove for oswalds of ayr transport, blue mandater with a big silver crane box trailer on,
had to be at hoovers before 8 am, met up with a lot of steel comany of wales trucks heading for brum,
also briton ferry steel, gwynn bowen trucks as well,
i want to appologise for being a road runner but needs must,
to one of bowens driver, my mate ginger taff who ran you off the road never stopped worrying in case you got to him,
i took the job on just after that had happened,
i met one of bowens coming the other way near to clun,
he came close to running me off but i think at the last seconds he saw i was’nt “taff”,
all nearside wheels in the ditch and [zb] all up the side of my trailer,
my gaffer thought i’d had her on her side,
still those were the days,
ta-ta stan-the-man

it’s only a piece of metal
don’t fall in love with it :open_mouth: :arrow_right: :arrow_right:

Hi Stan,
One of Glyn Bowens drivers lives at Bucknell which is not far from Clun,his name is John Davies,he drove for Glyn Bowen for many years running to Scotlland and back most weeks. He finished off driving a Volvo F88 artic for Pontrilas Sawmills hauling timber from the forests to the mill,he is now retired aged 80+ with a son and grandson both lorry drivers,so if it was him you had your close encounter with,you didn’t put him off.Knowing the roads around Clun its not easy to pass another lorry,as the roads are more suited to the Horse and Cart :laughing: …
Cheers Dave.

Hi Dave,
It was Gwynne Bowen not - Glyn Bowen. Regards Hywel.

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Hi all,here are a couple of ken jones transport,newport.

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Price:

Dave the Renegade:

stan-the-man:
:lol: :imp: in the lat60s i drove for oswalds of ayr transport, blue mandater with a big silver crane box trailer on,
had to be at hoovers before 8 am, met up with a lot of steel comany of wales trucks heading for brum,
also briton ferry steel, gwynn bowen trucks as well,
i want to appologise for being a road runner but needs must,
to one of bowens driver, my mate ginger taff who ran you off the road never stopped worrying in case you got to him,
i took the job on just after that had happened,
i met one of bowens coming the other way near to clun,
he came close to running me off but i think at the last seconds he saw i was’nt “taff”,
all nearside wheels in the ditch and [zb] all up the side of my trailer,
my gaffer thought i’d had her on her side,
still those were the days,
ta-ta stan-the-man

it’s only a piece of metal
don’t fall in love with it :open_mouth: :arrow_right: :arrow_right:

Hi Stan,
One of Gwynne Bowens drivers lives at Bucknell which is not far from Clun,his name is John Davies,he drove for Glyn Bowen for many years running to Scotlland and back most weeks. He finished off driving a Volvo F88 artic for Pontrilas Sawmills hauling timber from the forests to the mill,he is now retired aged 80+ with a son and grandson both lorry drivers,so if it was him you had your close encounter with,you didn’t put him off.Knowing the roads around Clun its not easy to pass another lorry,as the roads are more suited to the Horse and Cart :laughing: …
Cheers Dave.

Hi Dave,
It was Gwynne Bowen not - Glyn Bowen. Regards Hywel.

Brain cell’s weren’t working Hywel.
Cheers Dave.

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hi all,one of richard jones pontypridd

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bernard:
Hi all,here are a couple of ken jones transport,newport.

Bernard, when Whitbread first opened Magor, was Sheddicks the primary contractor? I remember some Merc’s running around in the brown livery.

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Hi paul john,not quite sure mate,i will try and find out for you,a mate gave me some photos to post up on here.

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hi all,
sorry for not posting anything for a few days.photobucket won’t work for me at the moment?back soon :smiley: .good to see plenty of others contributing to our thread :smiley: .
regards andrew