kingswinford kit:
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Dave the Renegade:
pete 359:
hi dave,
now here’s a puzzle.who owned this atki?seen next to my car in the summer of 1983,she was loaded and sheeted,ready to roll,but left abandoned on stormy down for months.nvj 638m?,i can’t recall a welsh haulier by the name of elliotts and certainley not one that was a member of the ta (see yellow logo on cab)if it wasn’t for the name,i would have said that this was one of caswell’s 
can anyone shed any light on this?
NVJ was a Hereford number Andrew,but can’t shed any more light on anything about the Atki.
Cheers Dave.
Hi Dave , i have an idea that Atki was ex Elliotts of Newport who did quite a lot of Monsanto work . The Hereford registration stands out as an ex of Scandrett of Leominster possibly. regards kk
Don’t remember them KK,from 1971 until 1979 I was out of the lorry scene,getting to grips with a lot of other issues,nothing to dramatic,but time consuming.
Cheers Dave.
‘loaded and abandoned for months’ oh how things have changed. Wonder how long it’d stay in one piece these days.
mechanic77:
‘loaded and abandoned for months’ oh how things have changed. Wonder how long it’d stay in one piece these days.
hi neil,
not long these days mate .with the price of scrap as it is .
regards andrew
pete 359:
chalkie wales:
pete 359:
chalkie wales:
chalkie wales:
few of jb evans llanmartin… if anybody has anymore more it would be fantastic to see them…
hi chalkie,
if this is the same firm? that i am thinking of,they did bell containers when i was a kid in the 1970’s.there is an f88 of theirs on here somewhere.thanks.
regards andrew
yes it is, i think i pinched it from here to put on the bell lines thread…my grandfather drove for them in bells many years ago… photos of this firm are very rare…thanks paul…
hi paul,
during the early-mid 1970’s our family business was located on an old aerodrome at stormy down and right by our building was a concrete ramp.the bell line hauliers used to tip zinc ingots all the time.pretty much every day,as i recall?joseph fish and many others firms regularly did this work,including john beynon evans.the ingots were then stored in j&m transport’s large hanger and were then delivered to burry port,near pembrey by them.i used to watch the que of lorries,all day sometimes .i just wish i had taken photos.i think the ingots were shipped from burry port to ireland?though i am not positive about this.i remember j+m’s foreman billy morgan telling me that there was over 60,000 tonnes of ingots in that hanger.thanks.
regards andrew
hi chalkie,
i did put this j&m volvo brochure on page 2,on my system it has gone? photobucket ?so here it is again.
remploy wagon and drag,with my ■■■■■■ xr3i behind it .
atki ex frome valley perphaps
pete 359:
blueline tondu 1983.
Hi Andrew,
There was a chap I knew from Dorstone near Hay on Wye, Glyn Williams R I P who drove for Blue Line for many years.
Cheers Dave.
Dave the Renegade:
pete 359:
blueline tondu 1983.
Hi Andrew,
There was a chap I knew from Dorstone near Hay on Wye, Glyn Williams R I P who drove for Blue Line for many years.
Cheers Dave.
hi dave,
yes,blue line had a few outbased drivers.they had some based in witney for years.i used to see one of them every night in the abbey,he always wore a tie and his motors were immaculate.
regards andrew
pete 359:
Dave the Renegade:
pete 359:
blueline tondu 1983.
Hi Andrew,
There was a chap I knew from Dorstone near Hay on Wye, Glyn Williams R I P who drove for Blue Line for many years.
Cheers Dave.
hi dave,
yes,blue line had a few outbased drivers.they had some based in witney for years.i used to see one of them every night in the abbey,he always wore a tie and his motors were immaculate.
regards andrew
Glyn Williams was a top man with them Andrew,he had several new lorries,mostly Mercs in later years.
Cheers Dave.
blue line 1994.in my opinion the worst model sk merc. ever built the v6 powered 2534,gutless,as the scots say,it would ne pull your granny of the ■■■■■■■ .
andrew nice pic mate my dads scania was mlj960w exactly the same as this scania 81 day cab
pete 359:
altitude:
pete 359:
smallcoal:
hi andrew, i went to australia in 2000 and seen john evans lorry over there he used to run loads over , i thought i was seeing things at first but they were there 
hi john,
bloody hell!that simply can’t be right john?have read that willi betz do china and i know gilder’s do russia,though i have serious doubts about a firm from llanelli heading to the southern hemisphere .
regards andrew
Hi Andrew
Can you get me John Evans phone number, I would love some of that if he needs drivers.
cheers
John.
hi john,
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pete 359:
Dave the Renegade:
pete 359:
blueline tondu 1983.
Hi Andrew,
There was a chap I knew from Dorstone near Hay on Wye, Glyn Williams R I P who drove for Blue Line for many years.
Cheers Dave.
hi dave,
yes,blue line had a few outbased drivers.they had some based in witney for years.i used to see one of them every night in the abbey,he always wore a tie and his motors were immaculate.
regards andrew
Hi Andrew
You jogged my old memory there I remember them having a couple of drivers based at Wootton Bassett, I think they were on change overs, one on days one on nights.
cheers John.
pete 359:
Dave the Renegade:
pete 359:
blueline tondu 1983.
Hi Andrew,
There was a chap I knew from Dorstone near Hay on Wye, Glyn Williams R I P who drove for Blue Line for many years.
Cheers Dave.
hi dave,
yes,blue line had a few outbased drivers.they had some based in witney for years.i used to see one of them every night in the abbey,he always wore a tie and his motors were immaculate.
regards andrew
hi andrew, blue line had two change overs in witney the driver with the tie was john a nice chap he worked nites & dave worked days john would bring trailer up to be tipped in london and dave loaded up to be brought down i was talking to hywell in the yard he asked after you
pete 359:
blue line 1994.in my opinion the worst model sk merc. ever built the v6 powered 2534,gutless,as the scots say,it would ne pull your granny of the ■■■■■■■ .
Hi all, Andrew have to agree about those V6 motors, although it was a 1729 and 1733s that I had experience with.
What happened to Blue Line, reading between the lines on here they had some tie up with Cardiff Transport in the end!
Didn’t Julian Hodge get invlolved in 1984?
Regards Paul
Paul John:
pete 359:
blue line 1994.in my opinion the worst model sk merc. ever built the v6 powered 2534,gutless,as the scots say,it would ne pull your granny of the ■■■■■■■ .
Hi all, Andrew have to agree about those V6 motors, although it was a 1729 and 1733s that I had experience with.
What happened to Blue Line, reading between the lines on here they had some tie up with Cardiff Transport in the end!
Didn’t Julian Hodge get invlolved in 1984?
Regards Paul
hi paul,blue line was bought by cardiff transport which became carline transport,they had daf,s and the old cardiff trucks man erf i drove for ct & carline the scanias they bought were crap ,stillers bought them out then i will put a stiller pic on regards john
a stiller sign we had on bridgend yard
hi chris143 how you doing mate you keeping well
smallcoal:
these bought carline out
those were good days john,compared to what we do today,a coil in the well,god you dont realise when your well off sometimes do you mate?
