South Wales Hauliers sixties and seventies onwards (Part 1)

pete 359:

Evening all, Andrew, Ive a lovely picture of this lorry leaving the tortuous entrance to our farm, loaded with a "perfect " Abbot Self propelled 105mm gun!!! en route to Upper Church Village. Lovely outfit, but they would not let me buy it!! Cheerio for now.

Hi saviem,
You have several contacts in church village,I am sure you mentioned previousley,that you had dealt with chase commercials (USA truck importers).
regarding the next image
I can’t remember what happened to arry’s :blush: I think :question: they were connected to a plant company.gah1950 would know :sunglasses: .

Saviem:

pete 359:

Evening all, Andrew, Ive a lovely picture of this lorry leaving the tortuous entrance to our farm, loaded with a "perfect " Abbot Self propelled 105mm gun!!! en route to Upper Church Village. Lovely outfit, but they would not let me buy it!! Cheerio for now.

Saviem, hopefully you’ll be pleased to hear they still have the Foden.
Neil.

pete 359:

Hi Andrew,cool mickey mouse photo mate.I remember seeing those when I was in school but never with a dark tank! they were all two tone green and white as I recall.
Regards Mark

Just like flying a kite :laughing:

hello andrew,
arry collins is still around but that side of the business went years ago,he was into civil engineering and the like but the last i heard of him was he was doing 44 ton work to and from his native ireland, the F12 was owned by Swansea plant iirc
graham.

gah1950:
hello andrew,
arry collins is still around but that side of the business went years ago,he was into civil engineering and the like but the last i heard of him was he was doing 44 ton work to and from his native ireland, the F12 was owned by Swansea plant iirc
graham.

Hi graham?
Thanks for the information mate :sunglasses: .
Regards Andrew.

Hi all,
I am going to get the biggest hammer I have ever seen in my life and adjust my iPad app for photobucket :smiley:
In the mean time,you should see an e.l. Bayliss tipper on the old Briton ferry bridge :sunglasses: .

Easy Tiger"…

steelboyf10:
Easy Tiger"…

Hi m8,
You know that I could never be an I.t. Engineer :laughing: here’s an earnie bayliss foden tipping sand at what looks to me like Swansea dock :sunglasses: .

Nice pink Actros. :laughing: :laughing:

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hiya,
Pink Actros, defo a false beard and dark glasses job eh’ :laughing: :laughing: :laughing: :laughing: :laughing:
thanks harry, long retired.

Hi there Harry, I was with John the driver of the Actros last night in London and we was all taking the mickey out of the colour of the Merc. He is adamant that it is salmon , but we keep telling him its pink. :laughing: :laughing: :laughing:

Someone should have gone to “Specsavers” unless the colours are dodgy on my screen!! Anon1.

BryanAlexanderBoy:
Nice pink Actros. :laughing: :laughing:

Gotta love the pink… or was it gold?? :open_mouth: :laughing:

Huzey:

BryanAlexanderBoy:
Nice pink Actros. :laughing: :laughing:

Gotta love the pink… or was it gold?? :open_mouth: :laughing:

I dont know what you was thinking last night Chris, saying Johns Merc was Gold. Defo should of gone to specsavers. :laughing: :laughing: :laughing:

BryanAlexanderBoy:
Hi there Harry, I was with John the driver of the Actros last night in London and we was all taking the mickey out of the colour of the Merc. He is adamant that it is salmon , but we keep telling him its pink. :laughing: :laughing: :laughing:

hiya,
Was he wearing sunglasses it may have appeared to look “salmon”
when viewed through rose tinted spectacles, :laughing: :laughing: :laughing: :laughing: :laughing: :laughing:
thanks harry, long retired.

Charles Footman with a load of straw parked up on Bridgend ind est on the old creamery site

tetris418:
Charles Footman with a load of straw parked up on Bridgend ind est on the old creamery site0

Wonder if hes dropped the trailer to do a swapover or in case someone decides to try and ignite the load whilst hes asleep.
Neil.