I’m liking the heavy plant pics, Dave-
Pity about this warmer weather - I want some snow pictures!
fryske:
I’m liking the heavy plant pics, Dave-Pity about this warmer weather - I want some snow pictures!
You will have to relocate to colder climes Steve. 
Dave the Renegade:
Cavlad:
Sorry to go off topic, Dave, but keep meaning to ask you: Did they ever re-open the quarry at Tonfanau (near Tywyn) as the truck in your avatar belongs to a firm from that area I think? They were a good bunch of lads at the quarry, especially the Brummie lad in the weighbridge office.
Hi Bill,
Tonfanau was owned by Nash Rocks from down this way on the late 1980’s,but the Leyland Bison on my avatar belongs to
C W Griffiths & Sons from Dolyhir right opposite the Strinds quarry at Dolyhir. I’ve got it as my avatar because they are the only firm that are still running that I drove for,also they are good friends of mine.
Cheers Dave.
Hi Dave,
They must have borrowed those chrome mirrors from Plaxton Coach builders Scarborough !!!.
Cheers Malc.
malc step:
Dave the Renegade:
Cavlad:
Sorry to go off topic, Dave, but keep meaning to ask you: Did they ever re-open the quarry at Tonfanau (near Tywyn) as the truck in your avatar belongs to a firm from that area I think? They were a good bunch of lads at the quarry, especially the Brummie lad in the weighbridge office.
Hi Bill,
Tonfanau was owned by Nash Rocks from down this way on the late 1980’s,but the Leyland Bison on my avatar belongs to
C W Griffiths & Sons from Dolyhir right opposite the Strinds quarry at Dolyhir. I’ve got it as my avatar because they are the only firm that are still running that I drove for,also they are good friends of mine.
Cheers Dave.Hi Dave,
They must have borrowed those chrome mirrors from Plaxton Coach builders Scarborough !!!.
Cheers Malc.1
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Not sure where they got them from Malc.They do have a connection with a coach firm,so you could well be right.
Cheers Dave.
Dai Ingram with one of Tony Lewis Volvo FM9 six wheeler tippers,seen on the A4111 near Eardisley,Herefordshire.
Another pic of Graham’s motor witth the big Cat at Leaton quarry.
Last one of the current batch from Graham,looks like Walters other Scania in the background.
A Tarmac subbie Volvo FH artic tipper,seen on the A4111 near Eardisley,Herefordshire.
Dave the Renegade:
Last one of the current batch from Graham,looks like Walters other Scania in the background.
hello dave,
the other scania is a 6x4 R620 that belongs to walters group and is based at walters avonmouth yard along with another 8x4 R620 which walters own. 
Dave the Renegade:
Cavlad:
Sorry to go off topic, Dave, but keep meaning to ask you: Did they ever re-open the quarry at Tonfanau (near Tywyn) as the truck in your avatar belongs to a firm from that area I think? They were a good bunch of lads at the quarry, especially the Brummie lad in the weighbridge office.
Hi Bill,
Tonfanau was owned by Nash Rocks from down this way on the late 1980’s,but the Leyland Bison on my avatar belongs to
C W Griffiths & Sons from Dolyhir right opposite the Strinds quarry at Dolyhir. I’ve got it as my avatar because they are the only firm that are still running that I drove for,also they are good friends of mine.
Cheers Dave.
Thanks, Dave. Isn’t ‘FO’ an original Radnorshire area number by the way/ I only seem to think that because my dad had a (second hand) company car in about 1971 that had ‘EFO’ at the start of the plate and when we checked where it was originally from I think it was an Austin garage in that area?
Anyhow, once again apologies for going o/t and keep up the excellent work on this thread, it’s always the first one I turn to on TruckNet.
Cavlad:
Dave the Renegade:
Cavlad:
Sorry to go off topic, Dave, but keep meaning to ask you: Did they ever re-open the quarry at Tonfanau (near Tywyn) as the truck in your avatar belongs to a firm from that area I think? They were a good bunch of lads at the quarry, especially the Brummie lad in the weighbridge office.
Hi Bill,
Tonfanau was owned by Nash Rocks from down this way on the late 1980’s,but the Leyland Bison on my avatar belongs to
C W Griffiths & Sons from Dolyhir right opposite the Strinds quarry at Dolyhir. I’ve got it as my avatar because they are the only firm that are still running that I drove for,also they are good friends of mine.
Cheers Dave.Thanks, Dave. Isn’t ‘FO’ an original Radnorshire area number by the way/ I only seem to think that because my dad had a (second hand) company car in about 1971 that had ‘EFO’ at the start of the plate and when we checked where it was originally from I think it was an Austin garage in that area?
Anyhow, once again apologies for going o/t and keep up the excellent work on this thread, it’s always the first one I turn to on TruckNet.
Yes Bill.FO was the number for Radnorshire C W Griffiths have got 12 of their lorries on FO plates the other 2 on other personalised plates,they also have 2 cars on FO plates.
I expect your Dads car would have been supplied by The Automobile Palace from Llandrindod Wells who were main Austin dealers.
Cheers Dave.
One of Phil Morris Daf eight leggers,seen on the A44 at Dunfield near Kington.
J & P Turner are a very old agricultural feed firm in Kington who have traded for possibly over 200 years.
They just run this one lorry now plus a transit van mainly doing small deliveries and wool collections.
Automobile Palace, that’s the one, cheers, Dave! It was an Austin 3-Litre, he got it second hand which was unsual because he always got new company cars. I think this one had belonged to a big cheese at the firm he worked for, hence it not being new when he had it. It was a hell of a car, we felt like royalty in it after the (very) early Maxi 1500 he had before it!
Cavlad:
Automobile Palace, that’s the one, cheers, Dave! It was an Austin 3-Litre, he got it second hand which was unsual because he always got new company cars. I think this one had belonged to a big cheese at the firm he worked for, hence it not being new when he had it. It was a hell of a car, we felt like royalty in it after the (very) early Maxi 1500 he had before it!
A big car in those days Bill.Automobile Palace were a big outfit then,they sold motorbikes cars vans and commercials,also had an agricultural garage at another location in Llandrindod Wells selling tractors etc.
I think they had a couple of garages up North Wales,one possibly at Llandudno.
The building was designed by architect Wellington Thomas and trading under the name of Tom Norton Ltd, it had a capacity for 80 cars over 11,056-square-feet.
Originally built in two halves, the right-hand side was completed in 1919.
Tom ran the Austin agency for the whole of Wales in 1919 including that of Ferguson Tractors. He had the building enlarged to three times its previous size in the same style, constructed in reinforced concrete by Hobourgh and Co, contractors of Gloucester.
The two-storey building had nine bays, art deco fronting, 22 lion sedants, shields and egg-and-dart moulded cornices - a stunning piece of architecture for the town to this day
Cheers Dave.
dave who was that firm red f10 steelboys coilcarriers mayby tarporly cheshire regards rowly
rward:
dave who was that firm red f10 steelboys coilcarriers mayby tarporly cheshire regards rowly
Not sure about those Rowly.Keith Dessert Driver is the man to answer that one.Sorry to hear about your mishap.Hope you make a speedy recovery.
Cheers Dave.
Dave the Renegade:
rward:
dave who was that firm red f10 steelboys coilcarriers mayby tarporly cheshire regards rowlyNot sure about those Rowly.Keith Dessert Driver is the man to answer that one.Sorry to hear about your mishap.Hope you make a speedy recovery.
Cheers Dave.
Hi lads,
Sorry to but in rowly Do you mean lindfields? The drivers wore ties and their coilers were a world away from joint’s abortions they had nicely turned out red f10’s and 12’s.long since finished.
Regards andrew.
Cavlad:
Automobile Palace, that’s the one, cheers, Dave! It was an Austin 3-Litre, he got it second hand which was unsual because he always got new company cars. I think this one had belonged to a big cheese at the firm he worked for, hence it not being new when he had it. It was a hell of a car, we felt like royalty in it after the (very) early Maxi 1500 he had before it!
Funnily enough I have this pic of a 3 litre (?) taken at one of the Griffiths family’s yards!
pete 359:
Dave the Renegade:
rward:
dave who was that firm red f10 steelboys coilcarriers mayby tarporly cheshire regards rowlyNot sure about those Rowly.Keith Dessert Driver is the man to answer that one.Sorry to hear about your mishap.Hope you make a speedy recovery.
Cheers Dave.Hi lads,
Sorry to but in
Regards andrew.
I do remember Lindfield’s with the red artics Andrew,but as you say its a few tears ago.Used to see most of the steel hauliers going through Leominster or on the A49.
Cheer’s Dave.