Another pic of John’s smart tipper which he drove until Gordon Roberts retired and sold his fleet. John Cross then went on to drive for Nash Rocks for a further six years until he retired, completing well over forty years of lorry driving.
All pictures of Brisbanes and Roberts lorries on this page, courtesy of John Cross.
One of Roberts Atkinson Borderers, these quite often pulled tipping trailers fitted with donkey engines, out of the Gore and Strinds quarries, as well as doing long distance flat haulage
A E Gough & Sons,of Llandrindod Wells, eight wheeler Scania, pictured on the A40 Carmarthen Bypass.
JJ Aggregates nice Volvo pictured on the A40.
Borrowed this one, not a Welsh Border operator. Thomas Scourfield & Sons of Carew Quarry, near Pembroke Dock, one of their tippers, this Volvo FL6 pictured on the A40 near Haverford West.
Malcom Cross on the A44 Kington Bypass, loaded and outward bound.
The Rebel, Tony Roberts with Tony Lewis four wheeler FL6 outside the Gore Quarry.
He is round the back talking to me, when pic was took.
Paul Griffiths last Scania pictured outside Gore Quarry,driven for the time being by Clive Layton-Morris, a new Volvo is on its way for him.
I wish that I had a pound for the number of times I spent sitting in that pull in at Gore Dave, usually at around 2.30pm waiting for my second 3/4 hour break to tick away before I started the 3 1/2 hour journey back to Ashbourne loaded with gritstone! Do they still use the old chapel as a workshop, and queue for ages to get across the weighbridge? Happy days 
Pete.
Peter Preston with his lorry at Strinds quarry weighbridge. Pete is going to lend me some pictures of his Dad Brians old lorries from wayback, more appropriate for this forum and thread.
windrush:
I wish that I had a pound for the number of times I spent sitting in that pull in at Gore Dave, usually at around 2.30pm waiting for my second 3/4 hour break to tick away before I started the 3 1/2 hour journey back to Ashbourne loaded with gritstone! Do they still use the old chapel as a workshop, and queue for ages to get across the weighbridge? Happy daysPete.
Hi Pete,
Yes they still use the chapel for the quarry mobile plant workshop. Wyndam the fitter retired about twelve months ago, don,t know any of the fitters in that workshop now. There is no queue now Pete, the bloke on the bridge is a bit of a ZB, but he does keep the lorries moving, but its all change soon, they have merged two areas together, which means most of Wales and the West Country, right down to Cornwall having the same big Boss. There is a lot of worried people around because of the likely loss of work, also the credit crunch etc.
Cheers Dave.
Here’s one of the Strinds weighbridge for you Pete Windrush, did you load out of there, would have been Nash Rocks then, seperate firm from Tilcon.
Hi Dave, no we didn’t load out of the Nash quarries though we did run to their surfacing gangs on the odd occasion. I think that a job in Northampton was the last time that I went to them which would have been in the '90’s, well before they became infected by Ta…ac Limited!
Pete.
Les Jarrett with his smart Scania heading out of Srinds Quarry.
Dave the Renegade:
Here’s one of the Strinds weighbridge for you Pete Windrush, did you load out of there, would have been Nash Rocks then, seperate firm from Tilcon.
Oh to have been in this area around 30 years ago with a digital camera snapping all the Routemans, S 83s, Reivers, Albions etc.
Physical impossibility I know, but I can dream can’t I ? 
BonkeyDollocks:
Dave the Renegade:
Here’s one of the Strinds weighbridge for you Pete Windrush, did you load out of there, would have been Nash Rocks then, seperate firm from Tilcon.Oh to have been in this area around 30 years ago with a digital camera snapping all the Routemans, S 83s, Reivers, Albions etc.
Physical impossibility I know, but I can dream can’t I ?
BD 75% of the lorries you would have seen there 30 years ago would have been Roberts, can,t remember anyone having Routmans this way, plenty of Fodens, Albions, Leylands, Atkinsons a few ERF’s. Most of them ran whatever the agents in Hereford sold or serviced, plus getting spares etc.
Dave keep posting these pictures I work out of Clee Hill and have seen most of these trucks over the years when they were on the Tenbury to Worcester road. We are presently running one of Griffiths’s old Scanias 8ws
pursy:
Dave keep posting these pictures I work out of Clee Hill and have seen most of these trucks over the years when they were on the Tenbury to Worcester road. We are presently running one of Griffiths’s old Scanias 8ws
Hi Pursy,
Thought Clee Hill was pretty quiet these days, talk of closure etc. I think you know Paul quite well, he will soon have an all Volvo fleet by the looks of it. Hoping to put some older trucks on the thread, got plenty of people hunting them out.
What about puting some of yours on Pursy, old or new, you run some nice trucks.
Cheers Dave.
Mark Preece with Paul Griffiths Volvo was nearly past when this pic was taken on the A44 at Stanner. This lorry runs out of the Gore quarry.
Bulk tipper operators C & G Blandford Daf 85cf on A44 Stanner Bank.