HFT Hereford Fork Trucks, based at Rotherwas Hereford,run a smart fleet of trucks, delivering and fetching forklift trucks from all over, here is one pictured at their yard.
Not Quite on the Borders but nevertheless associated with Kington,
Nash owned the quarry at Tonfanau in the late 80’s, Tonfanau had very hard granite and was very expensive maintaining the the ‘crushers’ and coating plant, it wasn’t my favourite place as we were hanging around so much with plant breakdowns.
Tonfanau once again, the lorry was owned by GL Breese from Meifod, nice chap hard worker no problems.
Another GL Breese motor at Tonfanau in 1989, Jack was the usual driver on the F10 , where are you now Jack?
snifferdog:
Not Quite on the Borders but nevertheless associated with Kington,
Nash owned the quarry at Tonfanau in the late 80’s, Tonfanau had very hard granite and was very expensive maintaining the the ‘crushers’ and coating plant, it wasn’t my favourite place as we were hanging around so much with plant breakdowns.
Hi Snifferdog,
Thanks for posting the pics,always glad to see someone else posting some pics on this thread,other than myself.
My next door neighbour has worked for Nash-Tarmac for over 40 years,when they bought Tonfanau,he lodged in Towyn for a while,he was working as a static plant fitter for them then,he now drives a loading shovel. He very often mentions working up there,saying how windy it is,coming straight off the sea. I have had a ride by there myself years ago, are Hanson or whoever runs Hendre Quarry still running Tonfanau,or is it closed.
Cheers Dave.
John Williams in his cat powered Foden,as previously stated on this thread,no driver or owner has worked harder than John over the last 40+years,and still working hard. A pound for every load he has taken out of the Gore quarry would be a small fortune.Pictured on the A44 Kington bypass.
Dave the Renegade:
John Williams in his cat powered Foden,as previously stated on this thread,no driver or owner has worked harder than John over the last 40+years,and still working hard. A pound for every load he has taken out of the Gore quarry would be a small fortune.Pictured on the A44 Kington bypass.
I’d like to know the makes of the tippers the old fella drove in his time ! 
BonkeyDollocks:
Dave the Renegade:
John Williams in his cat powered Foden,as previously stated on this thread,no driver or owner has worked harder than John over the last 40+years,and still working hard. A pound for every load he has taken out of the Gore quarry would be a small fortune.Pictured on the A44 Kington bypass.I’d like to know the makes of the tippers the old fella drove in his time !
Hi Bonkey,
John has driven Dodge, Albion, LAD cabs for Mann-Abell,Foden eight wheelers for Tilcon, about six Fodens of his own over the last 25yrs,also a Volvo Fm of his own,previuos to this Foden in the pic,all his lorries of his own have been eight wheelers,except one Foden artic tipper. his next moter will be the Scania his son drives for him. Clive has the new one,John moves onto son Clives old one. He’s not that old, only about 18 months older than me. 
Cheers Dave.
Cheers for the info there fella. 
Now imagine if there were pics of all the vehicles that he’d driven ?
hi dave and snifferdog
tonfanau quarry was run by hanson last until it closed in 1998. hasnt been used since then. Ystrad meurig quarry is still going owned by hanson
Jack is running his own garage near to welshpool selling tyres and hiring vans.
Hi Snifferdog do you remember these trucks They were in tonfanau late 80s early 90s
Hi Dave a few pics of tonfanau quarry
these pics are when they pulled the plant down in 1998
jonmea:
Hi Snifferdog do you remember these trucks They were in tonfanau late 80s early 90sHi Jonmea,
Yes I remember the 3 trucks of Lemmy, he drove the artic at about 20mph every where and his son Merv drove the 4 wheeler, the other 4 wheeler was driven by a chap called Gareth from Aberdovey who was also a retained firefighter.Dave,
I cant remember that fitter as I started 5 weeks after it opened and I’m sure they employed a local fitter at that time, there was a bloke called Tim (manager from kington I believe) used to pay regular visits and kept the guys on their toes.
It was a very boring landscape up there, not even a boat to be seen in the bay, I worked on the face shovel (30-RB) for a while but was bored to tears after doing 13 years long distance road haulage, so as soon as possible I got a job with GL Breese
Then not long after I went driving this machine arrived.
snifferdog:
jonmea:
Hi Snifferdog do you remember these trucks They were in tonfanau late 80s early 90sHi Jonmea,
Yes I remember the 3 trucks of Lemmy, he drove the artic at about 20mph every where and his son Merv drove the 4 wheeler, the other 4 wheeler was driven by a chap called Gareth from Aberdovey who was also a retained firefighter.Dave,
I cant remember that fitter as I started 5 weeks after it opened and I’m sure they employed a local fitter at that time, there was a bloke called Tim (manager from kington I believe) used to pay regular visits and kept the guys on their toes.
It was a very boring landscape up there, not even a boat to be seen in the bay, I worked on the face shovel (30-RB) for a while but was bored to tears after doing 13 years long distance road haulage, so as soon as possible I got a job with GL Breese
Then not long after I went driving this machine arrived.
Hi Snifferdog and Jonmea,
Thanks for sticking all the pics on,just what this thread needed,something to liven it up. Tim Hall was the Boss of Nash,then Tarmac Western,including the whole of Wales, he has just been replaced as they have merged two regions,but is still there at the moment. The fitters name is Geoff,was talking to him about Tonfanau yesterday,he said there was a fitter there,he went up with another fitter to set a crusher up,which got wrecked in a couple of days,because the Tonfanau boys hadn’t got the metal detector going,so he had to go back and rebuild it with another fitter from down here. Geoff is a big bloke about 6’3",now nearly retirement age,he said when he lodged there he stayed at the Corbett Arms in Towyn.
Cheers Dave.
Not a tipper, but this MAN artic was carrying some big boulders when we saw it earlier loaded. It was one of several hauling boulders to a sea defence job at Aberaeron,West Wales.
Mayglothling waste from Kington fun a fleet of about thirty lorries,from four wheeler to 44 ton artics, they go all over the uk on specialised waste jobs.This Volvo FL6 seen on the A4111 Bollingham near Kington.
A44 Eisteddfod Gurig,don’t think there is an argos store here,but they do have an Elvis rock.
Tipper with a difference. National Road Planing six wheeler,with the planer on the trailor,parked in Leominster lorry park for the weekend.
Front view of NRP Scania six wheeler.
A couple of classic moters. Leyland Marathon and Atkinson Borderer at Robin Conods Leominster Garage.