Welsh Newton museum.
Dave the Renegade:
B M Cole & Sons at Welsh Newton.
Hi Dave , thanks for posting these , i have not seen them around for some time now , dont know if they are still in business. Keith .
seeing the name coles reminded me ofa cattle haulier from Monmouth, as you left Monmouth towards symonds yat dua carr the yard was up on hill. they left the artic trailor in lay by. they came to shrewsbury market every week. I am sure retiered or kieth will no cheers charlie
kingswinford kit:
Dave the Renegade:
B M Cole & Sons at Welsh Newton.Hi Dave , thanks for posting these , i have not seen them around for some time now , dont know if they are still in business. Keith .
Just had a look on operator search Keith, looks like they packed up in 2012, just a year after we took these pics.
Cheers Dave.
Dave the Renegade:
kingswinford kit:
Dave the Renegade:
B M Cole & Sons at Welsh Newton.Hi Dave , thanks for posting these , i have not seen them around for some time now , dont know if they are still in business. Keith .
Just had a look on operator search Keith, looks like they packed up in 2012, just a year after we took these pics.
Cheers Dave.
Thanks Dave , some lucky pics , Keith .
There’s another name from the past. The “B” in the name was Betty- ran a great little company with cheerful & helpful drivers. I knew them when I was a toddler, from visiting the markets at Ross and Hereford.
kingswinford kit:
Hi ROF , i am returning your message on this thread , which belongs here more so then the GUY , well i never knew that BRS did the Walls work always thoght it was in house , those Guys and Mandators were smart in the pale blue livery .
James Smith , could not forget that green livery and gold lettering , would see them at the Orb and Whitehead works , i believe a couple AECs ended up with Coles at Welsh Newton . BRS Mitcheldean surely did all the Rank xerox work ? Mine of information as usual ROF , thanks regards Keith .
BRS didn’t do much of the Ranks work, Keith. Ranks had quite a sizeable fleet of their own. If I remember correctly, the vehicles were mostly Ford D-series but the decent wages made up for having to drive the things!
There has not been much info on Rossiter and James on this thread . 8 wheel tippers on coal , would see them at Uskmouth and on occasions the former Tir john power station at Jersey Marine , surely it would have been Forest coal on those Octopuses and Scammell Routemans ? regards Keith .
I doubt whether there would be too much Forest coal being hauled out by that time, Keith, although there was an open cast site operating at Steam Mills in the 1970s. I do remember R&J bringing Welsh coal up this way so maybe they were lucky in being loaded both ways.
Us “longer distance” men had to put up with gert chunks of scrap metal being dumped into the trailer when we went for a return load!
Slim 
These aren’t mine, But I can share them, thanks Matt. So you luck people were talking about Rossiter & James,
And don’t forget Weston Transport…
Judging by the livery it seems that Weston Transport were taken over by R&J. Something else I didn’t know about! If I remember correctly, Weston’s original livery was red, wasn’t it? Or has my brain finally packed in altogether?
Rossiter & James were originally green but then adopted the yellow and white livery from Weston Transport. I’ve not heard that they were ever red though, BUT i could be wrong. I’m sure we will hear off someone.
Me.Paul.101:
Rossiter & James were originally green but then adopted the yellow and white livery from Weston Transport. I’ve not heard that they were ever red though, BUT i could be wrong. I’m sure we will hear off someone.
Hi Paul , thanks very much for posting those Rossiter and James pics .Yes they were green at one time .
Of Weston Transport ROF, wasntit run by a Arthur Francis ? also known as farmer francis as he had a farm near Monmouth . Like R and J did a lot of coal work would see him delivering to Uskmouth power station , and at the coke ovens at Cwm . regards Keith
I was probably wrong about WT’s red livery-time’s warped the remaining brain cell- but I remember R&J being green. I can’t recall seeing tippers in the Weston Transport fleet, I seem to think that the vehicles I saw were all on platform work. But maybe that old brain cell’s playing up again!
Me.Paul.101:
I saw these the other week, It’s been well overgrown for about as long as I can remember. looks like someones been busy…3021And yes it is in Gloucestershire…
I know this very well. We keep a pony just behind that lot. Mayshill between Frampton Cotterell and Yate. Theres a great pub that does lovely food there its called the New Inn highly recommend it.
hi kk, I drove most of those lorries of r and j at one time in the early 70s, starting with the A series with the pigeon loft on, 180 gardner, no power steering. Weston Transport lorries when I joined R&J were red and green. I think I’ve put some of this on the Forest of Dean thred.There are also some pics of R&J in green on there.
I’ve not seen those photo’s Bazz and I’ve looked through your posts. Would be interesting to see…As a side note, just wondered if anyone has seen this picture in one of the truck mags? our brother worked for Waterloo Sawmills at Lydbrook for years and can remember these. This is the first picture I’ve ever seen of these…
bazztrucker:
hi kk, I drove most of those lorries of r and j at one time in the early 70s, starting with the A series with the pigeon loft on, 180 gardner, no power steering. Weston Transport lorries when I joined R&J were red and green. I think I’ve put some of this on the Forest of Dean thred.There are also some pics of R&J in green on there.
I thought I remembered “green” from somewhere. All this cider & whiskey must be stimulating that one remaining brain cell.
sorry about that me paul, brains going again. if you go to google and put in sun green web site it will bring up old photos of the forest of dean. click on to lydney district and you find r & j pics also a lot of other good pics
Been on sungreen for years and yes its got loads of interesting stuff. A guy I know who retired to Tenerife used to drive for R&J and they were green when he started for them… They got a photo of Bevans when they had Albions and a Bedford parked up…