Second time on here then.I had this from new,TL12 and 9-speed Fuller.Made me some brass over the three years I had it.
Not me driving though,I’d left Evans in 1979 and the small Hazchem label holders for each compartment were put on after I left and anyway it’s not the usual trailer I had - plus those red wheels look rubbish,I never had them.Brakes were terrible for a start but were sorted by our fitters at Sheffield and AEC at Nottingham.Apart from that I had no problem.Loaded with 3WE 1114 which was benzene,probably for Bitmac at Llanwern or BP Baglan Bay.
That Foden S80 heading up the M5 from Worcester was operated by mail-order catalogue company Kay & Co Ltd, otherwise known as Kays.
The company had offices and warehouses in Worcester, Leeds, Glasgow, Newtown, Bradford, Bristol, Droitwich, Lancaster and York.
Great Universal acquired Kay & Company Ltd in 1937 and continued to run the Kays catalogue as a separate title within the GUS holding company.
On the 23rd of February 2007 Kays original depot in Worcester closed as part of the work to amalgamate Kays and Littlewoods under the new brand name ‘Shop Direct’.
Hi dean Pat Duffy was in deed from Southampton now no longer with us RIP, not only did he run Scania’s he used to have a breakers yard at Nursling on the outskirts of the town. In the early days he had a four wheeler then went onto artic’s and pulled trailers for Sea Route Ferry then as most of us did we started to do traction abroad for SRF and STS and the like was busy back then, his son has carried on with the company and is doing low loader work and his name is Patrick, cheers Buzzer.
All that Leyland Marathon advertising " Fantastic " How could a young school boy, continuously exposed to that kind of imagery not want to get behind the wheel of a big truck and see the world ■■?
Jelliot:
All that Leyland Marathon advertising " Fantastic " How could a young school boy, continuously exposed to that kind of imagery not want to get behind the wheel of a big truck and see the world ■■?
Second time on here then.I had this from new,TL12 and 9-speed Fuller.Made me some brass over the three years I had it.
Not me driving though,I’d left Evans in 1979 and the small Hazchem label holders for each compartment were put on after I left and anyway it’s not the usual trailer I had - plus those red wheels look rubbish,I never had them.Brakes were terrible for a start but were sorted by our fitters at Sheffield and AEC at Nottingham.Apart from that I had no problem.Loaded with 3WE 1114 which was benzene,probably for Bitmac at Llanwern or BP Baglan Bay.
Hi Chris,
I remember AE Evans operating AEC’s and Marathons out of WG Davies yard on the Gas Works Estate in Morriston in Swansea in the late 1970s.
Most of them at that time had plates on the doors with Sheffield numbers on them, but we’re they originally a Welsh company ?
Second time on here then.I had this from new,TL12 and 9-speed Fuller.Made me some brass over the three years I had it.
Not me driving though,I’d left Evans in 1979 and the small Hazchem label holders for each compartment were put on after I left and anyway it’s not the usual trailer I had - plus those red wheels look rubbish,I never had them.Brakes were terrible for a start but were sorted by our fitters at Sheffield and AEC at Nottingham.Apart from that I had no problem.Loaded with 3WE 1114 which was benzene,probably for Bitmac at Llanwern or BP Baglan Bay.
Hi Chris,
I remember AE Evans operating AEC’s and Marathons out of WG Davies yard on the Gas Works Estate in Morriston in Swansea in the late 1970s.
Most of them at that time had plates on the doors with Sheffield numbers on them, but we’re they originally a Welsh company ?
Regards Mark.
Well Mark,Evans is a Welsh name but all I can tell you is that A E Evans started up before WW2 in Dagenham I think,then moved to Ripple Road Barking. They pulled the pin sometime in the 80s but I’d been gone a few years then.
Yes,Jock Glover was based in W G Davies’ yard in Morriston and he organised the backloads for Sheffield and Barking drivers as well as supervising three local drivers whose names I’ve forgotten.Jock died a few years ago,he was quite well known in the Swansea area.All our work was either out of BP Baglan Bay,BP LLandarcy or Bitmac Llanwern,plus moving crude benzene to Llanwern out of Cwm,Bedwas,GKN East Moors,SCOW,Nantgarw and another I’ve forgotten.
This was one of the AEC Mandators based in Swansea - not my photo though.
Second time on here then.I had this from new,TL12 and 9-speed Fuller.Made me some brass over the three years I had it.
Not me driving though,I’d left Evans in 1979 and the small Hazchem label holders for each compartment were put on after I left and anyway it’s not the usual trailer I had - plus those red wheels look rubbish,I never had them.Brakes were terrible for a start but were sorted by our fitters at Sheffield and AEC at Nottingham.Apart from that I had no problem.Loaded with 3WE 1114 which was benzene,probably for Bitmac at Llanwern or BP Baglan Bay.
Hi Chris,
I remember AE Evans operating AEC’s and Marathons out of WG Davies yard on the Gas Works Estate in Morriston in Swansea in the late 1970s.
Most of them at that time had plates on the doors with Sheffield numbers on them, but we’re they originally a Welsh company ?
Regards Mark.
Well Mark,Evans is a Welsh name but all I can tell you is that A E Evans started up before WW2 in Dagenham I think,then moved to Ripple Road Barking. They pulled the pin sometime in the 80s but I’d been gone a few years then.
Yes,Jock Glover was based in W G Davies’ yard in Morriston and he organised the backloads for Sheffield and Barking drivers as well as supervising three local drivers whose names I’ve forgotten.Jock died a few years ago,he was quite well known in the Swansea area.All our work was either out of BP Baglan Bay,BP LLandarcy or Bitmac Llanwern,plus moving crude benzene to Llanwern out of Cwm,Bedwas,GKN East Moors,SCOW,Nantgarw and another I’ve forgotten.
This was one of the AEC Mandators based in Swansea - not my photo though.
Chris I can’t say I had herd of Jock Glover back then…but no doubt well known in Tanker transport.
The one thing I do remeber of AE Evans in WG’s yard was the eight wheeler AEC Mamouth Major that was also operating out of there at that time…it was a classic truck at that time getting on in its years.
There were a lot of Tankers on the road in this area at that time due to Baglan and Llandarcy, a mate of mine I worked with at that time in the late 70s not long left school is old man worked with Pickfords Tank Haulage.
He operated out of BP Baglan back then…the truck he had new a ERF was posted on here by Dean a couple of weeks ago in the Tankfreight logo…he operated out of the BRS yard in the strand in Swansea I remember.
DEANB:
We have had alot of Leyland Marathon’s on here.
And here’s another…
A 17-year-old me, minding a brand new Marathon until the proper driver came back
On the way there, on the M55, we discovered that it would achieve an indicated 76 mph - 11/10 to the guys who built the float, since none of it fell off!
Second time on here then.I had this from new,TL12 and 9-speed Fuller.Made me some brass over the three years I had it.
Not me driving though,I’d left Evans in 1979 and the small Hazchem label holders for each compartment were put on after I left and anyway it’s not the usual trailer I had - plus those red wheels look rubbish,I never had them.Brakes were terrible for a start but were sorted by our fitters at Sheffield and AEC at Nottingham.Apart from that I had no problem.Loaded with 3WE 1114 which was benzene,probably for Bitmac at Llanwern or BP Baglan Bay.
Hi Chris,
I remember AE Evans operating AEC’s and Marathons out of WG Davies yard on the Gas Works Estate in Morriston in Swansea in the late 1970s.
Most of them at that time had plates on the doors with Sheffield numbers on them, but we’re they originally a Welsh company ?
Regards Mark.
Well Mark,Evans is a Welsh name but all I can tell you is that A E Evans started up before WW2 in Dagenham I think,then moved to Ripple Road Barking. They pulled the pin sometime in the 80s but I’d been gone a few years then.
Yes,Jock Glover was based in W G Davies’ yard in Morriston and he organised the backloads for Sheffield and Barking drivers as well as supervising three local drivers whose names I’ve forgotten.Jock died a few years ago,he was quite well known in the Swansea area.All our work was either out of BP Baglan Bay,BP LLandarcy or Bitmac Llanwern,plus moving crude benzene to Llanwern out of Cwm,Bedwas,GKN East Moors,SCOW,Nantgarw and another I’ve forgotten.
This was one of the AEC Mandators based in Swansea - not my photo though.
Chris I can’t say I had herd of Jock Glover back then…but no doubt well known in Tanker transport.
The one thing I do remeber of AE Evans in WG’s yard was the eight wheeler AEC Mamouth Major that was also operating out of there at that time…it was a classic truck at that time getting on in its years.
There were a lot of Tankers on the road in this area at that time due to Baglan and Llandarcy, a mate of mine I worked with at that time in the late 70s not long left school is old man worked with Pickfords Tank Haulage.
He operated out of BP Baglan back then…the truck he had new a ERF was posted on here by Dean a couple of weeks ago in the Tankfreight logo…he operated out of the BRS yard in the strand in Swansea I remember.
Was the AEC Mammoth Major a MK3 or a MK5 Mark? All the MK3s were off the road by about 1972 but the newer MK5s were still operating up to about 1976,Evans didn’t keep them as long as Prosser who I remember very well.
We got a lot of work out of Baglan,styrene,vinyl acetate and toluene for the north. Coastal Roadways,Wincanton and Hemphills were the biggest players in there plus Baglan Transport.Wincanton did a lot of styrene to BP Plastics Barry,usually two a day plus one on it’s back.
Two photos taken early 70s by my old pal Gordon,his Mandator in Baglan Bay.
DEANB:
We have had alot of Leyland Marathon’s on here.
And here’s another…
A 17-year-old me, minding a brand new Marathon until the proper driver came back
On the way there, on the M55, we discovered that it would achieve an indicated 76 mph - 11/10 to the guys who built the float, since none of it fell off!
And a good looking 34 year old in his Marathon at Sheffield,1976,trap one,loaded for a 0600 tip at Marchon Whitehaven one sunday morning.Early start then,over Woodhead,Manchester,M61 and M6,then up through the Lakes and the only other wagons I saw were milk tankers.Rock on.
The company had offices and warehouses in Worcester, Leeds, Glasgow, Newtown, Bradford, Bristol, Droitwich, Lancaster and York.
- 11/10 to the guys who built the float, since none of it fell off!
