South Wales Hauliers sixties and seventies onwards (Part 1)

UK PROFESSIONAL DRIVERS FORUMS OLD TIME LORRIES, COMPANIES AND DRIVERS (INTERACT
20661

20662

A couple of Catnic Scania’s for Daiecho143, who should be along shortly with more info…

20663

mechanic77:
A couple of Catnic Scania’s for Daiecho143, who should be along shortly with more info…

dad (echo 1) old streamline one of the finest jobs in south wales,

20664

daiecho143:

mechanic77:
A couple of Catnic Scania’s for Daiecho143, who should be along shortly with more info…

dad (echo 1) old streamline one of the finest jobs in south wales,

the “m” reg streamline,s where the first of the big cab to enter the catnic fleet which later followed the n reg before the transport finished.

20665

20666

hi all,
here’s a few of dai.howells’ men “clearing the path” :laughing: :laughing: :laughing:
http://i906.photobucket.com/albums/ac267/pete359_bucket/album%202/dh12.jpg[/img]]

20667

dai tondu:
:smiley:

Chris Webb:
W.G.Davies,Llandore,immaculate fleet,especially their Crusaders.
Rosser,Pontillw,ran his MK3 and MK5 AECs to the end.
Illtydd (sp) Thomas.
Griif,Fender removals.
George Beer,Swansea.
John Raymond,Bridgend of course,who could forget him. :slight_smile:
Ely Transport Cardiff.
H.Morgan,Cwm.
Williams Bros., Crosshands.
Valley Carriers,Penarth.
South Wales Roadways.
Edwards of Lydbrook - an englishman sneaking into Llanwern :laughing: .
Hazells Haulage,Newport.
Owens,Llanelli.
Entress,Llansamlet,ran Leyland Octopussies and then later Volvo F86s.
Coastal Roadways,Hemphills and Wincanton all ran out of BP Baglan Bay.
Calor Transport,on a roundabout on the A48.
Blue Line Transport,Tondu ended up as Carline Transport I think.Way after my time though. :laughing:
Mansel Davies - Haverfordwest/Whitland?
Steel Company of Wales ran their own transport before nationalisation I think.
And there was always an endless procession of GKN motors at night,Heath Street Division was one I recall.
Philip Jones,Fforestfach.
S.Protheroe.
Ryhs Davies.
Davies and Meredith,Brynmawr
Catnic,Caerphilly.

That’s it at the moment, nurse is here with me medication. :smiley:

20668

dai tondu:

dai tondu:
:smiley:

Chris Webb:
W.G.Davies,Llandore,immaculate fleet,especially their Crusaders.
Rosser,Pontillw,ran his MK3 and MK5 AECs to the end.
Illtydd (sp) Thomas.
Griif,Fender removals.
George Beer,Swansea.
John Raymond,Bridgend of course,who could forget him. :slight_smile:
Ely Transport Cardiff.
H.Morgan,Cwm.
Williams Bros., Crosshands.
Valley Carriers,Penarth.
South Wales Roadways.
Edwards of Lydbrook - an englishman sneaking into Llanwern :laughing: .
Hazells Haulage,Newport.
Owens,Llanelli.
Entress,Llansamlet,ran Leyland Octopussies and then later Volvo F86s.
Coastal Roadways,Hemphills and Wincanton all ran out of BP Baglan Bay.
Calor Transport,on a roundabout on the A48.
Blue Line Transport,Tondu ended up as Carline Transport I think.Way after my time though. :laughing:
Mansel Davies - Haverfordwest/Whitland?
Steel Company of Wales ran their own transport before nationalisation I think.
And there was always an endless procession of GKN motors at night,Heath Street Division was one I recall.
Philip Jones,Fforestfach.
S.Protheroe.
Ryhs Davies.
Davies and Meredith,Brynmawr
Catnic,Caerphilly.

That’s it at the moment, nurse is here with me medication. :smiley:

C’mon Dai tondu,pick out the one’s that aren’t around anymore.
Cheers Dave.

20669

dai tondu:

johnsmiths:

Paul John:

johnsmiths:

hi john smiths any more photos of smithent dat tondu
this is a picture of smiths enterprises scania in 1970 when she was new

Hi John, you may remember Smiths putting 2 new CAT loading shovels into Newport docks early 80s. I can not remember the model but they could load 20 tonne in one go. Cracking machines they were.
A blending shed had been set up and the dockers were running it, they had been trained on the CATs and let loose. Danny Eagan of Pontypridd had put a bunch of old 8 wheelers on the job. By the end of the first day half had been put out of service, the body’s all torn up by the great British dockworker.
If they had reality shows back then, these guys would be stars. I dont think anyone could act so useless, lol.


Hi paul this is a picture of caterpillar 992 at newport docks see transporter bridge in the background i was a fitter looking after these machine they had 20yd buckets on coal they took the dockers off the machine only to be paid to sit in canteen while our boys operated machines :smiley:

ONE OF THE BOYS DAI TONDU CAT DRIVER

20670

I’ve scanned in some old photos.

This was taken by me around 1993 at the junction of Nine mile point ind. est. on the road between Crosskeys and Blackwood.

The 8X4 Ginaf was taking a crawler crane away from the [then under construction] Newbridge/ Pontllanfraith bypass and appears to have come to grief after climbing one of the first hills on its route.
Neil.

20671

This one was delivering bridge girders for the aforementioned bypass, I think its one of John Goldings fleet, the girder probably came from Fairfield Mabey in Chepstow.
Neil.

20672

Some old pics taken in the New inn, Cwmbran area, again early 90’s.

20673

mechanic77:
Some old pics taken in the New inn, Cwmbran area, again early 90’s.

i remember that turbo star it looked very tidy.

20674

mechanic77:
Some old pics taken in the New inn, Cwmbran area, again early 90’s.

was the iveco SCF from pontypool

20675

daiecho143:
was the iveco SCF from pontypool?

Its in Severnsides yard Dai, I think it was run by Andrew Powell who had Transcons, a 142 and a Bedford TM in the same colours. [the other trucks have peeb posted on here in the past]

20676

hello neil.
i recognise the outfit with the nck ajax on board,range heavy haulage of london,i think i am correct they finished up a couple of years ago,the engines in the earlier dafs/ginafs were a little on the small side ,i saw two pack up when we were doing the challengers years ago,daf have seemed to shy away from the big power trucks,
graham.

20677

gah1950:
hello neil.
i recognise the outfit with the nck ajax on board,range heavy haulage of london,i think i am correct they finished up a couple of years ago,the engines in the earlier dafs/ginafs were a little on the small side ,i saw two pack up when we were doing the challengers years ago,daf have seemed to shy away from the big power trucks,
graham.

hi graham,
thanks for calling me yesterday mate :sunglasses:.just before you arrived,harry and i saw these pair from kings of bristol :sunglasses:.

20678

hello andrew.
i caught them up further up the m4 a pair of old volvos.lol
graham.

20679

gah1950:
hello andrew.
i caught them up further up the m4 a pair of old volvos.lol
graham.

hi mate,
to be honest,i thought they were travelling alot slower than you :laughing: my 9 year old son,thought the tanks were cool,but the trucks were tiddlers compared to his dads mate in the yellow scania :laughing: :laughing: :laughing:

20680

when graham kindly rang,he said “this one is a bit wide”,