There was another scania 140 reg p100pho I think r Herbert from llanddarog ran it, don’t really know what happened but the back axle fell off going in to Carmarthen on the old road before the bypass.
sime17,
The Mansel Davies Roadtrain has a Local Cardiganshire reg, which is local to them so my guess is they got in new.
E.W.
I would say that roadtrain was new to ideal bakery in Aberystwyth
EW car truck & bus:
sime17,The Mansel Davies Roadtrain has a Local Cardiganshire reg, which is local to them so my guess is they got in new.
E.W.
I didn’t realise FF was Cardiganshire - I always think of EJ as being Cardigan, DE Pembrokeshire and BX as Carmarthenshire - but I live and learn - cheers!
sime17:
EW car truck & bus:
sime17,The Mansel Davies Roadtrain has a Local Cardiganshire reg, which is local to them so my guess is they got in new.
E.W.
I didn’t realise FF was Cardiganshire - I always think of EJ as being Cardigan, DE Pembrokeshire and BX as Carmarthenshire - but I live and learn - cheers!
FF was Merionethshire until 1971,then it became Aberystwyth who issued it.
Cheers Dave.
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sime17:
EW car truck & bus:
sime17,The Mansel Davies Roadtrain has a Local Cardiganshire reg, which is local to them so my guess is they got in new.
E.W.
I didn’t realise FF was Cardiganshire - I always think of EJ as being Cardigan, DE Pembrokeshire and BX as Carmarthenshire - but I live and learn - cheers!
D J Thomas at Llanarth had a Roadtrain on a Cardigan reg also . Does anybody remember Chetwynd the hide and skin merchants from the same area they had a couple of Roadtrains as well regards Keith
Andrew, Good window sticker on that Volvo ,Come Home To A real Fire was normally followed by Buy A Holiday Home In Wales, This was popular at the time Welsh activists were setting fire to unoccupied properties owned by English foreigners
Chetwynds are or were trading very lately as mc and lc transport.
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ec14:
Chetwynds are or were trading very lately as mc and lc transport.
Hello EC and Hywel , thanks for that i thought they may have ceased trading . regards keith
kingswinford kit:
sime17:
EW car truck & bus:
sime17,. Does anybody remember Chetwynd the hide and skin merchants from the same area they had a couple of Roadtrains as well regards Keith
Evening all, Roy Chetwynd came from the Coleshill area, but moved down to be closer to his client base.
Ran a very nice F86 lift axle tipper early 70s, that my pal Rob Owens supplied ex Hartshornes. Driven by a very respectable ex schoolteacher. Never ever “cabbed it”, always staying in “guest houses”, or small hotels. Used to get quite indignant if he was asked to move his vehicle on summer evenings, due to its “fragrance”.
I seem to remember Roy lost a tailboard…and part of his load of animal bits, from an earlier lorry, Lampeter comes to mind, but I could be wrong! I think that Rob had sold him Bedfords from Prestage years previous. Funny in those days you had a strong relationship and trust with your customers, irrespective of whose product you were selling. Cheerio for now.
Hi Saviem , maybe its John Pointon who has picked up his work now ? regards Keith
kingswinford kit:
sime17:
EW car truck & bus:
sime17,The Mansel Davies Roadtrain has a Local Cardiganshire reg, which is local to them so my guess is they got in new.
E.W.
I didn’t realise FF was Cardiganshire - I always think of EJ as being Cardigan, DE Pembrokeshire and BX as Carmarthenshire - but I live and learn - cheers!
D J Thomas at Llanarth had a Roadtrain on a Cardigan reg also . Does anybody remember Chetwynd the hide and skin merchants from the same area they had a couple of Roadtrains as well regards Keith
I have memories of Chetwynd old and recent. As a kid my sisters were in school in Cardigan and we’d drive up and down over the ‘mountain’ road from Haverfordwest - a hilly road with only a few good passing places. Every now and then (must have been a few times for me to remember it thirty+ years on) you’d get stuck behind a clydesdale skip wagon (light blue i think) owned by Chetwynds and the smell was 'king awful. They had a glue factory/rendering place at Tanygroes (on the main road between Cardigan and Aberaeron) where the stench hit you as you passed! You can still see the building but the smell hasn’t been noticeable for ten years or so - dunno if it’s closed or if it just had some environmental order slapped on it.
More recently they’ve been running white and blue Mercs as MC and LC (as EC14 mentioned) but I haven’t seen them recently. Last time I recall for defo was about two years ago when they were on the milk quite a lot, subbing for Bibby. Used to see them with curtainsiders too IIRC.
kingswinford kit:
Hi Saviem , maybe its John Pointon who has picked up his work now ? regards Keith
As it happens it is mostly Pointons you see on the ‘guts’ trailers down here nowadays, you used to see PDM around but not recently (unless they’re running white unmarked Actroses now?). Must be bloody awful work - hope it pays well. A friend of mine drives for a firm from Cross Hands way (they’ve featured on this thread a few times but I’d better not name them - it’s NOT NR’s tho 
) and he’d occasionally pull a guts trailer out of an abattoir in that area for them. He reckoned one of these had a small hole in the sheet. An unlucky BMW cabrio owner regretted pulling up next to him at the lights one sunny day - as he stopped the sludgy liquidy bits and bobs sloshed forwards and a jet of it spat out of the sheet of the trailer into the open car. Or so he tells me 
As an example of the sort of luck that used to befall me, the only time I got to haul animal parts seemed to be on boiling hot summer days when it took about three hours to load. I often wished my sense of smell could be turned “on” & “off”!