Hi all,
■■■■ Westcott from porthcawl ran tippers for many years.these images are courtesy of him.
pete 359:
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Ron Slater on the left and Chris Hooper on the right, I believe. R
scania81:
pete 359:
The 111 was brand new to Steve parry with a load of finished tissue goods on.
2 arrived along with a 81 day cab,MLJ 962W [111 sleeper which ended up a wrecker somewhere and the 81 was JDW 296W].
Never went up the road in either but tipped a load of wood pulp up the mill after nights with 1.[late dad driving].
Some trailers they could not couple up without hitting the sleeper.
The Rockwool roadtrain was new to Nick Ironside,a batch of 4 added to the contract.
They were on a different deal to the scanias and were sent further,saving Rockwool money till the drivers had used up their hours by friday.
The 111 by the bowyers f86 was at the lorry driver of the year event where bill blake the fitter entered.
Batch of 3 driven by victor the pole and Mervyn bator.[81also added THU 97S same year].
It was a flying machine,the turntable sat different and many a driver had to use slow wind to couple up.
I owned MLJ962W after BRS .I’m sure the person I sold it to scrapped it ,it
never became a wrecker
logger:
scania81:
pete 359:
3The 111 was brand new to Steve parry with a load of finished tissue goods on.
2 arrived along with a 81 day cab,MLJ 962W [111 sleeper which ended up a wrecker somewhere and the 81 was JDW 296W].
Never went up the road in either but tipped a load of wood pulp up the mill after nights with 1.[late dad driving].
Some trailers they could not couple up without hitting the sleeper.
The Rockwool roadtrain was new to Nick Ironside,a batch of 4 added to the contract.
They were on a different deal to the scanias and were sent further,saving Rockwool money till the drivers had used up their hours by friday.
The 111 by the bowyers f86 was at the lorry driver of the year event where bill blake the fitter entered.
Batch of 3 driven by victor the pole and Mervyn bator.[81also added THU 97S same year].
It was a flying machine,the turntable sat different and many a driver had to use slow wind to couple up.I owned MLJ962W after BRS .I’m sure the person I sold it to scrapped it ,it
never became a wrecker
Is this the same scania that Jamie Hazel bought and added
A tag axle and painted it yellow and blue?
chris143:
logger:
scania81:
pete 359:
3The 111 was brand new to Steve parry with a load of finished tissue goods on.
2 arrived along with a 81 day cab,MLJ 962W [111 sleeper which ended up a wrecker somewhere and the 81 was JDW 296W].
Never went up the road in either but tipped a load of wood pulp up the mill after nights with 1.[late dad driving].
Some trailers they could not couple up without hitting the sleeper.
The Rockwool roadtrain was new to Nick Ironside,a batch of 4 added to the contract.
They were on a different deal to the scanias and were sent further,saving Rockwool money till the drivers had used up their hours by friday.
The 111 by the bowyers f86 was at the lorry driver of the year event where bill blake the fitter entered.
Batch of 3 driven by victor the pole and Mervyn bator.[81also added THU 97S same year].
It was a flying machine,the turntable sat different and many a driver had to use slow wind to couple up.I owned MLJ962W after BRS .I’m sure the person I sold it to scrapped it ,it
never became a wreckerIs this the same scania that Jamie Hazel bought and added
A tag axle and painted it yellow and blue?
Hi Chris,
I thought Jamie’s was a 141?,did Spain for T.D.Williams.
Regards andrew.
R.I.P. Ronnie Evans, of Ronnie S Evans Transport Bancffosfelen West Wales who Sadly passed away last night.
Deepest Condolences to all his Family at this sad time.
E.W.
EW car truck & bus:
R.I.P. Ronnie Evans, of Ronnie S Evans Transport Bancffosfelen West Wales who Sadly passed away last night.Deepest Condolences to all his Family at this sad time.
E.W.
Sad news r.i.p. mr Evans
I was showing one of our drivers the brs names he knew a few of them my mates name is Kevin White he worked at Bridgend depot cheers John
Hi Chris are you still with Steve as I don’t see the trucks much cheers John
smallcoal:
Hi Chris are you still with Steve as I don’t see the trucks much cheers John
Hi John yes mate still here
chris143:
logger:
scania81:
pete 359:
3The 111 was brand new to Steve parry with a load of finished tissue goods on.
2 arrived along with a 81 day cab,MLJ 962W [111 sleeper which ended up a wrecker somewhere and the 81 was JDW 296W].
Never went up the road in either but tipped a load of wood pulp up the mill after nights with 1.[late dad driving].
Some trailers they could not couple up without hitting the sleeper.
The Rockwool roadtrain was new to Nick Ironside,a batch of 4 added to the contract.
They were on a different deal to the scanias and were sent further,saving Rockwool money till the drivers had used up their hours by friday.
The 111 by the bowyers f86 was at the lorry driver of the year event where bill blake the fitter entered.
Batch of 3 driven by victor the pole and Mervyn bator.[81also added THU 97S same year].
It was a flying machine,the turntable sat different and many a driver had to use slow wind to couple up.I owned MLJ962W after BRS .I’m sure the person I sold it to scrapped it ,it
never became a wreckerIs this the same scania that Jamie Hazel bought and added
A tag axle and painted it yellow and blue?
You are correct logger,Andrew Cooper would know but i believe a ex brs 111 sleeper ended up at kenfig salvage.
I remember your ex motor brand new driven by Mike Evans and at the time the bridgend depot were backloading loads of containers for Celtic plant.The other 111 was new to steve parry and when he finished given to Roy Penny.
Mike Evans wife ran Vaughans in the mid 80,s and ran trucks down the west country.
Dai
hello little dai,
mike evans went abroad for picton boats as a young man and was known to the brs boys as the dessert rat, mike was not house proud mlj,s cab was like a pigeon coup are you still trucking dai
geoff
HI all. I was looking at Paul Gee’s photos as I’m sure a few of us are. Not to take anything away from this fantastic thread of ours, but picked out a DU-Mac DAF from Caerphilly and a L reg F88 of Williams Brothers from Tretomas on the old Monmothshire side of the Rhymney river.
Iirc they did a lot of work out of Bedwas colliery and Nantgarw coke works.
Rowly and Ade are probably familiar with both companies.
Regards Paul
Hi Paul the f88 of williams of trethomas was driven by either Gary williams or Lawrence Jones on the coke ovens work by day and then. It would do a night run to Wakefield on fridgwork they were quite a big firm owned by tuner Williams who then passed it on to his sons Gary Gordon and Ray bloody great blokes I was in afuneral with them a few weeks ago and reminiscing great day now as for Dumas Len domaine and Mac were ex Ryan transport bosses wh started Dumac. good firm who mainly done alupress work great bunch of blokes sadly lot have passed on now all long. Long time ago regards rowly
HI Rowly. Thanks for the reply. Yes a long time ago thinking about it, and probably a little before Ade1970s time.
Talking of Alupress, didn’t Kelvin have a run in with a young upstart at T.H. Brown when they were trying to poach everybody else’s loads out of there!
I remember picking up a 1733 V6 Merc from Peters Pies that Gulliver’s had on contract hire there with a cracked manifold. I had switched it out and it made a hell of a racket. Sounded like a race truck. I decided to pay Gordon a visit at CVH. Once I got onto the industrial estate I give it some welly, flew around the corner and turned by CVH. Gordon stuck his head out of the upstairs window and just shook his head when he realized it was me. Kelvin come running across the yard wondering what all the racket was. They both said I was crazy, I was laughing so hard at their reaction I couldn’t talk. That didn’t go down to well, but it still cracks me up twenty six years later.
Regards Paul
Hi all,
A few of us went out to southern Ireland last Thursday,via Pembroke to rosslare.had a fantastic run over the stunning Wicklow mountains national park and ended up at “the full of the pipe” truckshow at punchestown racecourse.
Hi pauljohn on about kelvin I remember something Obote him and Browns I also remember getting a phone call from his fitter Roy stag he said you better get down year quick the vat people arrived and he’s gone nuts and locked the yard gates and he’s chasing them around the yard on his forklift I got there ASAP the police had took him away he only wacked their car up the Nick I go I said I come to see about my brother no chance he’s in for a while couple of weeks later in the South Wales echo front page Caerphilly haulier chase vat people around but he didn’t ah ah regards rowly
Hi all .
Just to let you know of the sad death of former sigingstone haulier bryn thomas .
Bryn was a tidy chap running around half a dozen rigids on animal feeds & hay & straw from the late 50s & ending up with 2 smart L plate dodge 6 wheeler tippers pulling out of the hobbs quarries in the area untill the late 70s when he sold the trucks & opened a bakery in llantwit major .
I remember whilst working at penllyne haulage one of the dodges LNY 2 L then owned by chris williams from litchard coming there yearly for steam cleaning untill chris replaced it with a ex edgar williams of cowbridge scammell .