South Wales Hauliers sixties and seventies onwards (Part 1)

[pete_359]

Recognise this driver Geoff?

[pete_359]

[scania81]

pete 359:
Recognise this driver Geoff?

Percy[vinegar]what a character and a younger looking Victor.
Those photos are like back to the future for me.
Dai

[pete_359]

scania81:

pete 359:
Recognise this driver Geoff?

Percy[vinegar]what a character and a younger looking Victor.
Those photos are like back to the future for me.
Dai

Good morning Dai,
Thanks for the comment.Do you remember Jeff Perrett? He worked for Bridgend depot from the age of 16.Later drove for JPM delivering arcade machines across europe.
regards Andrew.

[ianto_full_pelt]

scania81:

pete 359:
Recognise this driver Geoff?

Percy[vinegar]what a character and a younger looking Victor.
Those photos are like back to the future for me.
Dai

Hello Dai / I do believe Percy came from BRS Porth did he not ?

[ianto_full_pelt]

pete 359:

scania81:

pete 359:
Recognise this driver Geoff?

Percy[vinegar]what a character and a younger looking Victor.
Those photos are like back to the future for me.
Dai

Good morning Dai,
Thanks for the comment.Do you remember Jeff Perrett? He worked for Bridgend depot from the age of 16.Later drove for JPM delivering arcade machines across europe.
regards Andrew.

Hi Andrew I remember him wasn,t Austin Saville also on for JPM Hadfield Rd. Cardiff Transcons if I remember . Ian .

[pete_359]

Ianto full pelt:

pete 359:

scania81:

pete 359:
Recognise this driver Geoff?

Percy[vinegar]what a character and a younger looking Victor.
Those photos are like back to the future for me.
Dai

Good morning Dai,
Thanks for the comment.Do you remember Jeff Perrett? He worked for Bridgend depot from the age of 16.Later drove for JPM delivering arcade machines across europe.
regards Andrew.

Hi Andrew I remember him wasn,t Austin Saville also on for JPM Hadfield Rd. Cardiff Transcons if I remember . Ian .

Hi Ian,
I know Austen,a family friend all my life.drives for P.m.Rees now,here he is in Barcelona 1970.

[scania81]

pete 359:

scania81:

pete 359:
Recognise this driver Geoff?

Percy[vinegar]what a character and a younger looking Victor.
Those photos are like back to the future for me.
Dai

Good morning Dai,
Thanks for the comment.Do you remember Jeff Perrett? He worked for Bridgend depot from the age of 16.Later drove for JPM delivering arcade machines across europe.
regards Andrew.

I remember Jeff Perrett but he probably would not remember me as a very young cab rat,also the JPM transcon parked up at porthcawl with a name plate on the front of Elsie Tanner aka Pat phoenix and later on the rigid Daf sleeper.
Percy Vinegar lived in Penygraig and i don,t know whether there was a porth depot Ian ?
I am going to try and track Billy Ginger down shortly and have a few questions for him.
Something tells me in humble beginnings Bridgend had a few motors based at the old cattle market,again i may be totally wrong.
Be honest the photos this morning shook me back a bit and this site gets better and better.thanks for sharing them.
Dai

[geoff54]

pete 359:
Recognise this driver Geoff?

percy once told me he had a nasty accident with a dog and chain and he had a doctors paper to say he could relieve himself wherever he chose, and he often did geoff

[pete_359]

scania81:

pete 359:

scania81:

pete 359:
Recognise this driver Geoff?

Percy[vinegar]what a character and a younger looking Victor.
Those photos are like back to the future for me.
Dai

Good morning Dai,
Thanks for the comment.Do you remember Jeff Perrett? He worked for Bridgend depot from the age of 16.Later drove for JPM delivering arcade machines across europe.
regards Andrew.

I remember Jeff Perrett but he probably would not remember me as a very young cab rat,also the JPM transcon parked up at porthcawl with a name plate on the front of Elsie Tanner aka Pat phoenix and later on the rigid Daf sleeper.
Percy Vinegar lived in Penygraig and i don,t know whether there was a porth depot Ian ?
I am going to try and track Billy Ginger down shortly and have a few questions for him.
Something tells me in humble beginnings Bridgend had a few motors based at the old cattle market,again i may be totally wrong.
Be honest the photos this morning shook me back a bit and this site gets better and better.thanks for sharing them.
Dai

Hi all,
Dai thanks for the kind comments about our thread,Do you recognise this driver?

[scania81]

It looks like a younger Tony Petit but Geoff would be able to confirm.
Dai

[geoff54]

scania81:
It looks like a younger Tony Petit but Geoff would be able to confirm.
Dai

hello dai,
that’s tony petit he was out based in London for years came back in 1979 to go on the rockwool job driving erf no yfb 716v , bit sad all this isn’t it geoff

[pete_359]

Geoff54:

scania81:
It looks like a younger Tony Petit but Geoff would be able to confirm.
Dai

hello dai,
that’s tony petit he was out based in London for years came back in 1979 to go on the rockwool job driving erf no yfb 716v , bit sad all this isn’t it geoff

Hi Geoff,
Both you and Dai are right.Thats the name on the back of the photo.i can’t make out the name on the back of this photo though! Even though I am wearing my glass’.something Harold?

[smallcoal]

John brown (hoss) worked for brs as well anyone remember a driver called Kevin White he drives for us at clarkes

[smallcoal]

All these shots of years ago drivers were smartly dressed ,no hi viz unlike today where Ppe is standard and all safety ,gear required what a different era we living in John

[deanb]

A few Welsh trucks.

[ianto_full_pelt]

Geoff54:

scania81:
It looks like a younger Tony Petit but Geoff would be able to confirm.
Dai

hello dai,
that’s tony petit he was out based in London for years came back in 1979 to go on the rockwool job driving erf no yfb 716v , bit sad all this isn’t it geoff

Hi Geoff , you got me thinking now Dai Page , John Neate , Mike Meyrick God cant remember his name something Roberts was it / Trever Owen sadly gone , Jock , remember that old D-series I had got stuck in Wetherby once for two days ( high winds ) what were the names of the two boys based in Burton on trent ? a right pair of characters .

[scania81]

Ianto full pelt:

Geoff54:

scania81:
It looks like a younger Tony Petit but Geoff would be able to confirm.
Dai

hello dai,
that’s tony petit he was out based in London for years came back in 1979 to go on the rockwool job driving erf no yfb 716v , bit sad all this isn’t it geoff

Hi Geoff , you got me thinking now Dai Page , John Neate , Mike Meyrick God cant remember his name something Roberts was it / Trever Owen sadly gone , Jock , remember that old D-series I had got stuck in Wetherby once for two days ( high winds ) what were the names of the two boys based in Burton on trent ? a right pair of characters .

Pretty sure the light blue seddon,s were ex wall,s contract motors Gloucester.
I remember Kevin White smallcoal ex NCB Tondu ,ending up on the truck rental arm .
The Roberts you were thinking of Ian was John[God]Roberts and the outbase Burton drivers were Ray King and Barry?[Evans].
The 2 D series rigids on rockwool looked massive and not ideal for multidrop.
Eastern Brs had a huge yard just off the derby road Burton but the Burton changeover was at a nightclub sort of bingo hall.
Missing cars by inches,and a right headache to swap trailers in the dark around midnight.
Dai

[vanman99]

Ianto full pelt:

Geoff54:

scania81:
It looks like a younger Tony Petit but Geoff would be able to confirm.
Dai

hello dai,
that’s tony petit he was out based in London for years came back in 1979 to go on the rockwool job driving erf no yfb 716v , bit sad all this isn’t it geoff

Hi Geoff , you got me thinking now Dai Page , John Neate , Mike Meyrick God cant remember his name something Roberts was it / Trever Owen sadly gone , Jock , remember that old D-series I had got stuck in Wetherby once for two days ( high winds ) what were the names of the two boys based in Burton on trent ? a right pair of characters .

Hi Ianto, You didn’t mean Jackie Neate rather than John?
Simon

[ianto_full_pelt]

scania81:

Ianto full pelt:

Geoff54:

scania81:
It looks like a younger Tony Petit but Geoff would be able to confirm.
Dai

hello dai,
that’s tony petit he was out based in London for years came back in 1979 to go on the rockwool job driving erf no yfb 716v , bit sad all this isn’t it geoff

Hi Geoff , you got me thinking now Dai Page , John Neate , Mike Meyrick God cant remember his name something Roberts was it / Trever Owen sadly gone , Jock , remember that old D-series I had got stuck in Wetherby once for two days ( high winds ) what were the names of the two boys based in Burton on trent ? a right pair of characters .

Pretty sure the light blue seddon,s were ex wall,s contract motors Gloucester.
I remember Kevin White smallcoal ex NCB Tondu ,ending up on the truck rental arm .
The Roberts you were thinking of Ian was John[God]Roberts and the outbase Burton drivers were Ray King and Barry?[Evans].
The 2 D series rigids on rockwool looked massive and not ideal for multidrop.
Eastern Brs had a huge yard just off the derby road Burton but the Burton changeover was at a nightclub sort of bingo hall.
Missing cars by inches,and a right headache to swap trailers in the dark around midnight.
Dai

Hello Dai You have jogged my memory now aye I had one of them D series V8 went like hell until you hit a headwind .