Hi paul john valley boys till the end and proud regards rowly ward
rward:
Hi paul john valley boys till the end and proud regards rowly ward
Hi Rowly, hows it going. A couple of posts back I was saying what a small world it is. A few minutes ago I was watching Russell Worthing on youtube and he mentioned his father worked at Catnic as he drove past there, and the fact that as a kid he spent weekends in their yard.
Last time I looked in on his videos he was at the old HY-MAC site in Rhymney, and today he was in Abergavenny two streets over from where my sister lives near the railway station.
Strange, I tell you.
Regards Paul
Hi paul I worked with Russell’s father Ralph for years at catnic good bloke hell of a grafter I remember russ and his sister coming to the yard sat morningsbrilliant company laugh a minute went throo abaertyssug to fochrhiw yesterday all okay regards rowly
smallcoal:
One. For scania81
Cheers Smallcoal ,i put this motor up a while back.
Was on day tramp with Wayne Street and ended up on night trunk driven by Chris morgans transport,s father Johnny.
Ralph [aka the neck had DLJ 910Y] when at Bridgend.
This 1 was new to Tony Petit
Mrsteel:
Tom the Taxi Driver.
From Kildare ?
Hi Mr steel,
I found this one on the book of faces.I can imagine this motor,parked in The Half Acre coming back from London with fruit for Cardiff market.Curly Bill,Maverick and Arthur Underhill etc etc…
pete 359:
Mrsteel:
Tom the Taxi Driver.
From Kildare ?Hi Mr steel,
I found this one on the book of faces.I can imagine this motor,parked in The Half Acre coming back from London with fruit for Cardiff market.Curly Bill,Maverick and Arthur Underhill etc etc…
Great photo, A 1952 reg with classic quality, Thanks for posting this , Regards Larry.
Lawrence Dunbar:
pete 359:
Mrsteel:
Tom the Taxi Driver.
From Kildare ?Hi Mr steel,
I found this one on the book of faces.I can imagine this motor,parked in The Half Acre coming back from London with fruit for Cardiff market.Curly Bill,Maverick and Arthur Underhill etc etc…Great photo, A 1952 reg with classic quality, Thanks for posting this , Regards Larry.
Hi Larry,
Thanks,love those real old lorry photos myself tbh.Thanks for the Wynns photo Dean.
Regards Andrew.
Pete 359
Hi Coop.
Brilliant photo. Note the absence of modern day ‘corporate workwear’ just wearing any old jacket & trousers to finish them off in work so to speak . Spot on !
A big happening around the uk in their day.
They done a lot of work out of Wiggins Teape and return loads from Heinz.
scania81:
A big happening around the uk in their day.
They done a lot of work out of Wiggins Teape and return loads from Heinz.
Barry hill aka the nomad had 1 of these for hills
I’m loading in South Wales at a once great and probably busy factory [emoji17]
It’s now just a collection of warehouses and old factory buildings that are starting to deteriorate fast
Most of you older Wales drivers have most probably worked out of or tipped there
Now all the stuff comes in from China in containers and is just stored here
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Hill’s of Cardiff looks like a backload from Hulland Ward , kerb edgings and slabs loaded in their manner . Rope cross on the back and away you go .
Hi all if anyone goes on you tube check out truck fleet videos for you ,there’s brs ,astran,Middle East site ,and a lot more they are very good
rigsby:
Hill’s of Cardiff looks like a backload from Hulland Ward , kerb edgings and slabs loaded in their manner . Rope cross on the back and away you go .
Hi Rigsby, I used to back load from South Wales with loads of steel off Hills Transport in the 60s, I drove for Baxters Road Services who were based on the Newcastle Quayside in those days I had a Dodge artic JTN 222 D. with a Perkins Engine N/A 635.along with a 5 speed ENV gearbox plus the good old Eaton 2 speed axle, The good old days when driving on long haul work was good & you could make a few bob, Regards Larry.
Lawrence Dunbar:
rigsby:
Hill’s of Cardiff looks like a backload from Hulland Ward , kerb edgings and slabs loaded in their manner . Rope cross on the back and away you go .Hi Rigsby, I used to back load from South Wales with loads of steel off Hills Transport in the 60s, I drove for Baxters Road Services who were based on the Newcastle Quayside in those days I had a Dodge artic JTN 222 D. with a Perkins Engine N/A 635.along with a 5 speed ENV gearbox plus the good old Eaton 2 speed axle, The good old days when driving on long haul work was good & you could make a few bob, Regards Larry.
Good days indeed Larry , much of our work was to the steel mills and pits in S Wales . Backloaded tinplate from Gwyn Bowen or Catnic loads or coal on the tippers . Best job was Duport steel plant at Llanelli and waste coal (spillage from British fuel yards )back home to a blending place in Buxton . Top earning job that ended with the coal strike . ICI work from their limeworks was all premium rates , but when they sold up the rates went rapidly downhill . Cheers Dave
Lawrence Dunbar
Hi, Re: The Dodge you drove I drove one of exactly the same spec for Denźil Edwards of Pontycylun in the mid sixties. Had a 28ft Taskers flat behind it and was ex Jack Watkins Abergavenny DAX 459C.Used to work out of the Abbey and GKN Cardiff mainly with the occasional load out of a bookbinders in the Rhondda Valley
While I was there I also drove an Albion Riever with a home made coil well in it. Would’nt be allowed today!
Also drove a TS3 powered Commer artic there .When I retired I was driving a TGX MAN but still ‘on the steel’
Regards Allan
Hi all,
Around 30 of us from all over the the uk headed over to The Power On Wheels Truck Show,held at Octoberhallen in Weize Belgium.Another fantastic trip,sweltering hot weather and some outstanding trucks on display.A real highlight of the season.
Hi all. Andrew, it never fails to amaze me how immaculate these trucks are, be it just show or working /show trucks. Looking at the show scene in the U.K., Ireland and Europe it really is unbelievable how many people are now involved!
Great photo’s, thanks for sharing them.
Paul
Hi all,
I found this old newspaper article online.I remember my father telling me about this truck many times.I am told Bill Entress was a Swedish national? Who came here during the war and made his home in Swansea,apparently that’s where his fleets colour scheme originated from,the colours of the Swedish national flag,Would also explain why Entress ran so many Swedish trucks,at a time when not many others in the U.K. did.Either way,wether all of that’s true or not ? Entress is a very unusual name in South Wales.Though with regard to this particular Entress,they have assured their place in U.K. road haulage industry folk law,as a forward thinking big firm of their time.
