Ianto full pelt:
smallcoal:
A young jimmy on the middle east,his last job was with mdw before he passed away ,him and charlie the fox bevington were the two arthur dalys of the works they could sell sand to the arabs,Jimmy also drove for the late graham keedwell ,as well as seabourne,Dennis sold that Foden to a subbie with r g miles
Morning John Jimmy was on site hauling scrap slab from the slabyard up to the MR site for burning that was probably me driving past on the 992C .
Hi Ianto,everyone liked jimmy bet you had a laugh with him
Hi all,
Here’s some oldies from the days of Joint Motorways,who closedown,21 years ago…
pete 359:
Hi all,
Here’s some oldies from the days of Joint Motorways,who closedown,21 years ago…
Andrew / My brother Mr Steel trademark red centre Merc badge !
Ianto full pelt:
pete 359:
Hi all,
Here’s some oldies from the days of Joint Motorways,who closedown,21 years ago…
Andrew / My brother Mr Steel trademark red centre Merc badge !
Hi Ianto,
I’ve photos of that red disc on several Joint Mercs.
Regards Andrew.
pete 359:
Ianto full pelt:
pete 359:
Hi all,
Here’s some oldies from the days of Joint Motorways,who closedown,21 years ago…
Andrew / My brother Mr Steel trademark red centre Merc badge !
Hi Ianto,
I’ve photos of that red disc on several Joint Mercs.
Regards Andrew.
Good god as long as that ,I didn’t realise it was 21 years ago a good firm to work for ,had many an argument with Stan in the abbey when I was shunting but we had a laugh after
smallcoal:
pete 359:
Ianto full pelt:
pete 359:
Hi all,
Here’s some oldies from the days of Joint Motorways,who closedown,21 years ago…
Andrew / My brother Mr Steel trademark red centre Merc badge !
Hi Ianto,
I’ve photos of that red disc on several Joint Mercs.
Regards Andrew.
Good god as long as that ,I didn’t realise it was 21 years ago a good firm to work for ,had many an argument with Stan in the abbey when I was shunting but we had a laugh after
Hi Andrew,
Those are great pic’s of Joints, the one of J200 loading captures the job perfect, Cheer’s Pete
Hi Ianto,
I’ve photos of that red disc on several Joint Mercs.
Regards Andrew.
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Good god as long as that ,I didn’t realise it was 21 years ago a good firm to work for ,had many an argument with Stan in the abbey when I was shunting but we had a laugh after
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Hi Andrew,
Those are great pic’s of Joints, the one of J200 loading captures the job perfect, Cheer’s Pete
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Hi Pete,
Thanks mate,I’m sure you recognised the location.Loading bales in Cooper’s Downing Street Smethwick.J200 was Joint’s first 1735.A phenomenal truck,that went onto do a colossal mileage.I think she ended her days in amongst some woodland on the A49,when Terry Tamlyn R.I.P. ran off the road…
Regards Andrew.
Hello Andrew
I wasnt aware that Terry Tampax had gone, another real character. Do you remember when he got JR banned from the Abbey after he came the wrong way out of the one-way trailer park?. It would have been ok if he hadnt told one of the managers to f… off when he pointed out his mistake.
Mike
Bookworm:
Hello Andrew
I wasnt aware that Terry Tampax had gone, another real character. Do you remember when he got JR banned from the Abbey after he came the wrong way out of the one-way trailer park?. It would have been ok if he hadnt told one of the managers to f… off when he pointed out his mistake.
Mike
Hi Mike,
I do remember that trailer Park incident and a few others,Joint had at least one? there was a route marked out with barrels.Though there was nothing either side,just empty land,If you were seen off route? There were severe consequences.I always thought it was more to stop people taking over the land? There were several dozen scrap tractor units and trailers just abandoned there back then.I remember my mate Jeff Caudle bought an old Atki restoration project from there.It took me three months to find out who owned it,Someone from Hereford? Good to hear from you Mike.
Regards Andrew.
pete 359:
Hi Ianto,
I’ve photos of that red disc on several Joint Mercs.
Regards Andrew.
Good god as long as that ,I didn’t realise it was 21 years ago a good firm to work for ,had many an argument with Stan in the abbey when I was shunting but we had a laugh after
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Hi Andrew,
Those are great pic’s of Joints, the one of J200 loading captures the job perfect, Cheer’s Pete
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Hi Pete,
Thanks mate,I’m sure you recognised the location.Loading bales in Cooper’s Downing Street Smethwick.J200 was Joint’s first 1735.A phenomenal truck,that went onto do a colossal mileage.I think she ended her days in amongst some woodland on the A49,when Terry Tamlyn R.I.P. ran off the road…
Regards Andrew.
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Morning Andrew,
Yes I clocked the location, you were probably being loaded by Phil Taylor, ginger headed lad, EMR have mothballed both the bale yard and the rail head yard at Smethwick for the foreseeable future.
The pic’s of the ERF is one of the shunters I owned taking bales from the yard up on to the rail head over the road, the front of the ERF is roughly where your trailer was being loaded. It was an ex Ely Transport, long been cut up. Cheer’s Pete
Hi Pete,
Thanks mate,I’m sure you recognised the location.Loading bales in Cooper’s Downing Street Smethwick.J200 was Joint’s first 1735.A phenomenal truck,that went onto do a colossal mileage.I think she ended her days in amongst some woodland on the A49,when Terry Tamlyn R.I.P. ran off the road…
Regards Andrew.
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Morning Andrew,
Yes I clocked the location, you were probably being loaded by Phil Taylor, ginger headed lad, EMR have mothballed both the bale yard and the rail head yard at Smethwick for the foreseeable future.
The pic’s of the ERF is one of the shunters I owned taking bales from the yard up on to the rail head over the road, the front of the ERF is roughly where your trailer was being loaded. It was an ex Ely Transport, long been cut up. Cheer’s Pete
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Hi Pete,
Thanks mate.I knew you’d recognise it instantly.Been looking through some of my hundreds of Joint albums.The first couple here are taken in the Bryngwyn Works in Gorseinon.Finally Thomas Marshall Roberts,a life long family friend whom I’m very glad to say,is loving the photos and comments on Trucknet, driving B948 BWN passed Earls Court (out of shot on the right) and Tommy offloading crane ends in Fleet Street.
Morning Andrew,
Cracking photo’s of Joints, noticed the B series sleeper has a Staffordshire reg number, did they buy new and secondhand? What year did Joints start? My late father used to mention Joint Motorways to me as being a big company and he had many a chat with Cliff at the rally held at Shrewsbury Showground, I remember Cliff had a tent that was full of photo’s and always had a camera hanging round his neck.
The reason I ask as my Dad would not have given those Merc’s a second glance as they where too modern, anything with more than 6 gears was unnecessary in his eyes, so he must of clocked some “older” motors of theirs at some point in his life!
Please keep the Joints pic’s coming as they are probably buried a couple of hundred pages back in this thread, Cheer’s Pete
Pete Smith
Hi,
The ERF SRE 548W was an ex Beeches of Hanley demonstrator and was operated by Joseph Jones of Ystradgynlais before ending up with Danny Harrington from Swansea and Joints
Regards Allan
Mrsteel:
Pete Smith
Hi,
The ERF SRE 548W was an ex Beeches of Hanley demonstrator and was operated by Joseph Jones of Ystradgynlais before ending up with Danny Harrington from Swansea and Joints
Regards Allan
Thank you for the information and reply Allan.
Hi all,
Thanks for sharing those pictures Pete.Here are a few Glyn John Transcon’s,Some are new,Some I think we may have had previously?
