this is my old mate les boon washing his 2025 merc.yes just 250hp at 38 tonnes gross.back in september 11th 2008,les was very nearly killed in the last channel tunnel inferno and he spent some time in a french hospital with severe smoke inhalation,les now drives an man tgs tractor unit for a recycling company in pyle.
hiya,
Pete has Dave asked you to put that last pic on for my benefit, the guy has got the right idea though using a bucket of mud, or thats what it resembles.
thanks harry long retired.
Heres the photo of the Ford Transcon i promised. I cant take the credit for taking the pic im affraid as i think i picked it up at a stall at one of the Truck Shows. Its a nice photo though im sure you,ll agree, so who was Ron? does anyone remember him?.
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Hi everyone,some great photos again,hi mike 68,you ask about some of the shunters on cardiff transport from 1990,about this time there would have been the world famous pritchard family(Ricky and his sons Stewart and Nicky,Brian taylor,AP and toyboy.I post a couple more photos of mansel davies and one of alan price from bargoed.
brilliant images guys.love the j&m photo.the only ron i can think of that it could be is ronnie wright.
regards andrew
The first lorry I drove for joints was a merc 1625.It had a 6 speed box with a splitter too make 12 gears. I have been looking at some old brouchures I have and it should have had a 4 speed box with a range change.Is there any one out there that had the same? Or was it a old old !!
I ment too say odd one sorry !!
the 1625 had a 4 speed with range change up to c reg around 1986 and d reg on wards had a 6speed spliter on tomsetts when i was there they had both ranges at the time
pete 359:
this is my old mate les boon washing his 2025 merc.yes just 250hp at 38 tonnes gross.back in september 11th 2008,les was very nearly killed in the last channel tunnel inferno and he spent some time in a french hospital with severe smoke inhalation,les now drives an man tgs tractor unit for a recycling company in pyle.
If that poor bloke could survive driving that 2025 merc for long, the fire in the tunnel would have been easy for him.
here we have a picture of my mighty f16,taken in the summer? of 2007 at llewellynâs quay outside what was for over 30 years joint motorways yard then owenâs,now sadly itâs empty as owens have recently moved to a larger facility at baglan moors.
david howells of penybryn near pyle,runs 4 new ivecoâs and this scania,dai is lyn howells brother whose atki rigids are shown on an earlier page.
mercman123:
The first lorry I drove for joints was a merc 1625.It had a 6 speed box with a splitter too make 12 gears. I have been looking at some old brouchures I have and it should have had a 4 speed box with a range change.Is there any one out there that had the same? Or was it a old old !!
I drove a 1625 for a couple of years and it had a 4 over 4 as we called it, the gearbox you describe was usually found on the 1633 and above, although i did drive a 2025 a couple of times with the type of box you mention but it was a 6 wheeler it had a crawler gear 1234-knock the stick across-5678 and each main gear could be split,a nice motor to drive, huge steering wheel as i recall and a great dislike of hills.
bernard:
Hi everyone,some great photos again,hi mike 68,you ask about some of the shunters on cardiff transport from 1990,about this time there would have been the world famous pritchard family(Ricky and his sons Stewart and Nicky,Brian taylor,AP and toyboy.I post a couple more photos of mansel davies and one of alan price from bargoed.
Thanks Bernard,saw stewart a few years back driving for Air Products and the last time i spoke to Toyboy was in Llanwern and he was with Severn Fuels.
pete 359:
hi dave,
i would have said that at their peak,joint motorways could have had 40-45 running out of port talbot,10-15 running out of shrewsbury and around 25-30 shunting tractors based at the abbey,shotton,llanwern and bryngwyn steelworks.they had around 150 trailers.
regards andrew
Hi Andrrew,
Thought they had quite a few lorries in their day,as has been said before on this and other threads,its a shame these firms in most cases are no more,but at least its nice to see the pics to remind us.
Cheers Dave.
hereâs one of mansel daviesâ fine f7 8 leggerâs
mike68:
mercman123:
The first lorry I drove for joints was a merc 1625.It had a 6 speed box with a splitter too make 12 gears. I have been looking at some old brouchures I have and it should have had a 4 speed box with a range change.Is there any one out there that had the same? Or was it a old old !!I drove a 1625 for a couple of years and it had a 4 over 4 as we called it, the gearbox you describe was usually found on the 1633 and above, although i did drive a 2025 a couple of times with the type of box you mention but it was a 6 wheeler it had a crawler gear 1234-knock the stick across-5678 and each main gear could be split,a nice motor to drive, huge steering wheel as i recall and a great dislike of hills.
Yep drove some mercs with 4 0ver 4 .But this was a 6 speed gearbox with a splitter switch on it.It was the same type of gearbox in my old Leland Daf
mercman123:
mike68:
mercman123:
The first lorry I drove for joints was a merc 1625.It had a 6 speed box with a splitter too make 12 gears. I have been looking at some old brouchures I have and it should have had a 4 speed box with a range change.Is there any one out there that had the same? Or was it a old old !!I drove a 1625 for a couple of years and it had a 4 over 4 as we called it, the gearbox you describe was usually found on the 1633 and above, although i did drive a 2025 a couple of times with the type of box you mention but it was a 6 wheeler it had a crawler gear 1234-knock the stick across-5678 and each main gear could be split,a nice motor to drive, huge steering wheel as i recall and a great dislike of hills.
Yep drove some mercs with 4 0ver 4 .But this was a 6 speed gearbox with a splitter switch on it.It was the same type of gearbox in my old Leland Daf
And you are right the steering wheel was huge! They also made a weird noise a mate of mine called them chaff cutters!!
hereâs a transcon of abernant transport pulling up the bank leaving the abbey with a load of âeye to the skyâ on.abernant were a long established haulier,they disapeared around 1990-ish.when i took this image you could stand on the pavement anytime of the week day or night and take one photo after another of the steel lorries leaving the abbey.now with most of the reduced output from the abbey leaving by rail and a general lack of work,you would wait all day to take 5 pictures!
the aforementioned sid evans bought this 112 from alun griffiths in 1995,seen here with a gap european sliding roof euroliner and driven by sidâs son philip âstanâ evans.