billy “bb” and his seddon,the bridgend depot had lots of these units.
BSERIES PAUL:
pete 359:
rosser’s of pontlliw ran an age old fleet of leyland’s and aec’s.this 8 legger was restored several years ago.while i don’t want to appear critical,i can clearly remember rosser’s and with the greatest respect this aec looks brand new compared to the battered,dented worn out motors they ran.great to see all the same!hello pete a mate of mine has got an old Rosser AEC he is restoring i will try and get some pics and a reg no
hi paul,thanks for that,i would love to see some pictures on the thread.i bet you’r mate is a busy boy restoring one of rosser’s,that would make the winter fly by. 
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regards andrew.
Hi,
Bridgend depot was a regular run from Oldbury with castrol oil packaged products for me, sometimes loading back from british tissues, or timber from Newport dock. An easy day and a chance to get decent grub cheap from the exellent canteen they had at Bridgend depot.
my old man worked at the brs bridgend yard from 77 to 84 and have said about the canteen being good and had some characters working there pursey Bailey, billy best bitter,jock Mcbride,Trevor Owen to name but a few another one of the good firms gone
chris143:
my old man worked at the brs bridgend yard from 77 to 84 and have said about the canteen being good and had some characters working there pursey Bailey, billy best bitter,jock Mcbride,Trevor Owen to name but a few another one of the good firms gone
happy new year chris,if you see the brs photograph with a chap in overalls,then i am told that’s billy “best bitter”.
regards andrew.
pete 359:
BSERIES PAUL:
pete 359:
rosser’s of pontlliw ran an age old fleet of leyland’s and aec’s.this 8 legger was restored several years ago.while i don’t want to appear critical,i can clearly remember rosser’s and with the greatest respect this aec looks brand new compared to the battered,dented worn out motors they ran.great to see all the same!hello pete a mate of mine has got an old Rosser AEC he is restoring i will try and get some pics and a reg no
hi paul,thanks for that,i would love to see some pictures on the thread.i bet you’r mate is a busy boy restoring one of rosser’s,that would make the winter fly by.
regards andrew.
Hi ya BSERIES PAUL I tried to send you a pm.Your mate restoring the Rosser AEC dose he live in Lincolnshire ■■? I fixed a chap up with a MK 3 tin front about 9 years ago
It was through a chap Roy melland who i had known for years, unfortunatly Roy pass on and i lost track of the lorry.If this maybe is the same lorry will you PM me.
This lorry was ex Rosser and would like to keep track what happend to it.
Thanks John
Hiya BSERIESPAUL If you look on page 24 near bottom of the page this could be your mates Mk3 the V8 is on the next page.I am not at home at the moment
so have not full access to all my files.
John.
hi Andy happy new year mate, yes i have seen that pic my old man said he new him well,he also said they phased out the seddons around 79 and had scania 81,s 111, marathon,s,a few daf,s billy bb had a scammel crusader then as you now the 2 series and 3 series scanias cracking pics though mate cheers
my mate les boon used to drive this daf 105 xf delivering steel from the abbey,llanwern and trostre to destinations all over france,germany,holland and belgium.this was the first 105 xf in wales and the scania was the first welsh 620.
my mate graham ward hails from ammanford in west wales,in his time driving and fitting there’s not much in the uk transport industry that he hasn,t experienced.this is graham’s erf ec14 olympic used during the summer months to transport his 800hp tractor to pulling events all over europe.this truck is currently with us having a little “tlc”.
graham very kindly replaced a kippered brake chamber on my peterbilt the other day,enabling me to go out on new years day to sharpness docks near gloucester,thanks mate.
pete 359:
graham very kindly replaced a kippered brake chamber on my peterbilt the other day,enabling me to go out on new years day to sharpness docks near gloucester,thanks mate.
Hi Andrew – question---- How does a kipper get into a brake chamber ■■ Has the motor been in flood water or what ? Cheers Bewick.
Bewick:
pete 359:
graham very kindly replaced a kippered brake chamber on my peterbilt the other day,enabling me to go out on new years day to sharpness docks near gloucester,thanks mate.Hi Andrew – question---- How does a kipper get into a brake chamber ■■ Has the motor been in flood water or what ? Cheers Bewick.
happy new year bewick mate,…flooded…my peterbilt…na i haven’t been to cockermouth for ages!!!
pete 359:
Bewick:
pete 359:
graham very kindly replaced a kippered brake chamber on my peterbilt the other day,enabling me to go out on new years day to sharpness docks near gloucester,thanks mate.Hi Andrew – question---- How does a kipper get into a brake chamber ■■ Has the motor been in flood water or what ? Cheers Bewick.
happy new year bewick mate,…flooded…my peterbilt…na i haven’t been to cockermouth for ages!!!
Andrew with a motor like that you have defo got to be cab happy what about global warming and all that nonsense then ■■ Bewick.
during the early 80’s graham ward ran this (ex-hardings of frome) seddon atkinson 400 pulling for t.d.williams on european work,seen here in zeebrugge 1982.
an early gap tilt.
tipping coil in ghent?
after the 400,graham bought a daf 2800.
in 1985 he had this new 401.
graham had this erf for a while,it went very very well!