apparently jones had a depot in south wales somewhere…
mechanic77:
Took my truck for its annual MOT today [passed] Heres a pic from Saturday when I steam cleaned it.
Neil.0
Hi Neil, glad she passed first time. As a teenager used to ride down to Pontypool with my father or cousin to put our motors through their test. Remember pulling up to the gates , doing a smoke test, checking the clearance on the brakes and then wiping any trace of oil off the sump or anywhere on the freshly steam cleaned chassis. Your heart would beat twice as fast going down the lane, hoping you would get the all clear.
Quite a few years later, working for Henly’s of Wembley (Bedford dealership) used to visit Yeading Lane in Hayes 4/5 times a week. Different feeling when its not your motor, but the thought of a failure would still hurt.
I was called to Pontypool when I had my own trucks, the second of which I had to present with all the Tacho’s and maintenance records. A 2035 6x2 sk Merc E111 BVO which flew through the inspection and got me a pat on the back for a well kept truck and records. I must admit I left there with a smile on my face that day.
Before emmigrating, I took all of Gulliver’s Cardiff motors to LLantrisant, never had a failure there, but that was because we had one of the best fitters on the job. I would come in and tell Allan we had a failure, he would go nuts until I showed him the pass certificate, some how in those days it was a personal thing, don’t know how it is these days though.
Visits to the test station, road tests and break down call outs, great stuff.
Nowadays I drive 580 miles / day 4 days a week. I hate to admit it but just a steering wheel holder, line - haul Orlando/ Dallas relay as boring as could be, but it pays the bills.
Thank goodness for this site LOL.
Regards to all Paul
hi all,
ashley davies was a mcdonald’s subbie,he owned this new sk 8 wheeler.chris 143,i think you were working on this when i took the photo,south cornelly ind. est. late 80’s.
This is the chassis of the 58 plate MAN 8 wheeler Noisy jake used to drive for a Tarmac owner driver
pete 359:
hi all,
ashley davies was a mcdonald’s subbie,he owned this new sk 8 wheeler.chris 143,i think you were working on this when i took the photo,south cornelly ind. est. late 80’s.
yes mate that would have been me,i remember that truck having a bump to the front
ashley was blowing the horn to the truck in front only it was ash rowling foward 
would you have any pics of martin phillip"s trucks by any chance mate
komatsu 450:
This is the chassis of the 58 plate MAN 8 wheeler Noisy jake used to drive for a Tarmac owner driver
Hiya Ant
Still waiting to get it sorted out mate! G Lambert supposed to be meeting people from MAN,apparenltly there are a few others with identical chassis failures around the country as well as our two at tarmac■■?
regards Mark
chris143:
pete 359:
hi all,
ashley davies was a mcdonald’s subbie,he owned this new sk 8 wheeler.chris 143,i think you were working on this when i took the photo,south cornelly ind. est. late 80’s.yes mate that would have been me,i remember that truck having a bump to the front
ashley was blowing the horn to the truck in front only it was ash rowling foward
would you have any pics of martin phillip"s trucks by any chance mate
Hi Christ,
I thought it would have been you.i have got a couple of Martin Phillips’,it was Philip Howe,I remember his father in law,jim Aston.
Regards Andrew.
pete 359:
chris143:
pete 359:
hi all,
ashley davies was a mcdonald’s subbie,he owned this new sk 8 wheeler.chris 143,i think you were working on this when i took the photo,south cornelly ind. est. late 80’s.yes mate that would have been me,i remember that truck having a bump to the front
ashley was blowing the horn to the truck in front only it was ash rowling foward
would you have any pics of martin phillip"s trucks by any chance mateHi Christ,
I thought it would have been you.i have got a couple of Martin Phillips’,it was Philip Howe,I remember his father in law,jim Aston.
Regards Andrew.
was nt jim ashton a ministry guy regards martyn.
yes martyn,that’s him,here’s another chris143 fixed.roger brooks’ iron lung 111 pulling for cls.
old 111 bloody lovely ah ah rowland
HI MARTYN DID YOU SORT OUT PHOTOBUCKET AFTER OR WILL YOU BE NEEDING MY CAMERA 
Anybody remember Roy ■■ from down west, who bought and ran a New orange F12 Globetrotter back in the early 80’s and pulled for Gap. He used to do a lot of Italy with his “secretary?bookeeper” and sometimes ended up in Germany with Ford engines?
chrischilds:
Anybody remember Roy ■■ from down west, who bought and ran a New orange F12 Globetrotter back in the early 80’s and pulled for Gap. He used to do a lot of Italy with his “secretary?bookeeper” and sometimes ended up in Germany with Ford engines?
hi chris,
i remember the (roy’s plant) f12,got a picture of it leaving the abbey with coil for gap.hope all is well in british columbia.pm sent back.good to hear from you again.
regards andrew.
pete 359:
peter baulch in dark glasses, great bloke.
pete 359:
Bewick:
pete 359:
one of several constructors,trucknet member scooter1 would love this place.Hiya Andrew if you find it hard to sheet and rope you should go on your truck runs & rally’s with this outfit !! Plenty of living accomodation in the back and the sides won’t flap when your under way .Cheers Dennis.
hi dennis,
never mind the bloody trailer,she’s got ojm up the front mate,that’l do a real flyer,i have a picture of you standing by one of you’r atki’s.will copy and post it on you’r thread if you want?
regards andrew
hi all,
scooter1,this was the constructor we spoke about earlier today 
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regards andrew.
Not the best of shots Andrew,showing our 1st ERF “A” series coupled to the 40ft CF van we ran for a while.The nose of our Morris 1000 pick-up just has its nose poked into shot !
Bewick:
Not the best of shots Andrew,showing our 1st ERF “A” series coupled to the 40ft CF van we ran for a while.The nose of our Morris 1000 pick-up just has its nose poked into shot !
hi dennis,
how many a series did bewick run?apart from the rear hub oil seals,mine never missed a beat .good old sloggers in their day.then the swedes arrived ,“ah those funny swedish motors,they’ll never catch on in the uk”. 
regards andrew.
pete 359:
Bewick:
Not the best of shots Andrew,showing our 1st ERF “A” series coupled to the 40ft CF van we ran for a while.The nose of our Morris 1000 pick-up just has its nose poked into shot !hi dennis,
how many a series did bewick run?apart from the rear hub oil seals,mine never missed a beat
regards andrew.
Hiya Andrew,we ran 5 including one that K. Fell’s had when we took over.They all had the D85 Kirkstall HR axles and from memory I don’t think we experienced any serious trouble with the axle,may have had the odd seal but I was always closely involved with the workshop and nothing “clangs” any bells !!.When I started buying the B & C series I had them all built with the heavy Eaton single reduction axle. Got a bit of gentle persuasion of ERF’s to take the D85 but I stuck to my guns,no Eaton no orders and ,of course,Scania had made massive in-roads into the fleet by this time so the writing was “writ large” on the wall !! Cheers Dennis.
any of you port talbot lads remember john litchfield?he ran a few of these mercs.i can’t remember when he finished though 
smallcoal:
HI MARTYN DID YOU SORT OUT PHOTOBUCKET AFTER OR WILL YOU BE NEEDING MY CAMERA
thanks john im fine now 
cheers martyn.