chris143:
smallcoal:
these bought carline outthose were good days john,compared to what we do today,a coil in the well,god you dont realise when your well off sometimes do you mate?
quite right mate i dont know what a coil looks like now , the old days have gone im happy doing what im doing no strapping or sheeting 
smallcoal:
Paul John:
pete 359:
blue line 1994.in my opinion the worst model sk merc. ever built the v6 powered 2534,gutless,as the scots say,it would ne pull your granny of the â â â â â â â.
Hi all, Andrew have to agree about those V6 motors, although it was a 1729 and 1733s that I had experience with.
What happened to Blue Line, reading between the lines on here they had some tie up with Cardiff Transport in the end!
Didnât Julian Hodge get invlolved in 1984?Regards Paul
hi paul,blue line was bought by cardiff transport which became carline transport,they had daf,s and the old cardiff trucks man erf i drove for ct & carline the scanias they bought were crap ,stillers bought them out then i will put a stiller pic on regards john
your right about julian hodge the welsh banker.they were taken over when i was there by a firm from rhymney way called pontlottyn transport.no way could they buy blue line out they were only a small 2bit firm with some road sweepers etc.the word was they were owned by hodge and used as a name to buy us out.bunch of cowboys.then carline became the new firm which was an amalgimation of cardiff transport and blue line.hence; carline.then stillers took over.ade.
chris143:
smallcoal:
these bought carline outthose were good days john,compared to what we do today,a coil in the well,god you dont realise when your well off sometimes do you mate?
Blue Line Transport were bought out by Pontlotyn Trans port and run out of Tondu for afew years .And then pontlotyn sold the land to westburys for building .And then they bought the B R S yard Waterton Bridgend .I think thats wen Cardiff Transport got involved .And then Car Line came on the scene .Dai Cap.
Thanks for all the replies guys. Julian Hodge was into taking businessâs over and stripping them of their assets, way before accountants found it fashionable.
One company who fronted up to him and taught him a thing or two about business was the two sons of Stan Thomas Pies of Merthyr. Stan sold out to Julian Hodge who renamed the company Fleur de Lys. (spelling) Stan jr and Peter not happy with the destruction of their fathers business set up Peters Savoury Products and in turn went on to sell that business years later.
Jinks@62, Pontlottyn Transport was a small family business, supplying 4 and 6 wheel tippers to the NCB on daywork, Julian Hodge using the name as you said to remain anonymous.
Paul
ENGLAND 17 france 9 !!!
Bewick:
ENGLAND 17 france 9 !!!
hiya,
Howay now Dave are we not embattled enough without pushing our luck with the âBoyosâ.
thanks harry long retired.
harry_gill:
Bewick:
ENGLAND 17 france 9 !!!hiya,
Howay now Dave are we not embattled enough without pushing our luck with the âBoyosâ.
thanks harry long retired.
Have you been âover imbibingâ to-night âHâ ,or what? Cheers DENNIS!!!
Bewick:
harry_gill:
Bewick:
ENGLAND 17 france 9 !!!hiya,
Howay now Dave are we not embattled enough without pushing our luck with the âBoyosâ.
thanks harry long retired.Have you been âover imbibingâ to-night âHâ ,or what? Cheers DENNIS!!!
hiya,
Been a bit out of sorts today Dennis only managed a couple of cans of Mangers cider which i normally drink as my chaser I could get a bit addicted to the stuff, guaranteed to get a b"ââââââ"g off the Doc next week when he checks my long term blood sugar levels but at nearly 75 iâll give him as much as he gives me âhard as bleedin nailsâ.
thanks harry long retired.
hello paul john.
i am sure pontllotyn had a few tk,s working at rose heyworth in the 70s/80/s ,one old guy was named dicer and another driver called ringo was driving a skip truck on the slurry run,do the names ring a bell?.
graham.
gah1950:
hello paul john.
i am sure pontllotyn had a few tk,s working at rose heyworth in the 70s/80/s ,one old guy was named dicer and another driver called ringo was driving a skip truck on the slurry run,do the names ring a bell?.
graham.
Hi Graham, yes ringo rings a bell, you would of seen their tjs, tks, and tms in your time with Cossletts. The bulk were tippers with a few skips and road sweepers as well. They had a brand new 6 wheel tm with a Detroit in it about 1979/80.
A lot of their guys had been with them a long time, but it looks as if they lost the plot when they took over Blue Line.
Paul
harry_gill:
Bewick:
ENGLAND 17 france 9 !!!hiya,
Howay now Dave are we not embattled enough without pushing our luck with the âBoyosâ.
thanks harry long retired.
well i must admit england played well.i reckon theyll win the grand slam now.fair play.wales beat italy but i wasnt impressed the second half.if theyd got their kicks over italy would have won.its like we dont want the ball?every time wales got possesion they kicked it back to them.if we play like that we wont beat ireland and certainly not france.we are so predictable.cant seem to change the game plan to suit.well done england at least someones improved.ade.
Paul John:
Thanks for all the replies guys. Julian Hodge was into taking businessâs over and stripping them of their assets, way before accountants found it fashionable.
One company who fronted up to him and taught him a thing or two about business was the two sons of Stan Thomas Pies of Merthyr. Stan sold out to Julian Hodge who renamed the company Fleur de Lys. (spelling) Stan jr and Peter not happy with the destruction of their fathers business set up Peters Savoury Products and in turn went on to sell that business years later.
Jinks@62, Pontlottyn Transport was a small family business, supplying 4 and 6 wheel tippers to the NCB on daywork, Julian Hodge using the name as you said to remain anonymous.
Paul
cheers mate,i seem to remember a clive some thing was in charge.i think he was a bit of a lad as rumour had it there were people after him as he owed money but you know how drivers gossip.i enjoyed my time at blue line there was a good bunch of boys there.we used to stop at swindon and most of us up the road were even members of the albion club.bingo on a thursday.it was a rough old place but we were ok there.me and magpie went to the liesure centre one night for a swim.it was ok too.pete amesbury,ray davies,good old boys and many more there too.
hi adrian, remember swindon well what was the name on the pub by the shops was it the messenger i was always there with wally akins ,allways blue line in a row old ones the best ones not like nowadays how you keeping i was talking to hywell he works with clarkes i said you were on here he asked after you, i wonder if any1 got pics of tommy trouble when he toppled that machine in the yard cheers john
pete 359:
hi adrian heres one of ray barwick doing nothing
pete 359:
ray with a dodgy looking load i borrowed these of ray he lives in llangynedd on way to maesteg him & helen called down christmas time john
hi all,
big thanks to steelboyf10 and his family for another cracking weekend at northampton .great stuff about the blueline takeover with pontlottyn.wasnât there a clive bradley? also involved?
courtesy of mechanic77,hereâs an andy powell of pontypool transcon.
wallâs mighty man, master of disaster,after she went to billingtonâs.
I dug this one out and stuck it on for you the other night,now we find out youâve been âon the â â â â â in Northampton over the week-end!!! Anyway here it is again Andrew just to bring you back to earth and a glimpes of a real âmotorâ!!!OJM 480L!!!Cheers Dennis.
Bewick:
I dug this one out and stuck it on for you the other night,now we find out youâve been âon the â â â â â in Northampton over the week-end!!! Anyway here it is again Andrew just to bring you back to earth and a glimpes of a real âmotorâ!!!OJM 480L!!!Cheers Dennis.
what a machine dennis.a stupid question i know,but why or how did ojm go so well?was it the gearing or did she have a few tweaks?itâs mentioned in one of bob tuckâs books,thatâs how i know.bewickâs depot was a long cycle ride from porthcawl,so i never saw ojm
regards andrew
pete 359:
hi all,
big thanks to steelboyf10 and his family for another cracking weekend at northampton
courtesy of mechanic77,hereâs an andy powell of pontypool transcon.
Hi, Andrew yes Colin and Clive were the grandsons of the founder, their mothers father. Their father ran Pontlottyn Transport and both boys went into the business from school. I new Colin he was the most level headed of them, looks as if they were out of their leauge down in Tonddu.