South Wales Hauliers sixties and seventies onwards (Part 1)

UK PROFESSIONAL DRIVERS FORUMS OLD TIME LORRIES, COMPANIES AND DRIVERS (INTERACT
19401

this f7 eight wheeler brick crane,was owned by raymond’s and ran in the customers livery.

19402

the abbey trailer park 1986.
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19403

Nice picturews of the Abbey Andrew keep sending them in ? Tony

19404

hi all
cheers tony :smiley: .here is a rockwool liveried j.r. 401.

19405

long serving witney j.r. driver malcom dix winds up the legs of jr 245.

19406

after j&m transport finished,ward jones whose father and uncle owned j&m,had b596 cep new in the summer of 1985.

19407

ward and his father ron jones (rip),loaded with abbey coil for germany 1985.

19408

ward jones with a very early j.r. tilt.

19409

sorry to be so repetative :smiley: .here is one not driven by ward jones :smiley: .this jr 401 was driven by robin treharne (rip) and always kept immaculate.

19410

with just three weeks to the 2011 season opener at malvern,we are nearly there :smiley:.

19411

a tarmac daf owned by george llewellyn who once worked for penllyne haulage.

19412

pete 359:
hi all
cheers tony :smiley: .here is a rockwool liveried j.r. 401.

hi andrew , i hated pulling them single axles looked like they would turn over at every corner we had to handball all the rockwool bales off at the customers premises in the summer you would lose a stone :laughing: :laughing: :laughing: john

19413

smallcoal:

pete 359:
hi all
cheers tony :smiley: .here is a rockwool liveried j.r. 401.

hi andrew , i hated pulling them single axles looked like they would turn over at every corner we had to handball all the rockwool bales off at the customers premises in the summer you would lose a stone :laughing: :laughing: :laughing: john

hi john,
i forgot that you were on rockwool with jr :blush: .here’s a few from kbhs’ yard in fforestfach swansea.

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19415

JB1977:
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hi jb1977,
i remember that batch very well.one sunday morning on the way home from joints,i saw all of them with brand new trailers behind them,together in one wave on the m4 :smiley: .i think around? 35-40 of them.an awesome sight.

19416

pete 359:

JB1977:
210 :smiley:

hi jb1977,
i remember that batch very well.one sunday morning on the way home from joints,i saw all of them with brand new trailers behind them,together in one wave on the m4 :smiley: .i think around? 35-40 of them.an awesome sight.

hiya mate,i have still got two copies of the promotional stills that were filmed on that very day hidden on vhs at the back of the cupboard! they were handed out to the drivers that participated in the filming,one of my brothers being one of them who drove j819 from new. i did have some pics of the stratocruisers somewhere,i,ll have to ask my brother as he,s got loads of pics from when he started there about twenty five years ago

19417

hi all,
next door to joint motorways at port talbot were ptp plant.

19418

back in 1984 i painted this imported transcon.for a chap called henderson from cornwall.he was staying in south wales as he was running iron ore to llanwern on “the convoy”.years later lang’s from bridgend ran it.

19419

williams and griffiths transport,

19420

prails mighty diamond t towing a dead bison into south cornelly industrial estate 1984.