South Wales Hauliers sixties and seventies onwards (Part 1)

UK PROFESSIONAL DRIVERS FORUMS OLD TIME LORRIES, COMPANIES AND DRIVERS (INTERACT
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mechanic77:
Tony, you should definatley do something’with the Transcon. Get it sorted and around some shows. You’ll get plenty of support from this forum.
[how about some pictures of it? It is afterall very much a South Wales truck isn’t it?]
Neil.

Hello Neil
Thank you for the encouragement . The Transcont was new to Hoover in Merthyr and then to J&S haulage in merthyr before I bought it . It needs a bit of work now but a start has been made , not sure how long it will take but I sure I will get there. I miss taking it out for a run on a sunday. ! I will work out how to post some photos.
I see the scania still going strong.
Tony

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hi tony,
we will have a good look around malta and gozzo for some oldies :laughing: .get the transcon.back on the road mate :laughing: .

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pete 359:
hi tony,
we will have a good look around malta and gozzo for some oldies :laughing: .get the transcon.back on the road mate :laughing: .

I will do my best with the transcont Andrew. You have fun in malta go get the old ones while you still can , new regulations are soon to be introduced which will probably lead to a lot going for scrap.

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Tonytranscont:
[Hello Neil
Thank you for the encouragement . The Transcont was new to Hoover in Merthyr and then to J&S haulage in merthyr before I bought it . It needs a bit of work now but a start has been made , not sure how long it will take but I sure I will get there. I miss taking it out for a run on a sunday. ! I will work out how to post some photos.
I see the scania still going strong.
Tony

Any chance you could get it back on the road for September? Reason being theres the Retro truck show at Gaydon, should be a great show and well suited to a Transcontinental. Good luck with it anyway, let us know on here how its going.

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a couple of blueline’s waiting to backload coil for south wales,from seacon’s millwall.

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Tonytranscont:

pete 359:

Tonytranscont:

pete 359:
llanwern,notice the bsc crusaders :laughing:

Hello Andrew
If I not mistaken the area where the crusaders are is A10 offices and the tunnels in the mirror of the lorry are now loading/unloading bays for the pickle lines and 5 stand mill . The spot where the marathon is parked is now used by hazells to park the two internal daf 95’s (6x4 units) when not in use , that pull coils on purpose built trailers around the plant up to 5 at a time. I used to have an office on the corner of the building behind the view of the photograph.
Keep up the good work with the thread.

Regards

Tony

hi tony,
thanks for the info. and kind words mate.regards to your family.are you doing the malta show again in a fortnight?

Hello Andrew
I’ll have a look for some of my old books and see if i got some of the old registrations/ notes I used to make… Been in Llanwern since leaving school in 1982 , worked in most of the departments and still there !. Malta is a no for the show this time so its down to you and the boys to find some old gems. but I hope to be out for the change over with the public transport on the 3rd of july.
The family has told me to make the effort to do something with the transcont this year , I still got it but rarely have the time to do much. Must make the effort.
hi andrew,747 was kieth lewis,s new but he was on the sick for months and they gave it to me.i dont know where i was loading in that photo.what dock it is ?she was only a 1628 but a nice motor in her day.ade.
Tony .

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pete 359:

i believe this photo was taken when i loaded the track at a crane depot the other side of derby.i think the crane was coming to the abbey to work and we brought bits down of it.

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pete 359:

i believe this was taken at llanwern as i was unloded.it must be the same day as the one i took with my wife and daughter as they didnt come with me very often.i must have loaded in robert lickleys in dudley.we used to load there regularly for llanwern or port talbot.ade.

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pete 359:
hi tony,
we will have a good look around malta and gozzo for some oldies :laughing: .get the transcon.back on the road mate :laughing: .

Peter Amesbury in his renault. he loved that thing.he was welcome to it.ade.

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pete 359:
hi all,
a few of adrian jenkins’ blue line photos.

i think this is ray davies in his 2025 merc. cant remember where though.

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pete 359:
a young charlie collier (rip).

good old charlie collier.he,d already had one puncture and we had to use my spare wheel as he,d used his.alan jones used to hate us running together but he,d have had to pay top price for a new tyre and call out if i hadnt been with charlie that day.he was a hell of a boy old charlie but a good mate.he was allways gettin in jonesies bad books for some reason or other.we had some good laughs up the road me and him.ade.

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komatsu 450:

nice one of rhydian.i remember when he was my mate on the low loader with keedwell.he drove it down one night from delamare svcs to pyle empty mind but a good lad to have as a mate.i tusted him and we were late coming home [not unusual] and i let him drive.look at him now!

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jinks@62:

pete 359:
hi all,
a few of adrian jenkins’ blue line photos.

i think this is ray davies in his 2025 merc. cant remember where though.

YES IT IS RAY IT LOOKS LIKE BRIDGEND IND EST THAT WAGON WAS DRIVEN BY BRYN THOMAS HE HAD IT ON THE COAL CHEERS JOHN

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mercman123:
Great pictures smallcoal keep them coming in . Tony

hi tony, thanks for your comment mate much apreciated seeing as i grew up with lorrys thanks to uncle norman when i used to go with him on joints,when i left school i used to go with blue line driver wally akins away all week he taught me roping & sheeting then i went shunting at 17 in the abbey with joints cheers john :smiley: :smiley: :smiley:

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pete 359:
a couple of blueline’s waiting to backload coil for south wales,from seacon’s millwall.

hi all,
john,what were you doing shunting for joints? if you knew how to wrope and sheet :laughing: surely that would have made you over qualified mate :laughing: :laughing: :laughing: i really like these seacon photo’s :sunglasses: sends me back :sunglasses:

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pete 359:

pete 359:
a couple of blueline’s waiting to backload coil for south wales,from seacon’s millwall.

hi all,
john,what were you doing shunting for joints? if you knew how to wrope and sheet :laughing: surely that would have made you over qualified mate :laughing: :laughing: :laughing: i really like these seacon photo’s :sunglasses: sends me back :sunglasses:

hi andrew, i started by talking to alan he offered me a job only way to learn to drive ,the seacon pics blue line would only load for rovers swindon so they get a nite out never loaded steel for wales ,only welsh load was pulp from isle of grain or bluewater back for the paper mill in maesteg, john :smiley: :smiley: :smiley:

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smallcoal:

jinks@62:

pete 359:
hi all,
a few of adrian jenkins’ blue line photos.

i think this is ray davies in his 2025 merc. cant remember where though.

YES IT IS RAY IT LOOKS LIKE BRIDGEND IND EST THAT WAGON WAS DRIVEN BY BRYN THOMAS HE HAD IT ON THE COAL CHEERS JOHN

hi all i drove b242ath for a while after i got layed off from liscombes blue line put a pump of a 28 on it so it did go a little bit better as long as you didn,t get the heavy weights but you did get an extra 50p a load for any theing over 20 ton

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hi john,
the best shunter with joint’s in my opinion was jason morgan.if you had a trailer he loaded,you could go anywhere without having to stop and tie it all over again.his father graham and their mate elliot were also the same.if you had one the many trailers taff (rip) had loaded you would be lucky to make the bloody m4 without stopping :smiley: :smiley: :smiley:

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pete 359:
hi john,
the best shunter with joint’s in my opinion was jason morgan.if you had a trailer he loaded,you could go anywhere without having to stop and tie it all over again.his father graham and their mate elliot were also the same.if you had one the many trailers taff (rip) had loaded you would be lucky to make the bloody m4 without stopping :smiley: :smiley: :smiley:

ill second that.

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sammy dog:

pete 359:
hi john,
the best shunter with joint’s in my opinion was jason morgan.if you had a trailer he loaded,you could go anywhere without having to stop and tie it all over again.his father graham and their mate elliot were also the same.if you had one the many trailers taff (rip) had loaded you would be lucky to make the bloody m4 without stopping :smiley: :smiley: :smiley:

ill second that.

i agree jason ,& graham was a good sheeter there was some good sheeters with firms in the abbey, i remember norm sheeted a trailer his dollys was tight a driver tipping cut the rope with a knife to take the sheet off :laughing: :laughing: :laughing: the hardest trailer was blue line loop tilt with the yellow sheet they made, i seen dai cardiff the other day he owns central garages in cardiff he is still driving him & his old man(rip) owned abbey transport