OCTOBER 1972 SAW THE OPENING OF THE NEW PURPOSE BUILT JBH DEPOT AT CAERPHILLY, WHICH BECAME THE PRINCIPAL DEPOT IN WESTERN REGION, UNDER THE DIRECTORSHIP OF HAL KELLY.
The Service Manager for Western Region at that time was Harry Anderson, and his son David who now works with Martin Ede, has come up with some interesting items, amongst which is a copy of the double page article & adverts covering the opening on October 1972.
The article was in the Western Mail, and has a byline by Hal, and no doubt typed up by Carol Lowe.
We have had to split the pages into three to scan, due to its size, but hopefully you will make sense of it.
In addition to the newspaper article, we also have three photographs, one which obviously relates to Western Region, but the other two we are not so sure of, as they both feature Harry, but also a number of what we assume are Euc/Terex types, some of whom we know, others we dont, so if there is anybody who can identify any of the "unknowns" shown, we will be grateful to hear their ideas. In the meantime we shall leave them in this section, till we find out where they go.
Nearly a full house, l-r Doug Nicholls, Harry Anderson, Hal Kelly & ???? ?????, ITS KEITH ARCHBOLD OF COURSE, with Roger Betts about to give them all a surprise with the bucket teeth !!
We think we have Dave Gebbie, Unknown, Unknown, Doug Beech, Unknown, Harry, & Dave Cook. Bob Craigie thinks that is probably at Newhouse, and that the 2nd & 3rd left are Newhouse training staff, but he cant help with their identities.
Easier to name the ones we do know here, with 1st left Bill Watson, Terex Service Dept, Harry is 3rd left, and Dave Cook far right…the other four are a minor mystery, hopefully solved by you diligent viewers !!
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