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Is it a short-wheelbase Bedford 'O' type?
Good photo Colin of the little truck,when I took trailers to
s+w Steve Walsh used to say, can I back in for you he loved
to drive artics I remember carnival day very well we should
have had more of them at K S. Thanks for putting the photo
on Colin D.C.
Correct Prisus, it's a Bedford O-type platform, built in Luton from 1931 and continued in production until 1953. This truck was very similar to the Austin K2, and both of these small light commercials were seen not too long ago, plodding around our streets delivering coal to houses.
Hi Derrick, yes they were great times going upto S&W, they always made us welcome with a pot of tea, I think they tried to reverse the trailer in the garage first time like you use to do, not many could drive HGVs like DC, you could make them trucks go. I remember collecting the bosses (AJ) coach from S&W some years ago, I can't think of the make of it, but the year must have been the late 50s or early 60s. What an experience that was to drive it....the reg was SAX ???.
Hi Colin, If I remember right the coach your talking about
is a Bristol they used to make trucks also in 1950s +60s for
British Road Services they +Foden two strokes used to run
from Hindley to Leeds on night trunk the two strokes used to
sound great pulling hard up castle hill .they would have
made your day Colin.D.C.
Hi Colin, nice photo, When I started work in 1963 for White Star they had one of these with the Luton body, Allen Bros builders New Springs also had some short wheelbase tippers 3 & 5 tons. Anyone who holidays on Malta will tell you many of these little trucks can still be seen working for a living and they are kept in tip-top condition.
i drove that at westhoughton carnival, Apprentice s&w
George, I bet it turned a lot of heads of people watching
the carnival, good looking truck it must have been a good
day for you as well driving it. D.C.
Nice lorrie of its day. Not much power though.
Thinking about this now, it could be an Austin you know!!
Garry, Your coming out again with stupid comments the other
week you called A Leyland,[ A Atkinson Octopus] my mate told
you their was no such vehicle now your saying this Bedford
could be a Austin, Garry if my aunty had balls she would
be my uncle ,other people have said what make it is D.C
Gary, it's definitely a Bedford O-type (I was there that day) to be fair it is similar to the Austin K2, but this is a Bedford in every way.
I'll go with that. I use to help coal bagging and we had a Austin or it might have been a Bedford, it was one or the other anyway. Has colin says, they look the same!
Leyland Octopus I said. I know my lorries. I've driven them.
Omg I used to clean this truck for old Fred and Ste walsh for special walking days as a apprentice at S&W good memories