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What made these old British trucks what they were , was the beating heart of the Gardner . either in 6LW up to 8LXB I doubt if any other engine make has survived in the numbers that Gardner's still show.
I drove a little 60's vintage 10 ton gross flatbed TK back in the early seventies. I used to bring flower bulbs back from Holland. All under sheet and ropes of course, which was no fun if customs wanted to check the bill.
What a memory, my dad was a lorry body builder in 1950's in the Gold Coast now Ghana as a little boy I saw Bedford.ERF, Forden Albion, Austin , Morris et. Love the videos.
I've just made a bus and lorry exhibition for my 00 train layout. They are all in a semi circle on the green......I'm sure it's all your fault hahaha....I wasn't into vintage lorries before i got into watching your car show films. Once you see the beauty in all that pig iron and max speeds of 30mph....you can't go back. You can see the pride in every bolt and drop of paint
Nice to Meet You Iam a Costaricanamerican 🇨🇷🇺🇸💚;I like Classic Trucks and Buses,in Costa Rica The Country have all Kind Transportetion. From Germany,England and United States of America;Hi Since SanJacinto,Ca USA
well I did enjoy that look around though vehices quite a large range of all sorts of lorries thanks for showing us the made people around the lorries .
Thank you for this video. Good to see so many still on the road and so well cared for. I still like the old fairground lorries that pulled the rides around the country. As a kid in 50's I remember thinking how unstoppable and powerful they looked. Wonder what their mpg was fully loaded with bumper cars and track, or the top speed. Great viewing, thank you
At 30:31 you were filming an ex- military truck or more over the engine in it,,, It seems to be a Cummins L10, I liked the engine and worked on a lot of them.
The Bedford reg KYX 7820 ,is very likely used to spread lime on fields , my dad drove one of these back in the 60s, i can remember sitting in the passenger seat being bounced about, deafened and gassed by the engine .........happy days !!
Am I the only one with a truck on the road from new Jan 1996 still in service. MAN 10.223. Its older than some of your classics. (on its second set of tires now)
Hi from the la Republica Argentina, great footage warmest compliments as generally we like so much every Brit's machines , despite the left's side steering wheel . By the way some days ago i got acknowledged by random a lorry-truck's brand that also produced urban buses , its name was Albion , such a discovery !!!! Have you ever kkown that Albion was the previous own name of Great Britain before the Roman emperors called your land Britannia ? Such an incredible homage !
My dad was a truck driver all his life so I remember all this old stuff being on the road. One of my earliest memories was of him and I going down a steep hill in sussex seeing how much he could get out of an austin k8 van. Haven't seen one for ages
Thanks mate.. I was a Transportologist for about 50 years and I have a huge respect for old school trucks (lorries) from way back in the day.. Remember back in the day.. these old girls weren't quite as polished (nor was I) as they are now.. Thanks again and cheers 🥂
I acquired "XGK 699" British plates at a flea market in 1985.... and a single plate , " 5 DGW" in 1987. Supposedly 5 DGW is circa 1910.... great video. I'm in Connecticut USA
The 1938 ERF is just about the best in the show, paintwork and sign writing superb, most of these early lorries I remember being on the road when I was a youngster and in the mid 50's there were still a large number of ex W.D. still being used on the roads.
The ZIL 131 Russian Truck @ 29:25 mins is my ideal truck for it's off road performance. There are loads of russian video's on youtube. There is also the ZIL 130 V8 petrol is worth a look at.
That brought back a lot of memories. I have driven most of them. Not one big Ford Transconinental. I did thousands of miles in them. 290 & 320 Cummins what a lorrie pull for fun.
Thank you for sharing this video! I am American and know nothing of British lorries, but I enjoyed your presentation very much, the lorries are beautiful!
Thanks so much for this, brought back so many memories, I can well recall the Morris Commercial (I think that is the name) small van being used by the Post Office to collect mail from mail boxes at Sidcup and the very distinct sound they had. The big American trucks always fascinate, but there were some real classics here, very well done.
Some fantastic vehicles on show, brings back memories of when I started working on scammells as an apprentice in 1976, and I'm still working today but on Mercedes trucks! happy days.
G'day cobber,,, Big thanks for taking the time to show these lorries/trucks . They were fine examples of yesteryears transport . Sure brought back a few fond memories of climbing all over them as a kid in the UK, back in the early sixties . Respect from Down Under
@@oldclassiccarUK Thanks for that ,ive seen a few now ,will work through the collection in time as ive found them very entertaining, informative even . Will also be sure to subscribe so i can keep up with the new releases too. On ya cobber,, Respect from Down Under
Great video thank you. First lorry I ever drove was a TK on an ordinary licence because it was fitted with small wheels. Remind me to tell you about the low bridge incident. '😉. Aged 21 in 1972 learnt in a 6 wheel 2 stroke Foden. Numerous lorries followed that , mainly 6 / 8 wheeled Fodens , Scammels ( steering wheel offset in was it the Routemaster ) Driving the Atkinson Border cab felt like I was driving a front room about it was that big, I cannot believe that these lorries felt so big back in the day but now when I see them at Truckfest they look like the size of vans up against modern lorries. Different times of cause but I was that enthusiastic if I could drive a better lorry for a company but for less money I would do it. Wife was never happy about that though. Hopefully HGV drivers given the shortage will receive the wages they deserve as its always been a badly bad job unless of cause you worked for a petrol company or Tate & Lyle. Just wished I could have my time again and be out there driving modern lorries. Great rally as well. Ted Should of added how great that Lockheed Foden is.
The pre war lorries reminded me of my grandfather who drove in the war to help the war effort he had been a driver before the war and worked for Roth wells of huddersfield in west Yorkshire.
eddie lowe,,,,my father JOCK LOWE, South African ,was a driver in the egyptian campaign from South africa to Cairo via Niarobi,,,,,,,,one hell of a long trip
One of my major jobs I recall as an apprentice was converting a fleet of Ford D series trucks for petro-chem work which involved rewiring them for insulated return and converting all internal earthed components to fully insulated. It took absolutely ages and IIRC there were 12 of them to do. No such thing as a ready made loom so that all had to be fabricated too. I was more or less sent to the back of the garage and left to get on with it for weeks on end. Memory is dimming about it now but they may have also had to be made 24volt as some components could not be insulated in 12 volt configuration, whereas 24 volt was off the shelf dual pole. Nowadays, no one would bother, too Labour intensive.
I used to drive an Austin FG very similar to the one at 21:55. They were very common in the 60s; a spacious if somewhat basic cab with good all-round visibility (as a flatbed) and access into and out of the cab which was much easier than with its contemporaries and its successors. If I had a vehicle collection I would include one of these.
From the U.S.A. , what beautiful ex- amples of truck (lorry) history. The recession of the 1980's hit our Amer- ican company I-H very hard, and many of its divisions were sold off. The Seddon- Atkinson division had some good looking vehicles w/ the 200, 300, and 400series.
What a treat. I love old HGVs as I mentioned previously, when I was home on leave from the army I used to drive lorries for R French and Sons in Hastings. I normally got lumbered with the Ford D Type but I coveted the AEC he had on the fleet. I’ve never ever seen a Fidel coach, a rare vehicle indeed. If I owned that French Willam, I’d paint it Post Office red and have a stuffed cat looking out the window (Postman Pat)😂😂😂 My favourite in the show has to be that beautiful Foden crew cab Lockheed brakes lorry. It’s beautiful. Like you a mundane vehicle can be enhanced by the beautiful sign writing. Let’s hope we never loose those skills completely. Great video, thank you
My late father sold / imported to New Zealand ERF & Foden lorries in 70's & 80's. One of your yellow Fodens had cab cut out like the London Dennis Double Decker Bus, curious, must wind video back. Greetings from New Zealand. Great video lads ! 😎👍👌🥳
Bedfords were brilliant as house delivery coal lorries, maybe the cab didn't tip, but the side panels were handy to lift so you could easily have a pee in the busiest streets pretending you were looking at the engine haha, some lovely lorries and signwriting.
I drove nothing but Bedfords during my 17 years as house delivery coal man, I also lettered the lorries, before gas killed the trade, first the customers got the choice of smokeless coal, anthracite,phurnacite etc, but even that got phased out for gas central heating, and we were all made redundant, away back in the 90s, but brilliant seeing the old lorries, some from my earliest memories, as I said, it good wee informative film with some of history you explained about some of the older lorries.
I agree wholeheartedly about the signwriting. One of my great uncles was employed by the large laundry in town just to keep their fleet of vehicles properly attired. I have a photo of him and his two assistants at work on a large laundry van. Another photo shows 3 of the company's vans, including a 1933 Leyland Cub, en route to a concours d’elegance event in 1954. Fancy going to a show and being paid to do it!
Cars are sexy but lorries have character. They are design icons. But by the 1980s they all started to look the same. Square lights and generic square cab. I guess the higher motorway speeds were responsible for that so was inevitable.The best were the 50s to the mid 70s. My favourite is the 1960s Thames trader, which didn't appear here. Beautiful things. Thank you.
You didn't explain that the Bedford TK was useful to coachbuilders of horseboxes to enable a Luton type body to be over the cab. Tipping cabs couldn't do this. Mike.
CRN993 is a Leyland Tiger PS2/5 (Passenger, Single-deck, 2nd generation, 5th model). The Preston registration indicates that it would have been new to Ribble Motor Services. I understand that 3 such were opened to the sky by Southport Corporation in 1963-4. The bodywork was originally by Burlingham, and denoted O35F (Open top, 35 seats, Front entrance). Leyland named their single-deck chassis after big cats and the double-deck ones after giants from ancient mythology. Trucks were normally land animals - Badger, Beaver etc., but their 8x8 chassis became the Octopus.
Fantastic display of most marque's we have never seen in the states. You had to be a REAL man to crank over one of those big engines. Q: ever see one of Sean Connery's early films, where he is a truck driver? If so, was there one of those on display??? JT: Orlando, FLA
Thanks for watching, the film you're thinking of is Hell Drivers, where they mainly drive Kew (UK) built Dodges. I know someone with a Dodge like that but there isn't one in this video.
Were there any Urals and Zils at the exhibition , were there any interesting models there ? after all, Soviet cars were ahead of their time in terms of design and technology, I really like them
hi there, Bedford trucks did make the RL4x4 for civilian use.the MOD ones had minor differences such as both screens could open, and most of them had a 4.927cc petrol engine with mod spec oil bath air-cleaner,i owned one for 5 years. a great vehicle and easy to look after
Sam Longson was famous for being Chairman of Derby County FC during their title winning days in the early 70s, the first of which under the management team of a certain Brian Clough and Peter Taylor. In the movie The Damned United, Longson is portrayed by Jim Broadbent.
Thank you for posting. The AEC Matador certainly brought back memories from when I worked for Birkenhead Brewery. It was subsequently taken over by Whitbread. I remember the delivery yard being full of different wagons, AEC, Dennis, Fodens and latterly Bedfords. The particular vehicle you filmed was spot on. The colour and signwriting is very accurate. I probably knew the draymen who drove it. The casks on the back of the lorry contained 36 gallons of beer. When delivering they would use a chain and rope attached to the wagon to lower the casks into the beer cellars. Forget H and S, just skill and brute strength. Also bearing in mind, these draymen would as a matter of course have a pint at every drop. Ten drops in a day and drive back the yard! The garage where the dray wagons were serviced was in Arthor Street, Birkenhead. Ah, those were the days....
Disappointed there wasn't any Commer Trucks. My father was a Commer fan especially The Knocker. Down here in Australia Commers were very popular a real good truck & could stand up to the long distances here up & down the easten coast. The 7 ton Bull nose petrol versions could pull a big load, & was fast by those standards, in the fifties & sixties, the roads here were mostly gravel & the Commers stood up to the tough conditions as good as the American trucks.
Hi Old CC, just found you by accident (but now subscribed) loved the nostalgia trip, I served my apprenticeship back in the 60s mainly on ERFs we had quite a large fleet to look after. Also remember having to remove the cabs on TK Bedfords if serious engine work was needed! Thanks again for the 'trip' and will check out your other listing later. Best regards Stu.
This is a wonderful video! I love old British trucks, especially ERF's and Fodens (particularly the fiberglass cab "Sputnik/Mickey Mouse" design from the late 50's). I was hoping to catch sight of a Scammell Scarab or a Thornycroft Trusty, but I can't complain given the beauties that I did get to see here. Thank you!
I just found your channel, Great job. I love these trucks, I grew up in Portugal with these great trucks. Thank you very much from California. Subscribe.
Thank you! Absolutely wonderful trip back in time, for the most part. I've read about a lot of these trucks, and of course I'm very familiar with the Kenworth and Peterbilt, but really nice to see the others. Subbed.
The ZIL may have a petrol engine. There was also a version as a prime mover with a trailer with driven axles which made it a 10 x 10 or 8 x 8 instead of a 6 x 6.
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i would like to contact graham booth, owner of the pickfords diamond t, but the phone number in the photo is not recognised.
Are there many trucks or lorries with the Toft and Tomlinson livery from Darley Dale?
What made these old British trucks what they were , was the beating heart of the Gardner . either in 6LW up to 8LXB I doubt if any other engine make has survived in the numbers that Gardner's still show.
I drove a little 60's vintage 10 ton gross flatbed TK back in the early seventies. I used to bring flower bulbs back from Holland. All under sheet and ropes of course, which was no fun if customs wanted to check the bill.
The red foden truck is beautiful
Agreed it's a lovely old thing isn't it
Your knowledge of datès and ýears is brilliant.
What a memory, my dad was a lorry body builder in 1950's in the Gold Coast now Ghana as a little boy I saw Bedford.ERF, Forden Albion, Austin , Morris et. Love the videos.
Great to hear, glad they're of interest
I've just made a bus and lorry exhibition for my 00 train layout. They are all in a semi circle on the green......I'm sure it's all your fault hahaha....I wasn't into vintage lorries before i got into watching your car show films. Once you see the beauty in all that pig iron and max speeds of 30mph....you can't go back. You can see the pride in every bolt and drop of paint
beautiful trucks ❤
Nice to Meet You Iam a Costaricanamerican 🇨🇷🇺🇸💚;I like Classic Trucks and Buses,in Costa Rica The Country have all Kind Transportetion. From Germany,England and United States of America;Hi Since SanJacinto,Ca USA
The Bedford KYX is an agricultural spreader as used by CA and AE Howard of Kingscliffe near Peterborough.
Thanks again, very cute Foden Coach wearing a rather sad, helpless face
well I did enjoy that look around though vehices quite a large range of all sorts of lorries thanks for showing us the made people around the lorries .
Thanks for watching Jonathan, more lorry content will be uploaded soon
Thank you for this video. Good to see so many still on the road and so well cared for. I still like the old fairground lorries that pulled the rides around the country. As a kid in 50's I remember thinking how unstoppable and powerful they looked. Wonder what their mpg was fully loaded with bumper cars and track, or the top speed. Great viewing, thank you
At 30:31 you were filming an ex- military truck or more over the engine in it,,, It seems to be a Cummins L10, I liked the engine and worked on a lot of them.
Another one of your excellent videos.
Thanks David, it was a fun show to re-visit after missing it for years
Thank you for video. I'm a big fan of British lorries from Russia. It was very unusual to see ZIL 131 at this show! Subscribed!
Thanks for watching!
My Dad was a commercial sign writer. These lettering jobs bring back fond memories of his work. Artistry, indeed.
The Bedford reg KYX 7820 ,is very likely used to spread lime on fields , my dad drove one of these back in the 60s, i can remember sitting in the passenger seat being bounced about, deafened and gassed by the engine .........happy days !!
Am I the only one with a truck on the road from new Jan 1996 still in service. MAN 10.223. Its older than some of your classics. (on its second set of tires now)
If I were given the opportunity to go back to the fifties at the age i am now (64) i would grab it with both hands! Really enjoyable video.
Hi from the la Republica Argentina, great footage warmest compliments as generally we like so much every Brit's machines , despite the left's side steering wheel . By the way some days ago i got acknowledged by random a lorry-truck's brand that also produced urban buses , its name was Albion , such a discovery !!!! Have you ever kkown that Albion was the previous own name of Great Britain before the Roman emperors called your land Britannia ? Such an incredible homage !
I did not know that! Thanks for watching the videos!
My dad was a truck driver all his life so I remember all this old stuff being on the road. One of my earliest memories was of him and I going down a steep hill in sussex seeing how much he could get out of an austin k8 van. Haven't seen one for ages
Thanks mate.. I was a Transportologist for about 50 years and I have a huge respect for old school trucks (lorries) from way back in the day.. Remember back in the day.. these old girls weren't quite as polished (nor was I) as they are now.. Thanks again and cheers 🥂
16:52 Now one of those I've driven - a bit ;)
As an American I always loved British lorries. Must have been all of the matchbox trucks I had in the 60s.
All the older trucks were just so stylish 😍😍👍👍
I acquired "XGK 699" British plates at a flea market in 1985.... and a single plate , " 5 DGW" in 1987. Supposedly 5 DGW is circa 1910.... great video. I'm in Connecticut USA
unfortunately i cant pick a favourite.....they are all beautiful and a credit to their current owners.....thanks for uploading.
The 1938 ERF is just about the best in the show, paintwork and sign writing superb, most of these early lorries I remember being on the road when I was a youngster and in the mid 50's there were still a large number of ex W.D. still being used on the roads.
The 2nd military Scammel is the Explorer i think. Petrol engined, Meadows or Rolls Royce. 3mpg with a following breeze.
Super
thank you for this beautiful film .greatings dutch old truck enthosiastic.
Enjoyed that, thanks, a big hats off to all the restorers who put in the blood, sweat and tears to put these awesome vehicles on show.👍🙂
Those old trucks sure had their own original looks to them. Modern trucks now just about all look alike.
Thanks for watching
The ZIL 131 Russian Truck @ 29:25 mins is my ideal truck for it's off road performance. There are loads of russian video's on youtube. There is also the ZIL 130 V8 petrol is worth a look at.
Agreed a real "go anywhere" kind of vehicle
Love your voice mate
Proof that history was colourful.
Although in fairness back in the day, the lorries would often have been filthy :-) Thanks so much for watching
Has I have commented before I love these old lorry videos.My father drove lorries post war right up to the late sixties.
Wow, gorgeous cars, lorries and everything. Let's go!
That brought back a lot of memories. I have driven most of them. Not one big Ford Transconinental. I did thousands of miles in them. 290 & 320 Cummins what a lorrie pull for fun.
Lovely to see so many old classic lorries, but a shame that the narrator gave no details about them apart from what we could all see from the video!
Apologies for not providing a suitably in-depth narration on each lorry
I like the crane truck. I worked as a crane driver. Thanks.
Thanks for watching the video Andrey
That 1938 ERF was beautiful
Glad you liked it, there's something I really like about the pre-war lorries
Thank you for sharing this video! I am American and know nothing of British lorries, but I enjoyed your presentation very much, the lorries are beautiful!
11:36 Immediately spotted the typo !
Thanks so much for this, brought back so many memories, I can well recall the Morris Commercial (I think that is the name) small van being used by the Post Office to collect mail from mail boxes at Sidcup and the very distinct sound they had.
The big American trucks always fascinate, but there were some real classics here, very well done.
Hi Derek thanks for watching it 👍
Some fantastic vehicles on show, brings back memories of when I started working on scammells as an apprentice in 1976, and I'm still working today but on Mercedes trucks! happy days.
G'day cobber,,,
Big thanks for taking the time to show these lorries/trucks .
They were fine examples of yesteryears transport .
Sure brought back a few fond memories of climbing all over them as a kid in the UK, back in the early sixties .
Respect
from
Down Under
Cheers Craig, there are quite a few lorry-related videos on here now
@@oldclassiccarUK Thanks for that ,ive seen a few now ,will work through the collection in time as ive found them very entertaining, informative even .
Will also be sure to subscribe so i can keep up with the new releases too.
On ya cobber,,
Respect
from
Down Under
Love the old lorries.
Great video thank you. First lorry I ever drove was a TK on an ordinary licence because it was fitted with small wheels. Remind me to tell you about the low bridge incident. '😉. Aged 21 in 1972 learnt in a 6 wheel 2 stroke Foden. Numerous lorries followed that , mainly 6 / 8 wheeled Fodens , Scammels ( steering wheel offset in was it the Routemaster ) Driving the Atkinson Border cab felt like I was driving a front room about it was that big, I cannot believe that these lorries felt so big back in the day but now when I see them at Truckfest they look like the size of vans up against modern lorries. Different times of cause but I was that enthusiastic if I could drive a better lorry for a company but for less money I would do it. Wife was never happy about that though. Hopefully HGV drivers given the shortage will receive the wages they deserve as its always been a badly bad job unless of cause you worked for a petrol company or Tate & Lyle. Just wished I could have my time again and be out there driving modern lorries. Great rally as well. Ted Should of added how great that Lockheed Foden is.
Fantastic video, a great tour around seeing these wonderful venerable vehicles
my dad used to drive a Thorneycroft , s type Bedford , & Tk Bedford , never see a Thorneycroft.
The pre war lorries reminded me of my grandfather who drove in the war to help the war effort he had been a driver before the war and worked for Roth wells of huddersfield in west Yorkshire.
eddie lowe,,,,my father JOCK LOWE, South African ,was a driver in the egyptian campaign from South africa to Cairo via Niarobi,,,,,,,,one hell of a long trip
One of my major jobs I recall as an apprentice was converting a fleet of Ford D series trucks for petro-chem work which involved rewiring them for insulated return and converting all internal earthed components to fully insulated. It took absolutely ages and IIRC there were 12 of them to do. No such thing as a ready made loom so that all had to be fabricated too. I was more or less sent to the back of the garage and left to get on with it for weeks on end. Memory is dimming about it now but they may have also had to be made 24volt as some components could not be insulated in 12 volt configuration, whereas 24 volt was off the shelf dual pole.
Nowadays, no one would bother, too Labour intensive.
nice to see Andrew Shorrock with another wagon great condition as usual
Fantastic video, thanks very much :)
I used to drive an Austin FG very similar to the one at 21:55. They were very common in the 60s; a spacious if somewhat basic cab with good all-round visibility (as a flatbed) and access into and out of the cab which was much easier than with its contemporaries and its successors. If I had a vehicle collection I would include one of these.
My memory of the FG is playing in an abandoned one as a kid!
From the U.S.A. , what beautiful ex- amples of truck (lorry) history. The recession of the 1980's hit our Amer- ican company I-H very hard, and many of its divisions were sold off. The Seddon- Atkinson division had some good looking vehicles w/ the 200, 300, and 400series.
Hi, thanks for watching and supporting the channel
What a treat. I love old HGVs as I mentioned previously, when I was home on leave from the army I used to drive lorries for R French and Sons in Hastings. I normally got lumbered with the Ford D Type but I coveted the AEC he had on the fleet.
I’ve never ever seen a Fidel coach, a rare vehicle indeed.
If I owned that French Willam, I’d paint it Post Office red and have a stuffed cat looking out the window (Postman Pat)😂😂😂
My favourite in the show has to be that beautiful Foden crew cab Lockheed brakes lorry. It’s beautiful.
Like you a mundane vehicle can be enhanced by the beautiful sign writing. Let’s hope we never loose those skills completely.
Great video, thank you
My late father sold / imported to New Zealand ERF & Foden lorries in 70's & 80's. One of your yellow Fodens had cab cut out like the London Dennis Double Decker Bus, curious, must wind video back. Greetings from New Zealand.
Great video lads ! 😎👍👌🥳
Thanks Vernon, please keep an eye on the channel for future uploads
Bedfords were brilliant as house delivery coal lorries, maybe the cab didn't tip, but the side panels were handy to lift so you could easily have a pee in the busiest streets pretending you were looking at the engine haha, some lovely lorries and signwriting.
I wonder if that was ever mentioned in the Bedford sales catalogues of the day?!?!!! Thanks for watching.
I drove nothing but Bedfords during my 17 years as house delivery coal man, I also lettered the lorries, before gas killed the trade, first the customers got the choice of smokeless coal, anthracite,phurnacite etc, but even that got phased out for gas central heating, and we were all made redundant, away back in the 90s, but brilliant seeing the old lorries, some from my earliest memories, as I said, it good wee informative film with some of history you explained about some of the older lorries.
Very nicely restored Foden with a crew cab and good history with Girling. The Pickfords Diamond T is also very good.
i started my lorry driving in mid 60s they had character in 50s 60s
That 4x4 Bedford Lime Spreader is still in use!
Thanks for the footage of my Scammell Explorer and Crusader!
I agree wholeheartedly about the signwriting. One of my great uncles was employed by the large laundry in town just to keep their fleet of vehicles properly attired. I have a photo of him and his two assistants at work on a large laundry van. Another photo shows 3 of the company's vans, including a 1933 Leyland Cub, en route to a concours d’elegance event in 1954. Fancy going to a show and being paid to do it!
Cars are sexy but lorries have character. They are design icons. But by the 1980s they all started to look the same. Square lights and generic square cab. I guess the higher motorway speeds were responsible for that so was inevitable.The best were the 50s to the mid 70s. My favourite is the 1960s Thames trader, which didn't appear here. Beautiful things. Thank you.
Love these videos guys! Very well done! 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻🙏🏼
Just found your channel, it's fantastic! Subscribed. 👍🏻
Brilliant, thanks for sub'ing
You didn't explain that the Bedford TK was useful to coachbuilders of horseboxes to enable a Luton type body to be over the cab. Tipping cabs couldn't do this. Mike.
Good point
CRN993 is a Leyland Tiger PS2/5 (Passenger, Single-deck, 2nd generation, 5th model). The Preston registration indicates that it would have been new to Ribble Motor Services. I understand that 3 such were opened to the sky by Southport Corporation in 1963-4. The bodywork was originally by Burlingham, and denoted O35F (Open top, 35 seats, Front entrance).
Leyland named their single-deck chassis after big cats and the double-deck ones after giants from ancient mythology. Trucks were normally land animals - Badger, Beaver etc., but their 8x8 chassis became the Octopus.
Fantastic display of most marque's we have never seen in the states. You had to be a REAL man to crank over one of those big engines.
Q: ever see one of Sean Connery's early films, where he is a truck driver? If so, was there one of those on display???
JT: Orlando, FLA
Thanks for watching, the film you're thinking of is Hell Drivers, where they mainly drive Kew (UK) built Dodges. I know someone with a Dodge like that but there isn't one in this video.
Where I did my apprenticeship (Robert Dixon Crane Hire) we had a Diamond T Rolls Royce powered recovery truck, what a beast.
Were there any Urals and Zils at the exhibition , were there any interesting models there ? after all, Soviet cars were ahead of their time in terms of design and technology, I really like them
I need to check, there was a Russian truck in the military section of this show I think
At 13:43, a Dodge with a Renault badge. How comes?
I forget the details but at the time there was a link/tie-in between the two
hi there, Bedford trucks did make the RL4x4 for civilian use.the MOD ones had minor differences such as both screens could open, and most of them had a 4.927cc petrol engine with mod spec oil bath air-cleaner,i owned one for 5 years. a great vehicle and easy to look after
Sam Longson may have been the Chairman of Derby football club - the employer of the famous Brian Clough.
Bedford s type has a fertiliser spinner on the back, a great looking machine
10:37 Gut feeling there's one round here still in use as a removal van !
Sam Longson was famous for being Chairman of Derby County FC during their title winning days in the early 70s, the first of which under the management team of a certain Brian Clough and Peter Taylor. In the movie The Damned United, Longson is portrayed by Jim Broadbent.
Thank you for posting. The AEC Matador certainly brought back memories from when I worked for Birkenhead Brewery. It was subsequently taken over by Whitbread. I remember the delivery yard being full of different wagons, AEC, Dennis, Fodens and latterly Bedfords. The particular vehicle you filmed was spot on. The colour and signwriting is very accurate. I probably knew the draymen who drove it. The casks on the back of the lorry contained 36 gallons of beer. When delivering they would use a chain and rope attached to the wagon to lower the casks into the beer cellars. Forget H and S, just skill and brute strength. Also bearing in mind, these draymen would as a matter of course have a pint at every drop. Ten drops in a day and drive back the yard!
The garage where the dray wagons were serviced was in Arthor Street, Birkenhead. Ah, those were the days....
Interesting re the Matador and Whitbread, thanks for sharing
Real shame the explanatory note on Radiator called it an "Ace" tut, tut....spellchecker failure?
Think foden bus mtu 296 was part of the coppenhalls fleet sandbach 25 mins in seem to remember it when I was about 6
Wonderful! What styling.
Disappointed there wasn't any Commer Trucks. My father was a Commer fan especially The Knocker. Down here in Australia Commers were very popular a real good truck & could stand up to the long distances here up & down the easten coast. The 7 ton Bull nose petrol versions could pull a big load, & was fast by those standards, in the fifties & sixties, the roads here were mostly gravel & the Commers stood up to the tough conditions as good as the American trucks.
Hi, they pop up from time to time but they're not as common around here (ERF and Foden country), thanks for watching
Hi Old CC, just found you by accident (but now subscribed) loved the nostalgia trip,
I served my apprenticeship back in the 60s mainly on ERFs we had quite a large fleet to look after. Also remember having to remove the cabs on TK Bedfords if serious engine work was needed! Thanks again for the 'trip' and will check out your other listing later.
Best regards Stu.
Thanks for sub'ing Stu!!!! :)
This is a wonderful video! I love old British trucks, especially ERF's and Fodens (particularly the fiberglass cab "Sputnik/Mickey Mouse" design from the late 50's). I was hoping to catch sight of a Scammell Scarab or a Thornycroft Trusty, but I can't complain given the beauties that I did get to see here. Thank you!
Glad you enjoyed it!
The Morris 'J' type is now available as an EV. Brilliant retro vehicle.
Hi, yes I've seen clips of the new "J", hope it does well
The yellow Foden dump truck, VFJ 89 J is Exeter registered ( my home city ) plenty of quarries in Devon.
I just found your channel, Great job. I love these trucks, I grew up in Portugal with these great trucks. Thank you very much from California. Subscribe.
Glad you found it, thanks for watching!
That Dodge van wearing Renault badging.
GORDON HARVEY. Check out the B,T,S....Brake test service
Great video have you come across BRS 935 Ablion ? I rebuilt the engine and looked after it
Many many year ago...
Thank you! Absolutely wonderful trip back in time, for the most part. I've read about a lot of these trucks, and of course I'm very familiar with the Kenworth and Peterbilt, but really nice to see the others. Subbed.
Thanks for watching & sub'ing
The hood ornament on the Kenworth is a grab handle to pull forward the tilting hood.
Interesting, didn't know that
The ZIL may have a petrol engine. There was also a version as a prime mover with a trailer with driven axles which made it a 10 x 10 or 8 x 8 instead of a 6 x 6.
beautiful signwriting
Difficult to pick a favourite from that lot!
20:50 Perkins powered.
The Russian army truck is a Ural 4320.