I hope this second collection of classic & vintage British lorry photos was of interest (the first collection is here: ua-cam.com/video/EMisOpfg8A0/v-deo.html). Hopefully proper shows will return to the calendar soon, following the lockdown of 2020, but for now, I hope, these photographs will help fill the void. If you know any history of the vehicles shown in this video, or have ideas for future videos, please pop a comment in below. Thanks for watching, RJ.
It certainly was of interest, thank you very much indeed. I know everyone will have their favourites, but the ones that stood out for me were the immaculate Clydesdale/Albion? cement mixer at 13.39 and the very beautiful and unusual Castrol Oils Atkinson drawbar combination at 14.22 & 15.02. I wonder was that an export unit? I was born in 1967 so don't remember a lot of these in service for very long. Regards
Hi Mr Jones. Delighted to have stumbled across this. I restore and customize old Dinkys and Corgis. This is a fabulous resource for vehicle variants, colour schemes and basically anything classic lorry related. I know nothing about commercials and this is a wonderful window into the whole field. Well done and thank you....Mike
Recently I discovered the channel of your son and in a comment on one of his videos I asked him if he could pay attention to the "Commer" some day, because my father was a car mechanic with the importer in The Hague in 1949. One time I saw him on a bare Commer-chassis with only the engine and the steering, sitting on a crate. He also was a chauffeur on a Commer Q-2025 delivery van. I was 6 years old back then. In 1959 I got my first job at coach factory "Verheul". I remember they made series of small buses on a Commer-chassis to be exported to Saudi-Arabia. They imported AEC and Leyland engines. In the 1970s the company was taken over by British Leyland and became distributor in Holland for their brands. I hope you appreciate my memories. I'm glad you showed several Commers in this video.
Man some lovely memories there. Back in the late 70,s l used to fit tachographs in the cabs. I remember Leylands being right pigs to get at the dashboard, but the Bedford TK,s were lovely and easy to work on. Good days.👍
Very impressive photo collection of a great range of classic British trucks (er... pardon me, "lorries"). My pick for the "odd one out", is the Oshkosh in the background at 15:47.
@5.36 the Henleys Amusements wagon- I spotted that about 3 years ago on the truckstop on the M6, I had a brief talk to the owner and his wife who were heading to a rally down south, they were from Scotland I believe👍.
A fascinating video with some really interesting machinery.5.56 is a Mk5 Coles bridging crane,I used to operate these in West Germany(as was)back in 1970/71,aprrox 26 tons on 6 wheels meant that you had to be careful off the tarmac,too easy to get stuck!.
Got to say have only just discovered your channel and being a Pom but out in the penal colony I just am amazed at how many of the old trucks have survived over there We have basically nothing here and as a child I remember seeing foden cement trucks and I got my license in a Bedford like the grey one you pictured I can’t say I have seen any of these old trucks for many years I did like the one that had my name on the side of it Cheers 👍👍👍
Hi I have enjoyed looking at all these lorries my grandfather drove for the B R S the vehicle he drove was a Bristol Max Cab artic the cab was very plane square looking with a flat front I'm not sure if any of these have survived all the best Paul
There's something both sad and beautiful about seeing the old trucks quietly and peacefully rusting away in a barn or a field. They deserve their retirement
To see a lot of classic motor bikes cars lorries and heavy haulage the best show in the country to go to is the great Dorset steam fair so much to see you will need a couple of days at least to take it all in Well worth a visit when it restarts again hopefully next year
Hi, loved the video. Would the "odd one out" be the toy at 7:56? Can't quite make out the brand. Great to see the quality of the restorations. It's hard enough to do an authentic car resto let alone a truck that would have been made in far fewer numbers and probably wouldn't have been treated as gently. I'm amazed so many have survived. I'm from Australia and right up to the mid 1960s the majority of our heavy vehicles would have been British. I'm retired many years now but used to work for Joseph Lucas in Australia and it was a delight to see so very many Lucas parts on the trucks. Ah, the good old days!
Perhaps some old photos of European Lorries/trucks by make - Scania, Volvo, Magirus Deutz, Daf, Mercedes, Saurer, Fiat etc. Thanks for showing more classic old lorries
Loved the two shots of the Sentinel Super was that your sneaker - please do a series on the AEC MATADOR my favourite truck apart from my 1944 Cologne built Ford v3000s👍👍
I have heard you refer to the 1950s style of Bedford as the S series, but to me it is the RL. I learned to drive in these in 1972 as a 17 year old soldier. Whilst we are talking military do you know that the forces has a 4x4 version of the TK, the MK or MJ? I am sure that I spotted a Humber armoured car in there, maybe a Humber Pig? And now a question, those 3 wheeled trucks were Scammels but were they called Scarabs? I remember that the GPO and British Rail used them in stations because they were highly manoeuvrable and were they electric?
Hi, thanks for watching, I'll have to re-visit the vid but from memory the S Type was the civilian lorry whereas the RL was the 4x4 military equivalent. I don't think the Scammell Scarabs were electric but yes they were certainly very manoeuvrable
When I was a bus driver I used to drive past an old Bedford TK which was buried in bushes. It looked really rough, the nearside door I think was hanging off. It sat kinda high so I'm assuming maybe ex-army or used in tree felling or something. It was on a property in Upshire, Essex. On a narrow lane .
It's amazing what's still around. Only a couple of days ago I spotted an ERF lorry behind a building a couple of miles down the road, that I didn't know existed. Sadly I was in an AA recovery truck at the time 😀 but at least something came good from that particular journey!!
Hi, My Dad drove a Karrier bantam artic/ trailer in Belfast in the late sixties/ early seventies for Wordies of Belfast, would love to see any pictures, if available, Cheers Paul M
A series of woebegone Matadors- but towards the end we saw a couple in pristine condition. I suppose because of their winching capabilities they disappeared into forestry work and were not given much cosmetic TLC. When I was a teenager the man over the road had been an apprentice at AEC, Southall. He had many large tins of nuts, bolts, washers- you name it. I used to wonder why he had all those bits and pieces but 50 plus years on, I know why!
Thanks for watching (don't miss the other classic commercial vids too), offhand I don't know the ERF you're referring to but if it's similar age to those shown in this vid, I may have photo(s)
The yellow tanker in the field is a ex RAF AEC Mammoth Major with Ergomatic cab,its interesting because when the RAF first got the Ergomatic cabbed Mammoth Major's in the late 1960s they were yellow more followed in the early to mid 1970's by that Stage they where in NATO dark green. If you in future do video by truck makes AEC is what I would like to see.
Hi Ray, fair point, later videos do linger on each photo for longer (UA-cam does give you the option to speed up or slow down a video's play speed, might be worth checking that out). Thanks for watching
If you look at the videos I've done at shows where there are plenty of commercial vehicles on display, you'll see plenty of BMC vans and lorries. Thanks for watching.
I used to drive an AEC Mandator Mk.5 hauling trailers around Felixstowe. 11.7ltr. straight six with four speed crash box. But okay to drive though. Why do the British appear to uniquely call trucks 'lorries' though ?
A horse-drawn flatbed was known as a "LURRY". My great great grandfather was a lurryman in 1902. "LORRY" is just a motorised version, a fashion thing. Vehicles here also have rubber TYRES, whilst old-fashioned wooden wheels are still fitted with steel TIRES.
hi my name is Ashley i'm from Australia and i was wondering if could find out some information for about the 1934 AEC 8x8 MATILDA of which only 3 were ever made we have one here in Australia it was made for the out back as a ROAD TRAIN i do have pictures of and it is in the Northern Territory Museum at Alice Springs Ashley Australia i have only been able to find 2:00 about it on line thankyou?
@@oldclassiccarUK Ah - the toy model truck. Actually I thought it was a Russian Military truck in there somewhere. Certainly looks a bit Russian. Two trucks after the model at 8:03
Hi, UA-cam gives you the option to alter video play speed - click the Cog (settings) button at the bottom of the view panel when you have a video playing
Fair enough, but it'd have run on for too long had I extended the pause significantly. The idea was that anyone who wants to look at a particular lorry for longer can simply pause the vid, but I'll take your thoughts on board for the next one I do, thanks.
@@oldclassiccarUK I quite understand your way of thinking , but, there are so many good & interesting photos , I would be on it all night . There are a lot of wagons here , that I cut my teeth on 46 years ago , when I first took to the road .
I hope this second collection of classic & vintage British lorry photos was of interest (the first collection is here: ua-cam.com/video/EMisOpfg8A0/v-deo.html). Hopefully proper shows will return to the calendar soon, following the lockdown of 2020, but for now, I hope, these photographs will help fill the void. If you know any history of the vehicles shown in this video, or have ideas for future videos, please pop a comment in below. Thanks for watching, RJ.
It certainly was of interest, thank you very much indeed. I know everyone will have their favourites, but the ones that stood out for me were the immaculate Clydesdale/Albion? cement mixer at 13.39 and the very beautiful and unusual Castrol Oils Atkinson drawbar combination at 14.22 & 15.02. I wonder was that an export unit? I was born in 1967 so don't remember a lot of these in service for very long. Regards
@@garethifan1034 Glad you liked it, by all means pass on the link to this vid if you know of anyone else who might find it of interest. Thanks, RJ.
Hi Mr Jones. Delighted to have stumbled across this. I restore and customize old Dinkys and Corgis. This is a fabulous resource for vehicle variants, colour schemes and basically anything classic lorry related. I know nothing about commercials and this is a wonderful window into the whole field. Well done and thank you....Mike
@@MG-id7hl Hi, glad it was of use, I've a few other commercial vehicle uploads planned so keep an eye on the channel if possible, thanks
Love the D-type Jag on top of the transporter 🇬🇧
Recently I discovered the channel of your son and in a comment on one of his videos I asked him if he could pay attention to the "Commer" some day, because my father was a car mechanic with the importer in The Hague in 1949. One time I saw him on a bare Commer-chassis with only the engine and the steering, sitting on a crate. He also was a chauffeur on a Commer Q-2025 delivery van. I was 6 years old back then.
In 1959 I got my first job at coach factory "Verheul". I remember they made series of small buses on a Commer-chassis to be exported to Saudi-Arabia.
They imported AEC and Leyland engines.
In the 1970s the company was taken over by British Leyland and became distributor in Holland for their brands.
I hope you appreciate my memories. I'm glad you showed several Commers in this video.
Hi, many thanks for watching both our channels. Please keep an eye on the channel as I do have some Commer content planned.
Thanks for your reaction, I will keep my eyes open, I'am looking forward.
Man some lovely memories there. Back in the late 70,s l used to fit tachographs in the cabs. I remember Leylands being right pigs to get at the dashboard, but the Bedford TK,s were lovely and easy to work on. Good days.👍
Great to see all the old stuff again and I really enjoyed the quiet but audible sound track. thank you for posting.
As a Rootes apprentice trained on the TS3 power unit seeing all your photos brings back memories.
Nice to see the old trucks.thank you.
Love all the ex-WW2 trucks AEC & Scammell & Diamond T
Very impressive photo collection of a great range of classic British trucks (er... pardon me, "lorries"). My pick for the "odd one out", is the Oshkosh in the background at 15:47.
Very much enjoyed both these videos - and the Leyland/Metz Turntable Ladder at 10.23 made my day!!
Glad you enjoyed it!
@5.36 the Henleys Amusements wagon- I spotted that about 3 years ago on the truckstop on the M6, I had a brief talk to the owner and his wife who were heading to a rally down south, they were from Scotland I believe👍.
A fascinating video with some really interesting machinery.5.56 is a Mk5 Coles bridging crane,I used to operate these in West Germany(as was)back in 1970/71,aprrox 26 tons on 6 wheels meant that you had to be careful off the tarmac,too easy to get stuck!.
Glad you liked it, don't forget to view the other similar vid also uploaded here!
Got to say have only just discovered your channel and being a Pom but out in the penal colony
I just am amazed at how many of the old trucks have survived over there
We have basically nothing here and as a child I remember seeing foden cement trucks and I got my license in a Bedford like the grey one you pictured
I can’t say I have seen any of these old trucks for many years
I did like the one that had my name on the side of it
Cheers 👍👍👍
Glad you liked it, there are quite a few lorry-related videos on here now 👍
Hi I have enjoyed looking at all these lorries my grandfather drove for the B R S the vehicle he drove was a Bristol Max Cab artic the cab was very plane square looking with a flat front I'm not sure if any of these have survived all the best Paul
nice bit of steam around 6.18. Not long found your channel, great work, thanks
Thanks Iain!
Very good
wow! I never knew there were so many different brands of trucks in Britain
There's something both sad and beautiful about seeing the old trucks quietly and peacefully rusting away in a barn or a field. They deserve their retirement
The good old days 👍
To see a lot of classic motor bikes cars lorries and heavy haulage the best show in the country to go to is the great Dorset steam fair so much to see you will need a couple of days at least to take it all in Well worth a visit when it restarts again hopefully next year
Hi, loved the video.
Would the "odd one out" be the toy at 7:56? Can't quite make out the brand.
Great to see the quality of the restorations. It's hard enough to do an authentic car resto let alone a truck that would have been made in far fewer numbers and probably wouldn't have been treated as gently. I'm amazed so many have survived.
I'm from Australia and right up to the mid 1960s the majority of our heavy vehicles would have been British.
I'm retired many years now but used to work for Joseph Lucas in Australia and it was a delight to see so very many Lucas parts on the trucks.
Ah, the good old days!
Perhaps some old photos of European Lorries/trucks by make - Scania, Volvo, Magirus Deutz, Daf, Mercedes, Saurer, Fiat etc. Thanks for showing more classic old lorries
Thanks for your thoughts, I will do a few more lorry compilations
Loved the two shots of the Sentinel Super was that your sneaker - please do a series on the AEC MATADOR my favourite truck apart from my 1944 Cologne built Ford v3000s👍👍
Thanks for watching, if I have enough AEC photos I'll put a collection together sometime
I look forward to it 👍
Very nice sir
Thanks Keith, keep an eye on the channel for future lorry uploads
I remember the GUY WARRIOR . I think it had a Indian chief emblem on top of the rad .
It did indeed
I like it
I have heard you refer to the 1950s style of Bedford as the S series, but to me it is the RL. I learned to drive in these in 1972 as a 17 year old soldier.
Whilst we are talking military do you know that the forces has a 4x4 version of the TK, the MK or MJ?
I am sure that I spotted a Humber armoured car in there, maybe a Humber Pig?
And now a question, those 3 wheeled trucks were Scammels but were they called Scarabs? I remember that the GPO and British Rail used them in stations because they were highly manoeuvrable and were they electric?
Hi, thanks for watching, I'll have to re-visit the vid but from memory the S Type was the civilian lorry whereas the RL was the 4x4 military equivalent. I don't think the Scammell Scarabs were electric but yes they were certainly very manoeuvrable
When I was a bus driver I used to drive past an old Bedford TK which was buried in bushes. It looked really rough, the nearside door I think was hanging off. It sat kinda high so I'm assuming maybe ex-army or used in tree felling or something. It was on a property in Upshire, Essex. On a narrow lane .
It's amazing what's still around. Only a couple of days ago I spotted an ERF lorry behind a building a couple of miles down the road, that I didn't know existed. Sadly I was in an AA recovery truck at the time 😀 but at least something came good from that particular journey!!
Hi, My Dad drove a Karrier bantam artic/ trailer in Belfast in the late sixties/ early seventies for Wordies of Belfast, would love to see any pictures, if available, Cheers Paul M
Prachtig!!!!
A series of woebegone Matadors- but towards the end we saw a couple in pristine condition. I suppose because of their winching capabilities they disappeared into forestry work and were not given much cosmetic TLC. When I was a teenager the man over the road had been an apprentice at AEC, Southall. He had many large tins of nuts, bolts, washers- you name it. I used to wonder why he had all those bits and pieces but 50 plus years on, I know why!
I owned 2 of these @ 6.36 and 8.51.
6:36 and 8:51
Hi do you still own the commer?
@@johncrozier7659 no sold it
Brilliant I've seen alot of them beauts at small wood vintage rally, have you any pics of no1 erf plants for service from North Rode cheers
Thanks for watching (don't miss the other classic commercial vids too), offhand I don't know the ERF you're referring to but if it's similar age to those shown in this vid, I may have photo(s)
Excellent video well done 👍
Thanks Phil, please also see the other similar vid that's on the channel
You couldn’t beat the Bedford in the middle range of lorries they might have been a bit slower than the rest but they always got you there
Excellent show can you show vintage fire engines from terence lreland
If I have enough suitable photos, I'll put something together!
The yellow tanker in the field is a ex RAF AEC Mammoth Major with Ergomatic cab,its interesting because when the RAF first got the Ergomatic cabbed Mammoth Major's in the late 1960s they were yellow more followed in the early to mid 1970's by that Stage they where in NATO dark green. If you in future do video by truck makes AEC is what I would like to see.
Thanks for the feedback, I did wonder about splitting up photos featured in the two lorry vids into specific makes, and adding a few more in
AEC TRUCKS ❤ My best TRUCKS can I have one of Matado
I would throw in a suggestion that you slow down the reel, and linger a few seconds longer on each photo. Many thanks.
Hi Ray, fair point, later videos do linger on each photo for longer (UA-cam does give you the option to speed up or slow down a video's play speed, might be worth checking that out). Thanks for watching
How can I send you photos of old cars and trucks
Show more,bmcs and,austins for,australia
If you look at the videos I've done at shows where there are plenty of commercial vehicles on display, you'll see plenty of BMC vans and lorries. Thanks for watching.
If you want to see old British lorries "parked up" ie abandoned then take a drive around New Zealand , old Bedfords , leylands ,AECs
That sounds like a good excuse for a trip one day
I used to drive an AEC Mandator Mk.5 hauling trailers around Felixstowe. 11.7ltr. straight six with four speed crash box. But okay to drive though.
Why do the British appear to uniquely call trucks 'lorries' though ?
A horse-drawn flatbed was known as a "LURRY". My great great grandfather was a lurryman in 1902. "LORRY" is just a motorised version, a fashion thing. Vehicles here also have rubber TYRES, whilst old-fashioned wooden wheels are still fitted with steel TIRES.
hi my name is Ashley i'm from Australia and i was wondering if could find out some information for about the 1934 AEC 8x8 MATILDA of which only 3 were ever made we have one here in Australia it was made for the out back as a ROAD TRAIN i do have pictures of and it is in the Northern Territory Museum at Alice Springs Ashley Australia i have only been able to find 2:00 about it on line thankyou?
Hi I don't have any specific info on that lorry but sounds like a neat find
@@oldclassiccarUK u can find info by looking up AEC roadtrain on Wikipedia
Hi just having a few words with few people about BEDFORE R.L. i say its a R.L but others say its a S model anyway you can tell?
The military RL was a 4x4 derivative of the civilian S-Series Bedford, built for the army as I understand it
ODK 281 IS MY HOME TOWN ROCHDALE DO YOU KNOW WHO THE LORRY BELONGED TO PLEASE THANKS
Sorry I don't know the owner
What was that bulldozer in the background
Does anyone know how owns the commer at 9 minutes ?
Hi, don't know the owner but if I'm looking at the correct vehicle, it's a Humber
Yes they have a similar cab to commer qx cab. Do you yourself look after the old classic car forum?
The odd one out, was it a steam lorry?maybe a Foden.
The size of the odd one out is the giveaway really ...
@@oldclassiccarUK Ah - the toy model truck. Actually I thought it was a Russian Military truck in there somewhere. Certainly looks a bit Russian. Two trucks after the model at 8:03
Leyland Albion400 pulls a house down.
7.57 wee tinplate like a triang model but not 100% sure..
I gave up after a while, the images going by way to fast for me.
Hi, UA-cam gives you the option to alter video play speed - click the Cog (settings) button at the bottom of the view panel when you have a video playing
alfie
3 seconds , to look at a picture is not long enough & for this reason I pressed the dislike button.
Fair enough, but it'd have run on for too long had I extended the pause significantly. The idea was that anyone who wants to look at a particular lorry for longer can simply pause the vid, but I'll take your thoughts on board for the next one I do, thanks.
@@oldclassiccarUK I quite understand your way of thinking , but, there are so many good & interesting photos , I would be on it all night . There are a lot of wagons here , that I cut my teeth on 46 years ago , when I first took to the road .
@@fortniteinreallifeepic4497 I fully understand, probably next time I'll include fewer photos per video, and have a longer pause on each
Dear easy to fix. Top right of picture. 3 vertical dots. Press. In playback speed reduce it to X 0.25.