Series 1 Land Rover, probably a prototype...(it's apparently No2 of the pre-production run of run of 48 vehicles. Thanks Rory Winckworth)

• Grill over the headlights may point to the prototype
• Side view
• Factory still in camouflage paint
• So what's the drum? A winch? (it's a drive drum for a belt drive. Thanks Andy Barton)
• Scruffball Land Rover outlasted posh Rovers

More from Normandy & Belgium, 1944...

• Children cross road carefully by Stug III
• Humber staff car in Antwerp or Brussels
• Field maintenace of vehicles and clothes
• "Liberated" Fiat (oops! Peugeot 302. Thanks Pieter Groenendyk) and Jeep
• Typical American stuff

Normandy & Belgium, September 1944

• Souvenir hunting an ex-Wehrmacht Bianchi Miles
• Local conversion to ammuntion carrier with sand channels
• American field maintenace
• The Brits fix a Cromwell tank
• Edna and Dennis play on the beach

Brussels show could only be between 1965 (earliest year for Volvo F88) and 1968 (Scania LB76 replaced early 1968 by LB110). Show is from 1967 as the Krupp Cummins V8 shown was introduced in Frankfurt IAA in 1965 and the January 1967 Brussels show would be the first occasion then. Melis Haagsma, Amsterdam.

1967 Brussels it is then

• 335hp in Mack was worth shouting about
• Autocar make sales in the Low Countries
• Faun offer their off-road beast
• International's Bedford clone
• Hippies probably drove this to Kathmandu

Brussels Show from 196????

• The shape of things to come 1.
• The shape of things to come 2.
• The shape of things to go 1.
• The shape of things to go 2.
• Lancia coach
• Daf coach

Some more of that Cheshire school transport...

• unidentified Godfrey Abbott bus
• Cheshire set flash gits and their 2 wheel drive
• Aged Bedford
• Royal Tiger leads the line up( LLG368 is not a Leyland Royal Tiger despite the badge, it is, in fact a Leyland Titan TD3 prewar double deck chassis from about 1933/4 rebodied by Harrington about 1950. Thanks Andrew Critchlow)
• North Western Bristol L5G with Windover body

School transport in Cheshire, kids & food....

• Private sector Commer delivers food
• County Council has a go
• That Commer again
• Travel worn Leyland drops the little darlings off
• Atkinson Alpha from c1951. Flood disaster fund? Holland 1953? (probably the east coast of England's floods. Thanks John Harris)

More on the Severn Bridge completion, 1966...

• D Series takes the short route via ferry
• Dennis on the long route via Gloucester
• Bedford in Gloucester
• Two Trader artics with 28 miles to Chepstow
• The cafe at Aust about to loose its captive customers

The Severn Bridge nears completion in 1966...

• AEC clogs up Chepstow... (with corrections from Kevin from Blakeney)
• ...and so does a Leyland
• Chepstow again I think, with a Seddon
• ERF descends Blakeney Hill
• Old and new. The ferry at Beachley

Douglas vehicles from the 50s....

• four wheel drive tug...for aircraft?
• 6x6 Commer Superpoise conversion
• oilfield vehicle out on the road
• now that's what I call an overhang!
• Nothing to do with Douglas. A pre-war International

Nuffield Research Tender....

• Outside the Evenlode Hotel
• MO Oxford side valve...
• ... must have struggled to pull this lot
• Minor nearly rounded up
• Before SatNav, put a compass on the steering wheel

Paris Salon, 1958....

• Maggie Deutz artic bus
• Bernard Levrier with an Alsthom air cooled V8
• Berliet GAK with Relax cab
• International
• Saviem artic

thanks for the corrections to PIeter Groenendyk

Still around Stuttgart in 1951....

• Krupp rig with a mighty, for 1951, 210PS
• Bussing & Maggie rigs larger than UK stuff at this time
• Mercedes 170(?) tanker (yes it is a 170, thanks Brian Culpan)
• another VW mini-bus
• Tempo Matador on the same road
• Budespost antiques department
• Bussing drawbar

A trip around Germany & Denmark(?), 1951....

• VW taxi in Denmark
• a SMOREVOGN. What's that? (lubrication for tram trackwork. Thanks Uffe Tinggaard)
• Hansome car derived van but what make? (EMW 340 from East Germany, thanks 4 people who knew this one)
• the bus to Gladsaxe
• Mercedes bus of Stuttgart tramways
• ..with a trailer so it can pretend to be a tram

Hastings Tamway Co, January 1947...

• not many holidaymakers in January
• empty shoe shop is a sign of lean times
• two single deckers
• double drive for traction?
• high speed AEC

Ford still in the USSR....

• Russian trucks carry many more dishmops than Fords
• back for more dishmops
• a wayside fuel station
• Russians show their love of chess
• where? Kiev? Kharkov?

Ford drive the D Series to the USSR....

• All diesel is red here comrade (red diesel is the tax free stuff used by farmers in the UK)
• first sight of foreign vehicles?
• Do leave the road in the mud season
• the locals know that
• what are these two anyway? (Skoda RTTN 706, thanks Pieter Groenendyk)
• so pleased are the Comsomol to see some Fords....
• ....they welcome them with a cardboard space rocket

The last of the cars from Frankfurt 1951...

• A Staunau. Hideous apparently
• Attractive Dyna Veritas
• Trippel SG6 amphibian
• Trippel SK10
• .Rometsch, Berlin. VW based. (thanks Hans Steinz)

A diversion...the cars from the Frankfurt show in 1951...

(detail corrections from Christian Goetz. Thank you)

• Borgward Hansa 1500 Sportwagen - I do not know if it is only a prototype, but the later Borgward RS 1500 racing cars are said to have been developed on this base.
• very Germanic, a coupe body on Borgward Hansa 1500 Sport with a coupe body by Rometsch (Berlin) - 2 of them were made.
• DKW's coupe offering
• DKW beat the more famous Morris Minor by 2 years
• Noddy's Car? (Noddy was a British childrens' book character who drove something like this) built by Paul Kleinschnittger 1950 to 1957, had a motorcycle 125 cc 2-stroke engine with first 4.5 hp (DIN), later 6 hp. It had a weight of only 150 kg and made 70 km per hour (more than 40 mph...). And - it had no reverse gear... you had to get out of the car, lift the back and turn it around... At least 2.000 of them were built (some say 3.000).

More from the '51 Frankfurt Show...

• Temptress on Goliath stand with Pilsner Urquell
• MAN for Berlin operator
• Help, what's this?(it's a Faun. Herby. Der Fan in der Ferne. Australia)
• VW van before surfers
• Frail looking Unimog

The Frankfurt Show, 1951....(comments from Pieter Groenendyk)

• Henschel HS190S with ultimate dog's window(Henschel is the so called 'Bimot' because it had two 95 bhp engines on both sides of the bonnet one driving the right rearwheels and one driving the left rear wheels)
• Ruhr? We Brits had a Ford Thames, so is it Ford? (German Ford, built during and after World War II in Köln)
• Tempo. Two stroke mounted on front wheel.
• Mournful looking Tempo Matador
• "like the back end of a bus" or is it the front? ('Schnellbus' made by NWF, Nordwestdeutscher Fahrzeugbau. It is the NWF-Ford Schnellbus FS based ona 3 tons Ford chassis, powered by a 4 cylinder 90bhp Ford Hercules type G 1YT four stroke diesel engine. Maximum speed; about 85 to 95 kmh, 50 to 55 mph.In this form it didn't go into production but in a much more conventional shape)

Lorry Driver of the Year contest...where? when?

• Fina Bedford
• British Railways FG with odd body
• Walls Bedford
• Tate & Lyle Bedford
• Leyland with early container

Atkinson Omega test

• the box said it was cross country but...
• ...the 1 in 2 test hill is....
• ...nice smooth concrete
• demonstration of tyre scrub
• the work house

Still at the 1965 Brussels Show....

• Can anyone remember having seen a Faun L10 in continental Europe?
• Common MAN cab, but rare as an artic
• Henschel was also rare with a bonnet
• More common DAF 2600...
• ...bonneted rare outside the low countries

Mystery vehicles at the 1965 Brussels Show...(Mystery solved. Thank you Andrzej Bakowski)

• Two versions of this...(Russian UAZ 450)
• ...look eastern European....(UAZ 450D)
• ...as does this (East German Barkas B1000)
• No problem with the Fiat....
• ...or the Hanomag Kurier

Still at the 1966 Geneva show....

• Oil porous OAF Husar with the Bedford retro-look
• Renault Saviem RS S6
• Renault Saviem Goelette, whatever Goelette meant.
• Intravend for Swiss mountains

The Geneva show, March 1966...

• offerings from Sisu...
• ...Mercedes...
• ...Saurer...
• ...Henschel...
• and Sisu again

a Daf in Holland in 1957...

• off in a cloud of smoke
• Dutch horse power
• at the level crossing
• typical Holland 1
• typical Holland 2

more wartime stuff.....

• a Ford but what type?
• Homeguard truck looks like a converted car
• whatever this might have been, it didn't catch on (it's a Smiths Gun which was tipped over on its side to fire. Useless so given to the Home Guard to play with. Thanks Alan Turner)
• Bristol bus.... (thanks for the correction Bill Aldridge)
• ...looks normal...
• ...but own gasworks in the back

(Fordson 7V believed to be used with a furniture carrying drawbar trailer to move families out of London during the blitz. Presumably the truck had seats in the body for passengers. Thanks Bill Aldridge)

The LMS (a former railway company) in wartime...

• gas power; bad aerodynamics above 60mph
• woman uses one of those diabolical rim-splitters
• US ambulance looks chunky by British standards
• Hillman is more British in scale
• railway standard equipment

Public transport in Madrid, 1953...

• Henschel with a street lamp on the roof
• I can just read that it's a Pegaso
• This must remain a mystery It's an AMIOT probably with Renault mechanicals. Thanks Jacques Deligny.
• cute little Austin 3 way...
• ...with the most gorgeous Austin ever?

The Church Army goes to war...

• Chevrolets from the Americans
• precursor to the Commer Walkhru?
• worthies bless the bus....
• ...a Karrier "Social Room"
• eh? Where's the bar?

from posh Pall Mall....

• Hampton's Ford...
• what a lump for such a modest body size!

Gerrards wagons from the late 40s....

• seems to be on food stuffs...
• from around now properous Covent Garden area...
• but then, boarded-up shops.
• Shelton St & Endell St are the places.

last pictures from Margate 1948 (more entertainment than the 1948 Olympics) Corrections by Bill Aldridge thanks)

• Fordson, yours for £1250
• Carrier gulley sucker for Leigh
• Austin something-or-other for Midlothian (it's a K4)
• Islington bin lifting equipment looks modern (it's a Pagefield)
• Does it sweep, wash, repair roads or mow lawns? (it's a Johnson)

last pictures from Margate 1948 (more entertainment than the 1948 Olympics) Corrections by Bill Aldridge thanks)

• Fordson, yours for £1250
• Carrier gulley sucker for Leigh
• Austin something-or-other for Midlothian (it's a K4)
• Islington bin lifting equipment looks modern (it's a Pagefield)
• Does it sweep, wash, repair roads or mow lawns? (it's a Johnson)

binmen and their trailers....Margate, 1948...

• unidentified miniature & trailer (it's a Mercury Municipal Orderly. Thanks Frank Sanders)
• Bedford & trailer for Gloucester
• tiddler for Tottenham
• no livery on Dennis yet
• Mech Horse for Holborn

1937 Goliath three wheeler...

• German made I think...
• air cooled flat twin?
• so what's this left-hooker? A Goliath?

(This is indeed German made (in Bremen), Goliath F 400, built between 1933 and 1937, had a 2 cylinder 2-stroke engine 398 cc, 12 hp (DIN) and made 50 km per hour (over 30 mph), max. load 750 kg. And it was air-cooled. There was a second version called FW 400 - W stands for water-cooled. So the second picture (air cooled flat twin?) shows the rolling chassis of the F 400, I think. Thanks Christian Goetz)

Binmens' junket at Margate, 1948....(first in a number of pictures)

• A sweeper...name please... ( A Lacre..thanks Bill Aldridge)
• stylish FWD bin wagon... & why doesn't that man use his dustbin?

Bus interlude, 1920 & earlier....

• air conditioning
• churns up front, people inside, chickens on top
• Unidentified town hall. The town has an Ashcombe Park
• Llandudno double decker
• Bartons of Beeston

International trucks in the UK, c1938....

• the G Wiggin's fleet
• loading up
• by the Roundabout pub at Woodford. Still there? No, it's been demolished.

Meat Transport in Bristol....

• Nowadays, in wagons like these...
• ...you wouldn't be allowed to transport cat food. But we survived.

Northern Motor Utilities, Oct 1939....

• Northern??!! They're from Perivale, north London!
• A bit of everything fleet
• The canteen. Not too much, not too little. Just right.
• Working on a Lighting Trades van
• Soon to look out of touch amidst wartime austerities

Bull Bros from Winchester...

• Loading the Comet
• Bedford CA in a nice clean looking yard
• Thames loads up
• AEC collects from Southampton?

School meals, darkest London, 1950...

• Yummy, yummy what's for lunch?
• Green things! We're off down the burger joint.

Adams Bros, New Malden, June 1948...

• Karrier dropside
• Pool petrol for Karrier with removals body
• strange mix...removals & heavy haulage
• typical mix of makes of the period...Foden...
• ...Austin with Bedford beyond

It's a rocket-propelled RL in 1961.....

• Blue Water missile....
• ...it actually worked....
• ...range of just over 55 miles...
• ...but got cancelled.
• Lack of cash

It's still the Paris Salon of 1952....

• I thought it was a DKW but it quite clearly says it's a Sortie
• Dan Dare influence at work here
• Nice stylish horse box
• Simca Cargo with same engine as the Ford Vedette
• Unusually stylish Willeme

Corrections from Jacques Dujardin.

The Paris Salon, 1952.....

• Cooker cab
• Get-noticed-at-any-price, 1
• Get-noticed-at-any-price, 2
• crew cab (?) tractor
• Zut alors! Mais c'est si bon!

Ancient oddments....

• Four Wheel Drive...with railway wheels
• Atkinson steamer gulley sucker (Outside the Atkinson works at Frenchwood Ave, Preston. Thanks Chris Gardner)
• Bristol for BP
• Postman Pat's Trojan
• AEC van...but what make?

Stoke on Trent's Cleansing Department...

• Brabazon bin wagon
• Gulley sucker and sweeper discharge
• "Dennis with bailed scrap metal". Yes, but which is which?
• That's more like it. Freshly painted Dennis
• "Salvage". It's probably called "sustainable community recycling partnership" now

The binmen gather at Olympia, London...

• The view from the balcony
• Well, they seem keen enough
• Is that dustcart as wide as it looks?
• Electricar tractor with 60 dustbins on a spit. Why?
• Clearing up after this messy bunch.

Horse transport, Ludgate Circus, London, Jan '38....

• SS saloon, Ford and one of those...
• Bedford streaks past horse
• Ford, Bedford again and cycle power
• Morris Commerical?
• flash car & horse flesh

T West of Louth....

• Loading the Comet
• Did all this come off the Austin?
• Yes, have a bonus. 2/6p.
• Mixed fleet, Dodge, Leyland and...
• a Vulcan for continental work

July 1938 & it's time for the Ramsgate Concours....

• RR van for fag-maker DuMaurier, complete with smoke vents
• Morris Commerical for artistic furniture
• Artistic bodywork, but worisit? (Built for Collars Ltd of Wembley by Holland Coachcraft in Glasgow. The chassis was apparently a Commer (or Albion?). It was so famous in its` era that Dinky Toys made a model of it! Thanks Bill Aldridge)
• Genuine AEC radiator hides behind sleek front
• Ford wins the tiddlers' prize....
• ...Morris Commercial the medium sized...
• ...& Ford wins the ground clearance prize

More from the '65 CV Show...

• 6 wheeler Guy Big J
• Fun time with the Moke
• Seddon 18.4.354
• Tin front AEC tanker
• LD ambulance

The 1964 UK show gets ready for '65...

• The ill-fated FJ lends a hand with BMC's demise
• Foden, made of sterner stuff...
• ..as was the Leyland tipper
• Atkinson trumps them all with off-road dumper
• Ever seen one...a Walker Fineline?

Was this just to load aircraft? (No. I was built for Bofors who found it too heavy and it was sold to Bristol Siddeley, but what did they do with it? Thanks, Bill Aldridge)

• We can read it's a Douglas
• Douglas DC3 in background means it's for airports
• front wheel drive with trailing arms
• the rear raised...
• and with some form of sides errected

It's the 1970 London to Brighton CV run....

• So, Daimler can be rated as commercial as well
• Lacre narrow at the front and awfully wide at the rear
• Two Fords. The Transit could be in this year's run.
• Guy with gaggle of period cars
• Austin hearse with funereal urn decoration
• This I believe to be a Scania Vabis.

another effort doomed not to sell...

• What's that, stuck in the traffic?
• no, not the acne infested Cresta...
• it's a Kalmar Variomatic so Daf's elastic band gearbox...
• ...engine with two plug leads and 6v, also means Daf
• 1960s architecture makes Kalmar look like an object of outstanding beauty
• Have any survived? Were any sold to attempt survival?
• It was developed for the Swedish post office and a few have survived with Daf owner in Holland. Thanks Hans Steinz from NZ.

Three completely disconnected subjects...

• The best of both worlds...a Roadrailer
• ...but it doesn't look good for road or rail
• "I refuse to wear those new overalls at my age".
• "Can you get in the cab or would you like me to give you hand?"
• Daf lead the way with an early automatic commercial vehicle
• Can outrun a loaded Atki...but only just
• four-wheel brakes too

A Turriff building site in the 50s....

• Austin used as a mobile welding plant
• So that's where the idea for the Transit Flareside came from
• On-site music. A two-stroke Foden
• BMC 701 looks less fun than the Foden
• "If it looks right, it is right" Hmmm
• Before the universal JCB

Corrections from Jacques Dujardin.

Delivering beer in Leeds, 1931....

• unloading at the Mexboro Arms
• tram passes with ad for the competition
• is the Mexboro still there?
• the competition; Melbourne Ales with Karriers
• Teale's Dennis at Liversedge

A motor show in France, 1966

• Saviem car transporter
• Berliet Stradair with air suspension
• Definitely Berliet, definitely large
• A double-deck bus? In France?
• A Citroen, looks like the same stylist who did the Ami 6 car
• The kind of shape I expect in a Berliet

The last lot from the mystery motor show...

• Bedford look-alike from International didn't make it
• my anorak's guide says it's a Fiat 625N2(that could make the show later than '66)
• standard German stuff. Magirus Deutz
• VW for Bundespost only? Could anyone else buy one? (The formal title was VW Type 147 nicknamed the "Fridolin". Came out in '64 and available to public in '66. Developed by VW, Bundespost and Westfalia for the postal service - some still survive. Cheers Brian from Classic Van & Pickup magazine)
• Last of the old Opel Blitz, before it became a re-badged Bedford CF

Mystery Motor Show, probably Germany '65 or '66....

• oddball, a Büssing with a bonnet
• Büssing double-decker, probably Berlin, so show in Germany?
• Guy have an agent in Koblenz, so points to Germany again
• Leyland presents everything in English to help the locals learn it
• Krupp were near the end of the line by then.

back to business with trucks from that Geneva Motor Show...

• classisc shape Saurer Type 50
• Berna looks more outdated than classic
• Ford 55...from Ford Köln?
• Autobus Latvia or Spriditis or Moskvitsch? Perhaps it drove like a dream to compensate for the styling
• British triumph or British failure? The umpteenth attempt at re-cabbing a BMC

continuing our seasonal break from trucks...1960(?) Genvea Motor Show....

• Pininfarina don't spare the sheet steel
• unusual body mod on Porsche
• Facellia, the car that killed Facel Vega
• Last fling from Alvis, the TD21
• Ghia predict the future. 44 years & we're still waiting
• but which is the front & which the back?

three lunatics take a Reliant to Devon...in the SNOW!

• Westward Ho!
• a meeting with an equally fine piece of British engineering
• gallantly taking the lead when it gets tough
• past Thames Traders abandoned...
• ...and Standard Vanguards that need pushing
• perhaps that little hut does accommodation for the night
• "it was somewhere around here when I parked last night"
• another lunatic out on 3 wheels
• "I wash the car every Sunday...without fail"
• "You carry on. I'm playing snowballs"
• "Just dig a single groove down the middle".
• Stopped! The A303 blocked at Wylie
• On! On! Ever westwards!

the last of the photos of the 1960 truck show....

• it just must be Austin & not Morris
• the FG is Austin
• Minor 1000s were eventually badged Austin
• a bit larger, an ERF KV
• and a Micky Mouse Foden

more from the 1960 CV show....

• Vendor, another Dennis delivery van idea
• classic Maggie Deutz
• Mercedes would have been exotic in 1960
• mighty Thornycroft Sandmaster
• Standard Atlas, second seat & wiper extra

the 1960 CV show....

• Thompson tanker leaves its front door ajar
• Thornycroft take the credit for a Land Rover
• Foden, Ford, Karrier, Scammell...
• sadly Thornycroft have gone, happily so has Double Diamond
• Trader & County 6x4

the Temple Press vans, June 1962....

• Commer BF van
• early BMC LD...
• ..with a funny tail gate arrangement
• J2 minibus and...
• ...A50 van for mostly BMC fleet

Ushers Brewery fleet, Trowbridge...

• ERF gets ready to leave....
• ...from the grandly named Transport Department
• making a delivery into Sir Audley's Arms
• or a smaller drop of one crate by Commer
• or for serious drinkers, a tankful by Scammell

Lorry Driver of the Year, Leicester, 1961...

• Birds Eye LD van
• Whitworth's Ford Thames
• it's BMC under that body
• AEC Mandator for Be-Ro
• Rowe driver gets told the answer to the next test

Stretford Urban District Council, c1935...

• A Morris ready for the off
• fly tippers?
• so much more reliable than hydraulics

2 unrelated pictures...

• Smoke Ardath and there's no end to what you can get
• London to Glasgow service. Some drive then.

1926 Thornycroft..for the Army...

• going down...
• ...coming up
• driver looks out for the kerb

a distraction from trucks...

• Weybridge station, mid 1930s...
• nothing but estate agents!

Thornycroft oilfield tractor, sometime around 1930...

• passenger keeps options open going downhill
• uphill needs a bed of concrete to grip on
• a crane called "Sally". How sweet.
• keeping the coat warm
• "I'm sure I started today with a trailer under those pipes".

Still on the continent, Paris, '49 & '57...

• ALM 4x4, tiddler of this group.(typeTHOQ2 ? )(thanks Jacques Deligny G)
• Mighty Willème oil field tractor
• Willème tipper bunged in the corner
• the beast from Berliet
• close-up shows scale of the thing (Berliet T100 with a research engine designed to burn almost anything. Thanks Jacques Dujardin.)

Amsterdam Show, 1957...

• European heavies from Foden,
• Scania Vabis,
• Büssing
• Volvo,
• & Magirus Deutz...
• US lightweights from Ford...
• ...& a DJ3 Jeep, a 2wd version. (thanks Bill Munro)

Crow Carrying go to Germany, 1963...

• these Common Market chappies are strange....
• ....they drive on the wrong side of the road...
• ..and in such weird looking trucks...
• ...not like my Atki, but then....
• ...I suppose they're glad to see something normal

More from the 1957 Paris Show....

• Unic with handy roof rack for carrying that little bit more
• It's a Lorraine Bagnares with a man under it
• mighty Berliet Sahara tanker...
• ...with a air cleaner to hold the Sahara at bay
• somewhat more normal Saviem LRS

It's the 1957 Paris Truck Show....

• Bernard meat fridge
• Saviem Sahara
• White Autocar
• Unic Saurer
• Arnault Citroen

Construction show, Crystal Palace, London, Date?...(Bill Aldridge thinks 1960 is about the right date)

• small Ford, big compressor
• Wakefield self-loading dumper
• Trader with crane & flowers
• International Pay Hauler
• Michigan dumper
• Euclid scraper (thank you Daniel Preston for the correction)

War work for women on trucks....

• You know, when this war is over....
• ...and little hubby returns...
• ...I'm not going to let him near the car...
• ...for I just love de-coking the head...
• ...and painting pretty little floral designs down the door

oddments from the 1930s....

• Little & large in buses...
• isn't it just the cutest bus you've ever seen?
• in stark contrast to the lumpish vulcan
• 2 Pagefields in Manchester
• Karrier Cob demonstrates cart pulling...
• ...amid those dark satanic mills

Some more municipals....

• Hampstead S&D on tidily little wheels
• Dennis gulley sucker looks more like a truck
• Dennis "Refuse Machine" and nosey citizen
• refuse collection the old way
• organic fuel, rotten emissions

Municipal vehicles demonstration, mid '30s....

• Karrier sweeper struts its stuff
• Dennis scrubs up well
• That ad on the right...Craven A, for your throat's sake!
• a foreign Johnny! A Faun
• Was a Somua a strange foreign thing as well?

more lady drivers for the forces in the First World War...

• division of labour
• The Royal Navy's Home Fleet
• Hello Sailor!
• "Scapa Flow" they said, is it nearby?
• The Admiral overdoes a display of that "Bulldog Spirit"

Lady drivers for the forces in the First World War...

• In here, I am told, is the engine
• Thinks..."I'd rather not be cleaning this"
• starting the engine...the male way
• starting the engine...the female way
• her first lesson on the motor pogo-stick

Somewhere in England, sometime in the mid 1930s..

• officer demonstrates motorised stirrup charge
• solid tyres, bullet proof y'know
• modernity passes horse drawn cook-wagon
• do we have to rely on unmilitary civilians...
• ...with their home-made half-cabs?

oddest of oddballs department.....

• Worrisit?

LDOY (Lorry Driver of the Year) Coventry, 1950s?...

• Midland Counties Bedford S
• Comet more fondly remembered than Double Diamond
• What else would Rootes drive?
• Albion for Quasi Arc
• unmarked 701 artic

Transport caffs from the early 60s...

• no need to book tables at the Last Chance
• only the best for our clients
• chips with anything 1/9d..dinners, beef or meat. What's beef then?
• quick luv, another dollop of organic, GM free, sustainable, fair trade chips
• with no power steering or heaters you need this inside you
• the entertainment section
• light up a Nelson and off to tackle Shap

German Army trucks c1908...

• Dynamobil petrol electric
• Rhenish (?) with congestion buster
• Rations from an unknown make
• Büssing for Bayern Railway Troops
• Siemens Schukhard (?), another petrol electric

Scotland, just after denationalisation...

• being Scotland, it's mostly Albions...
• and Albions, with the odd Austin
• but still mostly Albions
• Leyland make an appearance
• and an ERF for Highland Haulage

Stoke on Trent Cleansing Dept....

• A Brabazon? Crew cab and a caboose at the back?
• Bedford A with salvage compartments
• Tipping a Dennis
• Bedford with crew cab for Street Orderlies
• Tipping the Bedford

Battersea's refuse fleet, late '50s?...

• Dennis on the refuse staithes
• and into a barge it goes
• a council tradition...an electric thing
• digging roads the old way
• Battersea's most famous landmark

Mack's Transport....

• AEC with insulated body
• unloading boxes of Anaco! What's Anaco?
• um, err, a Thornycroft? (No. It's an Associated Daimler from 1925/6. Thanks Bill Aldridge)
• unloading cotton waste
• not Macks, but in same box and rather nice

for Schweppicures......

• Morris, Albion & Dennis are all here
• Albion fuels
• loading up
• anyone recognise where?
• is the chimney on the left a guide?

Buses at the 1956 CV Show...

• Chausson; overland to India. Must have been a quieter Middle East.
• Leyland Ghia
• Austin for Colombo
• Leyland MCW Arcadian
• Albion Nimbus
• BUT trolley bus for Auckland

testing the 4x4 Commer Superpoise...

• obviously FVRDE Chertsey..
• for such serious work
• but why Commer...
• when we had Bedford...
• and also the Commer cab Ford

trucks & aviation between the wars....

• Ford aircraft and what looks like a Ford van
• unidentified RAF ambulance
• Morris Commercial (?) of Gloster aircraft
• Morris Commercial fuel tanker
• RAF convoy, Leyland trucks...Crossley car

disconnected pictures.....

• Austin A40 van with Vickers Viscount
• Reigate fire service spot a potential customer
• it is a truck...somewhere in there
• Blackburn aircraft off to Portugal by Mercedes
• Tilling Stevens uses its generator to power a projector

Radio and TV trucks....

• Decca Commer on the South Bank site
• outside broadcast, but what is the truck? (Morris Commercial...thanks Derek Hooper)
• Beeb Thornycorft
• AA Seddon in the days when they controlled traffic
• not a truck but at a stretch, commercial. Collecting the Beeb tax

The "Mystery Motor show" below. Bill Aldridge has deduced from models on display that it is probably the Scottish Motor Show in Kelvin Hall and probably 1980.....but may be the overflow at Glasgow Corp garage says Jim Mcilroy)

Bath (the city that is) cleansing Dept, May 1958

• Bedford with a good handbrake
• steep and narrow too
• Dennis gulley sucker
• eco-friendly road sweeper
• waste paper collection with poetry
• that doggerel from the Bath Corp Dept of Poems & Prose

More from the mystery Motor Show...

• D Series tipper chassis cab
• before the Fiat name was dropped
• TM tipper
• Volvo in a sea of rubbish
• otherwise unbadged Renault

A motor show, but where & when?

• half-cab ergo Albion withe demount bus body
• ERF get ready
• jazz-up D series into the Bandag Bullet
• Merc 1626
• unsung hero, the Dodge 50

Different things to do with your Land Rover....

• It's a crane but claims it's an artic
• the artic trailer...
• ...and all hooked up
• the unloved 1 ton with compressor
• for the Greens....it's a cherry picker...
• ...and now a tree hugger

Lorry Driver of the Year, Wavley, Essex 1967 (again)...

• Ind Coope LAD Leyland
• Guy Big J 4T
• D Series after the rain
• Tunnel Cement's AEC with period logo
• very 60s...the truck & the building

Lorry Driver of the Year, Wavley, Essex 1967...

• LD of Express Dairies
• WFs old and even older
• Plessey Transit (by appointment to The Queen....suppliers of car radios)
• Birds Eye Commer Walk Thru
• Commer PB backs into Ford advert

Fagg's Fleet, Ashford, June 1967....

• Maxiload, Bedfords old & new
• loading Maxiload. Note the railway wagon bodies
• satisfied boss with part load of Liqufruta
• more signs of declining railways. A load of sleepers
• surely these were rare by 1967?

The 1956 Brussels Show....

• AEC Mammoth III
• Daf YA 328 cross-country chassis
• Dodge..where were these made?
• Belgian beer on the move
• Ford Köln's offering

Five different vehicles....

• F86 Volvo on test
• Hiab RL of BICC
• D Series artic
• Leyland delivers fuel to glue factory
• 2 Bedford buses (which makes 6 vehicles)

not trucks, but still motorised stuff from the Soviet Trade Fair...

• T75 tractor, big enough for any state farm
• the MTZ50, just right for your collective
• give up your sickle (& hammer?) with an SK4 Combine
• Moskvitch, Volga for the Politburo only
• Ural 600 for the sons of the Politburo

Soviet Trade Fair, Earls Court London 1961...

• Zil artic
• Zil rigid
• mighty Maz dumper
• more modestly sized Maz crane truck
• Yaz in front of Empress building during construction

Brook Motors (electric that is) fleet....

• Bedford van for service items
• Bedford truck gets major overhaul
• varied fleet, BSA M20 upwards
• other tugs in yard
• the loading bay

five different vehicles from about 35 to 40 years ago...

• AEC Mercury on test
• 1967 Dodge K850
• D Series Ford of E. Anglian Carrriers
• Dennison artic on test
• Leyland Octopus of Charrirngtons Fuel

a damp Nov 1961 for the Lord Mayor's Show, London...

• Sentinel(?) aircraft tug & Vulcan cab?
• SA manages a nearly complete Lightning
• Champs, Ford Commer-Cab, genuine Commer

Bits of the Adam's Butter fleet

• Diesel Vanguard
• Comet artic
• Fleet variety

late 1930s miscellany.....

• has anyone the foggiest idea what this is?
• would another view help?
• A Garner prepares for test
• Scammell prepare for war....
• ....of a type that mercifully never came

Coventry Cleansing Dept...

• Ford Pop and Victor obstruct work
• Dennis finds it easier
• S&D rear loader
• unidentified gulley sucker (it's an S&D...thanks Bill Aldridge)
• S&D tips

The last of those Army trials...

• rare-bird Tatra 6 wheeler
• Morris Commercial clears cyclists out of the way
• AEC starts its climb
• Crossley half way up
• Guy finishes its climb

More on those Army trials...

• Another good-looking Ford that wasn't bought
• RileyWD didn't sell, a similar Humber did
• Standard 12 looks outclassed in this countryside
• this AEC didn't sell but post-war they did
• Leyland didn't sell either in this guise

1937ish? The Army test vehicles....Horseshoe Pass, North of Llangollen, North Wales. Thanks Phil Davidson for this information.

• An Austin 10. Not quite a Jeep
• Thornycroft diesel
• big tyres to militarise a Bedford
• trust not your handbrake...use chocks
• Ford Unipower looks 10 years ahead of its time

National Fire Service vehicle sales... May 1946 (thanks Bill Aldridge)...

• somewhere near Aylesbury
• some even made it under own power
• most didn't
• some where lifted in...
• close-up of the pile...
• & close-up again

London Transport gas producer, 1939/40...(the first 4 taken at the Chiswich Skid pan...thanks Bob Baxter)

• first, flush it out....
• ...then, lights!..camera!...coke?
• problem with your gas? Try a Bisurated Magnesia pill.
• load it up with soldiers and a few civvies
• "Hanger" a sign says and it looks like Hanger Lane going south
• Eh, what? Chewing gum makes you brave?!!!!

Volvo F86 test, around 1973...

• A68 & A696...where's this? (It is Jedburgh town centre, before the bypass was built. Thanks Brian Edgar)
• break the climb....
• ...for fuel
• let's have a play on the test hills...
• ...but try and keep it on the tarmac...
• ..er, I think we've lost the trailer...
• ...so you can pull it out

from somewhere around 1920....

• A Straker Squire at the factory
• a Napoleon?!!
• a Yorkshire WJ...it says so on the side
• Renault, maybe military
• Traffic parks up outside the Church Army
• The Parry Thomas Leyland 8...for cars only

Midland Red buses....

• The Old House at Hereford
• St Peter's Square Hereford
• two ladies looking for a bunch of buses
• double deckers at Stratford on Avon
• Mystery Tour, no magic, six and sixpence

(and some more from the) 1962 Lorry Driver of the Year, Birmingham...

• Army Thames complete with own camouflage?
• Schweppes enter an 8 wheeler Atki
• and Chance enter a Guy Otter (Chance made lighthouse lanterns...thanks Gordon Mustoe)
• BRS Bristol 8 wheeler
• Chance again, with an Austin FF
• smarty-pants AEC for BP
• Schhhh...you know whose Bedford
• and BOC are also still with us...
• ...and the Coop
• 701 doesn't advertise who owns it

a mixed bag....

• AEC tanker of Harold Wood
• AEC tanker of Berk Chemicals
• pre-war Republic chassis
• Garner on test
• unknown type at Tower Hill

The Foden centenary...

• threee old timers
• Mr Foden inspects King George V
• ...and other steamers
• a modern product...
• ..& off the the Festival Hall in a Foden

Hill of Swindon, 1956...

• Albion loads bricks from narrow gauge
• Bedfords load coal from standard gauge
• S type and is that the gaffer's Jag?

Rowe Hillmaster....

• as a furnace coal delivery wagon
• don't think much of the forward vision

Trucks at the 1957 Scout Jamboree...

• J2 for a general runabout
• Loadstar below artist painting in Cairo
• Dad's Army (it's a UK TV programme)
• seat belts for every passenger?
• not even in the Crossley single decker

moving cotton in Lancashire...

• Bedford S & Sentinel at Liverpool docks
• AEC & trailer off to Oldham
• Leyland delivers raw cotton in Oldham
• Bedford delivers spun cotton to weavers...
• ...and probably Manchester, finished cloth arrives

back to the 1930s...

• Kiffs coffee stall..or transport caf
• round the back, a six wheel steamer
• what a little belter!
• wouldn't you be proud to drive a Walker?

the 1968 UK CV show....

• Transit with oversize body for Avis
• JU250 also overbodied
• the unlamented EA
• and the less imposing D Series
• Leyland gas turbine...
• ...and a real set of exhuast stacks
• Ford try not to be left out with their 707 gas turbine
• more mundane, and useful, Lynx
• so, what's this with a Jag twin cam? Stand sign ends in "NIS" so Dennis?(yes it is a Dennis I hear from 2 sources. An ambulance chassis that was too expensive to sell)

primaeval relics....

• no clue as to what this beast is
• never mind their luxury cars & racers, it's a Napier
• on war service. So what, get out of the way?
• D Ultra, yours for a measly £110
• not many of these made, so it could be a sighting of the Lone Ranger

Trucks at Brooklands, doing what?

• Ford at the bottom of the test hill
• and the Ford looking up the hill
• It's gained a Sussex badge, and why the oily plank?
• Thornycroft has a go...
• ...& then a paddle in the Brooklands pond (with overall chains)

Child & Pullin of Ipswich, mid 30s?

• Scammell & Straker Squire artics
• The Straker Squire on its own
• who needs an operating centre when the road's empty
• their Morris Commercial?
• to make up the fifth....Hay's Wharf load an elephant onto a meat trailer

MG produce their first commercial (Not the Express van)...

• It's a works tug. Sandbags? White markers on mudguards...must be wartime
• It's still the "Phoney War", so lets have some fun...
• ...before petrol rationing stops it
• looks like a winters scene, so late '39?
• must be late '39 as MG reveal their wartime production. Sports cars!

40 years ago, the 1964 CV show...

• Leyland ergo cab looks less dated than the railings
• Atki cab's style is outclassed by the ergo
• Scammel woo greasy truckers with flowers and a twee lampost
• FF artic looks tired but the FG had been released
• Scammells last effort at a dying concept

Road test on BMC FG & FF...

• in a sleepy Cotswold town...
• ...Broadway?
• FG close up
• FF pursued by a Mk X Jag

Failed ideas from the late 1930s....

• This one's for ever cropping up....
• ...and fizzling out again
• As you can all see, it's a TSM.
• 3 wheeler ambulances didn't catch on...
• ...but I suppose Reliant plodded on with similar kit

Alternative uses for trucks at the Royal Tournament, early 1920s...

• Peaceful merchantman innocently about its business
• Help! Help! It's a beastly U boat come to sink me!
• Hurrah! Hurrah! Here come the navy in a very strange looking contraption.

On a similar, sort of martial theme, the Citrroen Kegresse. It's nearly truck sized.

• Kegresse, the best 2 x Tracks by far
• the easy bit, it goes down....
• the harder bit, up.

Wireless trucks....

• Paris delivery van lets you know what it's delivering
• RAF radio van directs the guns...also useful as a washing line
• An aeriel for Rugby delivered by early Scammell 6 wheeler.
• Morris Commercial sound van
• Golders Green, Hendon, Hounslow, Hampstead & StPancras radio societies go out for the day to talk to each other.

SW Tar Distillers, Totton near Southampton...

• A high concentration of Fodens...
• ...some with dogs' windows
• Foden rattles the village windows
• odd one out, a Dennis Pax
• Ah, the season of broken windscreens

disconnected pictures out of one envelope....

• Foden tar boiler still in use around 1956
• the Ragged School children taken for a day out in the Daimler
• rare bird; an Aveling Porter
• Scammells early entry into the artic market
• AEC try the same thing

The Slough Commercial Vehicle Rally, 1955 (as promised for last Thursday!)

• The way we were; an 8 wheel box
• AEC 8 wheeler made modern-looking with cab stripes
• Leyland 8 wheeler tanker
• 2 durable brand names; Foden & Dulux
• diminutive Seddon 25

1953, Birds Eye peas Great Yarmouth...
(Fresh as the moment when the pod went pop?)

• hot work for man & machine
• delightful memories of high summer (it's winter in the northern hemispher now)
• through the docks
• over the weighbridge
• someone isn't pulling his weight

The Slough Commercial Vehicle Rally, 1955

• Exotic cab on Lucozade AEC
• Trees! No "friendly bombs" fell on this bit of Slough
• Crew cab Dennis Lancet
• Scammell artic and...
• ...Seddon artic

pictures from 1956....

• Dodge tipper
• Thornycroft for Castrol
• Scania log hauler
• Rolls engined Dennis
• Guy Otter for "sleep equipment"
• AEC mixer

Wincanton Transport from the mid fifties(?)

• Tweedle Dum. The trucks have names.
• Rupert sets off on an exciting adventure...
• ...a pause to allow the topiarian to climb up and do some clipping
• Modernity. A streamlined trailer pulled by Pelican the Albion
• An Atkinson named Sandpiper
• The unloved collection vehicles have to do without names.

all bar one, from a 1920s agricultural show....

• Leyland road washer
• Garner bus
• Vulcan Country Carrier bus, yours for £965
• Thornycroft curtainsider
• Baico conversion to motor home? The Voyageur.

testing a Dodge on the A30....

• do it properly, take a load
• top up with fuel carefully
• and off we go
• past the Wheatsheaf on the A30
• and past the vicar of Sunningdale

some variety for Christmas...aircraft...(this was first shown at Christmas)

• pedal power 1
• pedal power 2
• pedal power 3
• pedal power 4
• Foke Wulf canard, c1930
• so this is what a Scud looks like
• Spitfire returns to its roots and gains floats
• Short composite
• yuletide snow scene
• breaking the bank in Monte Carlo 1
• breaking the bank in Monte Carlo 2
• Breguet ready for off
• the Deperdussin and the destroyer
• why not fly it there?
• engine test bed
• first, decide which way it goes