I spent many hours as a young lad in the passenger seat of TTC 57, (new in about 1953), a Bedford S Type, fitted with a Perkins R6 engine, which blew itself up on more than one occasion, and a later Bedford S Type 914 CTE (new in 1958) with Bedford diesel engine. Both were owned by Fred and Raymond Holden of Bolton, running on ‘A’ Licences and the first S Type was bought second hand, but the second one was the first brand new lorry they bought. It was these two Bedfords that aroused my interest in lorries and road haulage. They replaced a wartime built Leyland Lynx and an Atkinson with Gardner 4LK engine.