moomooland:
0Here’s an unusual one!
A 1957 Bedford ‘S’ Type with a modified cab used for steel transportation in Switzerland.
Note the smaller one piece windscreen with the wiper mechanism coming through the glass rather than from the roof
as they normally did on the split screened ‘S’ Type.
Hi moomooland,
Going back to the S Type, like the one in your photo, was what they described as ‘The Big Bedford’ 7 tonner. When they introduced the TK range they ran from about 2 tonner to 8 tonner, was the S Type ever available in anything lighter than the 7 Tonner?
We ran SBs which were the S Type passenger chassis and we always considered them as 7 Tonner till plating & testing came along and gave us 9.5 ton GVW in total which meant after we deducted the true unladen weight, they could only carry 5 ton. I wonder when the S Type 7 tonner was plated whether it could actually legally carry 7 ton?
Carl