toshboy:
0Hi all.
Not sure that this one has been on before but its from a Company that I used to admire ,whilst perhaps better known for their gravel extractions around the Abingdon area. they also had a large fleet of Bedford artics on Pressed Steel car bodies to the Midlands and when nationalisation came ( brs) they had to reduce to 25 mile radius from Cowley so they moved their operating centre to Banbury giving them access to Coventry and continue serving Pressed steel — smart move --tosh boy
Interesting stuff there toshboy, almost takes us back to the start of the thread! Are we talking about the same J. Curtis that had a yard down the Botley road? If so, presumably they would have kept that on as well.
As an aside, the Bedford in the picture is exactly like the last wagon my dad drove, in about 1953, as an attempt to get into O/D, but it didn’t work out. I posted about it on here somewhere, some years back.