Blood, Sweat and Broken China (the Removals thread)

DEANB:

marktaff:

DEANB:
Its surprising how many different body builders there were back in the 60s/70s.

That’s a big body for a 5 tonner Dean…just as well it was built to carry new furniture only…if you were to put the content of a four bedroom home on the back her today…I dread to think…nice article Dean
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Your right Mark would have been overweight everytime !

Thompsons Bedford 1978.

Hi Dean, to the right you will see the rear of one of our Bedford Marsdens. If you kook closely it illustrates how they managed to fit the Radcliffe 2 tier tail lift inside the rear so it could be totally enclosed within the rear doors. They did quite a few like these for us from about 1986.

If you compare with this Marsden built trailer in this Ebro advert you can see the ram at the top & the side rails which were all successfully hidden & enclosed by the rear doors.
As you can imagine quite a lot of design was involved by both Marsden & Radcliffe tail lifts, and it meant that when we washed with our Wilcomatic vehicle wash the brushes washing the rear were not obstructed & the flat rear was clean. Often on buses you can see were the brushes leave dirt marks where the rear is not flat.

Regards Carl

This meant the rear of the vehicles always presented a clean view with no tailboard tagged on the rear and ugly rails showing. The operational benefit was significant also as it kept the tail lift ram which was up at the roof inside & the rails which enclosed the cables free from dirt and in particular salt & grit during winter months so the taillifts worked more efficiently

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