> ChrisArbon:
> My memories of Bedford TK lorries during my travels across Turkey is of straight-through exhaust pipes and clouds of black smoke. Totally overloaded tag-axled 6 wheelers holding up traffic on the hills and screaming motors with smoking brakes on the down-grades. An endless mind-numbing drone only punctuated by the bang of a blown-out tyre.
I think this nails it, I’m pretty sure the pump settings were changed hence the black smoke and they sure worked them hard, but they kept going and were very, very common.