The Thames Trader was a good lorry, I rode with a driver in the school holidays in 1959-60 in one, carrying bagged grain to the docks at Avonmouth Barry or Cardiff, carrying sacks of grain straight off the farm, when weighed at the Docks, the load was more often than not 11 ton, he used to load animal feeds back 10 ton, legal weight was 14 ton gross, this lorry had a four speed box with an eaton two speed axle and belonged to Roberts of Knighton, who ran quite a few.I later drove one myself on various occasions, good lorries, like the Bedfords and BMC’S cheap, but did a good job.