Not far behind you frenchy started driving 1969 on a 1965 Thames Trader on fruit & veg deliveries.It`s unladen weight was 2t 19cwt& a few pounds & could carry 7t legal which was my limit because I was only 19 & to drive over 3t unladen you had to be 21.
Many a time we would pick up a dodgy 10t of spuds from farms steady away down hills with them vacuum brakes 
Steering wheel spokes were always breaking after using the wheel to climb in & out of the cab.
Far cry from now with I wont drive Brigade of anything less than a V8 with space cab 
This photo took last june at the Stockton to South Shields Vintage run same colour as my old one but this has tipper body