This thread has definitely taken a turn for the worse ! A KE with a Gardner engine run by Stampers 
( Penrith , Culgaith or even Glasgow ) The plot thickens ! might this just be a big red herring ? Probably, and one thing is for sure there’ll not be a photo of said KE ! Cheers Bewick.
The four cylinder Gardner fitted nicely under the cab of a TK but was a tight fit height-wise like the Leyland engine, I only ever encountered one but knew of several others including one fitted in the normal control TJ. The six potter would be too long although the five cylinder may just have squeezed in?
Pete.
Bewick:
This thread has definitely taken a turn for the worse ! A KE with a Gardner engine run by Stampers
Uncle Dennis, you have started something again, bet you was a right mischievous child! Here goes 200 pages 
Bewick:
This thread has definitely taken a turn for the worse ! A KE with a Gardner engine run by Stampers
Dark red with lettering in black diamond on door, would that have been J G Stamper?
You are the local man, not me!
Cheers Peter
Peter Coaker:
Bewick:
This thread has definitely taken a turn for the worse ! A KE with a Gardner engine run by StampersDark red with lettering in black diamond on door, would that have been J G Stamper?
You are the local man, not me!
Cheers Peter
Well Peter you have narrowed it down to Glasgow, Penrith or Culgaith ! All three used the same style i.e. Black diamond on the door with small lettering inside the diamond ! However, this might help to narrow it down, J.G. (Geoff) Stamper was Penrith based. G.A. ( Gordon) Stamper was based along the A66 at Culgaith. John Stamper, Geoff’s Father and Gordons Brother was based in Glasgow. Does this help ? Cheers Dennis. Oh! and PS G.A. Stamper’s colour was a bit more “red” than the Penrith and Glasgow fleets !
Retired Old ■■■■:
Here we go again!
And how many TKs with 240 Gardners did SoM run?
I’m not telling you ROF!
David
Retired Old ■■■■:
Here we go again!
And how many TKs with 240 Gardners did SoM run?
Looks like at least 1 of them 
Regards. John.
My Dad drove this now and then when he worked at Midlands Storage
Parked outside my Grandma,s house
Bewick:
Peter Coaker:
Bewick:
This thread has definitely taken a turn for the worse ! A KE with a Gardner engine run by StampersDark red with lettering in black diamond on door, would that have been J G Stamper?
You are the local man, not me!
Cheers Peter
Well Peter you have narrowed it down to Glasgow, Penrith or Culgaith ! All three used the same style i.e. Black diamond on the door with small lettering inside the diamond ! However, this might help to narrow it down, J.G. (Geoff) Stamper was Penrith based. G.A. ( Gordon) Stamper was based along the A66 at Culgaith. John Stamper, Geoff’s Father and Gordons Brother was based in Glasgow. Does this help ? Cheers Dennis. Oh! and PS G.A. Stamper’s colour was a bit more “red” than the Penrith and Glasgow fleets !
From photos I have seen, I would say J.G,'s colour.
Another question regarding the Stamper family. We always used to get our diesel and some repairs at Wilf Brogden’s Davidson’s Garage in Penrith. We also used to transport horses for him. A while back I heard that his daughter, Cherry, had married a Stamper and now had a truckstop, would this be the old BP Truckstop? That had just opened last time I was around there.
Cheers Peter
Here’s an unusual one!
A 1957 Bedford ‘S’ Type with a modified cab used for steel transportation in Switzerland.
Note the smaller one piece windscreen with the wiper mechanism coming through the glass rather than from the roof
as they normally did on the split screened ‘S’ Type.
A 1957 Bedford ‘S’ Type with a modified cab used for steel transportation in Switzerland.
Note the smaller one piece windscreen with the wiper mechanism coming through the glass rather than from the roof
as they normally did on the split screened ‘S’ Type.
moomooland:
0Here’s an unusual one!
A 1957 Bedford ‘S’ Type with a modified cab used for steel transportation in Switzerland.
Note the smaller one piece windscreen with the wiper mechanism coming through the glass rather than from the roof
as they normally did on the split screened ‘S’ Type.
Hi moomooland,
Going back to the S Type, like the one in your photo, was what they described as ‘The Big Bedford’ 7 tonner. When they introduced the TK range they ran from about 2 tonner to 8 tonner, was the S Type ever available in anything lighter than the 7 Tonner?
We ran SBs which were the S Type passenger chassis and we always considered them as 7 Tonner till plating & testing came along and gave us 9.5 ton GVW in total which meant after we deducted the true unladen weight, they could only carry 5 ton. I wonder when the S Type 7 tonner was plated whether it could actually legally carry 7 ton?
Carl
The S Type was the 7 tonner, the later C Type models with the same cab were for 4,5 and 6 ton payloads.
Pete.
