Mine had the split screen. I really enjoyed it, it was well ‘on top’ of it’s work, it was comfortable to drive, an all round fine machine.
Fabulous photo of a grand old workhorse. 
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Sadly it has lost its original headlights.
Handsome (apart from the b loody ladders). Get it ready and I’ll start 06:00 Monday morning.
P.S. No multi deliveries please, I only do full load/1 drop. 
On 1960 rules? 
Safety means no smoking when on top of the barrel.
Twenty or twenty five quid a week?
Big money, I’ve got an ancient pay slip from 1960… £18/1/11d GROSS.
4 wheel Commer tipper on the coal job.
And we got married on that, Mrs GOM had an office job that helped .
WE knew what it was like to struggle financially, but we did it.
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Different times indeed.
We managed to get a 100% mortgage for a new built 3 bed semi in 1970…£3250 INCLUDING detached brick built garage. The mortgage repayments were £28 monthly.
The first and only time I was ever made redundant was 1984, the redundancy money paid the mortgage off…best thing I ever did.
My Father took the compulsory purchase equity from a maisonette in what was still the county town of Surrey at the the time.
Where they decided to build an inner city high rise estate obviously in the transition to Greater London.Which looked more like inner London when they’d finished than inner London does.
Turned into a crime ridden crap hole to match.So much so that they actually used it for location filming of the TV series The Bill.
He paid around £5,500 for the move to a relatively better, but crap, small semi a bit further out.The compulsory purchase money helped to pay a good deposit.That was 1964.He was on a skilled engineer’s wage.They didn’t take the wife’s earnings into account for a mortgage.
Dis it really have those horrible headlights back in the late 1950s?
I guess that’s not for me personally? No idea anyway.
If you mean stylish, classy, etc, yes they did 
At my age I’d sacrifice a limb to have a shift with that MM (just to try re live VERY happy days) 
Proper headlights
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Very nice. Once an AEC man, always an AEC man.
My employer at the time (early 60’s) got rid of 3 Mk V’s (and 3 Thornys) and gradually our fleet became ERF.