Dieseldog66:
UK Barn FindsOk this is about cars, but at around 2.20 is something you may like Oily
Cheers Dieseldog66, had the time to have a decent look today 
very interesting and around the time I worked at Progressive, now then here’s one for you and others looking in.
youtube.com/watch?v=bLaRH67dApI
Cheers
Oily
C reg 1965 Leyland Comet in the process of being restored by Len Isherwood of Bacup Lancs,I believe it belongs to G A Newsome and will have a cattle box fitted when completed.I look forward to seeing at some of the shows in the near future.
Nice one Leyland600 cheers for that, I do believe it is now owned by G A Newsome and when finnished will have the livestock box refitted.
Another Swiss wagon the Berna, thanks to ponte1112.
Oily
Not a commercial vehicle granted but my first motor snapped in 1981 just before I passed my test. I saw one today on the A45 and realised, in shock just how small and low they were.
Then I got to remembering back to those heady days of first driving and fetching my Nan back from Biddulph (North Staffs) to Coventry - nearly all M6 with blinking great Scanias and Volvo F88 artics etc blasting past at 80 mph plus.
Makes me shudder to think - it would have been like running over a mouse 
" A trip down Memory Lane" , …or , in this case ,…a Road Run at Easter Weekend .
Tom Maughan, from Great Asby , ■■■■■■■ , at the wheel of his restored Ford Thames Trader , the type of vehicle he first
drove many years ago .
Cheers , cattle wagon man.
Gardner 120:
Not a commercial vehicle granted but my first motor snapped in 1981 just before I passed my test. I saw one today on the A45 and realised, in shock just how small and low they were.Then I got to remembering back to those heady days of first driving and fetching my Nan back from Biddulph (North Staffs) to Coventry - nearly all M6 with blinking great Scanias and Volvo F88 artics etc blasting past at 80 mph plus.
Makes me shudder to think - it would have been like running over a mouse
I had the “posh” version with two-tone bodywork- green & rust! 
Gardner 120:
Not a commercial vehicle granted but my first motor snapped in 1981 just before I passed my test. I saw one today on the A45 and realised, in shock just how small and low they were.Then I got to remembering back to those heady days of first driving and fetching my Nan back from Biddulph (North Staffs) to Coventry - nearly all M6 with blinking great Scanias and Volvo F88 artics etc blasting past at 80 mph plus.
Makes me shudder to think - it would have been like running over a mouse
Hi Gardner 120, Mini Clubman variously called Estate or Countryman or Traveller, tho’ I think the last two names were for the previous model which was built at Cowley, your motor was out of Longbridge. I delivered plenty of the older models from Cowley with a trusty Leyland Comet (previously mentioned by Stanfield and Leyland600), my Leyland was replaced with a brand new Ergo Mercury (1967), the Mercury once in 5th gear had longer legs but I much preferred the Comet. The Mercury was prone to breaking manifold downpipes, engine mountings adapted or replaced for a cure, I also had a windscreen shatter, it went off like a bomb, blind until I put my fist through it, this one very frosty night between Aylesbury and Aston Clinton on the way to Luton, carried on there, tipped, loaded and back to Cowley. Hey I’m off again on another journey to IwishIcoulddothatagain
My trusty steed when new 1965
Oily
Thanks to cattle wagon man and Gardner 120 for the Trader pics
Three more, second two in Malta.
Oily
Here’s another Trader Oily. Still with it’s first owner and still starts first touch. I was told it
only survived because it got put in a shed and forgotten. By the time it came out it was
interesting. A lot of wagons I’ve owned would be restoration projects now but at the time
of disposal they were only good for scrap. It is the years between finishing with them and
weighing them in that gives them rarity value and most don’t hang around long enough.
(Except Atkinsons)
Oily - yes it was a Clubman registered in March 1974 and yes, from Longbridge - it was always B L motors for a Cov kid - I was an apprentice at the Jag, my grandad and Mum worked at Standard Triumph, uncle at Massey Ferguson and Dad at the Dunlop - all gone now apart from a bit of Dunlop - I also worked at Motor Panels for 10 years - plenty of cabs out of there.
I see your trusty wagon had a Cov plate too RW
The predecessor to “Gardner 120” `s beloved Mini Clubman was this Austin/Morris Mini (Countryman ?) Estate .
This shining example was photographed in the Classic Car Museum , Malta.
Cheers , cattle wagon man.
Hi all found this old shot of my mate and my mini cars, mine is on the left and was an 850 and my mates on the right was a 1071 cooper S. they were the dogs doo dahs when we were nippers in the late 60’s. Just look at all the other old motors in the picture in the fore court of a National Benzole garage, cheers Buzzer.
