oiltreader:
Another one to put a type and date to.
Oily
I believe that’s a model 123, 40/50cwt, made between 1935 and 1939. Can’t pin down the year exactly as AV numbers were issued in Aberdeen for many years.
By the way, if you want to narrow down Albion ID a bit, the rising sun on pre-war and wartime models is the full width of the header tank, narrower on postwar models
Bernard
Hi Bernard,
That model was also made in normal control, if so are these the same model? I seem to remember my Dad saying they we’re 127’s in my pic? Apologies for the quality, Pete
The normal control version of the 123 was a 122 Pete. Those in your picture as best I can see might well be 122s. Definitely not 127s, that’s what I have, forward control and designed to carry 5/6 tons, the bonnetted version of that was a 126. Here’s a picture I took in the early '70s at a Sussex rally, my 127 on the left, a 122 on the right, and the oldie in the middle is an LC24 2 tonner, 1924.
Bernard
oiltreader:
Another one to put a type and date to.
Oily
I believe that’s a model 123, 40/50cwt, made between 1935 and 1939. Can’t pin down the year exactly as AV numbers were issued in Aberdeen for many years.
By the way, if you want to narrow down Albion ID a bit, the rising sun on pre-war and wartime models is the full width of the header tank, narrower on postwar models
Bernard
Hi Bernard,
That model was also made in normal control, if so are these the same model? I seem to remember my Dad saying they we’re 127’s in my pic? Apologies for the quality, Pete
The normal control version of the 123 was a 122 Pete. Those in your picture as best I can see might well be 122s. Definitely not 127s, that’s what I have, forward control and designed to carry 5/6 tons, the bonnetted version of that was a 126. Here’s a picture I took in the early '70s at a Sussex rally, my 127 on the left, a 122 on the right, and the oldie in the middle is an LC24 2 tonner, 1924.
Bernard
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Hi Bernard,
Thank you for the information, I have the original picture at home, I will see if I can get a better scan on it, Pete
This one with permission from Shaun Ballisat and snapped at Haddenham 2017.
Oily
About 30 years ago that laid mouldering in a yard near me. I looked into buying it via a young lad who worked with me who knew the owners, but they wouldn’t be parted from it. Moving on, I recently looked at it at a show, thinking ‘‘if only’’. But to be fair, if I’d got all the motors I’d fancied over the years I’d have needed my own Gaydon!
Bernard
so no chance.
