pv83:
Froggy55:
Here are a few pictures of Bedford trucks I received this morning.3
0The two above in Australia
2Australian and Isuzu-powered and probably cabbed too.
1USA
Pic nr.3 looks like it’s a rebadged Hino…?
Ref the 2nd pic
Was RFW not a manufacturer in their own right.
Pic 4
That is surely OZ registered as the wipers are RHD fitted.
Oily this van is on its way to your house, enjoy your evening with the load on her and here’s to the New Year, Buzzer
Buzzer:
Oily this van is on its way to your house, enjoy your evening with the load on her and here’s to the New Year, Buzzer
Cheers Buzzer and thanks 
Oily
In the picture with the green and white Bedford tipper, I can see an old Dodge in the background. I drove one for Morgans meat transport when they were taken over by Mayne Nickless. It had a V8 petrol engine and went like a train. Pulled like a train too. Comfy thing to drive but had a horrible transmission handbrake that was no good no matter how you adjusted it. Mine was a bigger wheel version with twin headlights.
peterm:
In the picture with the green and white Bedford tipper, I can see an old Dodge in the background. I drove one for Morgans meat transport when they were taken over by Mayne Nickless. It had a V8 petrol engine and went like a train. Pulled like a train too. Comfy thing to drive but had a horrible transmission handbrake that was no good no matter how you adjusted it. Mine was a bigger wheel version with twin headlights.
And if you broke a halfshaft…no handbrake at all 
Been there, done that, but with a Foden, held it on the footbrake till someone passed by and shoved a block under the wheels. 
If my memory serves (early) TKs had them as well.
Spardo:
peterm:
In the picture with the green and white Bedford tipper, I can see an old Dodge in the background. I drove one for Morgans meat transport when they were taken over by Mayne Nickless. It had a V8 petrol engine and went like a train. Pulled like a train too. Comfy thing to drive but had a horrible transmission handbrake that was no good no matter how you adjusted it. Mine was a bigger wheel version with twin headlights.And if you broke a halfshaft…no handbrake at all
Been there, done that, but with a Foden, held it on the footbrake till someone passed by and shoved a block under the wheels.
If my memory serves (early) TKs had them as well.
Given a new TK with transmission hand brake and when loading cars it rocked backwards and forwards. didn’t trust it at all, the 330 engine struggled with 5 cars on, a bit toy like compared to the Comet, had it a week and got a swop.
Oily
oiltreader:
1958 Caterpillar DW20 Coal Hauler.
Oily
Ben Wyatt Plant had a few old DW21’s on the Beaconsfield bypass. I had a push start in one but put the manual stick in reverse instead of first and the engine started backwards and started dumping its oil all over the bonnet! I had to shove it in 3rd to stall it. Jim.
Spardo:
peterm:
In the picture with the green and white Bedford tipper, I can see an old Dodge in the background. I drove one for Morgans meat transport when they were taken over by Mayne Nickless. It had a V8 petrol engine and went like a train. Pulled like a train too. Comfy thing to drive but had a horrible transmission handbrake that was no good no matter how you adjusted it. Mine was a bigger wheel version with twin headlights.And if you broke a halfshaft…no handbrake at all
Been there, done that, but with a Foden, held it on the footbrake till someone passed by and shoved a block under the wheels.
If my memory serves (early) TKs had them as well.
Yes well thought out to have a brake on the bloody prop shaft eh.
peterm:
Spardo:
peterm:
In the picture with the green and white Bedford tipper, I can see an old Dodge in the background. I drove one for Morgans meat transport when they were taken over by Mayne Nickless. It had a V8 petrol engine and went like a train. Pulled like a train too. Comfy thing to drive but had a horrible transmission handbrake that was no good no matter how you adjusted it. Mine was a bigger wheel version with twin headlights.And if you broke a halfshaft…no handbrake at all
Been there, done that, but with a Foden, held it on the footbrake till someone passed by and shoved a block under the wheels.
If my memory serves (early) TKs had them as well.
Yes well thought out to have a brake on the bloody prop shaft eh.
I believe this was also a problem with BMMO CM5s.
Our Fodens had the transmission brake on the rear axle worm so at least when the propshaft broke, which with air clutches they frequently did, the brake still worked. However they were never very efficient, usually either soaked in diff oil or seized up! I remember a Bedford TK running away when a fitter pulled a half shaft out, I can still picture him sitting with the shaft in his arms and the truck was thirty feet away! 
Land Rovers were the same of course.
Pete.
windrush:
Our Fodens had the transmission brake on the rear axle worm so at least when the propshaft broke, which with air clutches they frequently did, the brake still worked. However they were never very efficient, usually either soaked in diff oil or seized up! I remember a Bedford TK running away when a fitter pulled a half shaft out, I can still picture him sitting with the shaft in his arms and the truck was thirty feet away!Pete.
Those bloody air assisted clutches on the Fodens. They were like a switch… on or off. Designed to make you look like a learner.
windrush:
I remember a Bedford TK running away when a fitter pulled a half shaft out, I can still picture him sitting with the shaft in his arms and the truck was thirty feet away!
Pete.
His face must have been a picture, so, if you had had a camera with you, that would have been the shot of the year.
Hi Oily just uplifted this from FB, not the most usual power plant but back then needs must, Buzzer.
Buzzer:
Hi Oily just uplifted this from FB, not the most usual power plant but back then needs must, Buzzer.
Trunking at its earliest Buzzer
Oily
Can’t say that I remember ‘Tommy Wards’ using elephant power when they owned Shining Bank Quarry but it is a possibility of course! Might be awkward reversing onto a Barber Greene? 
Pete.
Parked up for the night near Allington on the A338 in Wiltshire in 2008.
A 5 minute walk down the road to the New Inn at Allington village for
a nice evening meal and a couple of pints of Badger Beer brewed by
Hall & Woodhouse from Blandford Forum. First thing the following
morning was a delivery of “Anti-Gas” protective clothing and equipment
to the Health Protection Agency at Porton Down. Joe Rutter was the
regular driver of this Mercedes Benz 1820 for 10 years from 2000 until
2010, Joe worked for me from 1985 until 2010. Ray Smyth.
