I have watched quite a few of Ben The Breeze videos(Youtube) interesting really well put together and his song at 38.30 on this video is not bad either.
A little spartan cf. European rivals but I suppose comfortable enough.
I’ve just come across a 1982 Bedford TM brochure which offers (as an alternative to the Detroit) a choice of Cummins NTE 290 or NTE 370 with a 9-speed Fuller or a 13-sp one. I registered sudden interest! And the cab is properly insulated with no rearward glasswork like your picture of the earlier ones.
I nearly bought a TM once, somebody had put a 350 Cummins in it, which was top drawer stuff in those days.
Had a test drive in it (that upholstery colour scheme was kin awful btw) but we couldn’t agree on a price.
Wasn’t too fussed as that bloody horrible Spicer Box put me off it a bit anyhoo,.although I did manage to get it eventually.
My Dad used to drive one…although maybe not as long ago as that.
There is one stood in a village in Devon near Bampton, I once put a pic up of it on here, it has like a box body on the back, presumably living space for somebody.
Pic on here somewhere.
(Think it is one of those Austins, you’ve got me doubting it now 
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There was a definite aversion to illumination back then.
I thought the claim of comfort and sefety for the driver a bit of a long bow.
Do those trailers with a Scammell coupling have brakes?
This was a regular near me in the 1980s and beyond.They had one with the coach built cab too that was still used in the 80s .Based on the approach to Colne at a place called Laneshawbridge. I don’t know if they still have the other Mercury but i think it had the split screen not the full screen like alot of them had
The Mandator survives and looks superb
By the time the ‘80s occurred, Bedford had dropped the Spicer box for Fuller and dropped the Soma axle for Rockwell (you could have an optional Eaton).
Stupid British road planners take note 21.20 how to do directional traffic lights properly.Not just on the green light.
That and the flashing green before amber and red in Austria.
Yeah?
This must have been around 88, but given that the 350 was a replacement engine from the original, maybe the same guy decided to put in a Spicer…although I can’t think why tf anybody would do that…or maybe more like the Spicer was already in which would make more sense I suppose.
We will never know.
This was one of the first trucks I have driven B reg , I found this pic on the net looks like it’s been sold on or scrapped
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The Cummins option came after Detroit and the 8v92 4400 had a Fuller.
Spicer v Fuller on the others is bit blurred from memory but can definitely remember a 6v92 version 3800 ?, with the Spicer and was told by senior drivers it’s a Spicer in this one not a Fuller.