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The painter/signwriter we had at the BMC dealership in the sixties was brilliant, birds and fish etc were all done freehand on vans carrying such goods. However he did make a few spelling errors, three L’s in the word ‘valley’ and missing the letter K out of the word ‘sparkling’ were just two of them! None of the customers ever commented on the missing letters though, and unless they were pointed out you missed seeing them. As fitters our job when a new vehicle required painting was to remove all the fixed glass from the cab (there was a lot of glass on a FG cab!) so he could paint the metal underneath the rubber surround and remove all lights etc. Painting was all done by brush, two coats of primer, two undercoats and then three top coats and then varnish. Something like painting a BMC FG would take around two weeks. When the gas board bought some J4 vans from us and wanted them spraying quickly he wasn’t happy at all, “that’s not painting, it’s more like spraying waspkiller around” was his thoughts on that subject! 
Pete.
Buzzer:
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Cornish registered Volvo there.
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Just three, BuzzerCornish registered Volvo there.
Remember Richard Benny RIP had one bought second hand at one year old when I was there YAF 888J so an early one, 240/16 speed box, dont know who had it first, Buzzer
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Love the Leyland reccer, good job it appears to have an opening screen, no wiper. 
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Larry
Is this Matador of Mintos (Kirkley Sawmills) still around or is this an old photo? The sawmills are long gone.
I remember this motor when it was new in 1965. It replaced an old wartime Matador and a Douglas 4*4 Tractor. It was used to pull pole trailers and often driven by Benny Minto with Stan Matheson as second man. Norman Carr usually had four wheelers or the Power Major winch tractor.
Cheers
Harry
Hi Harry, It is still undergiong restoration, I took this photo about three years ago at Corbridge Steam Rally, A fiend of mine Billy Dodds used to drive it as well, He was the mechanich in those days, Larry.