Two-Pedal Beaver Gear Change Gate
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Taylors of Longridge. Moomooland can identify the location on the A59 and post the modern day view.
Taylor’s Octopus
Teignmouth Sea Front. Midway halt for the Devon Coastal Run
Thames Trader
TK by Bedford probably if not the best selling & most produced commercial vehicle ever certainly up in the top ten. We had them in all shapes and sizes Box vans Luton vans Flats,breakdown and even a tipper and of course umpteen pantechnicons mostly built by Marsden’s of Warrington like the one in the photo below. based on the TK chassis scuttle, including a few (about 20 built by Vanplan)
We had 4 cylinder 220, 300, 330, 380, 466 & 500 cu in engines. All apart from 220 & 380 were a success with all the TK pantechnicons we ran lasting 13-14 year lives with 700,000 mile plus on the clocks before we sold them into second lives. Most engines achieved 300,000 miles and we then fitted new factory supplied short motors that usually achieved similar mileages. And the drivers loved the TK pantechnicons which did not suffer from the cramped TK cabs.
The breakdown in the photo was a new Bedford short wheelbase tipper chassis with body built & lifting gear as a purpose built breakdown by Robsons of Consett in 1964. It towed everything including on more than one occasion artics fully loaded with 20 ton on their back. Not bad for a humble 330 cu in diesel engine. If we had a breakdown which was loaded we sent it to tow including multi drop loads until they were empty & then back home. It had a new short motor fitted at just over 300,000 miles, & when you imagine what it had pulled home it was probably the hardest of all miles. It also had a new cab fitted when it was about 18 years old. As I said it never was registered taxed or tested running its whole life on trade plates, but like all our vehicles it was well maintained. However I don’t think today we would have got away with such a light weight breakdown. Pulling AEC Leyland BMC Ford Dodge Guy Atkinson Mercedes Magnius, DAF Seddon & of course Bedfords. But the little Bedfords favourites which it pulled more than any others were Leyland Lynx, Boxer, Laird and of Course Dodge.
Terex
Tilling Stevens Lorry with Gardner 5L2 engine. Probably started life as a PSV, no doubt VALKYRIE will confirm.
Tilt body. The original type of Tilt used in GB long before the Germans took the idea and made a simple, driver friendly design into a couple of hours hard work to strip one down and then rebuild it.
Tollemache Tanks for Bulk Flour, the first type of tank system used by Spillers, Ranks, CWS, and other leading millers of the early 1950s.
Total Oil
Transit Van
