A to Z Transport Miscellaney

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TruckNetUK.Old Time Lorries.A To Z Transport Miscellaney.V IS FOR VICTORY! ,QV below,please VALKYRIE.Sunday,3rd September,2017.

I believe in Synchronicity,so the arrival of my post in the letter V part of this A To Z Transport Miscellaney thread could have been timed to providentially appear on the 78th Anniversary of the start of World War Two on Sunday,3rd September,1939 !

So we are now going to take a look at the outcome of World War Two - the victorious outcome for Great Britain-United Kingdom,United States Of
America,Canada and their Allies - over the Axis Powers of ■■■■ Germany,Italy and their friends.

The focus is on three days which celebrated the Allies victory over Germany,Italy and Japan - the Axis Powers - in World War Two.

I’m gonna to keep the happy photographs until last,so I’ll show some photographs of the official Allied Victory Parade of Saturday,8th June,1946,in
London,QV photographs.

Allied Victory Parade,London,Saturday,8th June,1946.Two ERF Streamline CI 4x2 Articulated Lowloader Lorries and two AEC Regent RT Class Double Decker Omnibuses of London Transport take part in the parade.The ERF lorries represented the Womens Land Army and transported a Excavator-Digger-Shovel Tracked Crane and a Fordson Farm Tractor,and the AEC buses represented London Transport:-

Allied Victory Parade,London,Saturday,8th June,1946.Two Bedford QL 4x4 Army Fire Service Lorries towing trailer water pumps and two Leyland FKT Pump Escape Fire Engines were in the parade:-

Allied Victory Parade,London,Saturday,8th June,1946.At least two magnificent Scammell Pioneer R100 6x4 Heavy Artillery Ballast Diesel Road Locomotives,towing Long Tom Guns,were in the parade:-

And now for the really happy and joyous victory photographs! …When the legendary and magnificent Allied Expeditionary Forces
Programme - AEFP,with it’s haunting and beautiful Oranges & Lemons musical callsign-signal,played on a Novachord electronic keyboard
instrument,by Charles Smart,ruled the radio airwaves with it’s output of great music by Glenn Miller And The American Band Of The AEF,
Robert Farnon And The Canadian Band Of The AEF,George Melachrino And The British Band Of The AEF,and several other great service orchestras,such as The Squadronaires-RAF Dance Orchestra,The Sky Rockets and The Marineers.Plus the relaying of the great Armed Forces
Radio Service music programmes AND the music record shows - records by Tommy Dorsey,Artie Shaw,Harry James,The Andrews Sisters,
Frances Langford,Frank Sinatra,Bing Crosby,Dinah Shore,Vera Lynn,Judy Garland,Paula Green,Benny Goodman,Duke Ellington,Woody Herman
and so many more artists.

The great music and songs performed by the above orchestras and singers were joyously and enthusiastically sang and danced to by the millions
of revellers celebrating the Allied Forces Victory In Europe Day - VE DAY on Tuesday,8th May,1945! It was all over! Great Britain and her
Allies had won the war over Germany and Italy …There were a lot of free rides on motor vehicles on VE Day… -
I wonder if London Transport gave free rides on their omnibuses,motorcoaches,trolleybuses and trams QV photographs below

VE Day revellers ride on a Bedford OYD British WD-WO-Military Lorry on VE Day Victory In Europe Day,Tuesday,8th May,1945.BBC:-

Bedford W-Series Lorry,MJ 6192,Bedford,1936,carrying VE Day revellers in central London on Victory In Europe Day - VE Day Tuesday,8th May,1945:-

VE Day revellers ride on a beautiful Fordson WOT1 V8 6x4 Lorry or WOT3 V8 WOT3 4x2 Lorry of the British WD-WO-Military on VE Day Victory In Europe Day,Tuesday,8th May,1945:-

VE DAY revellers having a ride on a beautiful Fordson 7V V8 Thames Lorry along the Strand,London, celebrating VE Day -Victory In Europe Day,Tuesday,8th May,1945:-

NOTE 1:General Motors Corporation of the USA started production of cars and lorries in December 1938,at a new factory in Southampton,
England.Production stopped in November 1939 due to World War Two,and the factory was bombed in November 1940 by German bomber
aeroplanes.

The cars and lorries were produced mainly for the United Kingdom market,and one of the Southampton-built Chevrolet lorries can be seen in
the next joyous VE Day photograph :-

VE Day revellers on 1939 Chevrolet normal control lorry-motor truck in central London,VE DAY,Tuesday,8th May,1945,London Transport AEC DD buses & a USA Army Dodge T211-WC15 Command Reconnaissance Half-Ton 4x4 Car-Truck can be seen:-

NOTE 2:Lledo,the scale model maker of motor vehicles,produced two model sets of World War Two-wartime motor vehicles to commemorate
the 50th Anniversary of VE Day on Monday,8th May,1995:-

#VEL1003 VE Day 3 Model Set. The set consists of #15 Vintage open top Double Decker Bus in the livery of London Transport with the advertisement “Victory in Europe”. Model two is #52 gray Ambulance from London City Council that says Time to Stand Down. The 3rd is #44 green lorry that says Celebrate with JOHN SMITH’S VICTORY ALE. All are mint in window display box. A Special Limited Edition (only 10,000 sets) to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of VE-Day. Beautiful set; issued in 1995. Includes numbered certificate.

Note:AEC Regent London Transport ST Open Topped Double Decker Omnibus;Ford A Ambulance London City Council ARP;Scammell Light Six
6x2 Lorry,John Smith’s Brewery.
The set’s presentation box has a portrait-painting of Sir Winston Churchill making a V For Victory Salute with his right hand.I assume 5000 were
made of this set.

#VEL1003 VE Day 3 Model Set. The set consists of Vintage covered roof Double Decker Bus in the livery of London Transport with the advertisement “Victory Will Be Sweeter with Mars”. Model two is gray Ambulance from Clubmobile Texas that says It’s Over Over here! The 3rd is green Daily Herald newspaper van with Front page headline “Hitler Dead”. All are mint in window display box.Displays as mint from the top. Vehicles mint.

Note:American Red Cross AEC Regal Clubmobile,Ford AA Daily Herald News Van,AEC Renown 6x4 London Transport LT Bus.
The set’s presentation box has a portrait-painting of the dome of St.Paul’s Cathedral on a dark night and two searchlight beams making a V For
Victory sign in to the sky.I assume 5000 were also made of this set,too.

VE DAY Victory In Europe Day - VE Day,on Tuesday,8th May,1945.Lledo produced two seperate model sets commemorating the 50th Anniversary of VE Day - This was one of them:American Red Cross AEC Regal Clubmobile,Ford AA Daily Herald News Van,London Transport AEC Renown LT 6x4 Bus:-

VE Day Victory In Europe Day,Tuesday,8th May,1945 photograph montage - Churchill making a V For Victory Salute,searchlights doing the same thing next to St.Paul’s,jubilant WRAF’s riding in an Austin 8HP Convertible Motorcar :-

After VE Day.

If you know your history you will have noticed that I didn’t mention Japan in the context of VE Day,the third member of the Axis Powers;the Second World War raged on in the Pacific-Asia part of the Southern Hemisphere until America stopped the war by dropping Atomic Bombs on two Japanese cities:-

Boeing B29,ENOLA GAY,dropped the Little Boy Uranium-235 Gun-Type 15 Kiloton Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima on Monday,6th August,1945.

Boeing B29,BOCKSCAR,dropped the Fat Man Plutonium Implosion-Type 21 Kiloton Atomic Bomb on Nagasaki on Thursday,9th August,1945.

These two atomic bombs saved thousands and thousands of lives on both sides of this war,and they ended the Second World War.Facts.

And then came VJ DAY Victory In Japan Day on Wednesday,15th August,1945 - the announcement of the Japanese surrender,and the official VJ
Day date in the United Kingdom,and Sunday,2nd September,1945 -the signing of the official surrender,and the official VJ Day date in the USA!

The two dates are a new one on me - I thought it was just the 15th of August

Finally,I’m not through with VE Day and VJ Day just yet.

The Two Dancing Men : The Dancing Sydney Man. The Dancing London Man.

The Dancing Sydney Man.
The Dancing Man,1.In the Australian Movietone Newsreel of the VJ Day celebrations in Sydney,Australia,it shows a man in a suit and Trilby Hat
dancing in the street.The scene only lasts a few seconds.

The Dancing London Man.
The Dancing Man, 2…eventually rides on a lorry…

The Dancing Man, 2.I haven’t seen the following short film for years,but a Tommy Trinder-like man with a suit and a Trilby Hat also dances on the
street …in the centre of London I’m guessing,either on VE Day or VJ Day.He dances and dances for at least a minute,then he jumps onto
the back of a moving lorry,sits down on it’s body and smiles at the movie-film camera still following and filming him.The film then finishes.

Was this film inspired by the dancing Sydney man? Who filmed it? - Movietone again? But this time in London? Or was it a film
production company making a fictional filmic representation of VE Day-VJ Day using a dancing man as the celebratory theme of this film?
Or whatever. What is the title of this film? Was it made on VE Day or VJ Day? Who was this Dancing London Man? Tommy Trinder?
Or another man?

I haven’t seen this film for years,but I saw it several times in documentaries on World War Two,especially about VE Day and/or VJ Day.
I would love to see this film again,and have a copy of it.

Can anybody else remember seeing this Dancing London Man film?

I’m quite interested in World War Two,especially in the Homefront in Great Britain,the Blitz,wartime radio,the great music of this period,
the civilian and military motor vehicles of course ,and so on,etc.

VALKYRIE

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I have a picture of a truck called a “Velie” but can’t find it. Has any body else got an image they can post? Velie was a close relative of John Deere and made trucks in the 1920’s. Not many survived; in fact: Velie very rare.

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V is for VALKYRIE and some fascinating posts

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Vincent Motor Cycles, any photos anyone?

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Two Vs from the heyday of Manchester Ship Canal and Docks

Manchester Ship Canal Tugboat M.S.C. Victory in all her preserved glory at Salford Quays in 2014

And Manchester Venture, one of Manchester Liners’ vessels

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Vincent motor cycles at Earls Court 1952 transportphotos.com/road/photos

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V is for VALKYRIE and some fascinating posts

For some reason I always thought that the dancing man lasted for about two minutes and then he jumped onto the back of a trolley bus.

youtube.com/watch?v=Ij9LkYCSujg

Vitafoam tanker which I think came from Moomooland or John Stansfield.

And a Victor tanker from Handley Page.

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We’re getting towards the end of our trawl through the alphabet, and reaching W

As we have a few Whisky drinkers on here, W is for White Horse Whisky. (I’ve loaded rigid an AEC Mercury flat several times exactly like this with Grants whisky at their bonded warehouse in the Gorbals district of Glasgow, not for the faint hearted…you had to sheet and rope outside in full view of prying eyes.)

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Wagon and drag

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Walter Southworth of Rufford

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Ward & Goldstone

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Wartime Photo… about little is known except it was taken after a fire at one of Smith Bros’ flour mills

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Watton Produce, AEC Militant Mk.1 field harvesting (photo taken in 2003 when the AEC was 50 years old)

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War-zone driving. Robert

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War time Thornycroft, Regards Larry.

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