But it does say ‘‘home brew sleeper cabs’’ then later it says ‘etc’ so you can’t be surprised that the guys are putting all the quirky builds in here.
Richard J:
Please don’t take this wrongly chaps, I appreciate all your input, but we’ve strayed far and wide from what I originally asked about…Bedford TK’s/KM’s etc, with the side and rear windows knocked out and replaced with metal boxes, to give a few extra (and valuable) inches of room to stretch out.Hope I haven’t upset anyone…
I’m always starting threads about something very specific I want to explore. It’s like a dart-board. Everyone throws at the bulls-eye from a slightly different angle so you get a cluster of darts near the centre. With information like add-on cabs, this gives a slightly broader and more interesting picture, leading your own interest down new avenues. Trust the process: it will turn out to be a great thread! Robert
Further to Robert’s dartboard reference- I usually miss the board altogether (or end up in Double one!) and start rambling on about something only slightly related to the original post!
It’s probably to do with my age. 
I think this mock up is the kind of thing
Owner Driver known as Grandad use to do Tehran in something very similar to this - rather him than me 
Just discovered they came with: “Optional extras included a fresh air heating and ventilating unit”
Yep…that’s along the right lines. Thank you sir…any more?
This is a classic example of what I meant…
newmercman:
Nice bit of load restraint on those drums.
Dunno what your problem is. When you wallop the brakes and the load slides forward, isn’t the headboard the restraint?
Hope it’s a good headboard otherwise that Clydesdale will be a day cab again [emoji23] [emoji23]
Richard J:
Please don’t take this wrongly chaps, I appreciate all your input, but we’ve strayed far and wide from what I originally asked about…Bedford TK’s/KM’s etc, with the side and rear windows knocked out and replaced with metal boxes, to give a few extra (and valuable) inches of room to stretch out.Hope I haven’t upset anyone…
Having spent far, far too many nights trying to sleep in a TK with its gear lever in a place your mother would never understand, I count myself excused from any and every condition you placed on the content in this thread. And if you don’t believe me, I’ll show you the scars…
newmercman:
Hope it’s a good headboard otherwise that Clydesdale will be a day cab again [emoji23] [emoji23]
Yes!!! No more nights out in that piece of ***t!
ParkRoyal2100:
Richard J:
Please don’t take this wrongly chaps, I appreciate all your input, but we’ve strayed far and wide from what I originally asked about…Bedford TK’s/KM’s etc, with the side and rear windows knocked out and replaced with metal boxes, to give a few extra (and valuable) inches of room to stretch out.Hope I haven’t upset anyone…
Having spent far, far too many nights trying to sleep in a TK with its gear lever in a place your mother would never understand, I count myself excused from any and every condition you placed on the content in this thread. And if you don’t believe me, I’ll show you the scars…
The D series was better in that regard as you could turn the stick around.
Yes, that gear lever could do all sorts of nasty things to a man’s anatomy…I did bribe one of our fitters to make me a detatchable one, it had a screw thread on one end and a threaded tube on the other, so you could just unscrew the lever at bed time and get a far more comfortable nights sleep. It worked fine…but it had a nasty habit of vibrating itself loose, especially at a junction where you needed to go down through the g’box a bit quick, so after a couple of weeks it got welded up solid again.
newmercman:
The D series was better in that regard as you could turn the stick around.
This is true. Though I confess there were times when I woke up, got out for a jimmy, got back in, tried to get going and could not work out wtf was wrong with the gearlever all of a sudden.
ParkRoyal2100:
newmercman:
The D series was better in that regard as you could turn the stick around.This is true. Though I confess there were times when I woke up, got out for a jimmy, got back in, tried to get going and could not work out wtf was wrong with the gearlever all of a sudden.
There it was…gone? 
Richard J:
Yes, that gear lever could do all sorts of nasty things to a man’s anatomy…I
While we’re on the subject, you need to expand your original terms of reference to Bedford TL’s, which were - despite the PR blurb - no better than TK’s when it came to “driver accommodation”.
And yes, I do have the scars 
Richard J:
There it was…gone?
Not gone. Just… In Another Time/ Space Dimension.
ParkRoyal2100:
Richard J:
There it was…gone?Not gone. Just… In Another Time/ Space Dimension.
Ah, the good old time warp.
