servo88:
All the best Oily to you & all your family, regards Gordon, nice to see the shops running over the festive weekend.
Thanks for that Gordon 
Here’s wishing you and yours all the best for 2016.
Oily
Thanks to servo88 and lurpak for the photos spotted the last car HWP941 pic is a Dellow, hill climbs and trials their main forte, Ford 10 engine or similar, late 40s early 50s.
Oily
Oily - I drove a Bedford TK only once. E registered 13 ton cattle truck with a Leyland 400. Twas parked up about 2 feet in front of an ERF at my uncle’s yard.
As a 12 year old I climbed in and started her up just for the craic - thought she was in neutral but turned out she was in reverse - shot backwards at a rate of knots and I heaved down with all my might on brake & clutch - she stopped and died about half an inch from the ERF and I slunk away to change my y-fronts and get my heart rate down to about 500 beats a minute
Mixed memories with a TK I suppose
oiltreader:
Found this one previously posted where I mentioned it may be Cat powered
Oily
Well have had a bit of a look and Rapier cranes of this era did use Perkins diesel engines and an electric-powered jib, not sure if that would apply to this one.
Oily we had these at Pickfords only on solid tyres they were rated at 6 tons but you were able to wind the ballast out and put a ton ingot on for extra ballast and it would lift over 12 tons but don’t tell the elf an safety bloke 
cheers Johnnie 
sammyopisite:
oiltreader:
Found this one previously posted where I mentioned it may be Cat powered
Oily
Well have had a bit of a look and Rapier cranes of this era did use Perkins diesel engines and an electric-powered jib, not sure if that would apply to this one.Oily we had these at Pickfords only on solid tyres they were rated at 6 tons but you were able to wind the ballast out and put a ton ingot on for extra ballast and it would lift over 12 tons but don’t tell the elf an safety bloke
cheers Johnnie
Hi sammyopisite, most likely similar to this restored one brought back into use youtube.com/watch?v=R3SNh4sKAiU.
Cheers
Oily
Gardner 120:
Oily - I drove a Bedford TK only once. E registered 13 ton cattle truck with a Leyland 400. Twas parked up about 2 feet in front of an ERF at my uncle’s yard.As a 12 year old I climbed in and started her up just for the craic - thought she was in neutral but turned out she was in reverse - shot backwards at a rate of knots and I heaved down with all my might on brake & clutch - she stopped and died about half an inch from the ERF and I slunk away to change my y-fronts and get my heart rate down to about 500 beats a minute
Mixed memories with a TK I suppose
Oily
Leyland beaver 1934, Buzzer.
Found another good looking motor of which I owned several in my time, used to end up with a cranked neck trying to look out the windscreen though, Buzzer.
A Happy Prosperous and Healthy New Year to all our contributors and readers, may the lights always be at GREEN for you.
Thanks to Buzzer for the classic pics One from Wolverhampton on the A96 at Inverness.
Oily
Bedford KM taken at Kirby Stephen, a few miles between the original livery and Chester le Street 
Oily
Thanks to lurpak for the pics …another he has sent me taken at Maidstone, put me in mind of similar I posted a year or two ago, another look.
Oily
Hi all another interesting old shot with wagon and drag which is loaded with sacks, maybe a feed mill. The sacks look huge but then I can still remember the West of England sacks that weighed 2&1/4 hundred weight when full and lifting one at a struggle on to a 45 gallon drum which was the platform at our farm to feed the hammer mill which was driven by belt from a petrol/TVO Nuffield tractor, good hard working old days cheers Buzzer.
One for Oily from 1967 when the Progressive Group took delivery of 66 AEC Mercurys and 6 Mandators.
Leyland600:
Here are some classic Scottish liveries on AECs in 1967.
These are great photos “Leyland600”, And of course Sam Andersons are still going thank you for posting such classics, Regards Larry.