Punchy Dan:
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May be I should look at a 730 next
Go for it, you need a bit of comfort at your age!
What does the XT stand for?
pete smith:
Punchy Dan:
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May be I should look at a 730 nextGo for it, you need a bit of comfort at your age!
What does the XT stand for?
I don’t know what XT stands for but it’s a cool wagon,it’s got two wipers. 
Chris Webb:
pete smith:
Punchy Dan:
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May be I should look at a 730 nextGo for it, you need a bit of comfort at your age!
What does the XT stand for?I don’t know what XT stands for but it’s a cool wagon,it’s got two wipers.
And loads of lights, that panel under the bumper is to protect the sump when he dips them all. 
DEANB:
Progressive Leyland car transporters.0
Are those journals worth a bob or two ? have got a few myself ,thank you Trevor
DEANB:
Progressive Leyland car transporters.0
Ta for the pic Dean 
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Hollindrake, Stockport went there once. A load from Cowley to Coventry, wagon in for service and given notes with instructions so and so hasn’t come in there’s a load for Stockport needed today, do that and when you get back your wagon will be loaded for home. Longish day but loved it.
Cheers
Oily
Thanks to kevmac47, Punchy Dan, Buzzer and DEANB for the pics
Oily
Not sure what to make of this snapped at Flint Hills Refinery Minnesota, perhaps Steve Jones or newmercman can give a clue.
I’d say the first part empties through a hopper fitted in the middle of the chassis, and the second part normally. But I maybe completely wrong…
Froggy55:
oiltreader:
Ford’s latest.
OilyProbably made in Turkey, where they’re sold under the Otosan brand.
Yes they are made in Turkey.
Oily, that’s the old model.
Here’s a new model Ford truck ( also made in Turkey).
Geoffo:
Froggy55:
oiltreader:
Ford’s latest.
OilyProbably made in Turkey, where they’re sold under the Otosan brand.
Yes they are made in Turkey.
Oily, that’s the old model.
Here’s a new model Ford truck ( also made in Turkey).0
Are they any good, or just cheap? I can’t remember seeing any in France or elsewhere and I do look at lorries wherever I go. Those are Portuguese I reckon, plenty of Portos come through France.
And why would Ford jump back into the heavy market, after so many years away, when there is such good competition at the top? Next thing we’ll be seeing big Bedfords again, made in Trans Dniester or somewhere. 
Spardo:
Geoffo:
Froggy55:
oiltreader:
Ford’s latest.
OilyProbably made in Turkey, where they’re sold under the Otosan brand.
Yes they are made in Turkey.
Oily, that’s the old model.
Here’s a new model Ford truck ( also made in Turkey).0
Are they any good, or just cheap? I can’t remember seeing any in France or elsewhere and I do look at lorries wherever I go. Those are Portuguese I reckon, plenty of Portos come through France.
And why would Ford jump back into the heavy market, after so many years away, when there is such good competition at the top? Next thing we’ll be seeing big Bedfords again, made in Trans Dniester or somewhere.
Yes you are correct David,CTT is the Portuguese national postal service.
David
Tyneside’s pic of Dunston Fire Station brought back some memories. Not the fire station, I’m not that old (quite), but I owned an Austin K2 fire tender like that one, for restoration about 40 years ago. 2.7 litre petrol engine, commonly called the Brumigem Bedford for its resemblance to the O type Bedfords.
Chassis/ scuttle was built by Austin, and they were then shipped out to anybody who could build the box body the quickest! They were literally built from plywood, except the roof which was tin, and allegedly blast-proof. They were generally mated with a Coventry Climax water pump, and fought fires in the Blitz, mainly in the bigger cities. Hundreds were used and lost in Coventry. Also used as ambulances and NAAFI vans, serving tea and sarnies to the rescue crews.
The bodies were knocked together as cheap and quick as possible, because their life expectancy was only two weeks at the height of the bombing in 1940/41.Quite a few survived the war; when I was an apprentice in the fifties we fitted a couple of them with flat-bed bodies for a local coalman.
Mine had done only 768 miles from new, fitted as an ambulance, I suspect at the very end of the war.
6 May 1985
Bourton Rd
Much Wenlock
Shrops, Eng
Another piece of transport nostalgia forlorn and forgotten,
A LAD cab sporting the livery of Ed Weetman,
Started in 1969(?) and still in business, a well regarded company
based near Great Hayward, East of Stafford.
From my recollections of Weetmans i would guess the the cab came from a Dodge.
Thanks to Geoffo and pyewacket947v for the pics and all the other info posted
Ed Weetman Scania at Leeming Bar May 2019.
Oily
pyewacket947v:
6 May 1985
Bourton Rd
Much Wenlock
Shrops, EngAnother piece of transport nostalgia forlorn and forgotten,
A LAD cab sporting the livery of Ed Weetman,
Started in 1969(?) and still in business, a well regarded company
based near Great Hayward, East of Stafford.
From my recollections of Weetmans i would guess the the cab came from a Dodge.
That may have belonged to Corbetts of Much Wenlock they had several LAD cabbed Albions and Dodges on quarry work thank you Trevor
tastrucker:
pyewacket947v:
6 May 1985
Bourton Rd
Much Wenlock
Shrops, EngAnother piece of transport nostalgia forlorn and forgotten,
A LAD cab sporting the livery of Ed Weetman,
Started in 1969(?) and still in business, a well regarded company
based near Great Hayward, East of Stafford.
From my recollections of Weetmans i would guess the the cab came from a Dodge.That may have belonged to Corbetts of Much Wenlock they had several LAD cabbed Albions and Dodges on quarry work thank you Trevor
Arthur Tipper from Lupin Farm and Ed Weetman standing by Arthur’s Commer with a magnetic sign on the door.
A lorry of Hartleys Jams & Preserves from Aintree loading oranges at Liverpool docks in the 1930s’
I think that the oranges have arrived from Spain, soon to be made into Marmalade, and the lorry may
be a Leyland. Picture from Bootle History Forum.
