Should’ve gone to specsavers, mate. 
I’m now 95.4% confident it’s a part image of a Bristol Lodekka, one with the Cave-Brown-Cave heating vents for the upper deck.
See Stephen Dowle (aka Fray Bentos) on flickr
Yes, once I had been put right about it being a bus, that was my 1st choice. Interesting mural on the Scania though, I wonder why the owner chose not just that but a sailing ship too. There’s got to be a story there.
At the top is Bristol Balloon Festival ,which is in August. Then Concorde, a Bristol Lodekka with Frys Chocolate. Then the SS Great Britian Brunels iron passenger ship. At the bottom something the Mrs likes Harvey’s Bristol Cream
Ade
And the Clifton Suspension Bridge
I’m sure there’s a link but I just can’t work out what it is 
And a Bristol registration
Ray
Ah Ha, so it’s all about Bristols then, How could I have missed all that?
^^^^^^
https://images.app.goo.gl/2GYoVabp3pzPL5ng7
Carry On Trucknet ?
I prefer Barbara.
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Bet you won’t spot a steel boy muffling up the grille of his AEC this week!
Just spotted the slice of cake denoting the anniversary of my joining. Larf! I joined three identities ago
Is it a privilege for some reason? I don’t remember getting any cake, and I’ve had more anniverseries than almost anyone else here. 
Everyone gets them. I think Robroy was the first one to notice it when TN2 came out.
Another market pic:
I nearly captioned it, ‘Nice little TK in the foreground,’ but I can’t recall there ever having been such a thing 
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Oh come on, don’t you remember the revolution they engendered when they came out? Nothing else like it for comfort and ease of control. Even a heater that worked and unless you were a giant, even a baby sleeper cab. 
TK was the devil’s work.Undergeared non power steering a day’s work just to navigate a roundabout and could break fingers or wrist if self centring, brakes varying from laughable to terrifying, gearshift as bad as the steering.Windscreen height for midgets and I ain’t tall.
I could go on.
Leyland WF and Ford D series were way better.But preferred the conventional cab and constant mesh box of the WF.
You’re right, CF. I had to drive a luton rigid 16-tonner TK so plenty of weight at the front end. The autolube had packed up so the already heavy steering was a matter of stand up and fart on the roundabouts. Even had to sleep on the bloody parcel shelf.
BUT! Compare it to the S-type Bedford it replaced. Pause for thought!
Now that was something else. I drove them several times, all 4x4s, only onto and off again from my Thames Trader. I worked for a pylon erection company called James Scott I think it was from Glasgow. They had a depot at Castle Donnington before it went back to being a race track. Seemed ok to me, apart from the noise, but I only drove them for about 60 seconds at a time.
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