AECs own vehicles ran on trade plates when collecting cabs from Sankey and back down to Southall.No idea why but there are photos on the net of them
I wonder how that worked?
I daresay the trade plate regs have evolved over time so what may have been legal once may not be so today.
Cabs for new vehicles might be a payload today? But may have been recovery or some such in the past??
Just a guess.
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I was on trade plates for several months at Stirlandās with a still-in-primer Seddon to collect stacked new trailers from E. Anglia somewhere. I suppose it meant it was not hire and reward, but own goods in transit?
Yes, it was the tall, full-width version of the Mk4 Motor Panels cab. The only other models that used that version was the Scammell Crusader and the French-built Mack. Foden, Guy, Seddon, FTF and others variously used the narrower or the shorter versions.
Which one did Foden use which was between the S80 with the big headlights and the Fleetmaster .I thought that was a Motor Panels cab.I could be wrong
Thatās the one i was thinking of ā¦ and yes iām right in saying i could and probably will be wrong.Itās a Fleetmaster
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How did the Europeans get a foothold on our markets???
1945 Austin 10.
Just found a better pic and itās not an Austin but a Bedford PC van.
And the Octopus looks brand spanking new hence the trade plate(s)
Oily
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Spoonful on a Friday evening cleaned you out over the weekend ready for school on Monday, another laxative was Cascara all vile tasting aye and back then a dose Epsom Salts which I still take when getting a bit sluggish.
Oily.
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It could be on a pre delivery road test including brakes.So maybe itās not carrying a payload at that stage only an exact representative test load of the type that it will be carrying in use by its customer.
We did the same with fire trucks which could be loaded with ballast for chassis road testing.
Then their proper water tankage load for their as finished pre delivery road testing.
It also looks like it was a different plate licence then than the triangular one that I knew ?.
Now itās just a computerised security tag label in the plate backing.
Excuse me, CF (expert in vehicle testing), but who in their right mind, even in the mid-'50s, would brake test a lorry with a heavy timber load thatās unsecured across the front and flimsily secured laterally? How is the tester likely to justify to his wife and kids why he took out a volatile load and tested it to see if would stove in the roof of his cab and kill the very man who put food on their table and secured their futures? Bollix.
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I thought cascara was the stuff ladies put on their eyelashes. Maybe Iāve been at the Smirnoff too much.
Thanks Oily, excellent detective work.
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You and @les_sylphides pointed out the same thing, and it does look a bit hows-yer-father. I wouldnāt want to plank (sorry) the brakes on.
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Aye lashings of vodie can affect the blinkers 
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Fair enough Ro.Weāll leave out the brake test and hope no errant pedestrians etc get in the way.
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An Octopus working hard. The car could be a black cab.
A great photo
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Crane - Frauheauf, Dereham ??
I donāt think so GOM, because I did at much earlier time fetch trailers from there for Dixons of Derby and this was definitely not the same place. Same circs though, in their case an F88 in primer with trade plates. 