It’s a Bradford Jowett, they were built quite local to me, a great little motor.
flat 4 engine, 50mph flat out, down hill, with a tail wind.
White knuckle motoring.
They did the job they were made for (local traders,light loads)
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Back in the '50s I remember there was a bigger Jowett van (1 ton?) with a stubby bonnet. Apparently underpowered. And then there was the Jowett Javelin car.
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International Harvesters took over the Jowett factory at Five Lane Ends Idle Bradford . When they closed it eventually became a trading estate and a Morrisons supermarket.
Thanks Grumpy, I thought commercial Jowetts were called Trojans. Didn’t Dinky do one with Brook Bond tea livery?
Re: The Inter.
I reckon he’s loaded 44 gallon drums somewhere round Melbourne, secured ony by the cap tarp. Note the curtains and second tarp against the headboard, under the cap. The cars are probably new, ex-Geelong, going to Leeton.
On the bumper it says Leeton-Melbourne weekly. Nowadays that could be done in a day.
Proper barrels, steel ones with metal swages around them were OK to secure with a fly sheet or just a rope around the back ones of you had a rave on the trailer. Current slippery plastic barrels without any swages and horrible smooth contours that encourage all lashings to move are a nightmare.
They’re best off in a tilt! 
Only if the front bit has a Detroit two banger. 
Better off with a forklift and pallets too, but ya gotta deal with what ya got.
#CF incoming!
I used to move cars in fridge vans, as a backload from Normanton. All I could do was park them in four old tyres. Full size cars never moved but Nissen Micra and their ilk, favourites with first year teachers sent to the back blocks for their first year assignment, did. The tyres prevented them touching the side of the van, but some of them were at a jaunty angle at the destination. Only the back seemed to move, usually to the left side.
A steep camber on the roads?
but in my case, a Cummins please!
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Over 2,200km unrestrained will do it.
Better off with a forklift and pallets too, but ya gotta deal with what ya got.
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No probs! As recently as 2004 I actually handballed 25 tonnes of onions in the International Market off a tilt I’d picked up in the Dartford docks. Needless to say, I kept my job and carried on. No smattering off squashed dummies round my pram!
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I hope said onions were in bags.
Nets. Hard work but tbh I quite enjoyed the physical aspect of unloading at times, after sitting hunched behind the wheel for hours on end. You slept better too!
I once had a 40’ container of rice to deliver to Vietnamese grocery store (being of a certain age Vietnamese were not my favourite people).
It was a 40⁰C day, the container was loaded over half its height with 15 varieties/sizes of rice. In typical Asian fasion it had been loaded with a cannon, no two similar bags were next to each other.
I opened the container doors and backed up to a doorway, too low to back through. I proceeded to hand bags of rice to the six fellows who had to sort the bags onto pallets. These six blokes were in the shade, under the shop that was supported by breeze blocks, so although hot, they got to enjoy the shade and breeze.
All they did was complain about the heat and how hard the work was. Each of them had to handle a smidge over four tonne, I had to handle the whole 25 tonne. I might not have been able to do it, in the hot, breezeless container, had it not been for the whingers winding me up, to the point that i was chucking each bag with as much gusto as i could muster, trying to knock each catcher to the ground.
Hi EW pleased to hear from you but it’s only a fleeting visit on the site from me !
Well we are both still here and looking forward to Christmas but we are both glad to see the back of 2024 as it’s been a terrible year for both Anne and me but we’re hoping for a better 2025 
So I will take this oppertunity to wish you and yours a very Happy Christmas and healthy and prosperous New Year.
Regards
Dennis.
Dennis, I’m also hoping for an improvement for you and Anne, next year. I’m also hoping to hear more from you in 2025. Your input has been missed.
G’day mate how’s it going in that great country of Australia ? good I hope !
Wishing you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year
Regards
Dennis. 