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A Scottish show in 1971

(can't say where but most vehicles are liveried up for Scottish operators. Thanks to everybody that told me it is the Kelvin Hall)

A "Bedford Spectacular"

More like a collection of Bedford oddballs from 1971...

It's a Bank Holiday (public holdiay) in the UK so here's a holdiay from truck pictures

Lincoln bombers from RAF staion Wyton, 1949
Track renewals, Watford tunnel, 1948
Samson floating crane, London 1964
WRNS learning aircraft maintenance at Stafford, 1943
"New Motorcycle Orleans", Paris show, 1928
Airspeed Ambassador, Heathrow, April 1952
Comet 1 with the fatal square windows, also Heathrow '52
A Mr S Moss takes delivery of his caravan with a full head of hair
Jaguar MkII, Brands Hatch, 1963
Austin A95 prepared for the Monte Carlo by Abingdon
London's Southbank Heliport
Concorde roll-out, 1971
(Most of the following aerial reconnaisance pictures are dated 1918 so assume all are this date.)
Salisbury Cathedral
Dublin
London from Roehampton with barage balloons up
Peterborough
Winchester
Harlaxton Hall near Grantham
Harlaxton village
Grantham
Is this Cambridge?
Aldwych, London

More oddments from the '60s..

Val de Travers Bedford S
Used on road repairs
1 ton(?) Commer chassis cab
Larger Commer within range of London Transport(B489 heading towards Dunstable which becomes Tring Road Dunstable.The pub in the background is the Travellers Rest. The London Transport bus stop is for Whipsnade Zoo)
So where's this? Exiting West Street for the High Street.(A5 Watling Street in the centre of Dunstable. Thanks for both identifications to Richard Roberts-Collins )

Miscellaneous pictures from the '50s & '60s

AEC 'Dumptruk' (that's their spelling)

Leyland Super Comet test, March 1965

Six veterans from World War 1 period

All scanned from photographic glass plate negatives larger than an A4 sheet...

AJ Mackaness of Billing in Northamptonshire

It's nearly all-Austin
Austin didn't go to this weight so Foden it is
I want one!August 1951-on A40 GQU4 10-cwt with the louvres in the bonnet. Thanks David Hayward.
They advertised being potato merchants, but seemed to have a minibus...1951 Northants reg…Austin K8? (K8/CV chassis cab without back?) Thanks David Hayward
...and a tipper to shift sand and gravel

Other makes at LDOY Plymouth, 1962

Lorry Driver of the Year, Plymouth 1962

More bits & bobs from the '60s

Hull Docks again in '66

Hull Docks, February '66

Hamburg, 1957

Mercedes at the dockside
Büssing
That Büssing again
Unknown type(It's a Scania Vabis. Thanks Mark Graham)
A more modern Büssing on the harbour bridge
A Faun(?) on the bridge

More sights of the sixties

Sights of the sixties

Rare ones at the 1983 Brussels Show

Two Americans try the UK market

Scammells in the early '80s

Deutz offerings in '60s Britain

6 wheeler on the usual test route
Tyre smoke takes a time to clear
Older looking cab tested a year later in '66
Anyone recognise this '60s-built Winston Churchill pub?(Church St Dunstable. Thanks Richard Roberts-Collins & David Hayward)
A serious offering has to have the steering on the correct side

On the southern M1

Emptying Hampstead's bins in the '60s

Something different for the Easter holiday

Euclid grader, Crystal Palace
Unimog goes ploughing, Motoculture show, France 1954
Squariel dog 1940 (that's an Ariel Square Four)
Scott 3 cylinder, 1000cc
Same again
Bus goes on continental holdiay, June 1949
Morris Minor goes too
Talbot near Hatfield, c1939
Duke of York pub. Where and does it exist?(Duke of York , Watford Road, Croxley Green, Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire, WD3. David Hayward / The B/W picture shown, looks very much like a pub of the same name, located between Hadley Highstone & Potters Bar on the old Gt. Nth. Rd., A1, but now renumbered A1000. Frank Everett)
Cock o' the North pub. Where and does it exist?(Cock O' The North, Great North Road, Bel Bar, Hatfield, Herts / This pub did indeed exist (at least during the 40's,'50s and 60's) at Bell Bar, Hatfield and was situated next to "Brunt's Coaches" garage. Frank Everett) (The Cock o' the North is still going strong, and is still a Mac's pub. McMullen's Brewery. Hertford. Thanks Neil Fraser).
Avro Lincoln, RAF Wyton 1949
Brave soul goes against the flow on London Bridge, April 1959
A cold, cold Caterick, January 1943
The Dutch do what we expect them to do with a frozen canal in 1963
Alpine Trial, 1954. Daimler Conquest
Talbot Alpine(acutually it's a Sunbeam Alpine by this date, Talbot having been dropped. Thanks Nina Smith)
What's this Porsche-like thing?(It's a Denzel, Austrian and VW/Porsche based. Thanks Jacques Deligny)
...or this plug-ugly thing on the left(Left: Panhard Junior ,right: Ford Cométe. Thanks Jacques Deligny)
...or this better-looking thing. Looks French.(1954, Scaglioni-Panhard. Thanks Jacques Deligny)

More round timber haulage

Miscellaneous oddments

Testing a Bedford KM in January 1967

Dunfermline's all-Austin fleet in December 1964

(At this time the transport manager may have been Ian Sherrif, later to become editor of Commercial Motor. Thanks Jim Mcilroy)

'60s vans in London

Geneva (I think), 1964

Saurer 50F K(Oh no it's not. It's a 5DF K. Thanks Pieter Groenendyk)
Meili Multimobil, 6x6 artic looks interesting but ever heard of one?
Volvo on the up.
Graf and Stift painted like a WW1 cruiser. On the way down.
AEC, typically with local body. On the way down soon.

Harfoot's Fodens, Barry, South Wales 1965

Scottish newspaper distribution, Dec '65

Viscount proving flight to Athens, 1950

Kerosene please, not petrol
Keep the petrol for the thing behind
Is it a Studabaker?(I think its a Chevrolet from 1948-1950. U. Nielsen)
Sorry, no trucks but it has a Spirit of the Age feel
Turbines over the Alps

A truck miscellany

Quebec, June 1957

(Corrections thanks to Andrzej Bakowski and others now)

It's badged as Canada. Isn't it a Mack?(Leyland Canada made by Cancar, probably Bisons)
Wrecker of same make
Leyland Comets
Locals but what?(White 3000s)
More British stuff. An Austin(Oops! I think it's a Jowett Javelin thanks to Ray Matthews. Sombody else thinks I was right at Austin. Any more opinions?)
Nun trys to batter her way into bus.(Lorry is a White. Nina Smith)

'60s oddments

The Forestry Commission have a play....
....with a home-brewed Land Rover special
From 1967...
...a Dodge
One-off special cabbed thing?(Andrzej Bakowski suggests Bedford TK)
Anyone know what it is? (or was)

20 different pictures at Christmas

A Douglas and an Austin

Rarest of the rare? A Leyland 90

Have you ever seen one?
Even the kids look surprised to see it.
It's looks a right lash-up...
...from spare bits and pieces.
Mini registration 1747 D. Where's that from?(thanks to all those that told me it was Kent)

Royal Albert Dock, London, 1955

More oddments

Oddments

A 1954 Dodge road test

An electric Leyland Terrier in 1983

Deliveries at Coventry's very '60s shopping precinct, 1966

The view from the Holborn Viaduct, October 1966

Lorry Driver of the Year, Portsmouth 1961

A trip to France in the '60s

Gloucestershire Highways Department

1953

Don't park your wagon in this lot....

Skip wagons in the late ' 60s

At Southern Counties Auctions

More trucks from the year of R

(locations identified by Ray Burney with thanks)

That Fiat again on Arundel Street, Glossop
The Mercedes could also be near Glossop(Glossop and Hayfield on the A624.)
An AEC or Leyland?(Hayfield before the By-pass was built.}
Seddon(Hayfield before the By-pass was built.}
AEC(Hayfield before the By-pass was built.}

Trucks from the year of R (for you foreign Johnnies, it refers to a letter in the number plate)

Never mind the F88. Look at the sideboards, the shirt, the flares!
Fiat in unidentified photogenic spot(A57 leaving Glossop towards the Snake Pass, next to Glossop Golf course)
Who finds out what the limit is and rolls it?
Mercedes on Stockport Road and it looks enough like Manchester(Levenshulme/Longsight heading towards Manchester)
Same Mercedes but no clues to this web author as to where.(heading out of Stockport on The A6, again heading towards Manchester. )

Who needs stripes with trucks like these?

Those without stripes at the 1982 show

Scotland in the '60s

Lorry Driver of the Year (LDOY) at Ruislip 1965

The last of the 1982 stripes

Those stripes go on an on at the '82 show

More stripes from the 1982 Show

A short history of stripes from the 1982 Commercial Motor Show

Army Driving Championships, 1956

Lorry Driver of the Year, Kidlington 1956

Tate & Lyle AEC
Two more AECs...
Very similar but bodies don't look strong enough for tippers.
BRS enter one Morris Commercial and four Standard Vanguards.(of course it isn't. It's a Leyland. Thanks Nina Smith)
Are those on top really safe?

The last of those Paris in '64 pictures

The 1964 Paris Show

Trucks at Silverstone racing circuit, April 1954

GPO 3, a Morris Commercial Leader...
...It's only a mobile phone.
Snazzy Mobiloil K8 Austin.
Imagine this now. A bar selling booze in the pits.
Esso portable petrol station.
A1 registraiton plate.I saw this number on a Princess 2200 in the late '70s. I was told Dunlop owned it so who has it now?

Karrier Bantam road test

The Newold Transport Co, London

A mixed bag of tippers

Testing a Karrier/Yorkshire gully sucker

The editorial Minx hides in the bushes
What are they up to?(filling the tank with washing water. Thanks Bill Aldridge)
This is a bit more obvious
Only 20mph?
Looks like there's a good reason for this limit!

Testing a Commer two stroke

Out with a Thornycroft Swift

Aberthaw Cement Co

Charrington's coal delivery

A Commer Pickup

Fred Hardy, Grange Moor near Wakefield

Borough of Southall Fleet

Karrier tipping
Two S&Ds
Recycling's not new
Loading agregate
No badge because it's not an AEC? Is is an Albion?(yes, it's a KL127 thanks Bernard Shaw)

Transport around Coventry

Henry Joyner's vehicles

Sheffield & District Gas Company, late '40s

Nice new Dennis Paxes (is that the correct plural or is it Paxi?)
Filthy work with a coke waggon
Morris Commercial with tram above
More soot and muck with a Sentinel
Bedford ( I think) with tram above again(I think wrong. Austin K. Thanks Bernard Shaw)

Heavy haulage AEC

Fruit and veg market in Brum

Your help please

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No idea. Ann Taplin was the licensee.The Fleece at Bretforton in Worcestershire. Alan Bunting.
Is it Epping?No. is or used to to called The Royal Forest Hotel and is located in Rangers Road, Chingford. Ray Knott.
Braintree, Felixhall? Is the pump there now?
Nameless gin palace. Berkeley?Berkeley Arms Hotel, Cranford, Middlesex, on the north side of the A4 Great West Road, a mile or so east of London Airport as would become. David Hayward & Mark Graham.
Northern I would say..
Near Eastbourne. Starts something like Roben......
The Lambert Arms. No charabancs.(The Lambert Arms pub is near Postcombe on the old A40 looking towards London, it is just off J6 of the M40. Although it has had a lot of building work on and around the building ,quite a posh looking pub/hotel now. Nigel Lamport)
No idea.
Chatham?No, it's Rochester. Heather Kavenagh
Brigand Arms, Wales. Which one?The Brigands Inn at Mallwyd nr. Machynlleth, Powys. Gerald Mills.
Near East Horsley, pre-1914
Nürnburg?No. it's München. Thanks Daniel Hentke.
Could be Selbourne of Gilbert White's Natural History of Selbourne.
London? But where?essex st wc2 looking south throught arch towards the river thames. Mike Baker
London? But where?
London? But where?Lincolns Inn Fields (Land Registry HQ on the right) looking at the Gate into New Square, Lincolns Inn with Old Square behind the hall to the left. London WC2! David Hayward.
London? But where?Found it myself by chance. Savoy Chapel, just off the Strand in London.
No idea again.

Something different on Christmas Day

Out with a BMC 701 FE

With a nice Austin pickup
Looks like high summer
Wibbly wobbly house, Castle Green. But where please?("I think the photo is on the old A452 in Kenilworth taken on the road from Balsall Common on a sharp left hand bend just before the castle on the right".Thanks Geoff Jones.)
Roadside church give a clue?
Is it in Warwickshire?

British Railways BMC FGs

A familiar sight of the 60s & 70s...
...but the thruppeny-bit cab was an odd looking thing.(thruppeny-bit was an twelve-sided British coin until 1971)
Not a stunning offer. Full load, next day, main centres in region only.

A Guy Wolf

N Francis parcel deliveries

Ford Thames delivers to...
...the cycle shop
Mystery vehicle, probably London bus passing.(It's a London trolleybus & a Dennis Stork)
Telephone exchange is HOU so probably Hounslow.(Busch Corner, London Road, Isleworth, Middlesex)

Thanks for details to Bill Aldride and David Hayward

In London with a 400e Ford, December 1957....(Thanks for the correction Rob Brobin. I was only 100 out!)

Around Tring with a Commer two stroke

Strange looking building for Britain or anywhere else for that matter
Could be White Cloud Farm, TringYes it is.
Same place
Fordson loads sack marked London North Eastern Railway
Maybe near AylesburyBrook St, Tring. Thanks Richard Roberts-Collins

A brand new Walker Crane

A Leyland Comet and AEC tankers

The familiar Parbold Hill
A canal bridge. Where please?(crossing the Leeds and Liverpool on the Mill Lane bridge in Parbold village. Thanks Paul Burke)
Berk Chemicals AEC
Harold Wood AEC
Same again

Midlands Electricity Board

Days out with concrete blocks

Off out with an AEC load of concrete
Probably near Southall but where exactly?(West. St. in Dunstable, the wagon having just crossed the Watling St (A5) Thanks Frank Cheevers.
Hello, they've bogged it in.
Some years earlier, a Rutland-load of concrete.
In Cheshire, near Northwich
A man can never have too many cab doors.

Oddments

Transport at Heathrow (London's airport) December 1965

Mystery shops delivery yard (near London? Opinions seems to say it's Welwyn) Oh no it's not

It's Harlow New Town. Thanks Richard Heath.

Truck show in Germany

Frankfurt?

A mixed bunch

Market gardeners' transport around Worcester

BMC thill the press with a little motor show

Quarry work in Northamptonshire

By AEC to the frozen north

Oddments

More playing with a Land Rover prototype(?)

Playing with a series 1 Land Rover at FVRDE (Fighting Vehicle Research & Development Establishment)

Leyland Super Beaver test

The grind up Parbold Hill
Told you so
The Longton by-pass?
Off to the moors(The shot title "off to the moors" is on the A675 Preston to Bolton road. The lorry is heading south between Abbey Village and Belmont. The reservoir shot is at the top of the hill just before entering Belmont village, and I think it is called the Rivington reservoir. Thanks Chris Gardner)
Resevoir with sailing club. Anyone know which one?

A day out with a Scammell Highwayman

The Saracen's Head. "Patronized by Royalty". Watch out for Chinhooks.
Watford town hall(thanks for the correction)
Where is this anybody?(A40 at West Wycombe )
Look out skipper! There's a Messerschmiditt on your tail.(A412 at Croxley Green)
At the factory

Thanks everybody for the corrections

A Sentinel on the Horseshoe Pass...

Dodging off to Italy in February 1963

Saville's

tractors and machinery dealers...

A Dodge for the day in Hampshire

Brazils' Sausages fleet

Some more from the Whitchard's fleet

Whitchard's fleet from Alresford in 1955

Milk floats and such objects

Testing an ERF

Cleansing Service, Southampton

It pays to shop at Baylis

A Scarab in Harrow

(or where is it really? Byron telephone exchange...shop says it's Harrow School stores)

More thrilling pictures of early M1 expeditions

An AEC & Bedford tested on the new M1 motorway

More exciting pictures next week!

An AEC from Birmingham to South Wales...(locations from Andrzej & Greame)

Great Charles Street so probably Birmingham
In between, 11 miles from Ross
So where's this?(Hall of Memory, Broad St)
and this?(Brum Town Hall)
and this?(St Martin's Church)

An Albion in Windsor

(see above "A Scarab in Harrow". Where is it really?)

Another round of Ansells

Seddon six-wheeler test

Judkins of Nuneaton

Lew Ways steel tube products

Moving cotton goods in Mancheser

Nearby Oldham dominated the spinning....
weaving was a bit to the north....
...hence this Dennis(?) from Nelson....No it's a Vulcan. Thanks Tony G
...so what did Manchester do?
Was it finished goods?

Ansells Brewery Birmingham

Still more from 1958

More 1958 Earls Court stuff

The 1958 Earls Court show in London

Lorry driver of the year(LDOY), Coventry 1958

Ambulances in the north

Timothy Whites the chemists, Aldershot

Tarmac Roadstone

A Seddon above Oldham

Building the M1 motorway with a Dodge

An Austin with Laminaire springs

A Seddon in 1953

The Proctor Diesel

Fun and games in Southend

c1955....

Kingston Borough Council, March 1939

A wobbly whisky tanker and a cattle van

Training British Railways drivers

Two wartime trucks

Whiteways Cyder, January 1953

City of Leicester Cleansing Dept

The W&C French fleet

with the ATS, April 1942

Bedford CA test

Still 22 years ago

Tacho checks a mere 22 years ago

Leicester Cleansing Department

Various bits and pieces

Hall & Co, December 1947

2 vans, Morris & Mercedes

Morris JB where Sentinels were photographed
so is it near Shrewsbury?
Mercedes near Luton(Outside the Flying Horse pub, Clophill Beds. at the junction of the A507 and the A6 between Bedford and Luton. The road where the van is pictured now only serves as a bus stop and entrance to the pub, the A507 is now at the back of the pub with a roundabout instead of the crossroads which saw a number of nasty accidents. Thanks to Nick Eagle)
is it a fuel line or a tow rope hanging out of the window?
Luxury cab

bits & pieces

The career of an M&P driver

Boots the Chemists

Newspaper distribution in Manchester

Bath Cleansing Department

The varied fleet of Hill & sons, Botley

Wartime bombing salvage in Hyde Park

Ucal Medical Products

Max Robinson Transport, Manchester

Bass Worthington at Coventry

Hartshorne's Wednesbury

Shell BP & Beach of Evesham

Gateshead Corporation

Albion Reiver road test

Morris Transport & Shenstone

Birmingham Salvage Department

Building Earl's Court exhibition building

Holes & Davigdor Dairies

Home service 60s style

older stuff

More Geneva 1948

Geneva Show, 1948

Isotta Fraschini
Federal
Renault comes with milk churns
Chevrolet
Any ideas? Very Germanic with air-cooled flat-four and swing-axles.(It's a Tatra. Ferdinand Porsche, the designer of the beetle was an apprentice with Hans Ledwinka, the chief engineer at Tatra and all Tatra cars and trucks have stuck with this system until today. Thanks Peter Krupa)

The last of the Christmas cars

Off for a pub-crawl in a Douglas electric

Trucks & traffic in the City of London, c1960

The last of the '62 Motor Show

Still at the 1962 Motor Show

Some more from that 1962 Show

Popular then but never caught on...the driven trailer
ERF KD(It's an LV. Thanks Peter Davies)
another LAD Dodge
still a few PB camper vans around today
Seddon flat bed

It's the 1962 London CV show

Jensen "oilers" in 1946

Loading Jeeps into an Avro York, Jan 1944

The 1984 Commercial Motor Show

Disconnected bits & pieces

RAC doing escort? I thought private escorts were a new thing.
Austin 3 way goes racing
Evening News vans
Unidentified washing machine van(Alfa Romeo, Romeo with body by Carrozzeria BONESCHI built for Emerson)
Lancia "Esagamma" whatever that means(Essa is Greek for 6 followed by the usual Greek alphabet letters. Thanks to Silvio & Sandro for the explanations)

Geneva, just 22 years ago

The Daf stand
Volvo CH230 (is it a 6x6?)(No, it's a narrow special for Switzerland and it's 6x2. Thanks Pieter Groenendyk)
Volvo F12
2536 Mercedes
Scania 112

Manchester Corporation's Annual bin wagon inspection, 1963

More wartime

The Roadless Tractor Company, 1942

The 1981 Scottish Motor Show

1942 Ingos Rotaped

Still in Strong Country

You're in Strong country

Strongs of Romsey...

Lancashire Evening Post, fleet variety....to buy copies of these pictures, click here.

Austin 3 way with windows for news boys?
Standard Vanguard
BSA?(Hmm, maybe not. Andy Barton says it's Reliant)
Morris MO
and the Pilot cross loads to an A409, 2 miles from Workington

The Lancashire Evening Post fleet from Preston...to buy copies of these pictures, click here

More veterans from an early '20s show...

Some veterans

Radio company trucks in London

Lough Swilly buses & Co Donegal Railway, 1951

More Paris - Dakar, 1986

Get noticed 1, Mercedes
Get noticed 2, Renault
Get noticed 3, Citroen
US, Russian or French?(Dodge T214-WC54 Ambulance 3/4Ton, 4X4 G-502, US Army, 1942-1945. Thanks Hans-Joachim)
One advert only so not a competitor?

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Gallery

Archived photos

More from the Kelvin Hall in 1971

A Scottish show in 1971

A "Bedford Spectacular"

It's a Bank Holiday (public holdiay) in the UK so here's a holdiay from truck pictures

Miscellaneous pictures from the '50s & '60s

AEC 'Dumptruk' (that's their spelling)

Leyland Super Comet test, March 1965

Six veterans from World War 1 period

AJ Mackaness of Billing in Northamptonshire

Other makes at LDOY Plymouth, 1962

Lorry Driver of the Year, Plymouth 1962

More bits & bobs from the '60s

Hull Docks again in '66

Hull Docks, February '66

Hamburg, 1957

More sights of the sixties

Sights of the sixties

Rare ones at the 1983 Brussels Show

Two Americans try the UK market

Scammells in the early '80s

Deutz offerings in '60s Britain

On the southern M1

Emptying Hampstead's bins in the '60s

Something different for the Easter holiday

More round timber haulage

Miscellaneous oddments

Testing a Bedford KM in January 1967

Dunfermline's all-Austin fleet in December 1964

'60s vans in London

Geneva (I think), 1964

Harfoot's Fodens, Barry, South Wales 1965

Scottish newspaper distribution, Dec '65

Viscount proving flight to Athens, 1950

A truck miscellany

Quebec, June 1957

'60s oddments

20 different pictures at Christmas

A Douglas and an Austin

Rarest of the rare? A Leyland 90

Royal Albert Dock, London, 1955

More oddments

Oddments

A 1954 Dodge road test

An electric Leyland Terrier in 1983

More from Coventry in '66

Deliveries at Coventry's very '60s shopping precinct, 1966

The view from the Holborn Viaduct, October 1966

More from the 1961 LDOY at Portsmouth

Lorry Driver of the Year, Portsmouth 1961

A trip to France in the '60s

Gloucestershire Highways Department

1953

Skip wagons in the late ' 60s

At Southern Counties Auctions

More trucks from the year of R

Trucks from the year of R (for you foreign Johnnies, it refers to a letter in the number plate)

Who needs stripes with trucks like these?

Those without stripes at the 1982 show

Scotland in the '60s

More from the 1965 LDOY at Ruislip

Lorry Driver of the Year (LDOY) at Ruislip 1965

The last of the 1982 stripes

Those stripes go on an on at the '82 show

More stripes from the 1982 Show

A short history of stripes from the 1982 Commercial Motor Show

Army Driving Championships, 1956

Lorry Driver of the Year, Kidlington 1956

The last of those Paris in '64 pictures

More from Paris in '64

The 1964 Paris Show

Trucks at Silverstone racing circuit, April 1954

Karrier Bantam road test

The Newold Transport Co, London

A mixed bag of tippers

Testing a Karrier/Yorkshire gully sucker

Testing a Commer two stroke

Out with a Thornycroft Swift