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AEC MAMMOTH MAJOR

These images of a 1939 AEC Mammoth Major were kindly sent in by Gary Newman.

I’ve emailed Gary, to see if there’s any chance of a feature on the lorry as it looks an interesting subject. Ed

DORF

In answer to the piece in your editorial of the June edition of , about the DORF. Well, after searching my book collection of Middle East haulage, in the book by Robert Hutchison, this book has a picture of the truck, a red and yellow Ford Transcontinental, registration number UAE 213T, owned by Gordon Powell’s Caerphilly Van Hire. The

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