GREAT WAR THORNYCROFT RESTORED
he story of how Steve Gosling ended up buying his Thornycroft goes back to the mid-1980s when he started his engineering degree at Imperial College, London. Far from home he spent his spare time in the care and operation of the college mascot - a 1902 James and Browne car and also the rebuilding of a 1926 Morris lorry which some years previously another student had rolled over while attempting a hand brake turn. Steve was obviously bitten by the restoration bug as after he finished university he started looking for a suitable restoration project of his own. A veteran car was beyond his budget but a commercial vehicle perhaps not so. After a few false starts he came across an advert for a Great War vintage Thornycroft‘J’ Type lorry offered for sale by Mike Jones of Ruthin. A visit to see the lorry was arranged and Mike explained how it in turn had come into his
