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“DING DING, HOLD VERY TIGHT PLEASE!” FREIGHTERS ON THE FRONT.

t’s interesting to note that back in 1963, David Kaye was already lamenting that no complete SD Freighters had been preserved. And it seems that he would have known, as he tells us that he had travelled to a Welsh farm, a holiday camp, a laundry and the lawn of a Hotel to view (we assume) various remains. There was, he adds, one remaining Freighter that had survived intact until 1961, but he was too late to save it. I think we can assume he’s only talking about Freighters used as passenger carrying vehicles here, as there were several Freighter dustcarts in various states of disrepair but still

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