Bedford TL

It has to be said that Bedford engineers lacked foresight when they designed the TK back in the late ‘fifties. They could have pulled off a real coup by being the first British manufacturer to specify a tilt cab but, instead, they opted for a fixed cab with side engine access flaps, even though the TK cab lent itself perfectly to tilting.

In most respects of course the TK, announced in 1960, was a great success, hailed at the time as a massive leap forward in terms of driver comfort. However, just two years later, the honours went to Fodens Ltd of Sandbach when they became the