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The O-type Who Needs A Leyland?
Hell’s Buddies? This Bedford ‘O-Type’ and a Dodge ‘Parrot Nose’ typify what we might expect to find in any early postwar tipper fleet. Or in many cases, tipper fleets well into the 1960s. Both were photographed by the Author when in preservation, but
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The Big Picture
This colour image came in a box of photographs from a former employee of a major Ford dealership (thought to be Dagenham Motors), so how come? There are two possible answers. Firstly, this colour print was given to the bodybuilding section of the dea
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Bmc - The Historical Context
Sound commercial sense, or the merger from hell? Back in 1952 when Austin and Morris were combined into one single conglomerate, the company Public Relations Department line at the time was that the move was necessary because the British Motor Indust

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