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BRADFORD RECOLLECTIONS
I read the feature about Harry Larcombe’s Jowett Bradford ice cream van (CVC, October) with particular interest. In my impecunious early motoring days of the mid-1950s I owned two secondhand Bradfords, one a plain van formerly operated by Harrow Urban District Council in Middlesex, the other a marginally more exotic so-called ‘six-light utility’.
Mike Neale’s description of that model as a six-seater estate is rather hopefully optimistic, in terms both of interior space and of likely performance. Even with say three average-weight people on board, I often had to drop down to bottom gear (in that three-speed box) to negotiate quite moderate gradients. However, my
