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Inside Front Cover. This full colour advertisement dates from 1956 – arguably a time when the Bedford brand was at it’s peak and when there was still a bright future ahead for Luton/Dunstable-built commercial vehicles. Not only from home market opera

In my case – and I suspect yours as well – familiarity with the Bedford brand might well have started with small diecast models. The Dinky Toys O-Type tipper Number 410, perhaps? Or the slightly more impressive Number 409, that yellow 10ton Bedford-S

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

It says a lot for Bedford engineering that a chassis built for Military use, using as many mass produced components as possible, not only outlasted the era when Britain had a capability to conduct any major military campaign, but somehow had enough r

As with Ford, Dodge and Commer amongst others, there was no ‘factory-built’ rigid Bedford eight-wheeler, although as this immaculate example from the R C Jeffrey & Sons ‘Heritage Fleet’ confirms, there seems no technical reason why this couldn’t have

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