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BMC BUYER’S GUIDE. HOW BMCs WERE SOLD
For the sake of argument, let’s assume for a moment that we’re in the market for a modest fleet of new commercial vehicles at some time during the mid-to-late 1950s, or possibly the early 1960s - arguably the period during which the whole manufacturi
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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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Bedford Timeline
1897 - ‘Vauxhall Iron Works’ founded in London. 1903 - The first ‘Vauxhall’ cars produced. 1905 - Vauxhall production moves to Luton. 1914-18 - Some 2000 Vauxhall 25hp ‘D-Types’ supplied to the British Armed Forces during The Great War. The first All

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