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4 years 2 months ago - 4 years 2 months ago #218766
by Roderick Smith
Replied by Roderick Smith on topic Unidentified ~What is in this picture?
Last edit: 4 years 2 months ago by Roderick Smith. Reason: replace a b&w which was showing wrongly
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4 years 2 months ago - 4 years 2 months ago #218768
by wee-allis
Replied by wee-allis on topic Unidentified ~What is in this picture?
First one is a Morris Comical and the second one, either a Leyland Comet or perhaps Thames and as it's carrying Fords, more likely a Thames.
Last edit: 4 years 2 months ago by wee-allis.
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4 years 2 months ago #218770
by Mrsmackpaul
Your better to die trying than live on your knees begging
Replied by Mrsmackpaul on topic Unidentified ~What is in this picture?
Thornycroft made some special looking trucks as pretty as the lower one
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Paul
Your better to die trying than live on your knees begging
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4 years 2 months ago #218773
by hayseed
"Be who you are and say what you feel...
Because those that matter...
don't mind...
And those that mind....
don't matter." -
Replied by hayseed on topic Unidentified ~What is in this picture?
"Be who you are and say what you feel...
Because those that matter...
don't mind...
And those that mind....
don't matter." -
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4 years 2 months ago #218784
by overnite
Replied by overnite on topic Unidentified ~What is in this picture?
Morris Commercial and Leyland Comet.
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4 years 2 months ago #218787
by Lang
Replied by Lang on topic Unidentified ~What is in this picture?
And the one parked behind the Comet?
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4 years 2 months ago - 4 years 2 months ago #218790
by mammoth
Replied by mammoth on topic Unidentified ~What is in this picture?
More specifically Morris LC5 (unlikely to be the rare LC4, the NV series looked very similar so stand to be corrected), Leyland Comet (sits higher than a Ford and there is a 'comet 90' badge on the side of the bonnet), Bedford hiding behind. Thought the following transporter; might be a series 3 Morris/BMC but mudguards and front clip is wrong for that choice.
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4 years 2 months ago #218792
by Morris
I have my shoulder to the wheel,
my nose to the grindstone,
I've put my best foot forward,
I've put my back into it,
I'm gritting my teeth,
Now I find I can't do any work in this position!
Replied by Morris on topic Unidentified ~What is in this picture?
Twice this morning I have typed a detailed reply to this and just as I have finished it has disappeared. This is my third and last try. Each one has been different as more information has been posted.
Mammoth, I agree it is highly unlikely to be the super-rare LC4 which was an interim model with the LC3 engine in what was to be the LC5 truck. It is much more likely to be an LC5 (LC for Light Commercial?) from 1953 to about 1956. It had the Austin A70 motor and a carrying capacity of 25 or 30 hundredweight (one and a quarter to one and a half ton) depending on which book you read. In July 1952 the British Government forced Austin, Morris and a few smaller makers to amalgamate into British Motor Corporation (BMC) and they badge engineered models of cars and trucks mostly with the more modern Austin engines. The NVS three and Five tonners had the same sheetmetal as the LC5 but the wheelcaps on the Yalumba one identify it as an LC
The following car carrier is not a Series 3 Morris/BMC as the shape of the sheetmetal is all wrong as is the position of the headlights. I think it is an earlier Leyland.
Somewhere on this thread I saw a guess of Bedford for one of the trucks but I will stick with Leyland for the car carrier and I thing the truck at the curb is a General Motors product, Chev GMC or Mapleleaf.
Morris.
Mammoth, I agree it is highly unlikely to be the super-rare LC4 which was an interim model with the LC3 engine in what was to be the LC5 truck. It is much more likely to be an LC5 (LC for Light Commercial?) from 1953 to about 1956. It had the Austin A70 motor and a carrying capacity of 25 or 30 hundredweight (one and a quarter to one and a half ton) depending on which book you read. In July 1952 the British Government forced Austin, Morris and a few smaller makers to amalgamate into British Motor Corporation (BMC) and they badge engineered models of cars and trucks mostly with the more modern Austin engines. The NVS three and Five tonners had the same sheetmetal as the LC5 but the wheelcaps on the Yalumba one identify it as an LC
The following car carrier is not a Series 3 Morris/BMC as the shape of the sheetmetal is all wrong as is the position of the headlights. I think it is an earlier Leyland.
Somewhere on this thread I saw a guess of Bedford for one of the trucks but I will stick with Leyland for the car carrier and I thing the truck at the curb is a General Motors product, Chev GMC or Mapleleaf.
Morris.
I have my shoulder to the wheel,
my nose to the grindstone,
I've put my best foot forward,
I've put my back into it,
I'm gritting my teeth,
Now I find I can't do any work in this position!
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4 years 2 months ago #218793
by Lang
Replied by Lang on topic Unidentified ~What is in this picture?
I would say the old girl has just taken off from the lights from the cloud of smoke.
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4 years 2 months ago #218794
by wee-allis
Replied by wee-allis on topic Unidentified ~What is in this picture?
The car carrier behind could be Leyland or perhaps even GUY. The car being rapidly overtaken by the Comet, (LOL), is a Pontiac and the one at the kerb is possibly an Oldsmobile.
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