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Great Photos

Interesting is the driver seems exceptionally well dressed with a bow tie. The fact all these obviously professional photos are here seems to point to the boss arriving after the long slug from the north by the workers to get his mug in all the PR shots through London.

My Dad use to were a tie a most of the time when driving trucks in the 60's the exception, probably was carting live stock. The brakes are interesting the off sider would need to walk behind on the down hill runs

I notice that the truck and trailer are registered as a single unit.

wee-allis wrote:

I notice that the truck and trailer are registered as a single unit.

Normal practice in UK, prime movers are issued with three numberplates.
Maybe a European wide thing.

Some truck and semi trailer were registered as one here in Qld too ....Bedford and 24ft trailer with a bolted through greasy plate combinations ..........I bought a lot of these off Bretts the hardware and timber people ,and lengthened the trailers out ,or turned them into dogs .....the last one I never finished ,and it sits in the back yard to this day.

A bloke dad worked with had two 160 Cummins inters on unit rego in NSW in the mid 70's, may have been on primary producer rego maybe.

That load would have travelled Edinbourgh to London by rail. So from Kings Cross/St Pancras they have done about 5 miles.

I have the remains of a 1948 Austin K2 with 22' strap trailer, that was registered as a unit in SA.

Brett.

During the '70s SA rego time a lot of trucks were registered as a unit with 3 plates issued. I remember working for a major NSW company who had that system which was all good, excepting when they were quick hitching trailers and forgot to swap the trailer plates.
One day a trailer came in with a defect lable attached beside the plate. Problem was, one number on the defect notice, another on the lable and yet one more on the plate. That was about the time the idea was scrapped for them.

You could register a Prime mover & Trailer as a Unit in N.S.W. right up until the Early/Mid 90's. As long as you only Had one of each.
The moment you bought a 2nd Trailer the deal was Off..!