54 Bedford heading south...to me!

Pete its simple' RE how to get them to Alice '
i buy this next and find two trailers
http://i815.photobucket.com/albums/zz71/cribpointtowing/dodge700davesplaceworktrucks003.jpg?t=1273662902

Shiny!!
http://newimages.fotopic.net/?iid=yuq51v&outx=0&quality=90&noresize=1

Faster red one (Bill Richardson collection NZ)
http://newimages.fotopic.net/?iid=ypeb90&outx=0&quality=90&noresize=1

I think the red one is a TA Cribby, but the "Regent Oil" one next door is a TD. I dont have a decent photo but saw this one in a book called " Trucks a Vintage collection" which lists most of the trucks in Bills collection.

It has those funny little running lights that your TA does and also seems to be the first one with those eyes in the bumper where you can keep a broomstick.

Was "T" the primary model letter all through, for the trucks? .. but it just got left off, half the time??? ..

The "T" in Bedford model designation simply stands for Truck and officially all truck models start with T, e.g. TA, TD, TJ, TK etc. Here in NZ, and obviously in OZ as well, the T got left off when people were talking about them, thus A-model, J-model and so on. For some reason this didn't happen with the TK which here anyway is always referred to as a TK. Actually even this isn't quite true as what is officially a TKM is normally called a KM. Just to confuse things even more, with Bedford bus chassis the letter "B" is put after the model letter instead of in front, so an O-model bus is an OB, not a BO and an S-model is an SB, not a BS.

It is all very inconsistent as with many motor vehicle manufacturers' model numbers or letters; just look at Holden.

Your right about Holden Vic,in the Commodores they atarted with the VB, then the VC, but they never made a VD.

I think the pre-Commodore ones were worse; being a Kiwi I'm probably not 100% right here but they went something like FX, FJ, FE, FC, FB, EK, EJ, EH, HD, HR, HK, HT, HG, HQ, HX, HZ.

Whoever thought up a sequence like that must have had a pretty weird mind, I reckon.