Truck Identification

[nickt]

Can anyone help me identify the truck in this picture. I believe it was at Beny St Mere a few days after the Normandy landings helping supply and build the airfield.
Thanks,
Nick T.

[Mark W. Tonner]

Originally posted by nickt
Can anyone help me identify the truck in this picture.

Hi Nick;

Welcome to the forum........but we need the picture to identify the vehicle in question

Cheers

[nickt]

Sorry for not showing picture at first attempt - new to this.
Hope it is now included.

[edit by moderator: photo2.bmp removed - see picture below]

[Mark W. Tonner]

the truck that Nick is trying to identify:

[Les Freathy]

Nick
Your unidentified truck is a good old British built Ford 7V 3 ton tipper, abasic civilian type used by the army and RAF in WW2. I can remember these in the 1950s the bodies used to make one hell of a racket when running empty
Les

[Nick Balmer]

Hello,

The photo of the Ford tipper brings back happy childhood memories for me.

In the late 1960's and early 1970's Mr Jeffs our local builder ran one of these trucks.

At some stage it had been repainted in a pink wood undercoating paint.

Every morning the men would struggle to start it, as the engine and battery got rougher and rougher.

I and my fellow schoolboys used to stand at the school bus stop watching highly amused as the builders pushed and shoved it down the road to the top of a nearby hill.

With one last almighty shove it would be launched down the slope, where with luck it would cough into life, and depart up the other side of the valley in a cloud of white exhaust fumes..

Happy days, when trucks don't appear to have had to be roadworthy.

Regards

Nick Balmer

[Richard Farrant]

Originally posted by Nick Balmer

Every morning the men would struggle to start it, as the engine and battery got rougher and rougher.

I knew of someone who used a 7V in his business, he told me that in a fit of anger one day when it refused to start, he put the starting handle through every window.......

Richard

[nickt]

Thanks very much to you all, the information is fantastic and I'm pleased the photo brought back some good memories.