Truck Identification

[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