Ex-military?

[Richard Farrant]

Originally posted by Hanno Spoelstra


Where's Richard when you need him? Possibly he's even working on one of these trucks right now!

I'm here, .....have to work sometimes and today it is restoring a Fordson WOT6

I would say that the Bedford is an OWST 5 ton short wheelbase tipper, that was produced for essential civilian use under a Ministry of War Transport licence. The front end metal work was also used on wartime civvy vehicles for ease of production. The long wheelbase civvy truck was the OWL and the utility bodied coach was an OWB, but this had the normal bonnet and grille. Early war military Bedfords ( and Austins) had dual rear wheels and civilian type tyres and rims.

There was a small leaflet by Vauxhall Motors in Jan 1944, stating "not to be published" which shows all the different models produced for Army, RAF, MoWT, etc.