A favourite interest
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One of the stranger vehicles I snapped in an appalling rain storm at Beltring this year was this extreme conversion of... an AEC Matador. It plied it's trade as a bus up North (Leeds area possibly, memory fails):
It's always nice to see old Scammell's still plugging away as fairground vehicles too, I can't seem to find my pictures of the Beltring fairground, which has a bunch of old brightly painted warhorses so this'll have to do:
Tempo Land Rover.
Lovely old Albion doing the fairground thing here:
http://www.pdtruckphotos.com/cd2a.jpg
Gear like the Diamond T is
just starting to fade completely from sight as heavy recovery trucks but you still spot 'em if you look hard enough. This one's for sale at the moment:
WEBVERT
There was a Welsh heavy haulage company that ran almost exclusively WW2 conversions until the 1970's, they were covered in the latest CMV magazine, might have to sort some pictures of those out as the conversions were epic.
There's another odd usage of surplus vehicles that's recently caught my eye but as it's currently in a 'name that vehicle' quiz 'elsewhere' then It'll have to wait
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Cheers,
Adam.