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The O-type Who Needs A Leyland?
Hell’s Buddies? This Bedford ‘O-Type’ and a Dodge ‘Parrot Nose’ typify what we might expect to find in any early postwar tipper fleet. Or in many cases, tipper fleets well into the 1960s. Both were photographed by the Author when in preservation, but
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Cab Forward. Or Not? The Tk/km/tj Ranges
As with Ford, Dodge and Commer amongst others, there was no ‘factory-built’ rigid Bedford eight-wheeler, although as this immaculate example from the R C Jeffrey & Sons ‘Heritage Fleet’ confirms, there seems no technical reason why this couldn’t have
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Introduction
In my case – and I suspect yours as well – familiarity with the Bedford brand might well have started with small diecast models. The Dinky Toys O-Type tipper Number 410, perhaps? Or the slightly more impressive Number 409, that yellow 10ton Bedford-S