vintage truck BEDFORD TK ARTIC LORRY
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- Опубликовано: 10 авг 2014
- 1971 BEDFORD TK KGA 20TON (19.5T) ARTIC LORRY DRIVETRAIN. KM TYPE 466/70 SERIES TWO SPEED REAR END COUPLED TO 1966 23FT PRIMROSE SINGLE AXLE TRAILER (13TON)payload. my late father joey and jim spurgeon of spurgeon transport of hitchin were users of the bedford mart for many years this lorry was restored as a tribute to these men and many others who ran or drove these motors the above people hauled produce to all the fruit and veg wholesale markets around the uk. we mostly collected produce from east anglian and kent farms and all hand balled on and off until the late seventies and all roped and sheeted. many small hauliers like ourselve's from all over the uk were employed on market work and many other makes of lorry too including commer dodge ford aec and leyland etc. some areas standardized on certain lorries to a degree e.g kent hauliers on soft fruit liked AEC'S and ford six wheeler flats while others such the cambridgeshire fens and bedfordshire hauliers liked dodges and commers but many like us ran bedford our first was the chev type of the early 30s since then we've had o/s/a/j tk kh/km tm tl rigids and artics.along with a few others britishs marts.... i like to thank eddie and jims son andy 'both hard working drivers whose families were involved with the market haulage game for many years for all their help with this motor 'good drivers who'd handle any motor 'bless them. this would have been loaded in its day with 12 ton loads of potatoes or onions or carrots 'the spuds had to have straw on them in the winter before the sheet went on 'then straw on the top of the canvas sheet then the fly sheet or the whole load could be rejected at the stand in the market due to blight or wets. happy days then came the supermarkets and life got stupid. although compared with the non mass produced lorries bedfords and ford d series commer ts3 dodge k series and bmcs boxer/mastiff and the perkins engined seddon 13 series were at the cheaper end of many larger fleets but if you look at any archive footage of covent garden market the bedford rules out right with ford close behind but only in the later part of seventies many people feel the bedford KHA artic unit with the leyland 400power plus engine was best out of a bad bunch i can only give my account of the 446 bedford engine which worked in most of our lorries from 12ton to 24ton it proved it self time and time again 'whether pulling a 16ton load of spuds axle deep out of a field or pulling up hills like the jubilee way dover with new cyprus potatoes. slow but sure. jimmy spurgeon ran many km artics always maximum weight. lots of people ran better or faster motors ''and some motors of the day like the erf and albion were built to last 'but the bedford is still out there
Proper lorry bring them back! I hate lvecos DAFs ,but Bedfords fords AECs and Seddons scammel lovely
I drove these back in the day great truck, very reliable and lots of good memories.👍🇬🇧👍
Very nice !!!!!
I had a pair of to cattle lorries. Good solid dependable machines and in the unlikely event something went wrong you didn't need a degree in theoretical something or other to fix it!!
I really miss having them.
Hi there matey,
I drove many of these wagons and in my opinion they were beautiful wagons to drive ,, due to ill health I surrendered my job 6 years ago and I do miss it so keep on trucking matey ,
John dearden,,ex job driver 👍👍
Nice one.. i got the chance to drove these bedford series when i was a learner with my uncles
What a truck lads my father had I couldn’t count how many of them in the 80s and 90s and the TL another very good truck he had loads of them to. They are hard too see it’s nice
Very nice!
We had a few tk's in the yard back in the day.
Nice.
great truck..I used to drive a tk Chinese 6 for Scottish & Newcastle brewery great days no big brother in the cab..you just got on with your job
I worked for s and n in the garage in belfast we had 8 twinsteers they were replaced with T L urban artics great days
Truck driving in the real world.
Brings back old memories!!!
My dad had a TK unit in the 60s it had a 330 engine 4 speed gearbox air 2 speed axle it was so good in its time.
yes jeff the tk was a quite a good lorry in its day we had one with the 330 engine... the air two speed was far better than the electric job ..
Yes it was better we had one with a leyland comet engine it was nothing but trouble it had a 5 speed or 6 speed gearbox not sure but electric two speed the 330 would out pull the leyland with the same load he allways said the 330 was the way to go with a 12 ton unit. Keep the old girl going it brings back great memories. Jeff
Show us inside the cab sometime love to see it . Jeff
Jeffery Mee 73 tk,300 petrol,drove as an old farmey,young fellas in old gear,is a bloody good idea,loud,difficult,seat o ya pants🇳🇿🇳🇿🇳🇿🇳🇿🇳🇿🇳🇿✝☮
Wow
Lovely truck, lovely day, what more could you want?.
thanks to those people who commented on my video merry Xmas and a happy new year to one and all
driving a old lorry is something very special I'm very very lucky 'although I have not the money of the big hauliers I know and remember them days something you don't get sitting behind a desk or being handed down a big haulage concern not that I'm jealous everyone to their own and if it saves a lorry from rotting away then its served its purpose but I was very very lucky and saw the Bedford's commers dodges guys Leyland's etc
all I know is we should savour any stories the people who ran these motors could past on
same as America
with their brockways Jimmy's peterbilts Mack's Ford's chevs Oshkoshs autocars kenworths etc
today I drive a merc atros 44 ton compared to a merc 1633 new generation tractor it fails miserably but then that's because I like gears same as scania give me V8 143 with manual box every time.......yes I know I live in the past but there you go
lovely
Yep it is a bit Rank 'Hopefully you Can Hear Her A little Bit
Next one up I'll just let the Lorry
Play her Music.🎵
466,,501 cubic inch I hope.
I think some of them had a Leyland engine in
Yes John
Up to the leyland 400 power plus
In the KH then they fitted the Bedford 466/70 series..
Why the music?
I'd rather hear the engine only
What engine was in this lorry?
466/70 series