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| Photographer / Copyright: Julian Bowden-Green Images should not be reused without permission. Date added to site:11/05/21 | ||
| Details: If you tuned-in last month you might recognise this location as being the front yard of Chiswick Works, with the Scientific Laboratory building in the background. The photo shown here was taken a couple of years before Derek's 1977 view and shows the rear of Ford D700 flatbed lorry 1722F. Flatbed lorries were exceptionally rare as service vehicles, and the two main examples were used exclusively for driver training. 1722F was new in November 1971 and was listed as having a bolster and fixed sides. If so, it was presumably the same as 'unique' 1529F. I don't have any photographic evidence that this was the case, though I have just noticed something that makes it seem plausible. Open lorries with fixed sides would normally have an opening tail-gate, and this was often lower in height than the sides. Though 1722F clearly had a fixed rear end when photographed, there do appear to be bump-stops on the end of the chassis frame, suggesting that it originally had a drop tail. 1722F was transferred to the driving school in mid-1974, at which time it was presumably modified with the sides removed and end fixed. It remained in use, mainly within the confines of Chiswick Works, until 1983 when it was replaced by a Bedford TL lorry. Parked on the left is York dropside trailer YT7, still in green livery. Comparison with Derek's photo (linked above) shows that YT7 did not move but it lost its sides and was loaded with YT6. Both were sold in late 1977. | ||
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