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Dennis B.P. petrol delivery lorry, 1922, scale model.

Dennis B.P. petrol delivery lorry

1922
Sentinel steam waggon, 1923, model (scale 1:8).

Model of a Sentinel steam wagon

1923
Model of 30 h.p. workshop lorry, built by the Daimler Company for the War Office. (Scale 1:8).

Model of a Daimler lorry

1914-1921
Bedford O-type articulated tractor and Tasker 8/10 ton low load trailer, 1939. Registration no. JV 8266. The first Bedford was produced in 1931 and was the result of collaboration between Vauxhall Motors Ltd, and Scammell Lorries Ltd. The Bedfords became very successful, coining the slogan ‘You Saw Them Everywhere’. In 1939 the O-Type was produced with the standard features of 3.5 litre engine, four-speed gearbox, spiral bevel rear axle and hydraulic brakes. Before the Second World War there were very few articulated lorries in use in Britain, ones made were generally for a specific purpose. This O-Type was bought as a tipper, modified to fit a low loader and owned throughout its working life by a Lincolnshire firm for use on a quarry, with a short interlude during the War while it was used for haulage.

Articulated lorry

1939
Rotinoff GR7 Atlantic road tractor, 1957. During the 1950s Rotinoff Motors made approximately 36 heavy-duty tractors known as Rotinoff Atlantics and Super Atlantics. Almost all were exported; used by the Swiss Army or in Australian cattle trains, except this one. It was bought by Sunter Bros Ltd, a heavy haulage company, in 1957 to deliver the UK’s first nuclear reactor to the Bradwell Power Station, Essex. The Rotinoff had to carried 12 heat exchangers; each weighed 300 tons and carried separately the load was the heaviest to be hauled by a vehicle in the UK. After the Bradwell job Sunter Bros continued to use the Atlantic until 1974. This Rotinoff also achieved another first by being the heaviest vehicle to take part in the London to Brighton run.

Rotinoff GR7 Atlantic road tractor

1957