Question for the commercial vehicle enfoosiasts :-)

[Browser]

Fellow members, please can you take a look at this photograph, the vehicle I'm interested in isn't the Guy Big J in the centre of the pic but the blue-over-black light commercial to it's left. I think it's a Commer but serching the 'net has yielded no results on Commer forums & similar. Anyone any ideas?
I'm not interested in buying one but I can remember the milkman down our srteet having one as a float and I was telling my kids about it but couldn't find a picture

http://ccmv.aecsouthall.co.uk/p19983844/h54f03af0#h23b2380d

 

[brightspark]

bedford???

 

[zx9]

bedford???

Might be, I am sure I had a Matchbox one about forty years ago.

 

[lotus 30]

Didn't they have BMC on the nose

 

[brightspark]

i know what it is its a bedford british motor corporation = bmc

 

[eSCHEn]

My father (ex haulier in his late seventies) is funnily enough visiting today. I showed him a picture and he thinks Bedford but a small (say couple of tonne) one or it could be a Morris.

 

[eSCHEn]

Yep looks like a Morris.

 

[Wallace]

Morris FG? Think they came as Leyland, Austin , BMC etc.

 

[zx9]

One of these perhaps. http://archive.commercialmotor.com/article/8th-march-1963/50/two-new-delivery-vans-on-bmc-chassis

Edit : Crossed posts.

 

[lotus 30]

British motor corp amalgamated with layland/morris could be wrong

 

[Browser]

Well blow me, all that ruddy lookin' on t'internet and I've found it thanks to a partial photo and askin' you guys! Thanks for the assist, it is indeed a Morris/Leyland FG, I can remember being scared of the thing 'cos it had a 'nasty face' and a uniquely horrid-sounding engine

 

[rtbcomp]

BMC FG

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=B...LD4CMzLaPzTgrAO&ved=0CCIQsAQ&biw=1920&bih=912

Some idiots fitted those diesel engines into Landrovers

 

[Wallace]

I have a foot pump that I think was supplied with them from new called a "Kismet Lorry". Big brass body with a heavy frame and doesn't mess around shifting air. (Come to think of it that sounds like my missus!)

 

[brightspark]

I have a foot pump that I think was supplied with them from new called a "Kismet Lorry". Big brass body with a heavy frame and doesn't mess around shifting air. (Come to think of it that sounds like my missus!)

ive seen them is it the nice brass one i got a smaller one kismet popular for 5 quid from autojumble. there quite collectable .someone on here had a collection all done up

 

[Master-of-none]

Leyland (or any in that group) FG series
Edit: Kismet, sounds a bit like Kosset: https://flic.kr/p/eTnHC8

 

[CompoSimmonite]

I always like the idea of doors at the back on these so easy for delivery drivers to quickly get in and out.

 

[Tinbasherdan]

I've been trying for years to buy one of these off a local garage owner , as yet unsuccessfully

 

[zx9]

I always like the idea of doors at the back on these so easy for delivery drivers to quickly get in and out.

Like the Commer 'walk through' and the UPS trucks.

 

[normspanners]

Well blow me

Is that an invitation??



BMC BTW IMHO

BMC could stand for ---- Blow Me Chaps

 

[pedrobedro]

We used to have the FG with a tipper at a foundry I worked and it was only used as a wheelbarrow for cleaning up, never went on the road. When the body packed up it was scrapped and a couple of the lads took the engine out and put it in a Morris Oxford.