A Bedford on fire

In the last post, we had an Atkinson under water, so I thought I would continue with the disaster theme and show you a Bedford on fire. These photographs were taken in early February 1967. The J-Model Bedford was delivering fuel to Aub Goodman's farm on Pitt Road in Vervale (next to Cora Lynn) and it just caught on fire. There were two 44 gallon drums of petrol on the back, which went up first, then the two tanks of diesel caught fire. The driver escaped without injury.

The top two photographs were taken by my father, Frank Rouse and the bottom photograph was taken by my Uncle, Jim Rouse. It even made the front page of the local paper, The Koo-Wee-Rup Sun.

Koo-Wee-Rup Sun, Page 1, February 8, 1967.

H.C.V.C Display Day 2009 - Part 4

The Historic Commercial Vehicle Club's Display Day at Sandown Racecourse saw lots of Bedfords and lots of Fords displayed, some of which are pictured below. The Internationals were shown in my third Display Day post, the Kenworths in my second Display Day post and our lovely Volvo and other makes were shown in my first Display Day post.

Dave Horne's 1934 WS British Bedford.

Two lovely tidy Bedfords, above and below. Photograph, below, taken by Judy Johnston.

This neat looking truck is a British Bedford, according to the Radiator grille badge and an English Bedford according to the badge on the side (detail below).

A Bedford tipper, next to an Austin, and below, two J Model Bedfords.

Photograph, above, taken by Judy Johnston.

Graeme and Judy Johnston's 1976 TK Bedford and 1976 Totota Dyna.

K model Bedford.

Above and below, two old Fords, both photographs taken by Judy Johnston.

Two neat 1942 Fords - above, owned by Joe Beaumont and, below, owned by Russell Marshall. Both photographs taken by Judy Johnston.

Brendan Malone's F500 Ford, from Warrnambool.

Ford Louisville.

Ford 8000.

A Ford V8, parked next to John Ferguson's KB6 Inter.

A very nice line-up of Fords.