And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
I was about to ask what they were called in the US. Here on the other side of the lake they were marketed as Thames Trader, Thames being Ford UK's commercial vehicle brand.
Tipper truck versions of these were around when i was a young child, i loved seeing them, the noise from them was horrendous. Maybe part of why i've been a full time trucker in England for 48 years and still enjoy my job, thankfully things have moved on truckwise in the intervening years. I think Daf still make a few trucks in England, and Dennis a low volume maker who specialise in refuse disposal trucks etc, the rest of our truck industry is like everything else here, dead.
Ford trader they were too far gone when they were new !
ReplyDeleteI was about to ask what they were called in the US. Here on the other side of the lake they were marketed as Thames Trader, Thames being Ford UK's commercial vehicle brand.
ReplyDeleteThames Trader. Made by Ford of England. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thames_Trader
ReplyDeleteNever too far gone.
ReplyDeleteThere are people on youtube that can take a box of rust flakes and breathe new life into it and bring it back to it's previous glory.
Never say never - where there's a will there's a way.
Where there's a Wallet, there's a way.
ReplyDeleteWith the popularity of "rat rods", almost nothing is too far gone.
ReplyDeleteTipper truck versions of these were around when i was a young child, i loved seeing them, the noise from them was horrendous.
ReplyDeleteMaybe part of why i've been a full time trucker in England for 48 years and still enjoy my job, thankfully things have moved on truckwise in the intervening years.
I think Daf still make a few trucks in England, and Dennis a low volume maker who specialise in refuse disposal trucks etc, the rest of our truck industry is like everything else here, dead.