Hi everyone
Apologies for not updating Bedford Trucks Worldwide for a long time. I am just too busy at work and home to get much done to be honest and my own truck projects have slowed down (if they could get any slower!).
I have a few Beddy photos to put up from the Dubbo 2012 truck show including a rather lovely KM that hails from Young, New South Wales. I hadn't seen her before but she was magical. Beddies put on a good showing at the show with the KM perhaps being the biggest English truck there which was a bit of a shame for the Albion, Leyland. AEC etc fans (like me). Still, it was a great show and it was awesome to catch up with a lot of people I hadn't seen for a few years.
Pleasing news on the Bedford front in Australia is that the restorations are coming thick and fast with a lot of KMOs and the smaller TJs getting some attention. I had a bit of a flurry on our EFN TK back in early March but this ground to a halt with the arrival of our daughter. I am hoping to move her around in the shed later this month so we can get some exhaust work done and give the Holden 308 (a common engine application in Australia for the TK) a decent service. This 'front-end' work might lead to doing the king pins and the like but we'll see. That said, the main focus is the '73 LAD Albion Reiver as I try to get it ready for Haulin' The Hume 2013. Watch this space ... but, as ever, don't hold your breath!
Very much keen to hear from other Beddy enthusiasts as we need to build an online resource for the make. Please drop me a line at aircrewbooksATiinet.net.au (replacing the AT with @). If you have contacted me in the past and received no reply, please try again!
Cheers
Andy
