A Thames lorry as owned by Wimpey.
Two more original photos from my album, this time showing three gents and a slightly grubby looking Ford Thames lorry, in the colours of Wimpey, which could well be the building firm that is still around today.
Two versions of the ET6 lorry were available during the 1950s, one petrol powered, the other - the Thames 4D range - propelled by an oil burner. If this is a petrol engined version of the ET6, it would have had a flathead V8 engine nestling under the bonnet. Smoking was seemingly a much more common pastime back in the 1950s too - perhaps not everything was better back then!
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