A Thames lorry as owned by Wimpey.
Two more original photos from my album to start this page off. This pair show 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.
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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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Raymond Way Ltd of Kilburn.
The next 1950s photograph was emailed to me by Jan Parker. This cracking image shows her grandfather, Eddie Peplow (Edwin Harold Peplow), stood alongside a brand new Fordson Thames ET6 lorry, in the livery of Raymond Way Ltd. The truck, OKX 244, looks to be brand new - even the letters of the registration plate are glistening. The signwriting down the side of the lorry says "Raymond Way of Kilburn .. The Car & Motor Cycle Hire Purchase Specialists" and Eddie's overalls advertise Regent Service. Jan is hoping to identify the year of this lorry, and hopes that showing it here might strike a chord with someone who perhaps remembers Eddie, or these Thames lorries when used by Raymond Way Ltd. The OKX series was used from May 1951 onwards. I think later lorries only had Thames badges, the Fordson part being dropped early in the 1950s.
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