Dennis Pax.
Gary kindly sent over these scans of small photos, taken from a family album. They feature Dennis Pax lorries of the 1940s, which were operated by his family's old firm - T. Cobb & Sons Ltd of Spring Street, Portsmouth, a business that began life in 1890 and continued in road haulage until 1986. My thanks to Gary for allowing me to publish them here.
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Dennis Pax registration CTP 678 is shown in the first of these photographs, a Portsmouth series first used in September 1942.
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The second of Gary's photos shows another Pax, registration CTP 663, well loaded in a dockside scene.
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A group of the firm's drivers are stood with one of the Dennis lorries in this next shot.
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CTP 663 once again. Several of these photographs appear to show bomb-damaged buildings in the background - not surprising given the pounding that Portsmouth endured during the war. A check of the National Archives site brings up references to T.Cobb and Sons, and the demolition of damaged buildings during the war.
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Completing the set of Dennis photos, another shot of '678 with a driver behind the wheel.
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To finish off this particular collection, a final shot of Gary's relatives stood outside the entrance to the haulage yard, in 1946.
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Return to Page 13 in the classic & vintage car photo gallery.
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