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PostPosted: Tue Nov 05, 2013 3:13 pm    Post subject: Another old commercial to identify. Reply with quote

What is this, gentlemen?

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PostPosted: Tue Nov 05, 2013 3:54 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Mmmm the proportions of the front remind me of 5cwt Fordson, the rear looks homebuilt, or coachbuilt for a specific purpose.

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PostPosted: Tue Nov 05, 2013 5:20 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Something Austin 10-ish about it.
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PostPosted: Tue Nov 05, 2013 6:38 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Agree with Rick. Fordson 5cwt, but the body is not original.
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PostPosted: Tue Nov 05, 2013 6:39 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Looking at where the pic is taken, is it maybe the hearse for a funeral?
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PostPosted: Tue Nov 05, 2013 7:07 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

emmerson wrote:
Looking at where the pic is taken, is it maybe the hearse for a funeral?


The same rather mawkish or maudlin answer occurred to me as well and I thought that the box on top of the commercial was somebody's coffin or wooden overcoat but to put it there would hardly be etiquette or "the done thing", would it?
Shocked

The presence of marquees on both sides of the photo suggests a rather more light hearted event, I hope.

Mind you, North Wales funerals were/are quite grand occasions and real "ham and Bara Brith" affairs!
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PostPosted: Tue Nov 05, 2013 8:17 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Could the box on the top be a speaker?
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PostPosted: Tue Nov 05, 2013 8:20 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'd also go for the Fordson 10cwt with home-brewed estate body; it would hardly be in good taste to leave the hearse parked up by the marque while the wake was going on Shocked

I would assume this was the old folks' annual 'do'; the Fordson was bringing the food and the Austin K8 (?) in the background the drink Smile

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PostPosted: Tue Nov 05, 2013 8:39 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

alfanut wrote:


I would assume this was the old folks' annual 'do'; the Fordson was bringing the food and the Austin K8 (?) in the background the drink Smile

Geoff


...the drink..the drink??!!

I doubt it. That's a chapel and the strongest drink imbibed there or anywhere around it would have been tea or orange juice!
Even coffee was frowned upon.

Seriously though, I think the occasion could have been a local "eisteddfod" - the absence of dark clothing worn by the people outside and light coloured clothes suggests a social gathering of some sort. The absence of children in the photo is something I noted only later.

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I'll bet a fiver with anyone that the Morris Oxford belonged to the chapel's minister and the partly closed/open front door of it suggests that he was either in a hurry to arrive or anxious to leave.
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 07, 2013 4:51 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Fordson 5cwt E494C with a oddly built body. Strange rear single door whereas they usually have 2 doors.
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