old bedford

madworld · Post by **madworld** » Mon Sep 22, 2014 5:45 pm

Hi all.. not really into buses the way most of you seem to be but i just bought an old bedford to chop the roof off for a woodshed and thought i would see if any forum goers know anything about it before i do .. would hate to destroy it and find out later someone was trying to restore one and could have used x y or z .. don't have photobucket account but bappy to email photos if someone can upload them for me

Centralian · Post by **Centralian** » Mon Sep 22, 2014 6:46 pm

Where might this be located and any clues on the vehicle as to its previous life. Is that a route number above the desto ?

madworld · Post by **madworld** » Mon Sep 22, 2014 6:52 pm

Also open to suggestions on how to remove the roof without damaging it .. preferably in one piece without drilling 99 trillion rivets out ..was planning on bolting a length of 50 x 50 angle tothe inside below the windows on each side and then cutting below that and lifting the lot with tractor

madworld · Post by **madworld** » Mon Sep 22, 2014 6:55 pm

Its parked on a bush block near murwillumbah in northern nsw .. been gutted many years ago and turned into a bedroom so unfortunately there's no route numbers or identifying signage visibke anywhere .. will try and get a body number or manufacturers name off it this saturday

Centralian · Post by **Centralian** » Mon Sep 22, 2014 7:17 pm

It's certainly a Bedford chassis of late 1940's or early 1950's vintage. I'm not game enough to try and pick the body builder. We had a few of these running in the Blue Mountains at the time, and no doubt a popular light chassis of the times.

GM · Post by GM » Mon Sep 22, 2014 9:54 pm

I think you will find it is a Waddingtons body c1947. See attached GM

CCCC · Post by **CCCC** » Mon Sep 22, 2014 10:57 pm

Don't think theres been a barn find like this for a while.

Seems a shame to see it destroyed, could not be to many front bonneted like this anymore.

madworld · Post by **madworld** » Tue Sep 23, 2014 6:36 am

Love your work gm .. been looking for photos of anything similar for weeks and come up with nothing

cccc i thought the same, hence my putting it up here. the neighbour who owns it thinks there is a bedford truck with the same front on it further back on the property so going to check that out saturday

kelvin12 · Post by **kelvin12** » Tue Sep 23, 2014 7:43 am

Isn't there an historic truck/vehicle forum somewhere out there. Seems a real shame to wreck it. I think some bus nut would want to have a go at this one.

Dirk

GM · Post by GM » Tue Sep 23, 2014 11:03 am

After the war petrol Bedfords were very popular. A lot were bodied by Properts (they also bodied a lot of GMC's as it was difficult to get bodies built by Syd Wood), some by Syd Wood and a few by Waddingtons.
A number of the Properts bodied vehicles went into service in the Blue Mountains with Jack Spellacy.
Photos from the Eddie Hayman Collection. GM

CCCC · Post by **CCCC** » Fri Dec 30, 2016 11:42 pm

bumping this back up , so did it get saved , hopefully madworld gets auto notification

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