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This typical long nose front was not only used for L4 Diesel engines, but also used to house a V6 petrol engine.
It is very well possible that this camper is a former ambulance, if you look at the rear end.
Unfortunately MOT has been expired on March 27, 2019 for this car (status Oct. 2022, but still taxed till June 1, 2023).
2998 cc V6 petrol engine.
Ca. 2000 kg.
Production Ford Transit: Oct. 1965-present.
Production Ford Transit 1st series Mk1/Mk2: Oct. 1965-1971/1971-1977.
Production Transit 1st gen. this version: 1971-Aug. 1977.
Original UK reg. number: May 31, 1974.
Amsterdam-Zuid, Jollenpad, Oct. 20, 2017.
© 2017 Sander Toonen Amsterdam/Halfweg | All Rights Reserved
British Transport Police Ford Transit Public Order Van, photographed outside Charing Cross Railway Station, Westminster.
Rood ID: 93/B843
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Class 47 diesel-electric 47811 heads the diverted 09:30 SuO Brighton - Glasgow Central across Hoobrook Viaduct, Kidderminster on 8th July 1990.
645-7'75
Purchased from Moffat Classic Car Rally last Saturday. A very tidy Dinky Ford Transit Van, sadly it has one tyre missing. But the wheel is still in place. "Macro Mondays" - "Wheel(s)".
N. G. Bell International Transport
Ballywalter County Down
Scania T580 & Chereau Fridge Trailer
New - January 2016
Seem to get a photo of this every time I am out which isn't a bad thing! Always seems to be flat out when I see it. Pictured on the A12 Westlink in Belfast.
To encourage more testing for Covid-19 , ‘pop-up’ testing units are used. This one, operating in Market Square, in Newark uses a Ford Transit van to carry all their gear. They were just packing up for the day, after the market had closed.
In October, 1989, twenty Bayline liveried Ford Transits made a lengthy train journey from Exeter to Perth where Stagecoach would use them as competitive tools. They went in two batches. On 2nd October, 657 (C657 FFJ) leads the pack. These were the days before Health & Safety and I stood on the track to take this shot - nor was I wearing Hi Viz.
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When growing up the Ford Transit van seemed to have cornered the market and was used by all manner of businesses to transport goods. Like this minibus here they were also popular for transporting small groups. I travelled in one on many occasions to and from school cross country meetings.
Given that they were produced in huge numbers from 1966 I am surprised that no older models are seen on our roads. This one which looks like a particularly early example was photographed in the streets of Nicosia.
The city of Nicosia sits on the border between Cyprus and Turkish influenced Northern Cyprus. There is a huge difference in the infrastructure between the two halves of the city. This view was taken in one of the more orderly streets of the northerly half of the city.
Mounting financial pressures, plus political control from the Greater London Council after 1965, compelled London Transport to overhaul its suburban bus operations as a matter of urgency. Chronic staff shortages were a further spur to action. The Bus Reshaping Plan began to take effect from late 1968, but there were unintended consequences.
Traditional double-deckers with 2-person crews were by now uneconomical for the more lightly used suburban bus services, so LT ordered a fleet of over 600 36-ft long AEC Merlins to replace them. LT had a hard job in persuading the trade unions to accept one-person operation, and passengers proved resistant too. Worse, the new vehicles showed themselves to be too long to manoeuvre around the tight suburban streets, thus compelling LT to switch to the shorter AEC Swift model. Unfortunately, the chassis design required a smaller and far less powerful engine. Vehicle and service reliability plummeted, as did passenger numbers.
GLC involvement in London Transport strategies also led to the trial introduction of minibuses on new routes that could not deploy regular-sized vehicles. This innovation by contrast generated better than expected demand. The Ford Transits minibuses were soon replaced by larger, sturdier vehicles.
Exemplifying those turbulent times at Southgate Station are Ford Transit FS6 (MLK706L) on the W9 route and AEC Swift SMS349 (EGN348J) on the 244. LT had disposed both buses by 1980, SMS349 like the majority of its sisters heading directly for scrap after a working life of less than ten years.
March 1974
Zorki 4 camera
Agfa CT18 film.