Bedford A.A. Road Service Van - 408
page last updated: 10 September 2007
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A.A. ROAD SERVICE VAN
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Bedford A.A. Road Service Van - 408 page last updated: 10 September 2007 |
408
A.A. ROAD SERVICE VAN |
| The AA Services Bedford
was always No 408, but the casting changed over time when Bedford gave
the old CA a facelift. I'm old enough to remember this happening. Most
delivery men to our farm who used vans used the Bedford CA and I
remember the gradual change as they replaced their vehicles. Gradually
the old one (which always reminded me of a pig for some reason) was
replaced by the new smarter one with a mesh grille rather than the open
bars of the early one.
On the left is the 1957 version - the one in the pictures on the right is the later casting, the differences being that the early one had a split screen, larger openings in the grille and a plain roof. The later ones had transverse ridges in the roof, presumably to reduce drumming. Later Corgis of course will have moved from the early flat hubs to the spun hubs, but that is a less reliable method for differentiating between the models as the change in casting was not exactly concurrent with the change in wheel type. |
