This 65-year-old is no OAP
27th February 1982, Page 29
27th February 1982
Page 29
Page 29, 27th February 1982
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AFTER being buried in a chinaclay waste tip in Cornwall for about 30 years and then stored for another 20 years, a 1916 Peerless lorry brought to England for use with the Allied Forces in France has been restored by Mr Roberts, of the Wheal Martyn Museum at St Austell.
It saw civilian service with a china-clay producer from 1920 until about 1930 when it was discarded as scrap. I have seen only a colour slide of the rejuvenated warrior but it seems completely to have shed its 65 years and is far from an OAP.