Commercials play part in Lord Mayor's Show
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LONDON'S Lord Mayor's Show, to celebrate the start of Sir Alan Traill's year of office, included this float by Charterhouse, the Lord Mayor's old school, carried on a new MAN 16.70 chassis.
The Besco platform-bodied vehicle, in one of its first public "sightings" since its launch at last month's Birmingham Motor Show, was lent for the occasion by MAN-VW, of Swindon.
The colourful spectacle, with more than 70 specially built tableaux entered by city institutions, industry and commerce, for the first time included a Fowler steam traction engine drawing one of the floats. A Post Office contribution was based on a B-registered (!) articulated unit cabbadged as a "Chieftain".
One of the articulated Van Hod l Alligator Jumbulances, belonging to the Across Trust, and decked out in hundreds of balloons was another entrant to the procession under the "Living In Harmony" theme.