Keep it in the family
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5 ruckfes-t supreme winner Dave Crowson (right) tells me his beautifully prepared Smnia rigid was no flash in the pan. The Cmwson family have been polishing up their wagons for many years, and they've sent me pictures to prove it.
In September 1967 13-yearold David Crowson wrote to CM: "I have Commercial Motor every week and enjoy it very much and it would please me to look in CM one week and see a picture of our new lorry" The Hawk's moth-eaten old grand-dad duly obliged, splashing Crowson's Bedford KGLC60 over his REV pages.
Four years later in the Bedford Transport magazine what should appear but a shot of Crowson Potatoes' new 10-tonner KE Bedford which promised: "A full seven-tonne payload on this 10-tonner thanks to an alloy body from Zadock Spence". In those days you needed an HGV licence only if your wagon had an unladen weight of over three tons.
Then in March '86 what should appear on the front cover of Roadway but another Crowson Bedford — this time a TL.
Where will it all lead to? A computer-generated laser hologram of the latest Crowsons Potatoes interstellar spudcarrier in Commercial Motor stardate 2093? Sadly I'll have cashed in my chips long before then.