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Bodgit and Scram? Sounds like the sort of highly skilled craftsmen The Hawk usually employs. This 1952 Ford Thames pick-up truck actually belongs to Dave Leeves, who is a member of the
Southern Counties Historical Vehicles Preservation Trust which has recently become a limited company.
The Trust, originally the Worthing Historic Vehicle Society, has over 300
members throughout the Southern Counties. It now owns its own land, with a large converted barn housing an excellent collection of classic steam engines, heavy lorries, fire engines and tractors. One of the rarest vehicles in the collection is this 1932 Austin Twelve ice cream van, which the Trust has owned for over 25 years. When it first pedalled its wares on the streets of
Tunbridge Wells, an Ice cream would have cost a penny. A penny? Can
you buy anything for a single penn today? The van was originally con verted from an Austin Heavy 12/ saloon. It is now in the care of Trus Centre co-ordinator Brian Names. wh used to farm the land on which th trust now lives.