Post WW2 London shows very tall loading on carts and wagon.

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DavidB

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New looking lorry. Looks like a Bedford WTL. Registered in Surrey between June 1937 & April 1938. Phone number is Kingston. Can't read the tax disc but the WTL was made in the 1930s. The next time the FPG letters were used was between April & August 1958.

I wonder what the load is?
 
alastairq

alastairq

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wonder what the load is?
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Looks to me like either scrap paper, or scrap cardboard.

Memory not serving me here but....didn't Bedford once advertise that their products could be ''overloaded'' by several times? Without harm or damage?
 
AJC

AJC

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I wouldn't use it as any sort of colour reference since that has all the hallmarks of an automated filter (orange skintones, uniform tones of murk for everything else - leaving aside questions around the copyright or otherwise of the film's source). I suspect taht we're comewhere in the vicinity of Covent Garden, but I don't recognise the buildings.

That said, the content is interesting - I suspect the loads are cardboard boxes (and the waste from them in @Osgood's picture).

Adam
 
Yorkshire Dave

Yorkshire Dave

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AJC said:
I suspect taht we're comewhere in the vicinity of Covent Garden, but I don't recognise the buildings.
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After checking the Covent Garden and Smithfield areas....... It's Billingsgate Fish Market on Lower Thames Street looking East - filmed from the roof of Billingsgate Buildings. The building on the left had been demolished by the 1960s and subsequently replaced by a modern structure as has Billingsgate Buildings. Source as shown.

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Eastsidepilot

Eastsidepilot

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Osgood said:
We all have those moments!

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Nowadays you'd probably get pulled over for a load like that.
I did my fair share of roping and sheeting, most if not all factory products where palletised and the nearest I got to @Osgood's example here was, from memory, palletised peat which was baled in plastic and double stacked on a 40' flatbed trailer. We had to sheet this type of load and use ropes front, back and in between each stack of pallets so as not to split the bales. Other sheet jobs were machinery, some timber and ply or multi piece fabricated parts such as steelwork for the building industry, it being easier and quicker to contain the load without using a multitude of rope and straps as the sheets helped act as a restraint to a certain extent but heavy unbalanced items had to be well strapped and the sheets and a fly sheet put over that to weather proof it.
A filthy job when it was p*****g down with rain!
Not seen a sheeted load for ages, nearly everything now is loaded on curtain siders unless it's a specialist job.

Col.
 
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