Birmingham New Street Station: lnwrbns_str2873

View of the demolition work being carried out on the site of the original 1851 station with Navigation Street bridge in the distance. In the foreground is a Thames Trader being loaded by a four-wheel excavator. The Thames Trader was a range of trucks manufactured by the British arm of the Ford Motor Company built between 1957 and 1965. The distinctive cab design, which sets it apart from other British commercial vehicles, was a forward-control (or semi-forward control) design and the Thames Trader model covered a much wider weight range than the existing normal control ET Thames model or the earlier forward control 7 V model. Both these earlier models had been based on Ford of America designs, the new Thames Trader was the first heavy commercial to be designed by Ford of Britain.

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