I remember this sound from our company truck used to carry loads ups and downs of the tea estates in kerala, i was 5-6, now 70! Miss those monsters never said no....
Hi Robin, when ever I see the RL Bedford on YT, it takes me back to when I was doing my Territorial Army training in 1974, I got my licence in the RL so have many fond memories of this truck, the New Zezland Army RL's were painted in a dark gloss green, they also had metal deck on the back, I would really like to have a drive, bedt regards from a Kiwi living in Australia 👍👍👍👍👍
The old Bedford RL 4-Tonner Army Truck was a great all-wheel drive vehicle in its day. This takes me back to my young teenage days as an Army Cadet, traveling in the back of them to easter and summer camps in the 1970s and later in the early 1980s driving them as a Territorial Army Soldier in the Royal Corps of Transport. All of the ones I ever drove, were all six-cylinder petrol engines. You could put a pencil in the engine governors and get them up to 90 miles an hour. However, clearly, those speeds were both outside of the British Army's or Queen's regulations and speed restrictions over the UK national speed limit. lol "Happy Days & Fun times".
Sounds like a diesel. My brother bought a new Bedford "pug Nose" in the 1950's. He drove it until the speedometer went round the clock twice. He died all his own mechanical work .His truck had a petrol Motor.
I was brought up around these as an Army brat. Most must have been petrol because they had a very distinctive sound that I would still recognise anywhere.
The old RL frigging loved them but not in Cyprus, you do not want that frigging hot engine in the cab with you, but brilliant in cold countries, imagine allowing the best petrol vehicle the army had get into that state. RCT old veteran crying his eyes out.
