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Date Posted:05/01/2012 04:46:18Copy HTML

looks the nuts dont know anything about them travelers used a lot of them back in the day.
prob rot like a bastard same as dodge.
are 4bye 4 good tow truck me thinks.
nothing on the web about them any of you know anything about these weak points etc.
do like the look of the 1 on mill web would make a good brother for bob.
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Re:bedford rl

Date Posted:05/01/2012 06:33:53Copy HTML

some info here, for starters

http://hmvf.co.uk/forumvb/showthread.php?14795-New-to-the-Bedford-RL&highlight=bedford

http://hmvf.co.uk/forumvb/showthread.php?15045-Bedford-RL-tonnage&highlight=bedford
imagined they'd have been rated over 7.5t, given the 20" wheels etc.

http://hmvf.co.uk/forumvb/showthread.php?15027-Bedford-RL-engines&highlight=bedford

http://hmvf.co.uk/forumvb/showthread.php?13379-Crocs-Bedford-Blog

more where that came from :)
it seemed like a good idea at the time
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Re:bedford rl

Date Posted:05/01/2012 06:43:56Copy HTML

prob worth having a chat with these guys

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RSOLES/
it seemed like a good idea at the time
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Re:bedford rl

Date Posted:05/01/2012 06:53:30Copy HTML

i like that aec chugg and yes that is the rl
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Re:bedford rl

Date Posted:05/01/2012 07:23:28Copy HTML

so how much is the white RL with red crane, no engine and dodgy brakes going for then? (don't recall the ad saying anything other than spares/repairs)
it seemed like a good idea at the time
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Re:bedford rl

Date Posted:05/01/2012 08:18:48Copy HTML

 sometimes i wish that i had been born a few years earlier, older cars and trucks had style, now they all basically look the same :(


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Re:bedford rl

Date Posted:06/01/2012 12:44:04Copy HTML

i dont no chugg have not rang about it yet still at the thinkin stage mate
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Re:bedford rl

Date Posted:11/01/2012 09:41:49Copy HTML

reading something this evening that mentions RL's having a GVW of 8,800kg (and therefore requiring a HGV licence if made/registered? after 1960)
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Re:bedford rl

Date Posted:11/01/2012 10:52:19Copy HTML

 My mates just downrated theirs to 7500kgs
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