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It doesn't seem like long ago that our roads were full of original Ford Cargos, but other than a handful of horseboxes and recovery vehicles, they seem to have largely disappeared. I can't remember the last time that I saw a tractor on the road.
I couldn't resist publishing this photo as it's almost identical to the ex-Royal Mail Ford Cargo that I took my HGV test in - complete with those massive rear windows that made the reversing exercise a lot easier than it would be in the real world.
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"Turkey, India and the United States where I believe they offer a Sterling service. Boom Boom."
The cargo was an interesting truck much maligned for its flexible chassis, you needed to pack the frame to stop the cab touching the body on a suspended tow.
We talk about Global trucks and the world market today and how different markets have different cultures - so this idea is very difficult - you even see some manufacturers using the old cabs in certain territories for example the MAN asia project - the Cargo cab concept is probably the only real light truck to have Global success, with Ford Europe, IVECO Ford, Ashok Leyland, Ford USA, Sterling and Otosan in Turkey. The TK could maybe take the title as a world truck but it did not have a US presence?
It would also be interesting too note how many different engines have found shelter under the cargo cab in the UK alone we had the Ford Dover, We Cummins V8 504. Perkins V8 540, Deutz air cooled, Cummins L10-240 and 290 and the last engine the Cummins B series. There may be more?
Let alone what Otosan, Ashok and Sterling have put under the cab.
The tractors went up the weight scale from the chassis devolopments Allied Brewery urban tractors at 21t, White Arrow and Post office tractors at around 28t looked okay - but at 38tonne with the L10 the key advantage was payload and the vehicle was a little under cabbed Bass had one on trial but with a twinsplitter it was difficult to push out the Volvo FL10 with its synchro box. The big heavy users where Whitbread who even included alloys in the spec, but in fairness they had a rigid cargo fleet including dropframes and drawbar drays. Eddie Stobart was also a big user of the heavier Cargo.
http://www.memagazine.org/backissues/membersonly/july05/features/goingthe/goingthe.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Cargo_(Europe)
http://www.sterlingtrucks.com/P.asp?Loc=Trucks&Application=WholesaleRetail&Line=Cargo
http://www.fundinguniverse.com/company-histories/Ford-Motor-Company-Company-History.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otosan
Posted by Neil Curran | February 23, 2007 10:04 AM
Posted on February 23, 2007 10:04