Truck carting grain : 61-1

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Hodder and Tolley electric truck. The name 'Walker' along the lower front of the truck identifies it as a Walker Electric Truck. These vehicles carried a bank of batteries under the tray which gave them a range of forty miles and could be recharged overnight. See also TRA:tk12 for a similar vehicle. The truck is parked on the weigh bridge in Stafford Street outside the Borough Council building. It cost 2/6 to weigh a truck. The men in the photograph are: Left to right: Charlie Beattie (driver), Tom Mingins, Andy Laurenson, ?

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PHOTO TRA:tk6