Author Topic: Solved: GTE 352 - 1931 A.T. Refuse Collector by Allan Taylor Engineering and Manufacturing Co.  (Read 4376 times)

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Re: GTE 352
« Reply #75 on: May 17, 2020, 05:07:49 AM »

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Re: GTE 352
« Reply #76 on: May 17, 2020, 11:53:25 AM »
Not much chance of finding that then..
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Re: GTE 352
« Reply #77 on: May 17, 2020, 01:31:44 PM »
Not much chance of finding that then..
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Re: GTE 352
« Reply #78 on: May 17, 2020, 02:20:17 PM »
Lucas?
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Re: GTE 352
« Reply #79 on: May 17, 2020, 02:27:10 PM »

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Re: GTE 352
« Reply #80 on: May 17, 2020, 03:31:36 PM »
Park Royal?
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Re: GTE 352
« Reply #81 on: May 17, 2020, 03:58:00 PM »

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Re: GTE 352
« Reply #82 on: May 17, 2020, 05:42:45 PM »
OK, but without the abiility to use what information has been ascertained so far to trace the picture on the 'Net, and the fact that information about commercial vehicle coachbuilders from this period is very thin on the ground, it's going to be purely a hit and miss affair guessing the right answer.
So, my last try (as I can't find any more appropriate coachbuilders) is Grose Ltd.
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Re: GTE 352
« Reply #83 on: May 17, 2020, 05:55:51 PM »
OK, but without the abiility to use what information has been ascertained so far to trace the picture on the 'Net, and the fact that information about commercial vehicle coachbuilders from this period is very thin on the ground, it's going to be purely a hit and miss affair guessing the right answer.
So, my last try (as I can't find any more appropriate coachbuilders) is Grose Ltd.
Not Grose

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Re: GTE 352
« Reply #84 on: May 18, 2020, 04:20:51 AM »
Did the coachbuilder still exist after WW2?
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Re: GTE 352
« Reply #85 on: May 18, 2020, 11:58:46 AM »
Did the coachbuilder still exist after WW2?
It appears so

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Re: GTE 352
« Reply #86 on: May 18, 2020, 01:54:06 PM »
Based in North London?
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Re: GTE 352
« Reply #87 on: May 18, 2020, 03:11:06 PM »
Like Duple, for instance?
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Re: GTE 352
« Reply #88 on: May 18, 2020, 07:19:35 PM »

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Re: GTE 352
« Reply #89 on: May 19, 2020, 03:44:12 AM »
West London?
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Re: GTE 352
« Reply #90 on: May 19, 2020, 04:01:05 AM »

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Re: GTE 352
« Reply #91 on: May 19, 2020, 05:19:36 AM »
South London?
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Re: GTE 352
« Reply #92 on: May 19, 2020, 06:25:06 AM »
South London?
I think the borough is now considered to be in South London, but it was part of Southwest London at the time.

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Re: GTE 352
« Reply #93 on: May 19, 2020, 08:46:36 AM »
Croydon?
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Re: GTE 352
« Reply #94 on: May 19, 2020, 09:05:06 AM »

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Re: GTE 352
« Reply #95 on: May 19, 2020, 09:20:06 AM »
Kingston upon Thames?
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Re: GTE 352
« Reply #96 on: May 19, 2020, 09:32:48 AM »

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Re: GTE 352
« Reply #97 on: May 19, 2020, 10:15:12 AM »
Richmond?
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Re: GTE 352
« Reply #98 on: May 19, 2020, 11:45:43 AM »

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Re: GTE 352
« Reply #99 on: May 19, 2020, 11:51:44 AM »
Perhaps the coachbuilder was Allan Taylor Engineering and Manufacturing of Wandsworth?
They coachbuilt many Ford vehicles and I've found the picture below of a very similar dustcart by them, descsribed as an "A.T.-Ford refuse collector"; it's not quite the same but it is awfully similar!:

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