starni999

I have a feeling that there was an article either on here or in Windscreen mag that the Morris C9/B had been saved and was being restored back to miliary spec.

I really do hope so. I can't imagine there'd be much left after all those years in and out of the sea, but it would be great to see one of these wagons restored. There were 3 or 4 C9's if I recall, at least one of which had a horrific square wooden cab built on.

Cheers

CW.

Hi all,

Joined up here when I found this thread about the old wagons on the Prom at Blackpool. We spent a lot of happy Saturdays at Blackpool between '67 and '75. I loved these old lorries as a kid, and would always get Dad to fork out for a boat trip we didn't really want so I could go on the wagons!

As well as those shown here there were at least two Commers painted orange, and a Morris water tanker still in army green.

Here's a few photos, in the one of me looking very innocent in '67 there's a Willy Jeep very far in the distance.

Sadly a leaking roof in 1980 destroyed all my photo albums, and I lost at least 20 more pictures of the Blackpool lorries, and the negs.

I've got a good few more military show pictures from this era though, so I'll post them up.

Cheers

Chris Warr