alixcompo

http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205089042#.Tx21F4lo5bw--- Can anyone see this one

Help..... I may be stupid but..... Why can't I see any photos on the Imperial War Museum site.?

My plan is just to fix it quickly and drive it. Beautification and actually doing things properly can occur by way of a rolling restoration. Driveable by the summer I hope. Driveable not meaning pretty or reliable but more sort of..... Going.....

Right then. New pictures of the serial number. Let's all ahve a guess what the last one might be. http://s1077.photobucket.com/albums/w472/alixcompo/

I stand corrected. cheers I thought they were retrospective but that was stop lights and indicators. (I wish I had known that and didn't need to look it up.)

People have already been kind enough to take an interest via other threads here. But for the sake of anyone who may know stuff. I have a MK1 (split screen) Bedford CA 'Utilicon' van cira 1957/58 I know nothing of it's history and don't have a registration number for it. (Ihave chassis & eng numbers) It may have been standing some time as it doesn't have windscreen washers fitted and they became law in 1977... I think in later life if was probably a farm runabout. But On the passenger side dash is the serial 94RN47. Does this mean anything.? I have a man on the case but any information about this or similar vehicles would be priceless.

That's fantastic. Thank you so very much. Alik

http://s1077.photobucket.com/albums/w472/alixcompo/ This might be the picture I've been trying to insert

A couple of years ago I met a guy who currently owns one of the Transit Supervans with the lowered suspension and mid mounted full race engine that the Ford Apprentice's built in the late 70's; road legal too apparently....... But only just.

Amasing to think that Bedford had an independantly coil sprung front axle with telescopic double acting dampers in 1952 when Transit in 1965 only had a beam axle and cart springs on the front and of course that horrible and heavy V4 that they were lucky to unload onto Saab

Many thanks for looking chaps. Seems a bit of a long shot but there is a chance my van was a Navy runabout

I would guess that my Utilicon is between Sept 57' and Aug '58

I think mine might be a posh late one. 3 speed column change but with syncro

Not sure which one but if you have a copy of the Bedford Bible the I need to know the build date od a Bedford CA MK1 chassis number CAV 102890. It may have been a Naval bus

If anyone has a copy of Barts then I have a favour to ask... Please

HELP I own a Bedford CA which I suspect may have been originally a Royal Navy vehicle. On the passenger side dash are the remains of the letters 4RN4 Might this mean anything or am I clutching at straws. I have no registration documents for the vehicle though I have the engine and chassis numbers.

i've got a book with the chassis numbers in, if you post yours up i can give you the year of manufacture. Do you think your book would have the year of manufacture for a Bedford CA which I suspect may have originally been a miltary vehicle. The number is CAV 102890. Many thanks