1968 Bedford RL Thames Valley Police Control Unit
1968 Bedford RL in Anything Can Happen, Documentary, 1973
Class: Trucks, Simple truck — Model origin: 
00:15:35 ![[*]](/res/star.png){kind=small}
Minor action vehicle or used in only a short scene
Comments about this vehicle
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◊ 2015-05-10 03:28 |
![[Image: 15-35bedfordmajorincidentvehicle.jpg]](http://pics.imcdb.org/10314/15-35bedfordmajorincidentvehicle.jpg) ![[Image: 15-35bedfordmajorincidentvehiclecint.jpg]](http://pics.imcdb.org/10314/15-35bedfordmajorincidentvehiclecint.jpg) Commentary calls it Thames Valley's 'Major Incident Vehicle'; looks like 67-68 F plate - is this too late for something S-based?? so ex-military?? |
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◊ 2015-05-10 09:52 |
RL 4WD - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bedford_RL - not too late for S-based as the link say produced up to the '70s. |
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◊ 2015-05-10 17:16 |
It is sufficiently well known to have a Corgi toy based on it as 'Bedford Control Unit - Thames Valley Police' but no photograph of the actual vehicle found to date. ![[Image: thamesvalley1.jpg]](http://pics.imcdb.org/558/thamesvalley1.jpg) Yes Bedford RL after 1957 by the grille, unlikely to be ex-military I think more likely to be purchased new as a chassis-cab. |
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◊ 2015-05-10 18:41 |
The Corgi Bedford RL TVP comes in set 08006 (with a dark blue Mini van) and it looks as if model has March 68 London issue UGY 811F plate - Link to "www.ebay.co.uk" (although is reflective plate not white-on-black as Sunbar's photo above). There was also Corgi 08004 Hampshire police set with a white Bedford similar UGY 814F and a dark green Morris 1000 Van. So was there a batch of these made/converted in early 68 and scattered around some forces?? |
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◊ 2015-05-10 19:51 |
'UGY 811F' Source: http://www.throughtheireyes2.co.uk/ ![[Image: thamesvalleyugy8f.jpg]](http://pics.imcdb.org/558/thamesvalleyugy8f.jpg) |
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◊ 2015-05-11 09:13 |
May be an ex AFS truck , lots of Police/Fire authorities took various AFS 'radio vans ' on when the AFS was disbanded in 1968. Our local fire service had an ex AFS Fordson Thames ET6 'radio van ' as a command unit well into the 70's -- Last edit: 2015-05-11 09:14:14 |
