This steam ‘locomotive’ dray was made by Burrells of Thetford in 1912 as works number 3424, and was the first of two purchased by Bushell Watkins and Smith for deliveries of beer to their tied-houses around west Kent. It would have been slow going at 12 miles an hour, but marginally faster than its horse-drawn ...
Reference: WH0183
This purpose-built motor dray from commercial vehicle manufacturers Hallfords of Dartford was registered on 2nd June 1916 as KT 8164. The company was actually J & E Hall who between 1906 and 1926 produced London and country buses, haulage vehicles and lorries deployed with the British Army during WWI. The name ‘Hallfords’ was coined from ...
Reference: WH0184
Barrage balloons had first appeared at the end of the first world war as ‘aprons’ to combat the emergence of fledgeling war-machines in the air, both Zeppelins and biplanes. By 1939, attack and combat from the air was serious business so the balloons re-appeared as a very necessary aerial defence. A major factory for their ...
Reference: WH0722