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This style of 7V is the postwar model introduced in 1947 and updated from the original 7V of 1937. It could be fitted with a four-cylinder side valve engine but more usually the 30 hp V8 of 3,622cc the same powerful petrol engine as used in the Ford V8 Pilot saloon car.

This particular lorry fitted with a tipping tanker body for carrying liquid concrete is one of half a dozen employed on building sites and most likely not even road registered. Seen on the construction of a vast oil storage depot on the outskirts of London the cheap to buy little Fordsons would at the end of the contract probably have their bodies removed and the chassis sold off.

In the background a long coal train, once a common sight on Britain’s railways before the destruction of the coal indusrty by the Iron Lady, trundles by hauled by a Standard 2.10.0.

This painting in oils on a 20″×30″ canvas originally made for a transport calendar hangs in the offices of Kelsey Publishing of Cudham in Kent who publish a range of magazines for the vehicle enthusiast, check them out at www.kelsey.co.uk.

A painting like this of your favourite vehicle, British or American, in oils on canvas or board would cost about £1500.

E-mail mike@transportartist .co.uk to commission your own unique work of art by one of Britain’s leading transport artists.

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