Bedford TK

Bedford TK (YOC 1971)

The Bedford TK is a truck model that was manufactured by Bedford . It replaced the Bedford S series in 1959 and served as the basis for a wide variety of superstructures, for example fire engines , military vehicles , horse transporters, dump trucks, flatbed trucks and others. A version for the British Post Office (later British Telecom ) was known as Polecat and was used to set telephone poles. The British armed forces had long used the Bedford MK, the all-wheel drive variant of the TK, which replaced the Bedford RL .

In-line four-cylinder and in-line six-cylinder engines were used as gasoline or diesel engines . In the 1960s and 1970s, the TK was one of the most important light and medium class trucks in Great Britain. Its main competitor was the Ford D-series . The TK was available as a normal truck or light tractor , which usually had a Scammell coupling and pulled a semi-trailer . In 1980 the series was replaced by the Bedford TL .

Bedford Blitz

In Germany, the TK was sold briefly by Opel under the Bedford Blitz brand in the mid-1970s .

Web links

Commons : Bedford TK / MK  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The TM wasn't the only Bedford to wear the Blitz badge ( Memento from March 22, 2014 in the web archive archive.today ) on commercialmotor.com
2. ↑ Image on flickr.com