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Posted by Fred Rand
on 24/11/2008, 2:29 pm, in reply to "Old hearse"
Hi All just for the record I was the driver of the old hearse all those years ago. A crowd of us bought it from an undertakers in Tilbury, it used to do about 4MPG Yes 4!!! and about 7 on a run. I remember once going to Mallory Park for a race meeting and before we set off I pulled in to Toomeys in the High Rd Laindon and put 42 Gallons in the tank it held 50 and had to put more in to get home. It had a 50hp Daimler sleeve valve engine and pre select gear box, I still have a photo of it. It also made headlines in the Laindon Recorder under the headlines of a bus drivers holiday as I drove on the buses in those days.
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