1939 Leyland Badger 4 ton

1939 Leyland Badger in Greenock Plans Ahead, Documentary, 1948

Class: Trucks, Simple truck — Model origin:

00:08:22 Minor action vehicle or used in only a short scene

Author	Message
dsl ◊ 2016-07-08 23:34	Loaded with sacks of sugar at the docks. Headboard says "Something Golden Syrup". VS 4119 = 1939 Greenock issue.
jcb ◊ 2016-07-09 10:40	Leyland ,some animal ! -- Last edit: 2016-07-09 10:40:52
Sunbar ◊ 2016-07-09 15:24	1935 onwards Badger 4-Ton or Beaver 6-Ton I guess, but I don't recognise the cab which is possibly influenced by war preparation? edit: Perhaps Westburn Golden Syrup? One of 14 sugar refineries in Greenock. It was also Abram Lyle's birthplace; one of the founders of 'Tate & Lyle Golden Syrup' but in the 1880s in London, not the 1940s, so perhaps a very small local competitor? -- Last edit: 2016-07-09 15:35:30
dsl ◊ 2016-07-09 15:43	Sunbar wrote Westburn Golden Syrup? Yes. "Glasgow became involved in the West Indian sugar trade, and sugar refining soon became a major industry in Greenock as well as Glasgow."
dsl ◊ 2016-07-09 16:15	Let's go Badger - we've got very few compared to Beavers
Sunbar ◊ 2016-07-09 16:19	Also 4-tons is probably right; if they are 224lb sacks of sugar then forty sacks is almost 4 tons I think (certainly not six tons).