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The Thames Trader model range covered weights from 2 to 7 tons, powered by either petrol or diesel engines in four-or six-cylinder guises. The lower-weight vehicles were available with 118- and 138-inch wheelbases, the heavy weight vehicle with 138-, 152- and 160-inch wheelbases; there was also a 108-inch tipper wheelbase.
First serie of IMT tractors - IMT 533. The IMT factory was founded in 1947 as the Central Foundry. In 1949, a new company, the Metal Institute, was formed by amalgamating the Central Foundry and four other local companies. The Metal Institute became the Industry of Machinery and Tractors (IMT) in 1954.
The name Thames was initially used alongside Fordson on commercial products until 1957 when the Fordson name was removed from all trucks and the brand was focused only on farm products such as tractors. In 1965 Ford dropped the Thames name and all commercial vehicles and trucks were now marketed under the Ford name.
The Ford Thames 300E is a car derived van that was produced by Ford UK from 1954 to 1961. [2] The Thames (or Thames Trader) name was given to all available sizes of commercial vehicle produced by Ford in Britain from the 1950s through to 1965. In that year the Thames and Trader names were discontinued. [3]
The Thames 307E is a small panel van launched by Ford UK in June 1961 [1] and based on the recently introduced Ford Anglia 105E. It replaced the Thames 300E and, like its predecessor [ 2 ] it was marketed as the Thames 5 cwt or the Thames 7 cwt van.
A small tipper body with screw type gear was also listed, as was a standard dropside truck. Several styles of van body were offered, such as a box body of 300 cu ft (8.5 m 3), a van body of 315 cu ft (8.9 m 3), a pantechnicon with integral cab offering 415 cu ft (11.8 m 3) capacity or with a factory cab 400 cu ft (11 m 3). A milk float was also ...
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The original boilers were of 3 ft 6 in (1.07 m) diameter with barrel 7 ft 10 in (2.39 m) long, wrought-iron fireboxes 4 ft 1 in (1.24 m) long having a grate area of 10.3 sq ft (0.96 m 2) and worked at a pressure of 140 lbf/in 2 (970 kPa). [10] Steel fireboxes were tried on two locomotives in 1889 but these were unsuccessful.