GPO Vehicles

Make Morris
Model WEK80
Type Covered Wagon
Body Builder  
Use Heavy Cabling
Registration Number 475 DXV
Fleet Number 18516
Date of picture 1962

This tilt covered Morris WEK80, 5 ton capacity lorry was designed for light cabling work.  A cable drum could be mounted inside the body, having been lifted there by the Burtonwood tail lift.  At the rear of the chassis is a Cabling Bollard used with the truck moving forward to pull cables through earthenware ducts.

See also the Morris WEK40

 

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