It's not every day we get a chance to be transported back to 1974, but this is one of those days. Back then, as part of my job as publicity manager (as the job was called back then) for -^jP Shelvoke & Drewry Limited, based in Letchworth, Hertfordshire, I would have been photographing new binwagons almost everyday. No change there then? Except at that time Britain was still a manufacturing nation and the "balance of payments" situation was seen as a crucial factor to our standing in the World. Established in 1922 (when co-founders Harry Shelvoke and James Drewry left Lacre Lorries), SD had played its part by exporting vehicles overseas from day one. Post-war, various African states such as Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya and South Africa ran large fleets of SD refuse collection vehicles - not to mention gully and cesspool emptiers - and there were also"W-Types" and "T-Types" operating in South America, Australia, the Caribbean and Denmark.
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