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Briggs Motor Bodies

The GS has standard Briggs Motor Bodies wings and bonnet. In this photo you can see that is basically the same as on a 1958 Thames Trader, Photographed at last weekend's Peterborough Bus and Commercial vehicle rally.


My bus number (if any): RMs 238, 471. 2213 & GS1 7

Re: Briggs Motor Bodies

Remember the GS has the 2" spacer between the wings and the inner wing; the rear is also a bit longer and the sidelight moulding's different. I know, my GS has lorry wings!!

Back in the day someone used to make glass fibre Ford wings, I saw a pair on a lorry in a scrap yard back in 1974! Never managed to get the bolts undone to recover them, pah!

Re: Briggs Motor Bodies

Chris
The GS has standard Briggs Motor Bodies wings and bonnet. In this photo you can see that is basically the same as on a 1958 Thames Trader, Photographed at last weekend's Peterborough Bus and Commercial vehicle rally.




Does your GS have a manual or pre-select gearbox Chris?

My bus number (if any): RM967 (Driver & Restoration Consultant), bus is owned by Tom Ireland

Re: Briggs Motor Bodies

Pre-select in a GS?? Since when? The only GS I know without a crash box is one in Belgium which has a Cummins/Alison drive train! Oh, and the one from the Shetlands which is a GS body on a Ford D series chassis.