D-DAY

This month’s commercial feature brings us the story of not one, but two Ford D-series trucks, a model that was the number 1 choice for hauliers in the late sixties and early seventies. Andrew Pollock meets up with two commercial enthusiasts to discuss their trucks, Seamus Lynch with his 1976 model and Mick Kelly with his later 1980 model. It’s not often we get to put two models together like this, and it’s rarer still that they are two original Irish vehicles; one was a cattle truck, while the other delivered coal, and this gives a feel for how adaptable these trucks were. Here, Andrew will fill you in on their story.