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Old Yesterday, 19:28   #1
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Have we got any Oldtimers from NW England?

Bit of an odd one but here goes.

As a very young child, I visited the area around Barrow-in-Furness, where my great uncle John Cameron was a GP. I have an enduring memory of seeing amphibious lorries working on a foreshore and beach, probably in the wider area. Now I suspect Morecambe Bay but I have NO IDEA where it was. I remember there being two of them, one working and one that to my child's eye, looked knackered. Looking at photos of likely candidates now, I'm suspecting ex US Army DUKWs but my memory prefers Alvis Stalwarts. Stalwarts would have been pricey and I think these were involved in moving shellfish, which doesn't really fit. I'd guess a date of 1969-1970. Anyone here old enough to shed any light on my memories? Extra points if you knew my uncle
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I remember them running seal trips from Hunstanton in North Norfolk in DUKWs in a similar era ,the fact was the tide went so far out they would drive a way (and i cant remember how far ) before you could see the sea ,let alone a seal !
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This link should take you to a Facebook page which has a photo of a DUKW on Morecambe beach "post WW2":

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?f...02298223207600
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And another:
https://www.nwemail.co.uk/features/n...ords/#gallery1

From the related article:

"Ted Hartley was interviewed about life at Bolton-le-Sands, near carnforth, in the 1950s.

He said the Burrows family and Gerald Edmondson, of Carnforth, bought ex-military amphibious, six-wheel DUKW vehicles.

The idea was that they could cross both sand and river channels with ease. He said: "They had a lot of bad incidents with them - breakdowns and so forth.""
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This book includes info about DUKWs used by the lifeguards on the Southport beaches but perhaps too far south for the ones you remember:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/D-U-K-W-s-W...rmat=1&depth=1
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