Bedford OX Tractor Unit and Queen Mary Trailer
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Bedford OX Tractor Unit and Queen Mary Trailer
Image: © Richard Hoare Taken: 17 Feb 2012
At the Lincolnshire Aviation Heritage Centre, East Kirkby. The three ton Queen Mary trailer was designed by Taskers to a 1938 Air Ministry specification for a low loading vehicle for transporting fighter aircraft and a total of 1,859 examples were built. Standard equipment at Maintenance Units and on wartime airfields, the Queen Mary was 40' long and could also carry components of larger twin engined aircraft. An improved five ton trailer, which this is an example, was introduced to RAF service in 1943 with over 1,950 being eventually produced. The Bedford OX tractor had a six cylinder 72 bhp engine.
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Image Location
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