Hi Timothy B,

I can with 99% certainty tell you that the clip you saw was from an episode of 'classic plant - the forklift truck' it was narrated by the late John Peel and was aired on channel 4, sure it was early to mid 90's.

I used to have it on VHS cassette, sadly as a 10(ish) year old boy who lived and breathed forklifts as my father was a self employed one man band forklift engineer I watched it repeatedly until the cassette wore out many years ago.

Much of it was centered around Lansing Bagnall. The first segment was the Lister 'auto truck', then forklifts in ww2 (that's where the handy Andy clip is I think), then Coventry climax's first forklift (the godiva), lots about bagnall's, then the implications forklifts had on dock workers and then a short segment about container handlers at Thames port docks.

Wow, its amazing what you can remember sometimes when you rack your brains!

Sadly, I've never found a recording available since and I've tried a few times to track it down over the last 10-15 years, I'd be over the moon if I could find one - if for nothing else it would bring back some happy child hood memories!