Can you name these old forklifts?

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- 22 Apr 2010 ( #458 ) - Dunsford, United Kingdom
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Morris's grey forklift that he has nicknamed
Morris's grey forklift that he has nicknamed "Lifty".
Who said old things are junk and can't still be used?

Andrew Morris of A Morris & Sons Dunsford has two old forklifts that he says he uses for work and "fun". They're so old that he doesn't know what make they are. He bought the grey forklift, which he thinks was made around 1946, for GBP250 (USD385.24) at an Exeter garden centre and the red forklift, which he guesses is a 1967 model, for GBP50 (USD77.05) from a garage in Cheriton Bishop.

One day at work, a lorry driver asked if Morris had a forklift. Morris brought out his red forklift from the yard and the driver asked: "Haven't you got anything older?"

"I said 'hang on' and I went to the yard and came back with the old grey one. You should have seen the driver's face," Morris says.

The red forklift from a Cheriton Bishop garage cost Morris GBP50.
The red forklift from a Cheriton Bishop garage cost Morris GBP50.
"I love the engine sound [of the grey forklift] and the red one's had second-hand injector pump and injectors [put in], new back tyres ... if it ain't broke, don't fix it," he adds.

Morris says he would love to know the make of his forklifts, if any Forkliftaction.com News reader can help him out. Email www.forkliftaction.com if you can help.

Together with his uncle, Richard, Morris makes garden tools like bill hooks and other cutting tools that were once standard equipment of farm workers and country craftsmen but are now supplied to a niche market. The Morris family took over the Dunsford mill in 1931. The mill has been making edge tools in Devon County since the 1820s.
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