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Lorry Poster featuring the painting AEC Mercury tipper. by Mike Jeffries

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Top Mat

Top Mat

Bottom Mat

Bottom Mat

Dimensions

Image:

8.00" x 5.50"

Overall:

10.00" x 7.50"

 

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AEC Mercury tipper. Poster

Mike Jeffries

by Mike Jeffries

$22.35

Product Details

AEC Mercury tipper. poster by Mike Jeffries.   Our posters are produced on acid-free papers using archival inks to guarantee that they last a lifetime without fading or loss of color. All posters include a 1" white border around the image to allow for future framing and matting, if desired.

Design Details

THIS PAINTING IS SOLD BUT YOU TOO CAN COMMISSION MIKE TO PAINT YOUR VERY OWN ORIGINAL OF YOUR FAVOURITE VEHICLE, A SOUND INVESTMENT FROM WHOM MANY... more

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Comments (5)

Jon Burch Photography

Jon Burch Photography

Congratulations on your new sale

Mike  Jeffries

Mike Jeffries

Many thanks Krista for the feature in your group Originals that SOLD.

Mike  Jeffries

Mike Jeffries

Many thanks Jose for the feature in your group Stop time with Art.

Mike  Jeffries

Mike Jeffries

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Artist's Description

THIS PAINTING IS SOLD BUT YOU TOO CAN COMMISSION MIKE TO PAINT YOUR VERY OWN ORIGINAL OF YOUR FAVOURITE VEHICLE, A SOUND INVESTMENT FROM WHOM MANY REGARD AS BRITAIN'S LEADING TRANSPORT ARTIST. JUST E-MAIL mike@transportartist.co.uk

The quality medium-weight 12 tons gross market in the early fifties was dominated by Leyland�s best selling Comet 90 and after a meeting of AEC�s sales and engineering senior personnel a completely new chassis to rival the Comet was developed and dubbed the Mercury.

As built the Mercury�s tare was still heavier than the Comet�s but when the gross weight limit for two axles was increased to 14 tons in 1955 the AEC with 25bhp more power and air brakes came into its own and sales rocketed.

In those years despite rail competition coal haulage by road was big business especially for supplying industry lacking railhead facilities and here we see a Mercury loading at a Midlands colliery, it carries the early type of cab which dif...

About Mike Jeffries

Mike Jeffries

COMMISSION A PAINTING FROM MIKE. It is with great regret that I have to inform you that Mike sadly passed away November 2020 aged 81, but I, (his partner) will keep his shop here going and am happy to reply to any emails you might send to his own email address at mike@transportartist.co.uk. Virtually nobody considered the humble lorry worthy of the subject of a painting until Mike made it so. Years of being at the sharp end of long distance HGV driving has given him an insight and knowledge into the industry that enables Mike to depict lorries as they really were in the past and not the idealized view of the less knowledgeable making him the man to paint an original of your favourite commercial vehicle. He is without a doubt THE lorry...

 

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