And here, with the Whitnall note turned back, we can see the 1950 Dennis 1100 cubic feet van much more clearly, and I will paste from the adjoining page my notes about it and related matters, below:
The vans shown date from 1950 and 1951 includinng a Dennis 1100 cubic feet capacity ‘Duramin’ body, of 3 tons unladen weight; and a trailer of identical capacity, and a diesel-engined van of 1450 cubic feet capacity.
‘Early ‘50s technology’, you might say. But probably in effect an enormous step or leap forward in terms of road-transport of furniture, not least by the adoption of lightweight body materials such as aluminium, coupled with the design feature of the ‘cab-over-engine’ concept whereby the length of the vehicle available for load-carrying is increased by postioning the driver and his assistant alongside instead of behind the engine. And the diesel engine was better adaped for the heavy-duty tasks of long-distance road-haulage, than the petrol engines of former years.