Bedford RL

The Bedford RL was the British Army's main medium lorry (truck) from the mid 1950s until the late 1960s. Originally conservatively rated at 3 tons all RL GS trucks in British Army service were at a late stage in their service lives re-rated at 4 tons without any mechanical modifications. The weight referring to its rated cross country payload weight. Many specialist variants were also built including recovery vehicles, mobile workshops, radio vans and cable layers. R type continued to serve alongside the later TK based Bedord ML until well into the 1990s.

Several well kept examples are still in private hands.

Skirmish at Bulls Wood operated 2 examples until the late 1990s to ferry players to and from the site car park. One of these was used to demonstrate that an RL could 'jump' from a ramp at high speed. Amongst others Mike 'Force 10' Phillips was a key jumper of the Skirmish RLs.