Lunch with Professor Mark L Anderson

Date Added: 12 March 2013 Contributor: Norman Davidson Year of Photo: 1959 Picture No: 1679

The photograph is courtesy of the family of George Dey. George took many forestry photographs in his forestry career and many are now shown on this web site. Check under ‘Groups’ and George Dey Collection.

George records that there was a Society of Foresters visit to North Scotland in September 1959 and they visited several State and Private Forests one of them being Cawdor. Here Professor Mark Anderson of Edinburgh University (Appears not be M L Anderson:- see comments below) is having a very nice lunch with John Davies (with pipe) who was either Assistant Conservator or Conservator West Scotland at this time. The third gentleman has so far not been identified. Thanks to Jim Atterson, Inverness, for indentifying the two gentlemen.

Can anyone name the two people and also the type of FC vehicle in the back ground?

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Groups: George Dey Forestry Collection, Groups of people

5 Comments

I think the van in the background could be a Commer. Comment left on 20 August 2016 at 09:15 by Leslie Phillip

The rewards of having a good education. Comment left on 22 October 2018 at 10:27 by Leslie Phillip

The van is a Austin 152 Omnibus, based upon the BMC JU2 model, forward control van, produced from 1956 - 1967.

I think Leslie that you believe it to be the Commer/Dodge 'Spacevan', produced from 1960 - 1983 and so beloved of Post Office Telecomms, with the 'Busby' sticker on the side and as a British Rail (BR) crewbus as well. For my sins, I owned an ex-British Gas service 'Spacevan', whilst contracting with a Smiths Timbermaster skyline in Ae Forest in the late 1970's. The chassis outriggers gave way, the front brakes, wheel bearings and steering lever arm bushes wore out every 6 months and servicing it was a nightmare. The Ford Transit that replaced it was superior in every way. Comment left on 22 October 2018 at 22:58 by Bill Rayner

Thank you for such a wonderful website.

I Would like to let you know that non of the men in this photo is my grandfather Prof. Mark Louden Anderson.
See:
Professor Mark L Anderson - Edinburgh University
Date Added: 12 March 2013
Contributor: Norman Davidson
Year of Photo: 1959
Picture No: 1678

Kind regards, Susan Byrne
Comment left on 18 February 2020 at 02:17 by Susan Byrne (nee: Anderson)

Dear Susan, thank you for your compliments and for taking the time and trouble to notify us of the error in our description of the image. Please accept our apologies to you. I hope the amended description text rectifies the problem?
My regards, Bill Rayner Comment left on 18 February 2020 at 09:57 by Bill Rayner

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