Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Bedford TK is a truck that was produced by the Vauxhall Motors-owned Bedford Vehicles company. The TK range replaced the S type in 1959, and served as the basis for a variety of derivatives, including fire engines, military, horse boxes, tippers, flatbed trucks, and other specialist utilities. A General Post Office (later British Telecom) version used for installing telegraph poles was known as the "Polecat". Bedford MKs - a variant of the TK, are still used by the British Armed Forces. Available with a inline four or inline six cylinder petrol and diesel engines - the TK was the quintessential light truck in the UK through most of the 1960s and 1970s, competing with the similar Ford D series. It was available in rigid form, and also as a light tractor unit normally using the Scammell coupling form of semi-trailer attachment.