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Bertie
Bertie is a character in The Green Machines, a children's picture book series by David Woods. He is based on the Bedford OY 3-tonner.
Cheerful, dependable, always full.
“Room for more!”
Character card
- Best at
- Carries anything
- Quirk
- Never says no
- Usually causes
- Overloaded
- Read-aloud voice
- Home-counties, friendly
In the books
Brings the bread in Harry's book, and carries forty chairs and one very wobbly jelly to the Harbour Fair in Dinky's book.
Appears in
Which real vehicle is Bertie based on?
- Real vehicle
- Bedford OY 3-tonner
- Era
- 1940s
- Country
- UK
- Did you know?
- The everyday three-ton lorry; over 70,000 built, and the tea-and-supplies wagon of every show field.
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