My thanks go to Kerry Croxton for these pictures of his and his father's Reliant Ant. (TW9). Kerry writes: Ref: Top Picture: 1971 Reliant TW9/BTB Ant steel bodied tipper. This was actually the first Reliant I ever owned. Bought in 1989 from a scrap yard in Walsall for £100. I had been approached by the owner whilst out collecting timber in my dad's Ant! (Bottom picture 1979 16 cwt Ant Dropside Truck) The
engine ran, but the steering box had had it and the vehicle was totally devoid of anything electric, with the except of the hydraulics for the tipper. The vehicle was alleged to have been manufactured
by Reliant in 1971 and started life as a milk float. It was converted to a tipper by BTB Engineering, Blackburn, Lancashire in 1980 before being used on site at the NEC in Birmingham. The Ant would appear to have covered over 118,000 miles.. | 
