Definitely a Bedford truck, I used to drive them occasionally when I worked at Tate Trucks. They were also well known as the Green Goddesses in the Fire Brigade.
The houses on the right were known as the Diadems in the old days, they were just below the Suttons. The Highways flats had not been built yet, the Highways flats got their name from the Highways Dept yard at the bottom of Killingbeck Bridge, of which Wyke Beck flows underneath and there was also a tunnel under the railway embankment at the side of the Highways Dept. At the other side of the railway embankment was Primrose Valley and the old coal heaps from the mine; we used to call it the Black Hills and would use them for all sorts of fun and games, particularly with bikes.
On the left of the picture on the other side of the wall was a very large pond where we would fish for tiddlers, sticklebacks, frogs, newts and frog spawn during the summer months. There was a also a path which led up to Killingbeck Hall and the Smallpox Hospital.
The trams lasted until I was 10 years old and I can remember standing at the bottom of Selby Road along with what seemed to be hundreds of people waving a fond farewell. I used to catch the tram up York Road to go to the Regal or Ritz cinemas at Crossgates.
As for the helicopter fuselage, I’m not too sure. It does not seem to be quite the right shape for the 1954 models I have looked at in the internet. The front seems to be much flatter on the transporter.
