ARTHC Leyland Truck
We here at the ARTHC are proud owners of this Leyland.
Specifications
- Maker: Leyland Motors.
- Model: 1917.
- Year Made: 1917.
- Country: UK.
- Motor: .
- HP: 60 Hp.
- Fuel: Petrol.
- Load Weight: 3 ton.
- Drive: 4 X 2.
- Transmission: .
- Differential: Top Mounted Worm Drive.
- Top Speed: 40km/h.
- Extras: Solid Rubber Lined Wheels.
- Built For: RAF.
- Total Owners: 3 (approximate)
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Historic Info
First Owners Aus, From its early Life, this truck was owned by RR&O Hockey
(Info from wikipedia)
Leyland Motors has a long history dating from 1896, when the Sumner and Spurrier families founded the Lancashire Steam Motor Company in the town of Leyland in North West England.
Their first products included steam powered lawn mowers.
- The company's first vehicle was a 1.5-ton-capacity steam powered van.
This was followed by a number of undertype steam wagons using a vertical fire-tube boiler.
- By 1905 they had also begun to build petrol-engined wagons.
The Lancashire Steam Motor Company was renamed Leyland Motors in 1907 when it took over Coulthards of Preston, who had been making steam wagons since 1897.
- They also built a second factory in the neighbouring town of Chorley which still remains today as the headquarters of the Lex Autolease and parts company.
In 1920, Leyland Motors produced the Leyland Eight luxury touring car, a development of which was driven by J.G. Parry-Thomas at Brooklands.
Parry-Thomas was later killed in an attempt on the land speed record when the car overturned.
Rumours that a chain drive broke were found to be incorrect when the car was disinterred late in the 20th century as the chains were intact.
At the other extreme, they also produced the Trojan Utility Car in the Kingston upon Thames factory at Ham from 1922 to 1928.
Three generations of Spurriers controlled Leyland Motors from its foundation until the retirement of Henry Spurrier in 1964.
Spurrier inherited control of Leyland Motors from his father in 1942, and successfully guided its growth during the postwar years.
Whilst the Spurrier family were in control the company enjoyed excellent labour relations—reputedly never losing a day's production through industrial action.
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