Leyland Pipe Truck - 10d
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Leyland Pipe Truck - 10d |
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| The model has 'Ergomatic Cab'
on the base - "the Ergomatic Cab was used by AEC, Albion and Leyland
between 1964 and 1979. The cab was known as the "tilt-cab" by AEC
(rather than "Ergomatic") and it was in fact "fixed" on some lightweight
Albions. Rather obscurely the cab also found its' way onto Vanaja trucks
in Finland and onto a couple of Atkinson built fire appliances in
Australia." The Leyland Pipe Truck (10d) was introduced in 1966 as a regular wheels model with black plastic wheels, in 1970 it was converted to Superfast wheels and continued in production until 1973. It should have a load of grey plastic sewer pipes on the back, 6 or 7 of them which push together to make a single long pipe. I owned one of these as a kid and really liked this feature. They are always red, the only variation being that the baseplate/grille moulding sometimes varies from the usual plated plastic to unplated white and these are the ones to look out for. It is curious that the contemporary AEC Horse Box was clearly the same casting for the cab and baseplate but with AEC rather than Leyland badging reflecting the full size lorries on the road at the time where Leylands and AECs were basically the same, just badged differently. |
| Regular wheels - Red with plated grille | Superfast wheels, orange with plated grille, grey pipes | ||||||
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