Dug out some brochures, both marathon 2 brochures have the same page inside mentioning day and short sleeper options, mentions a fold down 2nd bunk option on the short sleeper. But no mention of the long sleeper.
However, looked in a mid marathon 1 brochure and that is worded the same when the large cab was available.
Guess it was a rarely bought option.
The rest of the range brochures have the mirror move to the doors are on T reg vehicles bison/buffalo so that must be the changeover, as you said Anorak, both marathon 2 brochure trucks are screen mounted mirrors.
Re the side window, aside from the one Dean posted above, and a couple of others, (p reg astran and L reg 6×4) most seem to have the flat panel with no side window, back of one brochure above shows both styles.
All these photos make me want a marathon even more!!
Dug out some brochures, both marathon 2 brochures have the same page inside mentioning day and short sleeper options, mentions a fold down 2nd bunk option on the short sleeper. But no mention of the long sleeper.
However, looked in a mid marathon 1 brochure and that is worded the same when the large cab was available.
Guess it was a rarely bought option.
The rest of the range brochures have the mirror move to the doors are on T reg vehicles bison/buffalo so that must be the changeover, as you said Anorak, both marathon 2 brochure trucks are screen mounted mirrors.
Re the side window, aside from the one Dean posted above, and a couple of others, (p reg astran and L reg 6×4) most seem to have the flat panel with no side window, back of one brochure above shows both styles.
All these photos make me want a marathon even more!!
Steve
The red one shows that the flat side panel is ex-factory. I guess the fluted bit above the window was done after the aperture was cropped. No window=no need to add extra work to the panel.
If that A reg example is currently “resting”, you could make them an offer. Chop the added-on tag axle off, and a replica of that red Marathon is a gallon of paint away…
They are the short sleeper Ro. The short sleeper had the rounded window but the longer sleeper had the
square window or panel. I had something somewhere and i think the long sleeper was only about another 5 inches
long from memory.
The first one you can see the rounded window and the cab stops at the end of the wheel arch,where as the second pic
shows the square window and the end of the cab goes about 5" past the wheel arch.
They are the short sleeper Ro. The short sleeper had the rounded window but the longer sleeper had the
square window or panel. I had something somewhere and i think the long sleeper was only about another 5 inches
long from memory.
The first one you can see the rounded window and the cab stops at the end of the wheel arch,where as the second pic
shows the square window and the end of the cab goes about 5" past the wheel arch.
Is it just me or are they one of the ugliest British lorries ever made?
For me they are one of the smartest, i grew up around Leylands and as it was the biggest on the fleet it was the best in my young eyes, never realised it was a lash job didn’t know about the politics or how rubbish bl was etc etc just loved trips out sat up high. (the standard ergo felt like a greenhouse with the large front side windows and being sat so low)
For operators similar to myself who had tried to remain loyal to the British marques such as Atkinson and ERF and to a lesser extent Seddon 32/4’s and Guy Big J’s during the early to mid 70’s that commitment was severely tested with the disastrous launch of the Sed Akt although the ERF B Series did acquit itself somewhat better , however how any sensible Operator could have possibly justified acquiring an abortion like the Marathon well words failed me they really did or indeed considering running the other Leyland Group crap i.e. Lynx, Buffalo, Crusader and Roadtrain et al ! I did stay loyal in a small way by running ERF Gardner 8 LXB’s on our trunk operations and also 3 ERF Sleeper cab 8LXC’s on the long distance fleet and I can say that the final two British units I bought in '84 were a pair of Sed Atk 8LXC Sleeper cabs and they did us a great job on the LD fleet but IIRC I did wonder at the time if “The Heart had overruled the Head” regardless of the fact that they were a lump cheaper than a Scania at the time But getting back on the theme I thought that the Marathon was one repulsive unit and never once did one darken our door as a Demo or otherwise ! Others may have an entirely opposite opinion to mine of course but that was my honest and strongly held opinion on the Marathon. Cheers Bewick.
vwvanman0:
Is it just me or are they one of the ugliest British lorries ever made?
For me they are one of the smartest, i grew up around Leylands and as it was the biggest on the fleet it was the best in my young eyes, never realised it was a lash job didn’t know about the politics or how rubbish bl was etc etc just loved trips out sat up high. (the standard ergo felt like a greenhouse with the large front side windows and being sat so low)
Steve
Beauties in the eye of the beholder but for me they look like something someone has created out of a couple of old lorries they had lying about, like some of the abortions of home made sleeper cabs glued to the back of certain vehicles we’ve all seen over the years. It just doesn’t look one thing or the other to me.
Poor Joyce. She’s better-looking than that Albion. So is the bus. All, IMO, are trumped by that mobile crane, the name of which I can’t remember. It has a fibreglass cab, which looks a bit like an LAD, but with various weird shapes sticking out of it. I think that might have been Scottish, too.
The short sleeper had the rounded window but the longer sleeper had the
I’ll get windrush to add it to the list with Foden 
