Past Present and in Between in Pictures (Part 2)

[dennisjavelin]

Found it, it’s here if anyone’s interested apart from me.

Leyland Marathon...The "Nearly" Truck of The 1970s?

ramone: gingerfold: With Robert confirming the date of the Ford Transcontinental as April 1975, (Bewick thread) some 18 months after the Marathon, the latest information that AEC / Leyland were considering the Berliet cab for the Marathon is even more interesting. Hazarding a guess then I would suggest that cost would have been the deciding factor that made BL make do with a re-worked Ergomatic cab. The writer of the Marathon article in the AEC Gazette states that no matter what they tried t…