BMC’s are now made in Turkey. I’m sure there’s some connection with the British Motor Corporation (BMC), as
earlier Turkish models featured the old ‘Bathgate’ cab. They were probably built under licence, as indeed lots
of other European manufacturers had similar agreements with Turkey. I’ll have a look to find some pictures.
Can confirm that the Turkish company was set-up in 1964 in Izmir, and is now entirely Turkish owned.
Couple of examples for you here.
gb1:
Can confirm that the Turkish company was set-up in 1964 in Izmir, and is now entirely Turkish owned.Couple of examples for you here.
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If you read wikipidia BMC Turkey it was a joint venture with BMC UK prior Leyland t produce Austin and Morris cars in Turkey. When Leyland took over BMC they went on their own and developed since that time, starting to produce commercials in their own right and are starting to import into UK.
Carl
Oh, go on then. Here’s another, this time from HANOMAG.
Carl Williams:
gb1:
Can confirm that the Turkish company was set-up in 1964 in Izmir, and is now entirely Turkish owned.Couple of examples for you here.
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If you read wikipidia BMC Turkey it was a joint venture with BMC UK prior Leyland t produce Austin and Morris cars in Turkey. When Leyland took over BMC they went on their own and developed since that time, starting to produce commercials in their own right and are starting to import into UK.Carl
Thank you Carl, I was a bit confused when the company address was in England, and it was an old British firm. Internet is fantastic, you learn a lot all the time 
/Stellan
The artwork in the old brochures were more “alive”, and left a lot for your imagination… today everything tries to be 100% perfect, and there´s no feeling behind the photos. If you, or anyone else, have more of the old artwork it would be very nice to see more of it. My own archive contains mostly stuff from the seventies and eighties, but sooner or later that will be history too.
Here´s another German brochure, but it´s from the early seventies. There´s a big difference in only a decade, and it´s not always to the better
/Stellan
A more up to date MAN (or as modern as I get!).
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dm7301:
Have you got a UK Daf brochure from '82 with a 2800 on the cover registered RDP305Y?Thanks,
DarrenSorry Darren, can’t find anything.
What livery was the truck in?
Hi gb,
It was owned by Dents of Spennymoor (Blue and White Cab, red chassis/wheels) and was a 3300. However on the brochure, that registration number was on a Daf 2800. Not sure if it was in Dents colours on the brochure and the badges had been swapped over or if the registration had been swapped onto a 2800 in standard factory colours. A photo of it is on the Dents of Spennymoor thread. Hope this makes sense and will try to find out what colours it was in on the brochure.
Thanks,
Darren.
I wonder if anyone can tell me more about this company, their swap body systems and if they manufactured anything more. All my brochures from Penman are about swap bodies, did they build permanent superstructures as well… and how long did the mechanical systems survived? It would be fun to learn more about this
/Stellan
Interesting, that one Stellan. There was a company in Peterborough called PENGCO who also made demountable bodies. I wonder, because of the “PEN” part of the name, if there was any connection.
I have a brochure for them, but unfortunately my scanner has stopped working and I haven’t got time to replace it at the moment (i’m off to work
shortly, and will be away for some time). Hopefully i’ll remember when I get home and get it on here.
In the meantime, here’s something that i’d already scanned…
This is from FWD
This one should be familiar to ‘bma.finland’, it being from Finnish manufacturer VANAJA.
I believe they had some connection with SISU, and may even have become part fo the SISU empire.
I’m hoping that bma can give us some information about the company.
Incidently, note the use of AEC engines.
VANAJA history begin,s in 1948 when finish govermet put up a factory in hämeenlinna to build lorries to rebild the country after war,first it was named yhteissisu and build from mainly sisu parts. in early 50 name changed to VANAJA and when sisu was uesin leyland ,vanaja used mainly AEC engines and fuller box,s.they had own production until 1968 when it was fusioned to sisu. the factory then concentraded on axleproduction for sisu and lives on like that
here is the latest VANAJA 690 whit AVT 690 and aSISU 142 whit a leyland 680 from 68 when fusuned,last VANAJA was delivered 70
there was also a cabover whit 
aec 760 and ergo cab ,but it was very rear
Well done ‘bma’. thanks for the information. Would you, by any chance, have any pictures of the cab-over truck?
gb1:
Well done ‘bma’. thanks for the information. Would you, by any chance, have any pictures of the cab-over truck?
unfortunatly not ,but it looks exactly like a mammont AEC and the cabinterior whit steeringwheel and all is from AEC,moust of them where mobilcranechassies whit LOKOMO25 /35 ton crane ,some few where 2axle artics finnish post (mail) used them. benkku