Leyland Steam Waggon of Ley from Preston
Leyland LD55, also known as the Bush Tractor, it was a misnomer in that it was a 100% AEC design based on the rugged Dumptruk, with AEC AV760 engine, D205 gearbox and heavy duty double drive rear axles. Designed for third world countries and regions with poor infrastructure where it was well regarded as being virtually unbreakable and reliable.
London Transport AEC Mercury with early mounted crane.
Lifeboat with Gardner engines. From the early 1950s all new RNLI lifeboats were Gardner powered and the specification originally required the engines to be completely waterproof. Gardner’s suggested to the RNLI that it would be easier and cheaper to make the engine room waterproof, and the RNLI eventually concurred.
LUT Transport Dennis Lance. Lancashire United Transport was a large PSV operator in South Lancashire and it was a stalwart user of Gardner engines.
Brady’s were a very smart fleet in their day with that striking livery and it was the high point of Leyland Motors the early/mid 60’s then it was all downhill from there, for Leyland 
Cheers Bewick.
Leyland Journal September 1954
Late addition to K Kamaz
More Leyland’s
The William Hunter Octopus has some history behind it ! It would have been the last new motor to join the original J. B. Hudson of Sandside nr. Milnthorpe in 1960 and their “A” licenced fleet of 5 motors, prior to the matriarch Maggie Bowman ( Daughter of Old J.B. Hudson) passing away and the haulage side of the business ( to pay the then substantial death duties) was sold to Athersmith Brothers of Barrow ( apparently Maggies executors would sell to anyone but Bradys of Barrow 
) but Athersmiths weren’t allowed to transfer the motors into Barrow even though one of Hudsons main customers was Barrow Steel Works. So Athersmiths “soldiered on” for 6 years with the 5 motors still having to be based at Sandside before selling J. B. Hudson Ltd to Davy & Co (Grange) Ltd. That was in 1966 and 10 years later I ( Bewick Transport Services Ltd) bought out the Davy transport interests almost to the day 10 years later in June '76. I’m not just sure who the origonal Hudson driver was on that Octopus but it could have been either “Tot” Baldwin or Ted “Sweetie” Lowe both characters who transferred from the haulage side and remained with the Hudson Engineers Ltd who were the heavy vehicle repair and recovery side of the original business. Cheers Bewick.
This classic photo may of been posted by Retriever on another thread so the credit must go to him. 
I think that the café in the background was on the A58 at Heap Bridge, Bury. Can anybody confirm this.
Lamberts driver off to his digs.
Horizontal half hour across the seats.
Leyland Hotel.
Ashok Leyland, Mumbai.
