interior
rear view
Here’s a pic of my Marathon. Plus a very good Boxer, which I sold.
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What a truck.Spent many a happy school holiday with my Dad in his,used to love it.I’ve posted a few photo’s of his on here.
Love to have a go at building that model and put it in P.J.Butlers colours.
I personally think the Marathon1 was better than the Marathon2 even though the 2 had a 250 ■■■■■■■ in it.
Anybody got some more piccies of the Leyland Marathon or the Roadtrain please,i’d love to see some more
I Will see what i can dig up Jase i worked for Westrope bros (essex )they ran marathons and then the howling Roadtrains for many years …
I think the Roadtrain was a bit before its time,as most drivers clammer for a flat floor nowadays and the Roadtrain near enough had one.
Just a shame the engineering was a bit poor.
I remember Westrope’s running around with them.
Not sure if anyone is interested or if this has been posted before but there is a guy on Ebay selling dvd’s and he has one called “southall twighlight” which has a film on it of a Leyland Marathon on a trip to Italy. Truck is driven by ■■■■ Rivers and is obviously an old Leyland promotional film. Well worth a look though.
If anyone wants it i’ll dig out his username.
would that be v8jimmy he,s got some great stuff for sale
THE SPEC MUST HAVE BEEN PUT INTO PRODUCTION. I BOUGHT A MARATHON OFF BELFAST DEALERSHIP IN LATE 70’S
( WILL TRY AND PUT PIC ON LATER) IT WAS USED TO DRAW BEEF
MOSTLY TO YUGOSLAVIA AND BULGARIA FROM IRELAND.
WHILE I WAS IN BELFAST THERE WERE 6 MIDDLE EAST SPEC
MARATHON - 6 WHEELER DOUBLE DRIVE TRACTOR UNITS
BUT I WAS TOLD THAT PUBLIC WORKS (ROAD CONTRACTORS )
HAD BOUGHT 10 OF THEM, 4 THEY HAD GOT BUT THEY EITHER
WENT INTO ADMINISTRATION OR THEIR CONTRACT IN
MIDDLE EAST WAS TERMINATED. EITHER WAY I WAS
OFFERED THEM AT THE SAME MONEY AS THE 4-WHEELER BUT I THOUGHT THEM A BIT HEAVY FOR ME.
You gotta check this out
toprun.ch/truck/12-2006/Astr … iewer.html
even though it looked good that marathon was prone to breakdowns and ended up back at Leyland as a demonstrater i think
This one had a 265 Royles Royce engine.
The chassis broke in two about 1.5 years after I bought it, going onto the boat in Fleetwood, the cab went back against the fridge-motor.
I had received a recall letter from Leyland about 2 weeks beforehand, saying that there was a problem with the chassis cracking in some models.
A couple more…
Love that first pic, driving in"proper snow" and not a front foglight,sorry . . . driving light to be seen !! 
Carl:
would that be v8jimmy he,s got some great stuff for sale
jimmy is a good fellow i worked with him selling the doha dvd’s.
I,ve posted these before on another thread, but for anyone who,s
not seen them, it,s an ex BRS Overland Marathon that i drove in the
late 70,s early 80,s
Here are some rare pics of a special Middle East spec Leyland Marathon that Astran ran for a short time.
and a few pics of the interior…
Hope you enjoy these pics.
nice thanks for posting kw,
Excellent pic’s KW 
Note the first interior pic.
Heinz Baked Beans. 
The main ingredient for any self-respecting long distance driver. 
Keep you warm when the night-heater packs up too 