A PAIR OF PROPER LEYLANDS

The world was a different place when the Leyland marque quietly faded out of business, morphing into DAFs and slowly, but eventually, being dropped. A great name was gone, Well, that’s not strictly true because Leyland Trucks still exists…. It just builds DAFs. But at least it does build them in, er, Leyland.

But working examples of Leyland lorries - and I mean ‘proper’ Leylands with little or no Dutch DNA in them, are few and far between. And I’m not really including horseboxes or showmen’s trucks. Nope, it’s a sad fact of the progression of life, but proper working Leylands are very, very thin on the ground.

But one man