Leyland
 

Hi, a couple of days ago we followed a lorry with the blue and white L logo and the name Ashok Leyland. Actually seen a number of them now. So Leyland continuous, not British but Ashok. Was nice to see the L sign.

Loads of mahindra vehicles around. Seems as if India has a good domestic vehicle manufacturing base. We had a wonderful 30 day backing trip in India, highlight for me was seeing the ww2 sights at Kohima and reading the fantastic story of its defence.

Opt are the bus manufacturer has links to Ashok Leyland

I remember, back in the day, when I used the M6 near Preston, I regularly saw chassis units on the motorway.

They were out of Leyland and, I assume, under test,
The guys were perched up in the open air, wearing crash helmets and didn't hang about!

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The trouble Wrightbus is based in Ballymena near where I work and you regularly see chassis with strange tent structures on the cab areas to protect the drivers delivering them - not much in the way of crash protection though.
The famous Leyland "plug hole" badge (or '@rse - hole' as my dad amusingly always calls it) is a rare sight on the roads now.