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Yewman wrote:At the time when this machine was produced, probably 1978/79, Aveling Barford had started a substantial Export drive, with a whole new Export Sales and Marketing department.
Overseas 3rd world territories preferred simple machines they could fix on the side of the road, so this machine may have been aimed at Export. Sadly Leyland closed the Belton factory around 1980, so we'll never know if it would have been a success.
The smallsite dumpers went to Stothert and Pitt, and they didn't produce a front wheel steer machine.
As far as Wikipedia goes, Essexpete, it was written by someone who never worked at Aveling Barford and quite a lot of it is wrong. They just guessed to fill in gaps in knowledge. A-B was never part of the thompson group. I was there through all the changes
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