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I think Fords have always been secretly tickled that the Transit has proved so publicly popular with the modern criminal — after all, can there be a more demanding seeker after performance and capacity than the hijacker or smash-and-grabber? I am happy to be able to report that, even before its announcement this week, the new Leyland light van has earned a similar accolade, though from the law rather than the lawbreaker.
News Editor Tim Hoare was driving our road test Leyland 240 innocently but rather late at night when he was flagged down by a burly PC. Ha, said the PC, is this your van? Well no, explained leather-coated Tim, it's on loan from Leyland. Obviously PC regarded this as a pullthe-other-one reply; his only comment was: "Why?" Tim: "Oh, it's on test by that well-known journal Commercial Motor." The law obviously believed not a word of this, and asked the inevitable what-have you-got-in-the-back question. "Would you believe one ton of 56Ib weights?"
At this point the PC obviously decided that the story was so unlikely that it just had to be true. Waving the Leyland on, he patted the side and as a parting shot round the edge of the driver's door said: "Just the sort of van criminals like to use, you see."