Q What was the market value in 1949 of a 1937
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Leyland 5-ton tipper? came across one such advertisement recently when looking through an old copy of
COMMERCIAL MOTOR.
AThe term "market value" implies an average figure and it is unlikely that there was a sufficient number of this particular type
of vehicle for sale 12 years after manufacture to provide a genuine averagefigure, particularly as this period included the second World War.
Isolated examples of a particular sale value could have been dependent on entirely fortuitous circumstances. And because of inflation throughout this period and the change in the value of the pound compared with present-day values, there would be little relevance in the respective values for 1937 and 1949 even if these were obtainable.