Bedford closure gives Leyland boost
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• Leyland dealers must start looking to capitalise on Bedford's demise says Sam Newton, chairman of the Leyland Truck Distributor Association.
"We have to be looking to pick up Bedford's 10% share of the market," says Newton. -Bedford buyers obviously have a preference for a UK product and it has to be said that our range is far more advanced than their current models." Newton warned, however, that the Bedford announcement was -a tragedy for the industry and yet another example of how Britain has let its own manufacturers down to the advancement of foreign
competition . It would be easy for us to gloat at Bedford's demise, but that is definitely not our reaction. We would have preferred to see Bedford and Leyland working together for a stronger UK truck manufacturing industry."