Leyland loses out on 95 Series
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• Leyland Daf has revised its plans for building right-handdrive Dutch-origin vehicles at the Leyland Assembly Plant (LAP) at Leyland.
When the Leyland-Daf merger was first announced the company stated that it intended eventually to build all righthand-drive vehicles at the LAP. This was taken to include the new Leyland Daf heavyweight vehicles which have now been unveiled as the 95 series.
Leyland Daf president Aart Van der Padt, however, confirmed last week that the 95 Series will not now be built at Leyland in the foreseeable future because the assembly faci lities required for the new model would make it uneconomic to build it here.
Instead, he says, the plan to build right-hand-drive versions of the Dutch-designed Leyland Dafs will start with the middleweight vehicles. Assembly of these will not start before the end of 1988 — presumably after a model change.
There is to be a narrow version of the new Cabtec cab, which is scheduled to be fitted to lighter vehicles in the Daf lineup than the new 95 Series. It is believed that these medium-weight vehicles, which would replace perhaps as far down as the present 1900, will be called the 70 Series.