Army rivals fighting on
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• Despite Leyland Dal's success in winning the £155 million Ministry of Defence contract for 5,350 four-tonners (CM 29 June-5 July) rivals AWD and Volvo have sworn not to give up the fight for future military contracts. AWD managing director Ron Hancock says the company is already tendering for overseas contracts and will be in the running for the next MoD contracts for bigger military trucks. "We shall be going flatout to ensure the next truck contract from the MoD comes to Dunstable," he has told CM.
Following its first tender for a military contract in Britain, Volvo says: "We have learnt a great deal from the experience and look forward to putting it to good use in tendering for subsequent contracts." The Government's decision to buy Leyland Daf brings an end to the dominance of Bedford (now AWD) which had supplied the armed forces with trucks for 50 years. The fourtonners will meet the British Army's requirements until 1995, providing 190 extra jobs in Lancashire and 64 in Strathclyde.