Way back when I started this blog I mentioned seeing a Leyland in Rotorua, some 50 years ago, which had the front windscreens going down low in the front corners. I never had a camera at the time and actually began to think that maybe it wasn't a Leyland at all. But then I saw Bill Hohepa's 2014 calendar and realised I had seen a Homalloy cabbed Leyland.
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This is the Leyland on Bill's calendar and is identical to the one I remember.
Homalloy, based in Preston, Lancashire, specialized in the manufacture of alloy truck bodies, but also built alloy and fibre glass cabs for many truck makers. |
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| Here is one on an AEC, still with those characteristic down-turned windscreen corners. |
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| An Albion, looking very similar to the AEC.... |
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| ...and an Austin, looking quite different with its one piece screen, though still with those corners |
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Here is a Bedford anbulance with the slightly less droopy corners as seen on other Homalloy cabs
https://www.flickr.com/photos/91641425@N03/16012059196
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