1958 Leyland Octopus LAD cab

1958 Leyland Octopus in Forth - Powerhouse for Industry, Documentary, 1968

Class: Trucks, Simple truck — Model origin:

Background vehicle

Author	Message
dsl ◊ 2017-07-12 18:00	LAD?? Long-door so Leyland???
kudos ◊ 2017-07-12 18:10	If so, it'd be an Octopus. Did Albions have shorter doors?
dsl ◊ 2017-07-12 18:50	Oops - not quite right. According to a recent 2-part feature on LAD models in a toy car magazine, all Albion were long door (= round arches, door came down to bottom of bodywork), all Dodge were short door (= squared arches as part of horizontal body feature, door opened only onto this which became a step, also using the wheel hub). The article suggests Leylands could be long or short door (but is confusing because some of the illustrated models are mis-modelled). So all I can say here is it's not a Dodge.
kudos ◊ 2017-07-12 19:11	Thank you. Dodge didn't build an LAD-cabbed eight-wheeler, and I can't find find any photographs of such an Albion either, so I'd go ahead and call it a Leyland Octopus.
jcb ◊ 2017-07-18 09:19	Albion made a handful of their 'Caledonian' eight wheelers with the LAD cab but safe to say this is a Leyland. Had me confused this film because I had stilled it out in the distant past but did not think it would satisy IMCDB as a film so put pics on Flickr