AWD Trucks

In 1986, General Motors decided to sell their Bedford heavy-duty truck division to David J.B. Brown, who was the founder of Artix Limited, while they re-formed the Bedford light truck division into IBC Vehicles. Brown restarted production of the heavy-duty trucks (Bedford TJ, Bedford TK, Bedford MK, and Bedford TL) under the AWD Trucks name in 1987, since the Bedford name was owned by General Motors, but was only used in light vans such as the Bedford Midi and Bedford Rascal, both of which were designs of Suzuki and Isuzu, although they gave permission to use the name for military vehicles. The now-called AWD Trucks company's products were mostly made for the export market, on which they were very popular, but in Britain, they were only bought by the construction industry and the military.[1]

At that time Brown opened a new firm called Multidrive Vehicles that was intended to build 8x6 versions of the AWD TK and AWD TL, mostly for the military and special services, but with mostly no success. In 1992 the AWD brand was merged with Marshall Aerospace and Defence Group and the only civilian truck that was kept in production was the very outdated Bedford TJ (which was now called AWD TJ), because it was a very good export seller, especially in India and Pakistan, although production of military vehicles continued.

Production of the TJ and military trucks continued until 1998, when the AWD Trucks brand, was re-organized into Marshall Special Vehicles, a company that now specializes in the production of special vehicles made for the British military. The Multidrive Vehicles company was sold to Caterpillar, and is still active, producing the Multidrive M8-Series trucks, and remaining the only remnant of Bedford Vehicles, alongside the IBC Vehicles company.

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  An AWD TJ in Bangladesh.
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  An AWD TL in Malta.
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  An AWD TK in Bangladesh.
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  An AWD KM wrecker in Bangladesh.
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  A Bedford/AWD MT truck in Bangladesh.

• MTL33
• AWD-Bedford » Tank Transporter
• AN AWD (BEDFORD TL) 17.18
• AWD » Bedford J
• Browned Off
• ENTERING THE FRAY
• Multidrive Vehicles