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Discontinued 1931 – 1990 Mainstream & Utility

Bedford Vehicles was set up by Vauxhall in 1931 to build lorries, vans and buses, and grew into one of Britain's leading commercial vehicle brands. The wartime MW…

Discontinued 1905 – 1979 Mainstream & Utility

Commer, founded in Luton in 1905 as Commercial Cars Ltd, was one of Britain's first specialist commercial-vehicle makers. Bought by Humber in 1926 and so by the Rootes…

Discontinued 1908 – 1970 Mainstream & Utility

Karrier was a Huddersfield maker of municipal vehicles, light lorries and trolleybuses from 1908. It gave Britain the Cob "mechanical horse" and the Ro-Railer, and after being bought…