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Preston

  • Bond Cars

    Discontinued 1949 – 1974 Mainstream & Utility Sports & Specialist

    Bond built quirky three-wheeled Minicars in Preston, Lancashire, from 1949, followed by small sports cars, before Reliant took the company over in 1969. Its best-known model, the wedge-shaped…

  • Seddon Atkinson

    Discontinued 1938 – 2004 Mainstream & Utility

    Seddon Atkinson was formed in 1970 when Seddon Diesel Vehicles of Oldham bought Atkinson of Preston, a steam-wagon maker turned lorry builder. It made large lorries for refuse…

Museums near Preston

  • British Commercial Vehicle Museum about 7 km away
    Founded in 1983 on part of the former Leyland Motors factory site in Leyland, Lancashire. It displays historic buses, early fire engines and other commercial vehicles…
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