The new trucks are being acquired from the Rheinmetall MAN joint venture as part of a £282m rapid procurement process.

The truck survives in private hands ... their rival and later British Leyland stablemate Austin developed their own gas turbine car. If international readers find Jet1’s styling a bit quaint ...

BLMC was created out of the merger between the Leyland Motor Corporation and British Motor Holdings ... along with an extensive assortment of truck, bus and engineering businesses.