1,000 "guests" for 75th birthday party
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THE NOSTALGIA business is becoming highly competitive as local parades and exhibitions of commercial vehicles and cars, old and new, develop into pageants and spectaculars. Marshall of Cambridge is going abundance with a 75th birthday party at Peterborough over the weekend of September 29-30 at which more than 1,000 goods vehicles, buses and cars will be seen.
Every vehicle will have been built by a company associated at some time with British Leyland, plus Rolls-Royce and Aston Martin, whose products Marshall has sold for many years. Commercial road transport over three-quarters of a century will be represented by Leyland, Scammell, Guy, Morris, Thornycroft, Albion and perhaps Maudslay.
Keen motorists will, I am sure, sigh over a sadly lost cause — the delectable Triumph TRX, of which only three were ever built. Produced in 1950, its proposed price of £1,246 included a clutter of electrical gadgets that, nearly 35 years later, are still regarded as luxury features.