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Bedford was a subsidiary company of the British car manufacturer Vauxhall of engine, which is daughter US-American general of the engine company. Bedford was created 1930 as a commercial motor vehicle manufacturer, because the import of truck was not worthwhile due to the world economic crisis any more. Since 1990 the label name Bedford was given up in favor of of Vauxhall.
Bedford busy itself with the building of delivery vans, light truck and buses, which possessed a very large spreading in Great Britain and Ireland. Also fire-fighting vehicles and ambulances were modified of the different models. During the Second World War Bedford produced also the Churchill tank.
Starting from 1958 Bedford produced a 4-Tonnen-Fronthauber, which was sold under the designation TJ. It was technically an advancement of the truck with continuous windshield, to which until 1967 in numerous versions with Diesel and petrol engines also with more additional load than plank bed cars, sold in Germany as OPEL lightning, dump trucks, box cars, tank cars, ambulances and fire-brigade cars use found later. Afterwards the modernized variant of the model received the designation J2, J3, J4, J5 and J6, which were offered also by the Australian sister Holden into the 1970er years. It is this very day in Pakistan, also in the army of Pakistan, very far common, because the company installed SKD from 1950 to 1972 penalty and truck of Bedford in Pakistan.
Bedford produced long years from the American GM program admitted box car CF, which was driven out in Germany into the 1970er years by OPELs under the designation Bedford lightning in allusion on the legendary trucks of the German passenger car factory. In the class 7.5 to 10.2 tons total weight manufactured Bedford salient front steering wheel trucks, which in plank bed and dump truck version, in addition, with box-type van body not only in Great Britain and Ireland, but also in Belgium, Luxembourg, which to the Netherlands, Australia and Hong Kong spreading found. Also at the British army this type of truck was far common. 1975 tried the GM company in Germany under the mark OPEL the structure of its own truck organization with temporary over 50 dealers for the selling of these trucks in Germany, which in England after "German code "with more comfort was manufactured, but this attempt failed.
1986 were reorganized the factory in Luton as joint venture with Isuzu. In addition the enterprise under IBC Vehicles firmierte and produced a European version of the Isuzu MU Wizard, which was called Frontera. In addition associated a set of box and delivery vans, which were sold on Renault licenses based and under the label name Vauxhall and OPELs in Europe.
1998 finally bought to Isuzu from the joint venture general of engine out and shifted the production of the jeep Frontera after Ellesmere haven.
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