In 1975 a new name joined the likes of AEC, Bedford, British Leyland, ERF, Foden, Ford, Guy, Scammell, Seddon Atkinson and Thornycroft as a UK-based truck manufacturer.
The name was Volvo hailing from Sweden.
Volvo’s Irvine plant in Scotland started producing F86 three and four-axle rigids as well as the odd bus like the Ailsa double-decker bus chassis.
From North Ayrshire for the next 25 years it built some of the most iconic trucks to work the Great British asphalt from the Highlands to Cornwall as well as to overseas markets.
Peter Davies looks back at 25 years of production from F86 to FH12.
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