All Wheel Drive Company Limited was started in early 1954. This firm was originally based at Bilston, Wolverhampton, England, but later moved down to larger premises at Camberley in Surrey and became more commonly known by the initials AWD. They were founded by A. J. F. Andrews, a mechanical enginneer who formerly worked for Gardner, the engine specialists. Later he moved to Cheshire Engineering. The AWD company was manufacturing and offering goods vehicles and other standard trucks all converted to all wheel drive for special roles such as AEC, FORD, LEYLAND, SEDDON and many other makes. Also AWD produced special rugged chassis with off-road 4WD, 6WD and 8WD axles and transmissions for several British domestic manufacturers of loaders, mobile-cranes and dump trucks. This company worked f
| Attributes | Values |
|---|
| rdfs:label
| |
| rdfs:comment
| - All Wheel Drive Company Limited was started in early 1954. This firm was originally based at Bilston, Wolverhampton, England, but later moved down to larger premises at Camberley in Surrey and became more commonly known by the initials AWD. They were founded by A. J. F. Andrews, a mechanical enginneer who formerly worked for Gardner, the engine specialists. Later he moved to Cheshire Engineering. The AWD company was manufacturing and offering goods vehicles and other standard trucks all converted to all wheel drive for special roles such as AEC, FORD, LEYLAND, SEDDON and many other makes. Also AWD produced special rugged chassis with off-road 4WD, 6WD and 8WD axles and transmissions for several British domestic manufacturers of loaders, mobile-cranes and dump trucks. This company worked f
|
| dcterms:subject
| |
| dbkwik:tractors/pr...iPageUsesTemplate
| |
| abstract
| - All Wheel Drive Company Limited was started in early 1954. This firm was originally based at Bilston, Wolverhampton, England, but later moved down to larger premises at Camberley in Surrey and became more commonly known by the initials AWD. They were founded by A. J. F. Andrews, a mechanical enginneer who formerly worked for Gardner, the engine specialists. Later he moved to Cheshire Engineering. The AWD company was manufacturing and offering goods vehicles and other standard trucks all converted to all wheel drive for special roles such as AEC, FORD, LEYLAND, SEDDON and many other makes. Also AWD produced special rugged chassis with off-road 4WD, 6WD and 8WD axles and transmissions for several British domestic manufacturers of loaders, mobile-cranes and dump trucks. This company worked from a large warehouse in central Camberley where goods vehicles and other selected road machines were converted or rebuilt for useful go-anywhere driving but retained their running gears and AWD Co Ltd accepted orders and contract deals from numerous other British manufacturers and most of AWD vehicles manufactured were crane carriers and dumptrucks of many sizes for some UK crane specialists and occasional lorry manufacturers, earth movers and farm tractors were also rebuilt or converted with special AWD heavy duty go-anywhere axles one of their services and specialities with great success to AWD, they later became more popular under the new name of VICKERS-AWD a cranecarrier manufacturer from Wiltshire after AWD LTD merged with them changing its tradename to become known as VICKERS-AWD until the 1970s. File:1968 AWD-SMITH 6X6 TD Cranetruck.jpg -->
|
![[RDF Data]](/fct/images/sw-rdf-blue.png)