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Reliance Trucks

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1951. 600cc.
Unusual Reliance sweeper truck at Twyford Waterworks

Reliance Trucks Ltd., of Spen Vale Works, Heckmondwicke, Yorks.

1936 Described a 3-wheeled Factory Tractor.

1960 With Geoffrey Wilson Marshall of Halifax, applied for a patent on "improvements in mechanically-propelled vehicles (granted in 1964). Concerned material handing trucks for use over short distances in buildings driven by a hydraulic motor.

At some point Marshalls (Halifax) presumably combined Reliance with Mercury Truck and Tractor Co to form Reliance-Mercury


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