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    The Bedford Dunstable plant was a truck and bus vehicle assembly plant, located in Dunstable, Bedfordshire, England. Developed and opened by Vauxhall Motors...
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    companies such as Waterlow's and Vauxhall Motors respectively. The new Bedford Dunstable plant came into production in 1942 to support the British Army in the...
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  • manufacture to the former Vauxhall shadow factory at Boscombe Road, Dunstable. Bedford Dunstable plant, dating originally from 1942, was extensively rebuilt and...
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    alternative. A military 4x4 version, the Bedford MK (later MJ), was also produced. After Bedford's Dunstable factory was sold in 1987 to AWD, the TK restarted...
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  • lorries for the war effort, alongside the new Bedford Dunstable plant, which was opened in 1942, with Bedford designs being common in British use. As a morale...
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    would continue post-war. Bedford restarted the production of the OB again in October 1945, this time at the Bedford Dunstable plant. There were only minor...
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    In 1987, the Dunstable plant was sold to David J.B. Brown and became AWD Trucks. Production of the TJ continued under the AWD Bedford badge. After Marshall...
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    McEachern, Sam (28 February 2020). "GM Delays Production Restart At Wuhan Plant As Coronavirus Crisis Continues". GM Authority. Retrieved 19 June 2022....
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    Vehicles while the Dunstable plant was sold to AWD Trucks. In 1986, the Isuzu Fargo started getting produced by IBC as the Bedford Midi with local modifications...
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    Chiltern Hills, about 2+1⁄2 miles (4.0 km) south-south-west of Dunstable on the top of the Dunstable Downs, which drop away steeply to the south of the village...
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    Luton and Dunstable. A bus rapid transit route opened in 2013, called the Luton to Dunstable Busway, connecting the town with the airport, Dunstable and Houghton...
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  • stadium between the railway and Dunstable Road. The Dunstable Road ground was opened by Herbrand Russell, 11th Duke of Bedford, who also donated £50 towards...
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    was built on Dunstable Street shortly afterwards to serve the town and surrounding parishes. The London and North Western Railway's Bedford Railway branch...
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    called "Dunstable", named after Edward Tyng of Dunstable in England. Located at the confluence of the Nashua and Merrimack rivers, Dunstable was first...
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    become from the mid 1970s onward. A van version was also produced, as the Bedford HA. In the UK the Viva's principal competitors at the time of its launch...
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  • List of former automotive manufacturing plants. The table below lists former automotive industry manufacturing factories and facilities. List of automobile...
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    version, based on the estate and called the Bedford Chevanne, was also built, and badged as part of GM's Bedford commercial vehicles marque. Following the...
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  • Dunstable branch line of the Great Northern Railway, and from 1860 direct trains ran to King's Cross. The Midland Railway was extended from Bedford to...
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    Opel Combo (redirect from Bedford Astramax)
    both the Bedford and Vauxhall Astravan, and the high roof van as the Bedford Astramax, later sold as a Vauxhall. The changeover from Bedford to Vauxhall...
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    IBC Vehicles (category Motor vehicle assembly plants in the United Kingdom)
    IBC Vehicles has its roots in Bedford Vehicles, the truck and bus manufacturing subsidiary of Vauxhall. In 1986 the Bedford Vehicles van factory in Luton...
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    Isuzu Fargo (redirect from Bedford Midi)
    was also built in the United Kingdom by Vauxhall Motors and sold as the Bedford Midi, then the Vauxhall Midi. Export versions of the Midi in Europe were...
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    and collapsed in 1992, bringing an end to the lineage of Bedford trucks and the Dunstable plant was later closed. In 1988, following the discontinuation...
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    wheels. There was also a van version which was badged as the Bedford Astra – the Bedford brand at that time being used for GM's commercial vehicles in...
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    installation, patients were taken by private car to nearby Luton and Dunstable hospital. The house was then named Alexandra Hospital for Children with...
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    Suzuki Carry (redirect from Bedford Rascal)
    generation of the Carry was also sold as the Bedford, Vauxhall, or GME Rascal. These were built at the GM plant in Luton, to circumvent JAMA's voluntary export...
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  • ASH 25 with glider pilot John Jeffries at London Gliding Club west of Dunstable; at Wasserkuppe, a 3,000 ft mountain in the east of Hesse in the centre...
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  • to Bedford, having been granted the special favour of being stationed close to their homes. It remained at Bedford with a detachment at Dunstable until...
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    the company had a total commercial range ever since the days of the old Bedford CF that ended production in 1986. In June 2007, Tata Motors announced the...
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    Vauxhall Ellesmere Port (category Motor vehicle assembly plants in the United Kingdom)
    Vauxhall Motors, who developed their plant as a sub-assembly and engine production centre to supply their existing Dunstable and Luton factories. The location...
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  • Age in Bedfordshire. Dunstable: The Book Castle. ISBN 1-87119-922-0. Crane, Richard (1998). Bedfordshire's Branch Lines. Bedford: R. Crane. Hinitt, Michael;...
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