AWD

AWD is the brand name under which the British truck maker AWD Trucks (All Wheel Drive) sold heavy-duty lorries from 1987 to 1998. When General Motors sold off Bedford's heavy truck business in 1986, David J. B. Brown restarted production of the Bedford TJ, TK, MK, TM and TL under the AWD name, because General Motors kept the Bedford name for light vans. The trucks were built mostly for export, where they sold well, while in Britain they were bought chiefly by the construction industry and the military. Brown also founded Multidrive Vehicles, which built 8x6 versions of the TK and TL for military and special-service use. In 1992 the AWD business was merged with Marshall Aerospace and Defence Group, after which only the long-running TJ stayed in production as the AWD TJ, selling mainly to Pakistan and India until production ended in 1998, the last use of the Bedford name on heavy trucks.