AWD Trucks (All Wheel Drive) was a British truck manufacturer that produced Bedford trucks from 1987 to 1992, until it was merged with Marshall Aerospace and Defence Group. The last truck of the company was discontinued in 1998, and so the Bedford name became entirely defunct at that time. There is another British based company called AWD Company Limited Of Camberley in Surrey England an entirely different original brandname who were specialized in developing and manufacturing all wheel driven lorries, earthmoving machinery and other 4WD 6WD roadvehicles founded in 1958 production ended in 1966.
History
In 1986, General Motors decided to sell their Bedford heavy-duty truck division to David J.B. Brown, who was the founder of Artix Limited, while they re-formed the Bedford light truck division into IBC Vehicles. Brown restarted production of the heavy-duty trucks (Bedford TJ, Bedford TK, Bedford MK, Bedford TM and Bedford TL) under the AWD Trucks name in 1987, since the Bedford name was owned by General Motors, but was only used in light vans such as the Bedford Midi and Bedford Rascal, both of which were designs of Suzuki