1988 Freight Rover Sherpa 300 Series HK Police

1988 Freight Rover Sherpa 300 Series in Lan se pi li hou, Movie, 1991

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1988 Freight Rover Sherpa 300 Series HK Police

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boys_bible ◊ 2015-08-05 19:54
Sandie ◊ 2016-06-09 17:34	I think this is a Freight-Rover than a Leyland DAF. Leyland DAFs had a shorter, taller side badge low on the door reading either 400 or City (on later SWB vans) and (from what I've found so far) a far smaller repeater: https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7156/6548166731_afcc170e6a_b.jpg https://i.wheelsage.org/pictures/daf/400/autowp.ru_daf_400_1.jpg Freight-Rovers had the wider, shorter badge (compare against the swage lines running along the lower door) reading 300-something (Series?) and the wider repeater: https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7275/7508792552_b3eec3c9f4_b.jpg Link to "upload.wikimedia.org" From what I can find the Hong Kong government fleet order came in in late 1987: Commercial Motor wrote Hong Kong is Sherpa's New Territory Freight Rover has won a major £2-million export order to supply 185 Sherpa vans and minibuses to the Hong Kong government. The order has been awarded to FR's Hong Kong distributor, MD Motors (a subsidiary of the Inchcape Group) and consists of twenty 200-Series Sherpas and 165 Sherpa 300 models. The vehicles will be used primarily by the Hong Kong Police, Fire and Post Office. The Hong Kong government presently runs a fleet of more than 6,000 vehicles of all types, and the Freight Rover order is the first in the colony for the Birmingham-based van builder. Production on the order will begin this month with FR shipping vehicles before the end of the year. So both Freight Rover or Leyland DAF would be possible there but as far as I can tell the other HK Police Leyland DAFs listed on IMCDB look fine as they are based on the available clues. -- Last edit: 2016-06-09 17:36:24

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boys_bible

◊ 2015-08-05 19:54

Sandie

◊ 2016-06-09 17:34

I think this is a Freight-Rover than a Leyland DAF.

Leyland DAFs had a shorter, taller side badge low on the door reading either 400 or City (on later SWB vans) and (from what I've found so far) a far smaller repeater:
https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7156/6548166731_afcc170e6a_b.jpg
https://i.wheelsage.org/pictures/daf/400/autowp.ru_daf_400_1.jpg

Freight-Rovers had the wider, shorter badge (compare against the swage lines running along the lower door) reading 300-something (Series?) and the wider repeater:
https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7275/7508792552_b3eec3c9f4_b.jpg
Link to "upload.wikimedia.org"

From what I can find the Hong Kong government fleet order came in in late 1987:

Commercial Motor wrote Hong Kong is Sherpa's New Territory
Freight Rover has won a major £2-million export order to supply 185 Sherpa vans and minibuses to the Hong Kong government. The order has been awarded to FR's Hong Kong distributor, MD Motors (a subsidiary of the Inchcape Group) and consists of twenty 200-Series Sherpas and 165 Sherpa 300 models.

The vehicles will be used primarily by the Hong Kong Police, Fire and Post Office. The Hong Kong government presently runs a fleet of more than 6,000 vehicles of all types, and the Freight Rover order is the first in the colony for the Birmingham-based van builder.

Production on the order will begin this month with FR shipping vehicles before the end of the year.

So both Freight Rover or Leyland DAF would be possible there but as far as I can tell the other HK Police Leyland DAFs listed on IMCDB look fine as they are based on the available clues.

-- Last edit: 2016-06-09 17:36:24

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