L Gardner became best known for diesel engines powering buses and trucks - supplying firms like Scammell, Guy, Foden, ERF, Dennis and Atkinson.

This rapid adoption of the engine in commercial vehicles and, still more, the appearance of a Diesel-engined car?a Bentley with Gardner engine?in the Monte Carlo Rally in 1933, when it gained one ...

IT was an engine manufactured in Manchester which went onto power the world. As recently as 1994, records kept at the L Gardner plant in Patricroft, Eccles, revealed that there were 75,000 ...