Heritage

1946-1960

Marshall Land Systems was founded in 1946 under the name of Marshall Motor Bodies Division. Due to a lull in the aviation industry, the business diversified from aerospace to vehicle body building. The first bodies on commercial vehicle chassis were sold to local and national companies such as Chivers, Millers and Whitbread. Early work of Marshall Land Systems also included refurbishment of London Transport buses. The Company went on to build over 90,000 vehicle bodies and more than 5,000 tactical shelters in over 200 configurations for the Ministry of Defence. Marshall Land Systems’ products included Black Marias for the Metropolitan Police, early state-of-the-art outside television broadcasting vehicles for the BBC, as well as radar vans for Marconi, ambulances for the Scottish Ambulance Service and the British Armed Forces. In total, Marshall Land Systems has built three separate generations of ambulances for the Armed Forces with the last batch completed in 2002; these are the current ambulances in military service today.

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1961 - 1999

The Company's diverse manufacturing abilities were particularly well demonstrated in 1963 when they received an order from RAE Farnborough to manufacture expendable sledges to test ejector seats for aircrafts. The sledges were of timber construction and powered by rocket motors capable of accelerating to around 500 mph. They ran on a rail system constructed at Pendine Sands and were truly expendable - finishing up in the sea!

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2000 - Present Day

Since 2000 Marshall Land Systems has worked on many novel and innovative projects. A range of modular medical facilities were developed for the National Health Service and supplied to several hospitals, including a number of operating theatre and clinic units for Addenbrooke's Hospital. Incident Response Units and Prime Mover vehicle systems have been designed and manufactured for use by the Fire Service and solutions developed for the deployment of counter-measures equipment to satisfy the UK Government's National Resilience program.

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