FordA-Series

The Ford A series is a range of light trucks built by Ford UK during the 1970s and 1980s in their Langley plant in Berkshire. Ford had identified a gap in the market for vehicles of between 3.5 tons Gross Vehicle Weight (GVW) and 5.5 tons GVW and marketed the A Series as 'Ford's Go-Between'. The vehicles bridged the gap between the relatively small Transit and the bigger D series. By the time it finished production in 1983 Ford could report that whilst the A Series had sold relatively well in France and West Germany, it had always sold in smaller numbers in Britain and was no longer regarded as a viable project.. At the time, Ford also pointed to the need for tachographs in vehicles over 3.5 tonnes having deterred some A Series customers. It is also possibly the case that Ford had found the A Series' competition increasingly successful, notably the Mercedes-Benz T2 and Chrysler's Dodge 50.