Richard Garrett & Sons

Richard Garrett & Co Ltd was a British agricultural machinery and commercial vehicle manufacturers. Based in Leiston company produced from 1904 to 1939 various trucks

The company's headquarters was located in rural Suffolk, so that one at the beginning of the twentieth century produced steam-powered farm equipment and traction means. Was particularly well-known at the time of the punch- tractor. In 1904 they began the production of the first steam-powered trucks From 1921 you got into the market of electric powered vehicles and introduced in 1928, some trolleybuses ago. The company's diesel-powered truck appeared in 1930, came into use a six-cylinder diesel engine of Blackstone. Structurally it was a steam-driven vehicle, in which the diesel engine took the place of the steam boiler in the front part of the vehicle. This truck was also, like all trucks by Garrett, designed as a front handlebar. The top speed of 12 mph corresponded to the then statutory provisions.

In the 1930s, Garrett was part of the Beyer Peacock Group. Production of trucks has been shut down slowly so that Garrett 1939 produced no more road vehicles.