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Hippo

Production period unknown

2 documented generations

Leyland's heavy multi-axle Hippo lineage included the pre-war road truck and militarized early form, followed by the new-design Hippo Mk II developed for high-capacity wartime logistics.

Generations

Explore the documented generations and major iterations of the Hippo model line.

  1. 1944 Leyland Hippo Mk II

    Hippo Mk II (1944)

    Introduced 1944

    Developed as a new high-capacity wartime logistics design, the Hippo Mk II combined a new enclosed steel cab with revised chassis, body and payload architecture rather than merely adapting the earlier civilian…

    1 engine

  2. 1935 Leyland Hippo

    Early Hippo

    Production period unknown

    The early Hippo covered Leyland's pre-war heavy multi-axle road truck and its militarized wartime Mk I form before the purpose-designed Mk II; exact early chronology remains unresolved.

    Engine data not yet documented

Engine applications

Hippo Mk II (1944)

Introduced 1944