The vehicles, two of which are the UK's first battery-electric tippers, are to be divided between Fox Brothers and its various subsidiaries in the North West of England.

Volvo is supplying the UK's first battery-electric tipper trucks to Fox Brothers which will enter service in March 2022.

Croydon-based Thompsons Group, renowned for its steel tipper truck bodies is now carving out a reputation for its aluminium bodies with customers increasingly wanting aluminium bodies to accommodate a much wider range of operating requirements.

The UK’s largest tipper body builder, Thompsons Group, announced in Harrogate at TipEx 2019 at the end of May, that over the past two years it has invested GBP4.5m in new technologies at its Croydon, Blackburn and Edinburgh facilities, enhancing quality still further and cutting build times in the process.