Gomba Motors, part of Jersey-based Gomba Holdings headed by Abdul Shamji, renamed the lorry the Gomba-Stonefield, restarted Cumnock with 50 employees and aimed its first 20 vehicles at a Gomba construction company in Nigeria, with a first-year target of 100 sales. Hansard records that the Malaysian order Stonefield had pursued was won by Gomba-Stonefield. After a dispute with the Scottish Development Agency over axle and transfer-box supplies, Gomba moved production to its Trans-Ax factory at Strood, near Rochester, in late 1983. In July 1984 it announced its first diesel option, a Deutz V8 of 160 bhp. A 1981 Gomba-Stonefield P5000 4x4, EHY 509W, was run by Avon Constabulary. The business closed in the early 1990s.
Research status: draft — identification, dates or figures could not all be pinned down; the summary says what is unresolved.
ENGINE5.2 L Chrysler 318 V8 petrol (5,217 cc, 110 kW) with Chrysler TorqueFlite three-speed automaticChrysler LA V8
PRODUCTION RUNNot published
COUNTRY OF ORIGINUnited Kingdom
OPERATED INUnited Kingdom, Nigeria, Malaysia
STATUSout of production
RECORD KINDNamed model
MODEL LINETwo-axle
FAMILYTwo-axle
WHEELS4
NOMINAL WHEELBASE110″
Catalogue fields describe the vehicle's structure and body as this registry records it. They are not certified factory measurements, and no performance figures are published here.
