11.03.2024

£68 million deal for Morris Leslie

Scottish based rental and sales company Morris Leslie Plant Hire have placed a £68 million order with JCB for equipment including telehandlers and earthmoving equipment. The order was placed through dealer Scot JCB with the units due to be delivered throughout the year.

JCB chairman Anthony Bamford said: “We are very proud of our long association with Morris Leslie. Like many of our customers, the company has grown from very small beginnings into a force to be reckoned. From one family company to another, we wish Morris Leslie Plant Hire a very happy 50th birthday.”
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A Morris Leslie telehandler

Leslie added: “Over the years we have bought more than 7,000 JCB machines, so our success over the past half century is very much intertwined with that of JCB and we look forward to building on our partnership in the years to come.”
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Anthony Bamford (L) of JCB hands Morris Leslie a JCB 70th anniversary model

Morris Leslie founded the company that bears his name, in 1974 on his parent’s farm in Carse of Gowrie where he began buying and selling work platforms and construction machinery but over four decades the company has diversified into the rental busness. The company is now based in Perth, in the south east of Scotland, it operates from 15 depots across the UK with a fleet of 5,000 machines. Revenues in 2023 were £72.76 million.