 1952 ACLO Mammoth Major III truck with Bonallack cab and body. Thirty as this were exported to Brazil.
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 UTIC-AEC coaches in Lisbon wharf ready for export to Iran
 Barreiros AEC A105 coach ad AEC was a United Kingdom based vehicle manufacturer which built buses and trucks from 1912 until 1979. The acronym stood for the Associated Equipment Company, but this name was hardly ever used; instead it traded under the AEC and ACLO brands. Image File history File links AEC_badge. ...
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Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (1500x780, 408 KB)C.1948 Seida promotional picture of their two-deck bodies. ...
Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (1500x780, 408 KB)C.1948 Seida promotional picture of their two-deck bodies. ...
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Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (608x885, 124 KB)Barreiros A.E.C. S.A. advertisment of their A105 model coach Template:Promotinal File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ...
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An articulated bus operated by the CTA in Chicago, Illinois, USA. A Go North East Bus parked in a lay-by in Tyne and Wear, England A bus is a large road vehicle intended to carry numerous persons in addition to the driver and sometimes a conductor. ...
The driver of this DAF tractor with an auto-transport semi-trailer truck prepares to offload Å koda Octavia cars in Cardiff, Wales A truck or lorry is a motor vehicle for transporting goods. ...
While famously associated with London's buses, AEC supplied commercial vehicles to many companies both domestically and around the world.
History The London General Omnibus Company, or LGOC, was founded in 1855 to amalgamate and regulate the horse-drawn omnibus services then operating in London. The company began producing motor omnibuses for its own use in 1909 with the X-type at works in Blackhorse Lane, Walthamstow, London. The X-type was followed by the B-type, considered to be one of the first mass-produced commercial vehicles. London General is both a modern bus operating company and, as the London General Omnibus Company or LGOC, a very significant name in the history of transport of London, England. ...
Parisian Omnibus, late nineteenth century Omnibus is a Latin word meaning for all (people) and has several meanings in standard English: bus, a vehicle for transporting large numbers of people Omnibus, a law which covers many different subjects, or has had many unrelated additions tacked onto it. ...
The X-type bus is an early model of London double-decker bus. ...
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The B-type is a model of double-decker bus that was introduced in London on 1910. ...
In 1912 LGOC was taken over by the Underground group of companies, which at that time owned most of the London Underground, and extensive tram operations. As part of the reorganisation following the takeover, a separate concern was set up for the bus manufacturing elements, and was named Associated Equipment Company, or more commonly, AEC. The London Underground is an all-electric railway system that covers much of the conurbation of Greater London and some neighbouring areas. ...
AEC's first commercial vehicle was a lorry based on the X-type bus chassis (
 LF 8647). With the outbreak of the First World War in 1914, AEC's ability to produce large numbers of vehicles using assembly line methods became important in supplying the increasing need for army lorries. AEC began large-scale production of the 3-ton Y-type lorry commenced in 1916 and continued beyond the end of the war. From then on AEC became associated with both lorries and buses. Image File history File links Looking_glass_Hexagonal_Icon. ...
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Interwar years In 1926, AEC and Daimler formed the Associated Daimler Company (ADC), which was dissolved two years later. In 1927 AEC moved its manufacturing from Walthamstow to a new plant to Southall in London. Daimler has, since 1896, been the motor car marque of the British Daimler Motor Company, based in Coventry. ...
Year 1928 (MCMXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar). ...
Southall Broadway, November 2005 Glassy Junction pub, November 2005 For people named Southall, see Southall (surname) Southall is a London suburb in the London Borough of Ealing. ...
G. J. Rackham was appointed Chief Engineer and Designer in 1928. His ideas contibuted significantly to AEC's reputation for quality and reliability.
From 1930, AEC produced new models, the names of which all began with "M": Majestic, Mammoth, Mercury, and so on. These original "M-models" continued in production until the end of the Second World War. AEC introduced diesel engines across the range in the mid-1930s. Mushroom cloud from the nuclear explosion over Nagasaki rising 18 km into the air. ...
Rudolf Christian Karl Diesel (1858-1913), inventor of the Diesel engine. ...
From 1931 to 1938, AEC and English Electric co-produced trolleybuses. AEC supplied the chassis and EE the electric motors and control equipment. English Electric logo English Electric was a 20th-century British industrial manufacturer, initially of electric motors, and expanding to include railway locomotives and aviation, before becoming part of GEC. // History 1917: Dick, Kerr & Co. ...
Å koda 14 Tr trolleybus in Vilnius A trolleybus (also known as electric bus, trolley bus, trolley coach, trackless trolley, trackless tram or simply trolley) is a bus powered by two overhead electric wires, from which it draws electricity using two trolley poles. ...
In 1932, AEC took a controlling interest in the British Four Wheel Drive (FWD) company and began to use more standard AEC components in those vehicles. To avoid confusion, these were marketed under the name Hardy. Production ceased about 1936. Four wheel drive or 4x4, is a type of four wheeled vehicle drivetrain configuration that enables all four wheels to receive power from the engine simultaneously in order to provide maximum traction. ...
Second World War Non-military production stopped in 1941. During the war AEC produced their 10 ton 4x4 Matador artillery tractor (an adaptation of their commercial 4x2 Matador lorry that exploited AEC's experience with the Hardy FWD venture). A 6x6 version was designated as the AEC Marshall (a pun on "martial") but almost always called the Matador. To this they added the AEC Armoured Car in 1941. General characteristics Role Medium Artillery Tractor Crew 1 armour none Capacity 10-ton - Length 20 ft 10 in m Width 7 ft 10 in m Height 9 ft 7 in m Weight 7. ...
Komsomolets tractor Artillery tractor is a kind of tractor, a vehicle used to tow artillery pieces of varying weights. ...
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Post war In 1946, AEC and Leyland formed British United Traction Ltd (BUT) as a joint venture to manufacture trolleybuses since reduced demand would not require the existing capacity of both parents. Leyland Motors is a British vehicle manufacturer of lorries and buses. ...
In 1948, AEC resumed civilian production with the Mammoth Major, Matador and Monarch. Also in 1948, AEC acquired Crossley Motors and Maudslay Motor Company. Soon after, AEC changed its name to Associated Commercial Vehicles (ACV) Ltd., although it kept the initials "AEC" on its vehicles. In 1949, ACV acquired a (bus) body-building company, Park Royal Vehicles, along with its subsidiary Charles H. Roe. Park Royal designed a new cab for the AEC Mercury in the mid-1950s; this appeared on all models across the range about this time. Crossley Motors, based in Manchester, England, produced approximately 19,000 high quality cars from 1904 until 1938, 5,500 buses from 1926 until 1958 and 21,000 goods and military vehicles from 1914 to 1945. ...
Dating its origins back to 1889, Park Royal Vehicles along with its Leeds-based subsidiary Charles H. Roe was one of Britains leading coachbuilders based in West London, UK. In 1949 it became part of Associated Commercial Vehicles Ltd. ...
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In 1961, AEC acquired Transport Equipment (Thornycroft). Thornycroft's name disappeared from all the vehicles except the specialist airport crash tenders, such as the Nubian, and the "Mighty" Antar off-road tractor unit. Thornycroft was a United Kingdom-based vehicle manufacturer which built coaches, buses, and trucks from 1896 until 1977. ...
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The Mighty Antar was a heavy duty prime mover built by Thornycroft during the 1940s. ...
Leyland takeover Leyland Motors Ltd acquired ACV in 1962. AEC lorries were given the same "Ergomatic" cabs used across several Leyland marques (including Albion). In 1968 all AEC double-deckers ceased production, and its last buses and trucks were built in 1979. The AEC name actually disappeared from commercial vehicles in 1977, but the Leyland Marathon was built at the Southall plant until it closed on 1979. Leyland flatbed Leyland Motors was a British vehicle manufacturer of lorries and buses. ...
Albion motors Logo Front of a 1966 albion cheiftain unit Front of an earlier model Albion Motors of Scotstoun, Glasgow was a Scottish automobile manufacturer, later it concentrated on building commercial vehicles. ...
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ACLO ACLO (supposed to be the acronym of Associated Company Lorries and Omnibuses) was the brand name used by AEC in Latin American countries, including Brazil, and in Spain (but not in Portugal) to sell all their products.
It seems that there was no clear reason for this badge engineering operation, although a formal request from the German AEG industrial group, which was very active in the Spanish-speaking countries, has been suggested. Badge engineering is a term that describes the rebadging of one model of car as another. ...
AEG volt-metre designed by Peter Behrens AEG (Allgemeine Elektrizitäts-Gesellschaft) (English Translation: General Electricity Company) was a German producer of electronics and electrical equipment. ...
ACLOs were specially pervasive in Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil. In Spain ACLOs could be seen mainly as double-deck buses in Barcelona and as line coaches in ALSA fleet. Location Coordinates : Time Zone : CET (GMT +1) - summer: CEST (GMT +2) General information Native name Barcelona (Catalan) Spanish name Barcelona Nickname Ciutat Comtal (Catalan) Ciudad Condal (Spanish) Postal code 08001-08080 Area code 34 (Spain) + 93 (Barcelona) Website http://www. ...
Current ALSA logo and slogan Alsa bus station in Gijon; a rationalist work of the architect Juan Manuel del Busto in 1939 ALSA (Automoviles Luarca, S.A.) is a Spain-based international bus company operating in several countries across Europe (including Andorra, Austria, Belgium, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hungary...
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UTIC-AEC In Portugal, the AEC vehicles, mainly coaches and buses but also lorries, were assembled and bodied by União de Transportadores para Importação e Comércio, UTIC, and marketed under the UTIC-AEC badge, along many years.
After the English-made AECs disappeared from the UK market some very loyal British customers imported made-in-Portugal UTIC-AEC units.
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Barreiros AEC In the late fifties Spanish government restrictions to importations led AEC sales in Spain to became virtually nil. As a consequence AEC appoached a Spanish truck manufacturer, Barreiros Diesel, to jointly produce buses and coaches based on AEC designs. The venture started in 1961, used Barreiros AEC as brand name, disregarding ACLO, and seemed very promising; production of AEC off-road dump trucks being planned too. Nevertheless, the Leyland takeover in 1962 soon undermined the agreement, as Leyland was partnering with Barreiros Spanish arch-rival, Pegaso; and eventually Barreiros looked for another collaborator in the bus arena, signing in 1967 an agrement with Belgian Van Hool. E+B Barreiros logo Full range of Barreiros built vehicles (c. ...
A dump truck or production truck is a truck used for transporting loose material (such as sand, gravel, or dirt) for construction. ...
Classical Pegaso logo Pegaso Diesel road train Pegaso Z-206 handbook cover page (1957) The lightest truck in Pegaso history: the ex-Sava J4 Pick-up Pegaso 2080 artic tractor 1990 Pegaso Trakker 6x4 dumper truck ad 1977 Pegaso range of off-road&special vehicles Pegaso was a Spanish brand...
Van Hool NV is a Belgian coachbuilder and manufacturer of buses, coaches and trailers. ...
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Buses See List of AEC buses A list of AEC and LGOC buses from 1909 to closure in 1979. ...
Lorries and other commercial vehicles - Majestic
The 6-ton normal-control AEC Majestic (Model 666) was introduced in 1930.
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- Mammoth
The AEC Mammoth dates from the 1930s. This was a 7/8-ton lorry with a six-cylinder overhead valve engine deloping 110 bhp on a wheelbase of 16ft 7in. VE 6580 The horsepower (hp) is the name of several non-metric units of power. ...
Later a distinction was made between the Mammoth Minor (6x2, with two rear axles), the Mammoth Major 6 (6x4) and the Mammoth Major 8 (8x4), which appeared in 1934. The Mammoth Major Mk II was introduced in 1935; the eight-wheeler could carry 15-ton laods. It remained in production until 1948 when it was superseded by the Mk III, which was mechanically similar but had the Park Royal cab.
- Mammoth Minor:
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- Mammoth Major 6:
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- Mammoth Major 8:
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- Mandator
The AEC Mandator dates from the 1930s. The post-war Mk II was available as a lorry and a tractor unit and the name was used for tractor units built from the 1950s to the 1970s.
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- Marshall
See also: Matador
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- Matador
The original AEC Matador 5-ton 4x2 commercial lorry was introduced in 1932.
The name was most famously used for AEC's 4x4 artillery tractor, which were known by the nickname "Mat". These vehicles exploited AEC's experience with four-wheel drive that it had gained from its involvement in the British Four Wheel Drive vehicles marketed under the name Hardy. General characteristics Role Medium Artillery Tractor Crew 1 armour none Capacity 10-ton - Length 20 ft 10 in m Width 7 ft 10 in m Height 9 ft 7 in m Weight 7. ...
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Four wheel drive or 4x4, is a type of four wheeled vehicle drivetrain configuration that enables all four wheels to receive power from the engine simultaneously in order to provide maximum traction. ...
The Matador name is very often used for the 6x4 military vehicles that are more properly designated the AEC Marshall.
AEC produced 9,620 artillery tractors; 514 6x4 bowsers for the RAF; 192 6x4 lorries (some of which had Coles Cranes mounted); and 185 similar vehicles for mobile oxygen plants. Many military Matadors were adapted for post-war commercial use, especially as timber lorries and recovery vehicles.
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New civilian Matadors appeared after the war.
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- Mercury
The AEC Mercury (Model 440) was first built in 1928. This was a forward-control lorry with a wheelbase of 14ft for 4-ton payloads. The Model 640 was introduced in 1930, with a four-cylinder petrol engine developing 65 bhp.
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The name was resurrected for lorries built from the 1950s to the 1970s.
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- Militant
The AEC Militant - or "Milly" - was the 1952 replacement for the Matador, and continued in various forms until the 1970s. (The original Militant had been produced by Maudsley in the 1930s.)
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- Mogul
The AEC Mogul was a normal-control tractor unit from the 1960s. The name had originally been used on Maudsley lorries.
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- Monarch
The original AEC Monarch was built from 1931 to 1939 at AEC's Southall works. The first version (Model 641) was superseded by the Mk II (Model 637) in 1933, with payload increased to 7½ tons. The Monarch was fitted with either an 85 hp four-cylinder 5.1 litre diesel engine or an 80 hp four-cylinder 5.1 litre petrol engine. This was a robust and well-designed lorry popular with both drivers and operators. Later variants continued into the 1970s.
TL 3513 (1934) normal-control tippers KYE 402 (1949) DAM 821 (1972) The horsepower (hp) is the name of several non-metric units of power. ...
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- Y Type
AEC's first purpose-built commercial vehicle was introduced in 1916. The improved YA Type appeared in 1917. More than ten thousand of these vehicles were supplied to the War Department by 1919. Many of these were acquired by civilian operators following the war. YB and YC Types continued in production until 1921.
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Competitors Daimler has, since 1896, been the motor car marque of the British Daimler Motor Company, based in Coventry. ...
Leyland flatbed Leyland Motors was a British vehicle manufacturer of lorries and buses. ...
Guy Motors badge Guy Motors was a British company from Wolverhampton that made cars, lorries and buses. ...
Crossley Motors, based in Manchester, England, produced approximately 19,000 high quality cars from 1904 until 1938, 5,500 buses from 1926 until 1958 and 21,000 goods and military vehicles from 1914 to 1945. ...
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