AEC (Associated Equipment Company)
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AEC was a British vehicle manufacturer which built buses, motorcoaches and lorries 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.
The companies history dates back to the London Genral Omnibus Company which began manufacturing its own Omibuses from 1909. It first bus the X type was designed by Frank Searle at works in Blackhorse Lane, Walthamstow, London.
In 1912 LGOC was taken over by the Underground Group, and as part of the company reorganisation a separate concern was set up for the bus manufacturing elements, and was named Associated Equipment Company, better-known as AEC.
The companies first commercial vehicle was a lorry based on the X type bus chassis, and with the outbreak of the First World War they became an important supplier of lorries for the armed forces.
In 1927, AEC moved its manufacturing from Walthamstow to a new plant at Southall in Middlesex. and G. J. Rackham was appointed Chief Engineer and Designer in 1928. From 1929, AEC produced new models: the names of lorries began with "M" (Majestic, Mammoth, Mercury, and so on), and those of buses began with "R" (Regent, Regal, Renown, 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. From 1931 to 1938, AEC and English Electric co-produced trolleybuses.
Non-military production stopped in 1941, from then until 1944 AEC produced nearly 10,000 vehicles for the war effort chiefly variations of the AEC Matador and from 1941 an armoured car.
In 1946, AEC resumed civilian production with the Regent and Regal, by 1946 the famous RT bus was in production and Mammoth Major, Matador and Monarch Mk IIIs . In 1948 AEC aquired Crossley and Maudsley and in 1961 Thornycroft.
In 1962 the AEC group was aquired by Leyland. In 1968 production of AEC double deckers ceased, The AEC named disappeared in 1977 with the Leyland Marathon being the last vehicle built at Southasll in 1979
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AEC Mammoth Major 8 wheel Flatbed (1948) Engine 9600cc
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AEC Mammoth Major II 8 wheel Flatbed (1930)
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AEC Mammmoth Major III Flatbed (1950) Engine 9600cc
Registration Number LLU 292
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Reg.No. LLU 292 formerly of British Road Services, fleet number 2A302
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AEC Matador Dropside (1943) Engine 17542cc
Registration Number ASJ 556
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