The Associated Equipment Company, generally known as AEC, was a British vehicle manufacturer headquartered in Southall, west London, that built buses, motorcoaches and trucks from 1912 until 1979. It was set up as a separate manufacturing arm when the Underground Group took control of the London General Omnibus Company, and during the First World War it became Britain's most prolific lorry manufacturer, supplying vehicles for the war effort. In the Second World War AEC built about 10,000 military vehicles between 1941 and 1944, including the widely used Matador artillery tractor. After the war AEC became known for iconic models such as the Routemaster double decker bus, alongside a range of commercial lorries sold under the AEC name and, in Latin American and Spanish speaking markets, the ACLO brand. Leyland Motors acquired its parent company, Associated Commercial Vehicles, in 1962, and British Leyland closed the Southall factory in 1979, ending AEC's history as a vehicle builder.
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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, better-known as AEC.
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Associated Equipment Company (AEC) was a British vehicle manufacturer that built buses, motorcoaches and trucks from 1912 until 1979.
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Associated Equipment Company (AEC) was a British vehicle manufacturer that built buses, motorcoaches and trucks from 1912 until 1979.
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Associated Equipment Company (AEC) was a British vehicle manufacturer that built buses, motorcoaches and trucks from 1912 until 1979.
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Wikipedia: AEC Matador
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The AEC Matador was a heavy 4×4 truck and medium artillery tractor built by the Associated Equipment Company for British and Commonwealth forces during World War II.
AEC Reliance (Wikipedia)
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manufactured by AEC between 1953 and 1979
AEC Renown (Wikipedia)
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manufactured by the Associated Equipment Company (AEC) at different periods between 1925 and 1967
AEC Swift (Wikipedia)
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manufactured by AEC between 1964 and 1980
AEC Militant (Wikipedia)
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post-war development by AEC of the AEC Matador artillery tractor
AEC Bridgemaster (Wikipedia)
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manufactured by AEC from 1956 to 1963
AEC Regal IV (Wikipedia)
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manufactured by AEC from 1949 to 1962
Wikipedia: AEC Regent I
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manufactured by AEC from 1929 to 1942
AEC Regent III (Wikipedia)
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manufactured by AEC from 1950 to 1956
AEC Regent V (Wikipedia)
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built by the Associated Equipment Company between 1954 and 1969
AEC Q-type (Wikipedia)
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The AEC Q-type is an AEC-built, side-mounted-engine, single- and double-decker bus that was launched in 1932.
AEC Regent II (Wikipedia)
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The AEC Regent II was a front-engined double-decker bus built by AEC from 1945 to 1947.
AEC Sabre (Wikipedia)
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The AEC Sabre was a bus chassis manufactured by AEC.
AEC armoured car (Wikipedia)
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AEC armoured cars are a series of British heavy armoured cars built by the Associated Equipment Company (AEC) during the Second World War.
AEC 661T (Wikipedia)
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The AEC 661T was a two-axle double deck trolleybus chassis manufactured by AEC between 1931 and 1942.
AEC 662T (Wikipedia)
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The AEC 662T was a two-axle single deck trolleybus chassis manufactured by AEC between 1931 and 1935.
AEC 663T (Wikipedia)
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The AEC 663T was a three-axle double deck trolleybus chassis manufactured by AEC between 1931 and 1937.
AEC 664T (Wikipedia)
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The AEC 664T was a 18 ft. 7 5/16 in. wheelbase three-axle double deck trolleybus chassis manufactured by AEC between 1933 and 1942
AEC 691T (Wikipedia)
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The AEC 691T was a one-off experimental three-axle double deck trolleybus chassis manufactured by AEC.
AEC 761T (Wikipedia)
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The AEC 761T was a two-axle double deck trolleybus chassis manufactured by AEC.
AEC K-type (Wikipedia)
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The AEC K-type was a type of bus chassis built by Associated Equipment Company (AEC) from 1919 until 1926, mainly for use in London by the London General Omnibus Company (LGOC).
AEC NS-type (Wikipedia)
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The AEC NS-type is a model of double-decker bus that was introduced in London in 1923.
AEC Regal VI (Wikipedia)
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The AEC Regal VI was an underfloor-engined single-decker bus chassis manufactured by AEC from 1962 to 1979.
AEC Regent III RT (Wikipedia)
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It was a double-decker bus produced jointly between AEC and London Transport.
AEC Y Type (Wikipedia)
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The AEC Y Type was a British truck built by the Associated Equipment Company (AEC), it saw widespread service with the British Army during the First World War.
AEC armoured command vehicle (Wikipedia)
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AEC armoured command vehicles (ACVs) were a series of command vehicles built by the British Associated Equipment Company (AEC) during the Second World War.
Deacon (artillery) (Wikipedia)
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The AEC Mk I Gun Carrier, known as Deacon, was a British armoured fighting vehicle of the Second World War.
AEC Roadtrain (Wikipedia)
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The AEC Roadtrain was a prototype road train designed by the British Overseas Mechanical Transport Committee and built by Leyland Motors and Associated Equipment Company (AEC) in the early 1930s
AEC 850 (Wikipedia)
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The chassis were built by AEC but bodies were now built by outside contractors
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