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Originally posted by David_Hayward
Can anyone fill me in please on the Hardy company? Would this experiemental truck have become the Matador? The only possible candidate from the Census List under AEC is L 394951 to Contract V.3278, 'Lorry 3 ton 4 x 4'. This would date to spring 1938.
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David,
This all starts back to the Four Wheel Drive Co. in Slough, I think. I'm taking all this from memory, they built trucks after WW1 and started to substitute AEC components. Hardy Rail Cars were involved along the line, also using AEC parts. The FWD R6T 6x6 gun tractor that I mentioned in an earlier message had hubs like this truck, it later became the AEC R6T and the Matador was a development from FWD designs. It is all on the net somewhere, but that is the rough outline.
Richard