Talking about 10 tonners in general, I was always amazed how the army kept large quantities of the war-time Leyland Hippo in service decades after its replacemnent the AEC had entered service.
They were certainly still with units into the 1970's and the last ones were not released untill the 1980's. A MVT member recalled recently how he had visited an ABRO workshop during the 1980's and found a line set up on the shop floor repairing Hippo's prior to their dispatch to Aschurch to be disposed.
When I joimed 155 Transport Regiment RCT at Southampton during the late 1980's, we still had two AEC's in the yard for driving training. I drove one round the yard once and that was quite enough for me.
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