AEC Matador in Portugal

[Dinty]

G'day All, Bloody luverly, thanks for that Hanno, I have a real spot for AEC's, my late father did his apprenticeship with Albion Motors during the early 30's, then went to work for AEC, he joined the Royal Engineers in 1939 and toured Nth Africa, Sicily and was in Italy when the surrender came, he used to talk about the AEC trucks. Here where I live the local bus company had 4 x 4 Matador's as articulated buses until stocks of buses were easily obtained, I must go and get those pix from the bus company and scan them anyway lucky bugger with that Matador, wish I were younger and had a bigger property ( I have 5 Land Rovers (ex mil) and another under construction at present and space is a bit tight as you could imagine, anyway thanks again Hanno cheers Dennis

[Bruce Gilbert]

Hello Dennis/Dinty

I know of 2 AEC's Matadors in Inverell. Reply here if you need more info.

Regards

Bruce G

[João Freitas]

Almost all the preserved army vehicles are now at the Military Museum, placed in Elvas (200 Km from Lisbon and very near the spanish border) .
If you go to FaceBook, look for "APVM Associação Portuguesa de Veículos Militares" . There you will find some videos about the museum and our work there.
Notice that we work there (more or less 10 people) one weekend every month as civilians and our work is completly volunteer.
In a 2 years time, now we have in working order : severall Unimogs, a Matador, one Dingo, a Saladin, severall jeeps UMM, severall Berliet trucks, and many other small staff cars.
The Matador that you see on the photo is a donner of parts for the working one.
João

[Lynn Eades]

I love that crank handle. Handles crank, two man, for the use of, Qty. 1.

They are a classic truck and I particularly loved the Armoured one in Merredin, W.A.
This photo lends itself to a photo caption contest.

What is the young lady thinking? eg. ....... and the British won the war,... right?