AEC gun tractor

[Richard Farrant]

Originally posted by DaveCox
In Bart's "Historic Military Vehicles Directory" page 185 it refers to an experimental gun tractor based on the AEC 854/0854 chassis. Does anyone have any pictures of this truck, or any ideas what body would have been fitted? a longer version of the Matador body perhaps, or the same as that used on the postwar AEC Militant prime mover (page 191)?

Dave,

In Bart's original Observers Fighting Vehicles Directory, see page 173 for a photo of the prototype with soft skin cab and one with armoured cab. The engines were larger than the Matador or O854, being an AEC 9.5 litre of 150 bhp. The bodies are low silhouette, unlike the Matador or Militant.

Richard