At W.H.Williams (Haulage) Ltd Spennymoor We ran about 6 AEC Mercuries all bought about 1973 onwards. We would have continued buying them until about a year before tey stopped manufacturing they wouldn’t accept orders, giving production problems, as excuse and we bought two Super Comets which weren’t too bad but nothing like the Mercuries, and then were persuaded to buy 3 Lynx which were amongst the worst buys we ever made.
We never had much problems at all with the Mercuries, certainly no engine problems, and all did over 500,000 miles. Only fault was cab rot, which was very bad. Probably had AEC been allowed to ft their own cab this might not have been problem either. Pity the day Leyland had got their hands on o much a better product.
