AEC Mandator?

UK PROFESSIONAL DRIVERS FORUMS OLD TIME LORRIES, COMPANIES AND DRIVERS (INTERACT
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Stanfield:
Here one I saw at the truck rally in Huddersfield today.1along with a Mercury.0
JOHN

ASL473, SL was Clackmananshire.
Dave.

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I found a few more shots that might be of interest to you guys. The fire engines ones must be credited to fire engine photos website…especially the Jessop family for the Hull photographs.

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Just found this, forgot about the recovery vehicle - not about smashing the fire engine up though!

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Looks like a Leyland Octopus but i could be wrong i usually am

Glenn R:
Just found this, forgot about the recovery vehicle - not about smashing the fire engine up though!

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ramone:
Looks like a Leyland Octopus but i could be wrong i usually am

Glenn R:
Just found this, forgot about the recovery vehicle - not about smashing the fire engine up though!

Hiya… they look like leyland back hubs and the wings look like leyland and no chrome bumper. but been a wrecker its perhaps a bitza.
it looks the part. it would have been a well blessed sight if you,d been broken down for hours waiting for help.
John

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Sorry I didn’t pay enough attention to detail, just saw the cab and posted it, oops!

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The usual giveaway is the lower front panel between the headlights. In this case it’s partially obscured by the towing pin/eye assembly, but from the bit I can see it’s an AEC item. Having said all that - the indicators are the early type, but the front panel is the really late type, so who knows??

The observation about the Leyland back bogie is interesting because although that might give strong indications that the wagon is an Octopus, actually, AEC Mammoth Majors (the really late ones) used Leyland back ends. Don’t ask me for specifics 'cos I don’t have them to hand, but it has been documented in a few publications that this was the case.

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The rear hubs were the thing that made me think Leyland but i thought the cab looked slightly taller than the AEC version too

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They fit the L12 (Reworked AV760) in some Octopus and Bisons when Leyland eventually murdered AEC

marky:
The usual giveaway is the lower front panel between the headlights. In this case it’s partially obscured by the towing pin/eye assembly, but from the bit I can see it’s an AEC item. Having said all that - the indicators are the early type, but the front panel is the really late type, so who knows??

The observation about the Leyland back bogie is interesting because although that might give strong indications that the wagon is an Octopus, actually, AEC Mammoth Majors (the really late ones) used Leyland back ends. Don’t ask me for specifics 'cos I don’t have them to hand, but it has been documented in a few publications that this was the case.