AEC - The Associated Engineering Company - built a range of truck and bus chassis to a cabover design which included the Monarch . It went on to build the famous AEC Matador as a 4x4 gun tractor during World War II. AEC The Associated Engineering Company of Southall, Middlesex, England, started production in Walthamstow in 1912 with the B-type omnibus but soon diverged into truck manufacture when it supplied 1,000 Y-type models to the British Army for use in World War I. In the Thirties the company produced an eight-wheeled chassis known as the Mammoth Major and during World War II produced the AEC Matador as a gun tracfor, its diesel engines being fitted to Cruiser and Valentine tanks.  Shortly after the war, the company became part of Associated Commercial Vehicles Limited and its postwar range included Marshals, Mandators , Militants and Mercuries as well as the Type 690 10 - cubic yard dump truck for excavation works. Other Truck Pictures: White 9000 Truck History Pi...