Fitted with a 7.4 litre A193 overhead cam petrol engine, complete with autovac on the front panel. Its last BVD was Bicester, and was was disposed of by the Army in March(?) 1960, and went to Coussens of Bexhill who painted it orange, and possibly fitted the crane. They kept it until the mid 1970s, when it ended up at Southern Counties Trading. It then went on to someone else, who was going to convert it to a timber tractor, but didn’t because of the petrol engine. From there it went to the person I got it from. Sister Matador 0853140 also survives in the UK, and is restored. (Nick Abbott)

John Harrington ... H4133460, 1736077 and then 95YY47. It was unusual for a petrol engine to last through to the YY series.

Jonathan Pye ... One of seventeen petrol engined Matadors that went to Norway in the early part of WW2. Diesel powered vehicles were impractical because of the low temperatures, and AEC built the seventeen specially.

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