Aug 31, 2021 · The AEC Matador 4x4 was called 0853 and the other 6x6 versions were AEC 854 and 0854 (and not to be called Matador!) But what is the difference between an AEC 854 and 0854?

It was 10-ton trucks model 854 (with gasoline engine) and O854 (with diesel). The trucks were a base for mounting various airfield equipment, such as tankers, 10-ton cranes Col.

Martin, 47, has now owned the 1943 AEC 0854 Fuel Tanker for a little more than 14 months and after plenty of late-night restoration sessions, reckons it is 80% complete of where he’d like it to be.

AEC 0854 Matador Tanker Restoration. 1,049 likes. Pictures and information of returning an AEC 1943 0854 2500 gallon fuel tanker back to the road and ready to show

Not a "Matador 6x6" but a 6-wheel drive chassis combining the 644 Marshal double-drive rear bogie with 853 Matador front axle.

Maintenance manual for AEC 2500 gallon petrol tanker MKII chassis type 0854 Air publication No 2641 Dated 1944 Covers General instruction and data

Nov 12, 2023 · A 6-wheeled version was also built and designated the 0854, typical body types included fuel tankers and various armoured bodies.

Although commonly known as six-wheel Matadors, these 6x6 lorries were officially simply AEC 0854, the only model without a name; they were created by combining the double-drive rear bogie from the 6x4 Marshal with the Matador front end, and used mainly as RAF refuellers.

1939 AEC 6x6 fuel bowser DFP472 ex-RAF Bitteswell, chassis no 854399, taken at the AEC rally at Wollaton Park in Nottingham on May 28th 1995. (NF) The wartime hybrid Model 854 (or 0854 for the oil engine version) was an amalgam of Model 853 Matador and Model 644 Marshal and

AEC Model 0854 883UXB, demobbed in late 1959, seen at the Onslow Park Steam Rally, August 2007. Previously registered SNT591, AEC 08541141 was once a timber crane with Benbow Brothers of Lee Brockhurst in Shropshire. (Gyles Carpenter)