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Military transport truck (WW2)

Leyland Retriever
Place of origin United Kingdom
Production history
ManufacturerLeyland
Produced1939-1945

The Leyland Retriever was a 6x4 truck produced by Leyland Motors for the British Army between 1939 and 1945. It had a 6-litre, 4 cylinder overhead camshaft petrol engine. General Montgomery used one as his caravan during the Second World War. This is now on display at now the Imperial War Museum Duxford.

In 1940, Leyland developed the Leyland Beaver-Eel armoured truck by mounting an armoured body on the Leyland Retriever.

References

  1. "1941 Leyland Retriever". Archived from the original on 20 August 2007.
  2. "Monty's Office Caravan Leyland Retriever (4109.50.1)". Imperial War Museums.
  3. "Leyland Retriever WLW - Danish Army Vehicles Homepage". armyvehicles.dk.
  4. Norris, John (2012) World War II Trucks and Tanks, The History Press (Accessed June 2014)
  5. Michael Seth-Smith, The long haul: a social history of the British commercial vehicle industry, Hutchinson Benham Ltd, London, 1975, ISBN 0-09-124440-4.

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British Commonwealth utility vehicles of the Second World War
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