Associated Equipment Company

Associated Equipment Company (AEC) was a British vehicle manufacturer that built buses, motorcoaches and trucks from 1912 until 1979. The name Associated Equipment Company was hardly ever used, and the firm traded under the AEC and ACLO brands. It was set up in 1912 as a separate concern for the bus manufacturing elements after the Underground Group of companies took over the London General Omnibus Company, and during World War One it was the most prolific British lorry manufacturer after building London's buses before the war. The infobox places it at Southall, names British Leyland as its parent from 1968 to 1979 and records that British Leyland closed it down.