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| Details: Although nothing was turned up by an internet search on the registration number Q684PES, a bit of detective work led to the discovery that this vehicle survives in preservation, now registered JK5603. New to Western SMT in 1943, this AEC Matador recovery vehicle was working for Strathtay Scottish (formed in the 1985 reorganisation of the Scottish Bus Group) when photographed. Strathtay operated a number of former LT Routemasters, and the lorry appears to have acquired the radiator badge from one of them. Interestingly, the registration JK5603 originated on another bus company recovery vehicle. New as an AEC Regent bus number 93 in the Eastbourne fleet in 1936, it was damaged in the war and converted into a tow truck. It was preserved in the 1980s but later scrapped. | ||
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