As regular Classic & Vintage Commercials readers may recall in the January 2017 issue, Classic & Vintage Commercials main cover-feature lorry was my restored AEC Militant timber tractor. At the end of that, Peter the Editor included a photograph and mention of my other Militant, which at that time was under restoration, and included with the picture a promise to return once the restoration was complete, though I gave no promises how long that might take!
Now, Five years on, that’s all happened…
It was actually about a year before the timber tractor’s appearance, in the December 2015 issue of CVC that I spotted an advert for a Militant for sale, spares or repair, and quite near me. As I was looking for some better tyres at the time, I arranged a meeting with the seller. I met him on site but, to get to the Militant in question we had to walk past a barn. In this, I spotted something very rare indeed; a 1954 AEC Militant fuel tanker in, it appeared, totally ex-service condition. Although the army used quite a few Militant
