The Leyland Retriever was a 6x4 truck produced by

Leyland Motors Leyland Motors Limited (later known as the Leyland Motor Corporation) was a British vehicle manufacturer of lorries, buses and trolleybuses. The company diversified into car manufacturing with its acquisitions of Triumph and Rover in 1960 and 1 ...

for the British Army between 1939 and 1945. It had a 6-litre, 4 cylinder overhead camshaft petrol engine.

General Montgomery Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, (; 17 November 1887 – 24 March 1976), nicknamed "Monty", was a senior British Army officer who served in the First World War, the Irish War of Independence and ...

used one as his caravan during the

Second World War World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ...

. This is now on display at now the

Imperial War Museum Duxford Imperial War Museum Duxford is a branch of the Imperial War Museum near Duxford in Cambridgeshire, England. Britain's largest aviation museum, Duxford houses the museum's large exhibits, including nearly 200 aircraft, military vehicles, artill ...

. In 1940, Leyland developed the

Leyland Beaver-Eel The Leyland Beaver-Eel, known officially as the Tender, Armoured, Leyland Type C, was an armoured truck used by the Royal Air Force throughout World War II for airfield defence duties. Overview The Leyland Beaver-Eel was one of several armoured ...

armoured truck by mounting an armoured body on the Leyland Retriever.Michael Seth-Smith, ''The long haul: a social history of the British commercial vehicle industry'', Hutchinson Benham Ltd, London, 1975, .

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