Corgi 1:50 AEC Mercury Cabover Tractor and Trailer: British Road Services

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Associated Equipment Company (AEC) was an English vehicle manufacturer that built buses, motorcoaches and trucks from 1912 until 1979. The name Associated Equipment Company was hardly ever used; instead it traded under the AEC and ACLO brands.

British Road Services was founded in 1948 as a result of the Transport Act 1947 as part of the nationalization of the British transport industry.  In the 1960s, it was the four business National Freight Corporation Ltd. (Road Traffic), BRS Parcels ltd. (Parcel Services ), Pickfords (Transportation and Logistics) and Containerway & Roadferry Ltd. (Ferry and container traffic) split.

1969 in National Freight Corporation renamed, the company was in the wake of the government Margaret Thatcher sold-driven destruction of state enterprises in 1982 to employees and the National Freight Consortium continued. The company was among the first companies that were privatized by the Conservative government. As one of the largest British transport companies, it was listed on the London Stock Exchange from 1989 and included in the FTSE 100 Index as NFC plc .

BRS Parcels Ltd. was renamed Roadline and was spun off in 1997 through a management buyout under the name LYNX Express. ^[1] Pickford was in 1999 at Allied Van Lines, the rest of the company merged in 2000 with the Ocean Group plc and formed from now on the Exel plc ,which later by the Deutsche Post was acquired.