It seems that there was no clear reason for this badge engineering operation, although a formal request from the German AEG industrial group, which was very active in the Spanish-speaking countries, has been suggested.
The GWR considered how economies might be made, and at length on 5 February 1937 an AEC diesel railcar, no 18 started operating on the branch.
When the business was sold in 1978 the fleet consisted of 55 buses, mainly AECs and Leylands operating on nine routes.
There were only four of this style of car built, and they were originally fitted with an AEC engine.
Their whole engine-transmission system was based on that from the main bus manufacturers of the period such as Leyland and AEC.
American Broadcasting Company | Fox Broadcasting Company | Ford Motor Company | The Walt Disney Company | Royal Shakespeare Company | Hudson's Bay Company | East India Company | Digital Equipment Corporation | Dutch East India Company | McKinsey & Company | H. J. Heinz Company | Company | Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company | company | Bad Company | production company | Three's Company | Shell Oil Company | Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company | Glenn L. Martin Company | The Coca-Cola Company | Southern Pacific Transportation Company | Pullman Company | Marconi Company | Canon (company) | Victor Talking Machine Company | Negro Ensemble Company | Little, Brown and Company | Firestone Tire and Rubber Company | Dole Food Company |
The AEC Reliance was a single-deck bus or coach chassis with a mid-underfloor-mounted engine, built by AEC in Southall, west London, England between 1953 and 1979.
Associated Commercial Vehicles (ACV) was founded on October 1, 1948 by the United Kingdom based vehicle manufacturer Associated Equipment Company upon that company's purchase of the motor manufacturers Crossley Motors & Maudslay Motor Company; at which time ACV became the holding company for those concerns and the manufacturing business of the Associated Equipment Company itself that was renamed AEC Ltd.
He led the first major dieselisation programme, which involved the procurement of diesel multiple units from AEC of Southall, 94 diesel locomotives (60 CIE 001 Class and 34 CIE 201 Class) from Metropolitan-Vickers and 12 Sulzer-engined diesel locomotives (CIE 101 Class) from the Birmingham Railway Carriage and Wagon Company.