Matador Gallery

[antarmike]

Refulling another Stirling

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Two O854 Mats await scrapping . The Sentinels will be chopped too.

(Arthur Ingram)

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A wynns Mat moves one of the Naval guns in place Lambeth IWM.

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Wynns also used Mats on timber haulage.

[antarmike]

AEC armoured Ammunition Carrier.

Based on Deacon/ Yellow Perils I do not know whther the Armoured ammunition carrier was new build, or reworked from the Self Propelled gun version

Edited May 6, 2010 by antarmike

[antarmike]

RAF Mat flatbed

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Derek Fletcher gives a Dycol Mat some stick trying to pull out a big beech trunk.

[antarmike]

Post Office Mat recovery vehicles

(Arthur Ingram)

[antarmike]

Another ex PO but gone to the fair...

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Matador Artics built for the GPO out of cancelled military order Mats.

[antarmike]

well that is a start to repair the damage....might not be on for a day or two now... Bye

[croc]

That mat is easy to find.

Yes the winch rope will pass out the front, but as on the Scammell Pioneer and exlorer and the like it is only inteded to be used for self recovery when lead out the front.

 

Thanks for that Mike. It's hard to believe it's the same vehicle.

 

[croc]

and here it is in action, trying to get the Milly unstuck we didn't manage it with the bar but had no problem with the winch.

 

[abn deuce]

Thank you for the posting of the unbodied Matador it really helps to make sense of the arrangement , and I can understand the things I thought were levers are in fact the front cab mount springs Thank You !

[Adam]

I hope these fit the theme.

'Unusual' Matador Bus conversion snapped in the IMPS area at Beltring 2007.

 

 

 

Cheers,

Adam.

[Richard Farrant]

I hope these fit the theme.

'Unusual' Matador Bus conversion snapped in the IMPS area at Beltring 2007.

 

I think this one originally belonged to the bus operator, Barton Transport in Nottingham.

[LeeEnfield]

I haven't been keeping records up to date, but I can cross reference chassis number to quite a lot of Military and civilian registrations, and previous owners, but I haven't had the time to keep these listings up to date, the currency of my dated was lost in about 1995-6 but I have reasonable records up to that point.

 

 

 

Cheers Mike,........I'll try and get some details,.......its a 6 wheeler, that I do know.

[LeeEnfield]

Artillery movers old and new

 

 

 

Now that is a GREAT pic.

[croc]

Here's Mike Gilberts' old bus recovery Matador, these were taken in 1999, it has since been sold back to Yorkshire Traction.

 

 

 

[antarmike]

Some RAF Matadors

[antarmike]

If this one looks a bitr odd it has a Wartime Signals body dropped onto the deck of a postwar Mat, but I am told the RAF did it. Pictured at Ruddington when owned by Roger Fenely

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Another odd one 'cos what would normally be High visibility Yellow is painted whIte

[antarmike]

Much published photo of 50KVa generator truck, sides open and (presumably) running

and another

[antarmike]

Biggin Hill and a RAF steel bodied dropside, (minus sides) is alonside another signals Matador

[antarmike]

And I concider this a bit odd 'cos it is a ministry of supply Reg on an RAF Mat