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Home » Main » Employers, businesses and industry » AEC Southall Ltd « Previous image · Slide Show · Next image » << < > >> AEC 1977, Windmill Lane, Southall Click on image to view larger image Photo Details Poster: MIDDX.NET  (see this users gallery) From a celebration booklet issued on AEC's 50th anniversary on 1977. (The company, most famous for building London's Routemaster buses, was closed by British Leyland two years later.) One of the recipients was AEC employee and Hayes resident, Len Jackson, whose widow, Majorie, has kindly passed this and other memorabilia on to us. · Date: Fri February 24, 2006 · Views: 1683 · Additional Info Print View · Send as e-Card Quick Rate: Poor Excellent

Author Thread Post a Reply  mheawood Registered: September 2005 Posts: 498 Sun December 30, 2007 23:11 I have Just spent an interesting time looking at the AEC photos and website. I am wondering if the building could be seen from the Uxbridge Road. I used to travel by bus from Hayes to Ealing and back but can't recall it, although I seem to remember an AEC sign. It was fascinating seeing the work being carried out at the AEC, and was also pleased to see the pictures of the Mellow Lane choir coach which took us abroad safely and was always comfortable and reliable. Also, interesting to see the new computers in the office at that time. MIDDX.NET Registered: March 2004 Posts: 5714 Mon December 31, 2007 07:25 Hi Marian, No, you wouldn't really have noticed the AEC site from the Uxbridge Road, but you most definitely would have seen it if you were travelling by train! This is because the Great Western Railway ran alongside AEC and crossed the Uxbridge Road at the Windmill Lane junction. However, if you were travelling from Ealing towards Hayes, at the Windmill Lane junction, just before the railway bridge with the AEC sign on it, you would have notice the frontage of the AEC site to your left in Windmill Lane. MIDDX.NET Registered: March 2004 Posts: 5714 Mon December 31, 2007 07:27 PS Have a look at this picture, to bring back memories: http://middx.net/aec/pix/ironbridge.htm mheawood Registered: September 2005 Posts: 498 Mon December 31, 2007 13:30 Ah, I see now! I hadn't moved on with the photos so didn't get to the Iron Bridge pic. showing the sign which must be what was imprinted in my mind. Windmill Lane had gone from my memory completely though it's coming back now. I didn't realise that the E in AEC stood for Equipment and not Engineering or Engines. The photo of the Marathon engine is amazing to me as a mere woman and wonder if I could be enlightened on what that engine would have been made for. i.e. what was a Marathon? :-) Thankyou. MIDDX.NET Registered: March 2004 Posts: 5714 Thu January 3, 2008 02:12 The last 2 piccies on this page are Marathons: http://middx.net/aec/rallies/chalfont2k1/2.htm mheawood Registered: September 2005 Posts: 498 Thu January 3, 2008 14:03 Thankyou for the link and enlightening me on what the Marathon is. I was expecting a huge lorry for that powerful looking engine I was impressed with but, looking closer at the pics, I would imagine heavy equipment can be transported on the trailers. The AEC sign is very distinctive.

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