The Leyland Retriever was a 6x4 truck produced by Leyland Motors for the British Army between 1939 and 1945. It had a 6-litre, 4 cylinder overhead camshaft petrol engine. General Montgomery used one as his caravan during the Second World War. This is now on display at the Imperial War Museum Duxford.Norris, John (2012) World War II Trucks and Tanks, The History Press (Accessed June 2014)
In 1940, Leyland developed the Leyland Beaver-Eel 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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