Associated Commercial Vehicles

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. The following year, ACV took control of the coachbuilding firm Park Royal Vehicles, along with its subsidiary Charles H. Roe. Further acquisitions occurred until Leyland Motors acquired ACV in 1962.