Hardy Motors railcar advertisement. AEC Gazette, February 1934. (NF)

Hardy Motors railcar advertisement. AEC Gazette, March, 1934. (NF)

Hardy Motors railcar advertisement. AEC Gazette, April 1934. (NF)

Hardy Motors railcar advertisement. AEC Gazette, May 1934. (NF)

The Hardy Motors name had disappeared from railcar advertising by the August 1934 issue of the AEC Gazette. (NF)

Railcar advertisement in the AEC Gazette, September 1934. (NF)

Railcar advertisement in the AEC Gazette, January 1935, featuring GWR No 3. (NF)

Railcar advertisement in the AEC Gazette, February 1935. (NF)

Railcar advertisement in the AEC Gazette, March 1935. (NF)

'A fine Times photograph of an AEC streamlined twin-engined railcar maintaining a GWR express ervice between Birmingham and Cardiff, crossing Brunel's eighty-three year old bridge over the River Wye, at Chepstow'. AEC Gazette, April 1935. (NF)

The Times photograph was used in AEC's railcar publicity but note that the semaphore signal in the original has been carefully removed. AEC Gazette, May 1935. (NF)

'Despite the fact they arrive and depart each day, AEC streamlined railcars still excite the interest of passengers in Birmingham (Snow Hill) station. Here is one of the buffet-fitted express type awaiting its return to Cardiff.' AEC Gazette, July 1935. (NF)

Railcar advertisement in the AEC Gazette, August 1935, featuring GWR No 3. (NF)

Railcar advertisement in the AEC Gazette, October 1935. (NF)

Railcar advertisement in the AEC Gazette, December 1935, featuring GWR No 2. (NF)

Preserved GWR AEC Railcar No 4 at Swindon Railway Museum. (John Law)

GWR Railcar 18 at an unknown location - possibly the Brentford line. (AEC/John Law collection)

GWR Railcar 18 at Old Oak Common. (AEC/John Law collection)

GWR parcels Railcar at Southall loco shed. (John Law collection)

AEC's old diesel shunter is maintained in running order by the GWR Preservation Group at Southall. Being kept outside the shunter is regrettably vulnerable to vandalism and graffiti; the latter currently in the process of being removed. (Neil Fraser)

EB25 at the Otahuhu railway workshops in Auckland on 6th May1966. Visible are two of the external AEC badges, on the engine hood at the front and the side. There is a third on the other side. (via Peter Trevor)

EB25 taken in 2006 at the Museum of Transport and Technology, Western Springs, Auckland NZ being hauled by a German-built steamer! (Geoff Bethell/Paul Dillicar collection/Peter Trevor)

EB26 taken at Napier with its post-1979 computerised number EB1809. (Geoff Bethell/Paul Dillicar collection/Peter Trevor)

EB26 renumbered as TR1003, in private ownership and undergoing repairs post-1999. It is owned by a private group and now operational. (Geoff Bethell/Paul Dillicar collection/Peter Trevor)